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Green tea energizes your mind, but without the jitters of coffee. As you sip a cup of green tea, you feel clean and clear. Your mind doesn't race as it does does with coffee. Instead, you feel present and aware. Green tea is the very expression of the "metal element" of Chinese Medicine - pure, mathematical, austere.
Formalized rituals around green tea point to the stark elegance evoked by this herb. Green tea is orderly. It allows you to view life quietly. Unlike coffee, which is adorned with cream and sugar, green tea stripped to its bare essentials. It needs no ornament. This minimalist herb subscribes to the Zen principle, "Less is more."
It's pale green color has a mild herbal taste with a touch of earthy bitterness. It is otherwise mostly bland. The warmth in a cup of green tea calms the nerves as it warms up circulation. A cup of green tea, filled with antioxidants and an abundance of healing qualities, is an excellent substitute for coffee as your morning pick me up.
Green tea is an herb with an illustrious history, as the tea of Emperors and sages. According to legend, Prince Dharma travelled to China sharing Buddhism. He made a vow to remain awake for his entire nine year mission. Unfortunately, despite his best efforts he fell asleep. "Upon awakening, he was so disgusted with himself, he tore off his eyelids, to ensure that they would never inadvertently close again. The place where he threw them on the ground produced enchanted (tea) shrubs with leaves having the power to keep eyelids open. As you can see, in each story, green tea is the herb that helps Bodi Dhama remain austere, refined, true to his path.
Green Tea for Weight Loss
A cup of steaming, pleasantly bitter green tea helps you lose weight when combined with healthy diet and exercise. It's diuretic properties remove excess water from your system reducing puffiness, edema, and a feeling of heaviness. Swiss researchers have preliminary evidence that green tea accelerates the burning of fat calories in people who are overweight, reducing cholesterol, high lipids, and triglycerides.
The bitterness of green tea also helps you detoxify. Green Tea can help regulate your blood sugar and insulin levels, helpful in diabetes. Green tea can also help to prevent plaque buildup on the teeth, since the leaves contain a natural fluoride.
Heart Health
Green Tea helps you take care of your heart. It reduces blood clots through it's bitter, blood-thinning taste, as well as reducing cholesterol, lipids, and triglycerides. It's diuretic action lowers blood pressure. Studies show that green tea may actually lower the risk of arteriosclerosis (hardening of the blood vessels) through anti-oxidant action.
Brighten Your Mind
Green tea has a lower amount of caffeine than coffee, but still gives a nice pick-me-up. Instead of feeling jittery and agitated, green tea gives a softer lift that clears and focuses your mind in the midst of a long day. It is often used in China to soften the pain of migraine headaches.
Additional Health Benefits
Green tea's many health benefits include the healing of ulcers, curing bad breath, and encouraging healthy digestion. Unlike coffee which aggravates inflammation, green tea is an anti-inflammatory. Additionally, green tea boosts your immunity against both viral and bacterial colds and flus. These health benefits are ascribed to the high content of bioactive ingredients such as polyphenols. Due to its stimulating nature, bitter taste and drying effects, caffeine in all forms provokes Vata dosha. Find alternative stimulants such as ginger when energy is depleted due to Vata. However, green tea does one great thing for Vata- it can prevent osteoporosis.
About Green Tea
Green Tea is a preparation using minimally processed leaves from the camellia sinensis plant. This is the same plant used in normal black tea. Black tea leaves, however, are more processed.
Buying & Preparation
The world of green tea is greatly nuanced. Steeping times vary from 30 seconds to two minutes and can make a world of difference between light and clean to extremely bitter. Make sure you read the preparation instructions for your tea. The most common types of green tea are longjing and gunpowder which please novice to expert. Try different types like the extremely light macha and revered puh-er.
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AYURVEDA'S GUIDE TO VITALITY & WHOLESOME NOURISHMENT
Your Ayurvedic diet is tailored to your individual body and your specific imbalances.
With an Ayurvedic diet you feel joy and satisfaction because what you are eating truly nourishes and balances you.
Disease results from diets and lifestyles that are incompatible with your nature.
By eating a personalized diet matched to your body, you experience optimal health.
See How it Works.
Ayurveda assesses metabolic imbalances through 20 main biocharacteristics
(gunas).
Aggravating them weakens your body and causes imbalance.
By knowing which biocharacteristics are habitually imbalanced in your body, you will be able to identify and correct metabolic imbalances before you get sick.
Every biocharacteristic has an opposite which balances it (i.e. hot balances cold).
You restore balance by favoring diet and lifestyle choices that increase the opposite biocharacteristic.
Taste is used to sense the most basic properties and effects of food.
Each taste has a specific medicinal effect on your body.
Cravings for food with certain tastes indicate your body is craving specific medicinal results from food.
Taste is experienced on the tongue and represents your body's reaction to foods.
Sweet taste causes physical satisfaction and attraction whereas bitter taste causes discomfort and aversion.
Kapha should use less sweet taste while Vata and Pitta would benefit from using more sweet taste.
One of the first signs of illness is that your taste and appetite for food changes.
The six tastes are sweet, sour, salty, pungent, bitter, and astringent.
Do you crave foods with any of the tastes below?
Ayurveda is a metabolic theory of medicine that explains individual health, tendencies, and disease patterns through the concept of doshas, which can be understood as your metabolic patterns and tendencies.
Each dosha reflects a distinct metabolic nature and describes strengths & weaknesses in bodily function, and how these affect energy levels, digestion, susceptibility to disease, and many other tendencies.
Your metabolic nature not only affects your physical characteristics, but also influences your mental thought patterns, confidence, and enthusiasm.
Ayurveda balances these metabolic strengths & weaknesses to support your body's vitality and prevent recurrent disease cycles. This support is a critical aid, especially in chronic or incurable disease conditions.
The 3 metabolic body types
(doshas),
are Catabolic (Vata), Metabolic (Pitta), and Anabolic (Kapha).
Through dosha, Ayurveda empowers people to identify metabolic imbalances early, break repetitive patterns of disease, and cultivate habits that support long-term vitality and well-being.
Ultimately, these metabolic patterns also provide a framework for understanding yourself, including body, mind, and spiritual tendencies.
Ayurveda & Greek Medicine were the dominant form of medicine along the Silk Road from England to China and South Asia.
They work by assessing your metabolic type, patterns, and nature.
Greek medicine recognizes 4 metabolic temperaments, Melancholic, Choleric, Sanguine, and Phlegmatic.
Has a hot and dry metabolic nature. Enthusiastic, vibrant and bright. In excess burns up fluids and ojas, irritable. Corresponds to high bilirubin in the blood that irritates and heats up the body and liver.
Hot and oily with a moderate metabolism and a well nourished body. Vigorous, vivacious, outgoing and generous, and prone to impulsivity and self indulgence. Bullish and intense when out of balance.
Cold and dry with a slow, variable or erratic metabolism. Colicky, tense. Withdrawn, pensive, anxious, and hesitant. Analytical, intelligent, detail oriented and creative. Prone to ojas depletion, dehydration, an overactive nervous system, and depression.
Herbs or spices with volatile essential oils that present strong aromas. Aromatic oils shock, refresh and numb tissue, with the end result of relaxing, opening and clearing stagnant fluids in tissues.
Geriatric conditions typically involve low agni / metabolism, poor circulation, weakness & debility, muscle weakening, poor digestion, a drop in sex hormones, and connective tissue degradation in bones & skin.
Medicinal Benefits, Uses & Herbal Actions of Green Tea
Experiences are Personal
Experiences vary according to the person and constitution. Individual results may vary.
The list of herbal-actions below has not be approved by the FDA and should not be used to treat a medical condition.
An herb that strengthens spleen function by improving strength of the blood. Spleen tonics Builds agni, brighten the person's appearances & firms up tissues.
Creates a feeling of awareness or tension in the area in the forehead. Activates the frontal lobe - the area responsible for motor function, emotional expression, thinking, and decision making.
STRONG BOOSTS-GABA
GABA, or gamma-aminobutyric acid, reduces nerve excitability. It is the body's primary inhibitory neurotransmitter. Thus, it promotes relaxation, calm, and sleep.
STRONG ANTIOXIDANT
An antioxidant is a molecule that inhibits oxidation. Oxidation is a chemical reaction that can produce free radicals that lead to a chain reaction causing damage or death to cells. Antioxidants terminate these oxidation reactions.
Herbs that promote urine formation, thereby flushing the kidneys and urinary tract while eliminating any excess water retention. As diuretics reduce water retention, they are often used to reduce blood pressure.
STRONG ANTIANDROGEN
Reduces androgen (testosterone), which can reduce excess growth, drive, and libido. Reduces skin oiliness. Helpful for prostate enlargement.
Flavonoids are a colorful type of polyphenol. As all polyphenols, they have a strong antioxidant effect. Many flavonoids have an anti-inflammatory, and/or antiallergen effect.
In each study below, students from the
Joyful Belly College of Ayurveda ate the selected food for 3 days and reported the effects.
See other studies of food & herbs at Joyful Belly.
TEMPERATURE/CIRCULATION
How did Green Tea affect your temperature?
20
16
12
8
4
0
1
5
9
15
1
Much colder
Slightly colder
Same
Slightly warmer
Much warmer
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect your ear temperature?
28
23
18
13
8
3
4
21
6
Hotter
No Change
Cooler
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect your sweat quantity?
30
24
18
12
6
0
0
4
25
1
1
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Much more
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect the color of your skin?
30
24
18
12
6
0
1
3
2
0
25
Yellower/Greener
Paler
Redder
Grayer
No Change
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect the color of your tongue body?
21
17
13
9
5
1
4
7
2
18
Paler
Redder
Bluer
No Change
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect the swelling of your tongue body?
25
20
15
10
5
0
0
11
20
More Swelling
Less Swelling
No Change
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect your appetite/hunger?
15
12
9
6
3
0
1
9
12
7
2
Much less hungry
Slightly less hungry
Same
Slightly hungrier
Much hungrier
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect your digestion speed?
15
12
9
6
3
0
4
11
12
4
0
Much faster
Slightly faster
Same
Slightly slower
Much slower
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
TOXINS
How did Green Tea affect the amount of gas & bloating?
25
20
15
10
5
0
1
5
20
5
0
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Much more
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect your stool smell?
30
24
18
12
6
0
0
5
25
1
0
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Much more
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
Tongue: How did Green Tea affect the thickness & size of your tongue coating?
20
16
12
8
4
0
1
10
18
2
0
Much smaller
Slightly less
Same
Slightly larger coating
Much larger
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect the color of your tongue coating?
25
20
15
10
5
0
2
2
1
4
22
Yellower
Browner
Grayer
Whiter
No Change
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect your throat soreness?
30
24
18
12
6
0
1
24
6
More sore
No Change
Less sore
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect your urine smell?
25
20
15
10
5
0
0
8
21
2
0
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Much more
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect the amount of bubbles in your urine?
35
28
21
14
7
0
0
2
28
1
0
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Many more
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect your sweat smell?
30
24
18
12
6
0
1
3
26
1
0
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Much more
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect your acne?
35
28
21
14
7
0
0
28
3
More acne
No Change
Less acne
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect your freckles/moles?
35
28
21
14
7
0
0
31
0
Darker
No Change
Lighter
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect the color of your sclera (white part of eye)?
30
24
18
12
6
0
2
0
0
0
2
Redder/Bloodshot
Yellower
Grayer
Browner
Whiter
27
No Change
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect the color of the lower eye lid?
35
28
21
14
7
0
0
0
29
2
More green/dark green
More purple
No Change
Less green/purple
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
HYDRATION
How did Green Tea affect your urine frequency/quantity?
20
16
12
8
4
0
0
2
15
13
1
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Much more
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect the dryness of your skin?
26
21
16
11
6
1
8
2
21
Drier
Oilier
No Change
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect the puffiness of lower eye lid?
30
24
18
12
6
0
1
24
6
Puffier
No Change
Less Puffy
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect the cracks on your tongue?
20
16
12
8
4
0
2
6
16
6
1
Larger/longer/more cracks
Slightly more
Same
Slightly less/smaller/shorter
Much less
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
FLUID-THICKNESS
How did Green Tea affect your ear pressure?
28
23
18
13
8
3
4
23
4
More pressure
No Change
Less pressure
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect your congestion?
17
14
11
8
5
2
3
15
13
More congestion
No Change
Less congestion
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect the thickness of your mucous congestion?
21
17
13
9
5
1
2
16
13
More thick
No Change
Less thick
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
NERVOUS-SYSTEM
How did Green Tea affect your energy levels?
25
20
15
10
5
0
0
2
7
21
1
Much less energy
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more energy
Much more
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect your muscle tension?
20
16
12
8
4
0
0
9
16
6
0
Much less tension
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more tension
Much more
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect your anxiety?
15
12
9
6
3
0
0
8
13
7
3
Much less anxiety
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more anxiety
Much more
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect the stillness of your tongue?
28
23
18
13
8
3
4
21
6
More still
No Change
More Trembling / Jittery
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
DIGESTION
How did Green Tea affect your digestion speed?
15
12
9
6
3
0
4
11
12
4
0
Much faster
Slightly faster
Same
Slightly slower
Much slower
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect the amount of gas & bloating?
25
20
15
10
5
0
1
5
20
5
0
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Much more
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect burning sensations in digestive tract (do not include acid reflux)?
30
24
18
12
6
0
0
3
23
5
0
Much relief
Slight relief
Same
Slightly more burning
Much more burning
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect your appetite/hunger?
15
12
9
6
3
0
1
9
12
7
2
Much less hungry
Slightly less hungry
Same
Slightly hungrier
Much hungrier
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
TONGUE
How did Green Tea affect the color of your tongue body?
21
17
13
9
5
1
4
7
2
18
Paler
Redder
Bluer
No Change
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect the stillness of your tongue?
28
23
18
13
8
3
4
21
6
More still
No Change
More Trembling / Jittery
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect the color of your tongue coating?
25
20
15
10
5
0
2
2
1
4
22
Yellower
Browner
Grayer
Whiter
No Change
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect the cracks on your tongue?
20
16
12
8
4
0
2
6
16
6
1
Larger/longer/more cracks
Slightly more
Same
Slightly less/smaller/shorter
Much less
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
Tongue: How did Green Tea affect the thickness & size of your tongue coating?
20
16
12
8
4
0
1
10
18
2
0
Much smaller
Slightly less
Same
Slightly larger coating
Much larger
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect the swelling of your tongue body?
25
20
15
10
5
0
0
11
20
More Swelling
Less Swelling
No Change
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
STOOL
How did Green Tea affect your stool lightness?
25
20
15
10
5
0
0
6
22
3
0
Much lighter
Slightly lighter
Same
Slightly darker
Much darker
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect your stool smell?
30
24
18
12
6
0
0
5
25
1
0
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Much more
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect your stool consistency?
20
16
12
8
4
0
1
5
18
4
3
Much softer
Slightly softer
Same
Slightly harder
Much harder
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect your stool frequency/quantity?
25
20
15
10
5
0
3
3
21
4
0
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Much more
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect your stool color?
30
24
18
12
6
0
1
1
6
0
23
More yellow
More gray
More green
More orange
Same
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
URINE
How did Green Tea affect your urine clarity?
25
20
15
10
5
0
1
19
11
More cloudy
Same
More clear
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect your urine smell?
25
20
15
10
5
0
0
8
21
2
0
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Much more
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect your urine lightness?
20
16
12
8
4
0
0
13
15
3
0
Much lighter
Slightly lighter
Same
Slightly Darker
Much Darker
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect your urine frequency/quantity?
20
16
12
8
4
0
0
2
15
13
1
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Much more
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect the amount of bubbles in your urine?
35
28
21
14
7
0
0
2
28
1
0
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Many more
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
SWEAT
How did Green Tea affect your sweat quantity?
30
24
18
12
6
0
0
4
25
1
1
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Much more
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect your sweat smell?
30
24
18
12
6
0
1
3
26
1
0
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Much more
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
SKIN
How did Green Tea affect the dryness of your skin?
26
21
16
11
6
1
8
2
21
Drier
Oilier
No Change
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect the color of your skin?
30
24
18
12
6
0
1
3
2
0
25
Yellower/Greener
Paler
Redder
Grayer
No Change
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect your freckles/moles?
35
28
21
14
7
0
0
31
0
Darker
No Change
Lighter
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect your acne?
35
28
21
14
7
0
0
28
3
More acne
No Change
Less acne
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
EYE
How did Green Tea affect the color of the lower eye lid?
35
28
21
14
7
0
0
0
29
2
More green/dark green
More purple
No Change
Less green/purple
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect the puffiness of lower eye lid?
30
24
18
12
6
0
1
24
6
Puffier
No Change
Less Puffy
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect the color of your sclera (white part of eye)?
30
24
18
12
6
0
2
0
0
0
2
Redder/Bloodshot
Yellower
Grayer
Browner
Whiter
27
No Change
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
ENT
How did Green Tea affect your congestion?
17
14
11
8
5
2
3
15
13
More congestion
No Change
Less congestion
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect your ear pressure?
28
23
18
13
8
3
4
23
4
More pressure
No Change
Less pressure
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect your throat soreness?
30
24
18
12
6
0
1
24
6
More sore
No Change
Less sore
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect the thickness of your mucous congestion?
21
17
13
9
5
1
2
16
13
More thick
No Change
Less thick
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect your ear temperature?
28
23
18
13
8
3
4
21
6
Hotter
No Change
Cooler
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
HEART
How did Green Tea affect your heart pain/pressure/cramping?
25
20
15
10
5
0
0
5
22
3
1
Much less
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more
Much more
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect your heart rate?
25
20
15
10
5
0
0
4
19
6
2
Much slower
Slightly slower
Same
Slightly faster
Much faster
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect your heart rhythm?
26
21
16
11
6
1
7
22
2
More palpitations
Same
Less palpitations
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
SYSTEMIC
How did Green Tea affect your energy levels?
25
20
15
10
5
0
0
2
7
21
1
Much less energy
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more energy
Much more
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect your muscle tension?
20
16
12
8
4
0
0
9
16
6
0
Much less tension
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more tension
Much more
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect your anxiety?
15
12
9
6
3
0
0
8
13
7
3
Much less anxiety
Slightly less
Same
Slightly more anxiety
Much more
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
How did Green Tea affect your temperature?
20
16
12
8
4
0
1
5
9
15
1
Much colder
Slightly colder
Same
Slightly warmer
Much warmer
Total Responses: 31 Study ID:67 (2021-11-02 - 2021-11-15)
Green Tea may be beneficial for these symptoms.
The suitability of any food for a condition is highly dependent on the individual.
Please see your doctor before using this food to treat a medical condition.
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CONTRAINDICATED FOR THESE SYMPTOMS
Green Tea may be harmful or contraindicated for these symptoms.
Note this is not a complete list of all possible contraindications.
Please see your doctor before using this food to treat a medical condition.
Herb Drug Interaction Risk
Here are some potential herb drug interactions with Green Tea. Please see your health care provider for more information.
Antidepressant: Do not combine with antihistamines.
Blood-thinner: Patients on warfarin (coumadin) and other anticoagulants, or who have clotting difficulties, should take special caution to only use blood thinners under the supervision of a medical doctor.
Diuretic: Diuretics may clear pharmaceutical drugs more quickly, lowering the effect. Avoid if taking water pills or pharmaceutical diuretics.
Lowers-thyroid: May magnify or reduce other thyroid medications.
Nerve-stimulant: Avoid combining with sedatives such as alcohol, etc.
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“Hello John, I was just wondering about the dosa of green tea. I am VP type with highly sensitive GI tract. My experience with green tea is that it is pitta aggravating specially in somewhat higher quantity and not very different from black tea (which you also classify as pitta pacifying but again from my experience it is pitta aggravating but not when cooked into masala chai with milk).
Mayur"
“OH! I didn't know that about the maca and green tea that it can lower thyroid function...uh oh.
I have a question. I love drinking green tea, but I do not need to aggravate my vata nature anymore... What about decaf green tea and/or Kukicha Twig tea?
Thanks!"
“Hello John, In the middle east it is a habit to drink dry or green tea with food. Is this fine or is it to better to have tea before or after a meal. They do this specially with cheese., regards mh"
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