Green Tea

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The use of tea started when Buddhist monks, who had gone to China for study, returned to Japan bringing tea with them as a medicinal beverage. It is believed as a miraculous medicine for the maintenance of health. The monk Eisai insisted the beneficial effects of tea in his book Maintaining Health by Drinking Tea in 1211.

Green tea has a broad efficacy in preventing disease, or inhibiting the development of disease, and maintaining health it helps you live longer.

As you can see, Green tea contains many kinds of components, such as Catechins, caffeine, VitaminC,B,E and so on.

Cancer
These days, many people die from cancer and it is known as an incurable disease. Amazingly, Green tea is believed to prevent cancer.

Cancer mortality statistics on Japanese people indicate that the death rate from cancer is significantly lower, for both men and women, in Shizuoka where is the most cultivating Green tea leaves in Japan. Green tea is very effective for all types of cancer in general and for gastrointestinal cancers such as stomach, esophagus and liver cancer in particular.

Mice were first inoculated with cancer cells and then studied for the growth of malignancies. One group was given an extract of green tea while another control group was not given such an extract. Comparison of the two groups showed a marked reduction in the growth of tumors among the group receiving green tea. (Table2)

In further joint research with Prof. Shu-Jun Cheng of the Cancer Institute, Chinese Academy of Medical Science (Beijing), mice were given substances which, when transformed in the body to cancer-causing chemicals generate carcinoma in both the esophagus and forestomach.

In addition, Green tea can inhibit the development of these cancers. (Table3)
Green tea and its component catechin have been shown to reduce the growth as well as the actual generation of cancer.

Even though these results have been gained from animal studies o...