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Can You Cure Insomnia with Green Tea

Do you need a cure for insomnia ? Well, add "insomnia cure" to green tea's ever growing list of health benefits. I know, the conventional wisdom is that since green tea contains caffeine then it should be avoided if you have insomnia. The good news is that if you drink a few cups of regular green tea throughout the day and decaffeinated green tea at night, this can have a significant impact on whether or not you fall asleep at night. Insomnia is a sleeping disorder where a person finds it hard to fall asleep, staying asleep, or both. As a result, an insomniac (person with insomnia) will get too little and poor-quality. Insomnia can cause fatigue, daytime sleepiness, and lack of energy in performing tasks. There are several factors that can cause insomnia, and one of which is consuming too much green tea, more than 10 cups to be exact, in a day. Antioxidants & Ingredients of Green Tea Green tea comes from a hardy shrub called the Camellia sinensis that bel...

How to Choose the Best Green Tea From Market

By now you're probably familiar with the incredible array of health benefits of green tea has to offer. Although you green tea in bottles to buy, the health benefits or pre-prepared, bottled green tea significantly less due to the lower levels of catechins. To ensure you receive the maximum health benefits of green tea gets brewing your own green tea at home is the best option from a health standpoint. You can also realize significant cost savings brew loose, fresh green tea leaves in your own kitchen. If you decide to make your own green tea to brew, how can you be sure that you get fresh green tea leaves that will give you the best taste? While some people buy loose green tea leaves online, you can not guarantee you the freshest, highest quality product you purchase by mail or by computer. If you have a local tea or coffee shop near you, visit and spend some time breathing in the scent of fresh green tea leaves to determine their scent. Another place to find loose leaf, f...

How to Use Fresh Green Tea as Skin Toner

That is certainly a cheap and easy option, but is it effective? Can the same results I've written about it by the use of brewed green tea? In this post I want to answer this question, to the best of my ability. Using brewed green tea we walk in a couple of potential problems. First, the dosage, you enough epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) in green tea brewed in an effective dose. Secondly, you can green tea absorbed through the skin? And finally, what is the shelf life of this DIY solution, ie how often the tea? Before we begin, I want to put a disclaimer out there. This message is much more speculative than my other posts. There are just too many unanswered questions here and I need some assumptions to make. So this message is not the "last word" on the subject. I'm just here with my best shot at answering a difficult question. Dosage My biggest concern is whether you can get enough EGCG in your face brewed tea. I did some back of the envelope calculation...

What is Yellow Tea its History and Ingredients

Like most of the techniques for making tea, there are arguments in the early style yellow tea accurate. Few in number, the elusive yellow tea always developed in isolated cases in areas that were already famous for the production of green tea, as Huo Shan in Anhui or Meng Ding Shan in Sichuan. Although there is a long history of production in these regions of green tea, yellow tea speculates that only began to be produced in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912). Yellow Teas are made for the recognition of the locals and have never had a wide market presence. Growing out of a developing techniques green tea, yellow tea making process is slow and difficult. So, for the thousands of types of green tea, there are only three kinds of yellow tea that survive today. Recently consumer preference favored tea with green leaves and bright colored cup. For yellow tea loses its green appearance in processing, this market trend has contributed to its decline. Now, even famous green tea are now produced ...

Benefits of Green Tea as Natural Remedy Against 3 Common Problems

For hundreds of years, curious and often desperate individuals have been looking for effective ways of preventing and treating various health conditions and diseases. Of course, I am no exception. I have always been fascinated with the concept of creating my own effective home remedies and have spent a great deal of time researching and experimenting with various ingredients often used in home remedies by ancient practitioners of alternative medicine. It was during the time I spent studying the ingredients often used in ancient Chinese medicine that I began to learn about the many health benefits of green tea. Of course, to this day, green tea remains the ideal home remedy ingredient because it is 100% safe, natural, highly effective and readily available. But, the very best thing about using green tea in your home remedies is that numerous scientific studies can back up the potency of this unique ingredient. Home Remedy For The Common Cold I like to refer to this...