Green tea – ancient drink. China is considered its homeland, but tea also is connected with many other Asian cultures. Recently this drink received great popularity around the world including at Europeans. It first of all is connected with its favorable impact on an organism. And still thoughtlessly you shouldn't have a green tea, it has both indications, and contraindications.
The advantage of a green tea is defined by its structure
The secret of health giving qualities of ancient drink consists in process of its production. For receiving nonfermented China tea collect the same leaflets, as for black. But they aren't exposed to fermentation, that is aren't oxidized, just dry them. For this reason leaves keep all useful properties of a plant Camellia sinensis. And drink turns out light.
Green tea slightly tastes bitter, but has very pleasant aroma. It is such useful because contains the whole well of vitamins, minerals and organic compounds.
In China tea there is a caffeine which gives to the person cheerfulness. But this alkaloid is present not in pure form, and as theine. Therefore he acts more softly, increases working capacity better. At beverage composition there are minerals, they help to maintain balance micro and macrocells in an organism. And it is guarantee of excellent immunity, fortress of teeth and nails, health of hair and skin. One more important element of a green tea – catechins, that is polyphenols. They are four, all have property to be fine antioxidants, interfere with oxidizing processes, thereby slow down aging. Besides, polyphenols reduce number of free radicals and interfere with development of tumors, including cancer and also have antimicrobial qualities. Scientists found out that the most powerful of four catechins works at least 40 times stronger, than vitamin C.
What a green tea will help with
At a green tea wide range of application. Besides that it is just tasty, refined drink, it helps to get rid of a number of problems with health or to prevent their emergence. A green tea helps at various inflammations, the increased temperature, fever. It – very effective sudorific, and with the microbes and toxins poisoning an organism leave then. Experts recommend to have a green tea to the people having diseases of an urinogenital system and kidneys. This drink is magnificent diuretic, it is capable to raise considerably an exit of excess liquid from an organism. Also quality China tea is very useful to digestion, digestive tract. At the regular use it normalizes work of a pancreas and liver, gall bladder and duodenum. And in Asia consider that the cup of fragrant drink should be drunk by all means before each meal as a green tea well influences intestinal microflora. But Chinese will never put a lemon in a cup. This know-how of Europeans, and advantage of such combination very disputable not to mention that the taste of drink, according to true judges, quite seriously suffers. A green tea is useful to a cardiovascular system: it does more elastic than an artery, is stronger – capillaries, reduces permeability of walls of vessels. Consumption of curative drink will help to avoid atherosclerosis, development of cholesteric plaques. And still a green tea improves digestion of ascorbic acid. It is impossible to overestimate a contribution of a green tea to improvement of the general condition of the person. Drink improves memory, increases attentiveness, invigorates and saves from drowsiness, helps to avoid depressions and in general normalizes work of nervous system. Besides, it improves a metabolism, and it too very much affects health. As for application of a green tea for weight loss, about it legends literally go. There are even diets on the basis of China tea. It is difficult to judge their efficiency, but effect of the consumption of drink on the basis of tea leaves to which milk is added, many women were influenced. They say, if to have the green tea made on milk within a day, it is possible to dump couple of kilograms. Also a green tea serves as quite good cosmetic. It, for example, can be made and frozen, and then to wipe with ice cubes a face and a neck, a decollete zone. Skin will become fresher, will gain elasticity.
Also wipings by the concentrated infusion of a green tea are recommended at inflammations and rashes.
Harm of a green tea
However each medal has two parties, and what in one case is medicine, in another can do harm. And a green tea has not one contraindication, but the whole list. Therefore for some it is drink not useful, but harmful.
It is impossible to wash down with a green tea drugs: it will quickly bring active ingredients out of an organism and by that will reduce efficiency of medicine.
It is impossible to have a green tea that who suffers from nervous exhaustion. Caffeine, even in a soft form, is capable to interrupt a sleep and to cause breakdown, having excited nervous system. In principle, in general nobody should drink this drink before going to bed, as well as coffee. Also green tea doesn't need to be had at tachycardia and nervousness, hypotonia. The fact is that this drink has property to lower pressure. However, at sharp forms of a hypertension it shouldn't be drunk much too, doctors so advise. The people having stomach ulcer should use China tea moderately, without abusing as it can increase acidity. It is necessary to add that the recommendation about careful intake of tea concerns all having chronic diseases. Drink in excessive doses is capable to lead to aggravation.