Green Tea Health Benefits by Traditional Chinese Medicine
Green tea health benefits have been popular in Asian since the old days. Recently, green tea has been well known in entire world since Western’s people knew about green tea health benefits and it’s unique taste. As we know before it, people in the Western like drink black tea than green tea. But, now it was changing.
Actually, green tea and black tea comes from same source that is Camellia sinensis plant. But the processing of the tea makes difference between these teas. Green tea is not fermented during the process, on the other hand black tea is fermented. The tea leaves are laid out to wither for about 8 to 24 hours after plucked.
Of course this makes most of the water vaporize. Then, the tea leaves are pan fried in order to prevent the fermentation (oxidation) process. Lastly, the tea leaves are coiled before the last final drying do. Finish, now the tea leaves that still look green, can be sorted, graded and packaged.
Do you want to know the green tea health benefits? In accordance to the Traditional Chinese Medicine, there are some important green tea health benefits:
- Stimulates appetite
- Diuretic
- Stops thirst
- Improves digestion
- Removes phlegm
- Reduces high cholesterol
- Losing weight
- Clears heat from your body