We need to bring back teatime, a quiet time in the
middle of the afternoon to have a quiet
cup of tea away from the bustle of life! (Your Murfreesboro
chiropractor would enjoy such a time again!) Teatime
was valuable for the mind and spirit and very likely quite good for the body. Most days, we just can’t imagine that we have time, but just enjoying tea on the run in an insulated
mug on the way to your chiropractic appointment at Most Chiropractic Clinic
can be advantageous, especially
if it’s green tea.
BENEFITS OF TEA OVERALL
In China, drinking tea is part of daily life. Not a bad thing! In evaluating
the health benefits of tea and its active ingredients for osteoporosis, osteoarthritis,
and rheumatoid arthritis – familiar bone and joint diseases bothering
many people – researchers found that tea has potential anti-COX
(cycolooxygenase) factors and hormone-like effects. They concluded
that tea has a vast potential to be helpful in
medicine and healthcare especially as the mechanisms of various tea properties are defined as to their
synergistic mechanisms. (1) Tea from plants around us offers us a
tasty way to be healthier and even a bit painfree!
BENEFITS OF GREEN TEA FOR PAIN
The more we acquire
about what nature offers us by medicinal plants,
the more we must appreciate nature! Green tea is a common
beverage sourced from such medicinal plants. Green tea via a
multitude of pharmacological activities and antinociceptive
effects are proposed to be effective for pain relief because of its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Green tea is explained
to be a safe and often effective treatment for pain management
owing to its suppression of inflammation
and oxidative stress. (2) Green tea’s major component, EGCG (epigallocatechin-3-gallate),
has shown itself to be valuable
for its anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant properties. Research papers have published
how green tea is good diseases like neurodegenerative
and cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancer, and obesity. Green tea and
its EGCG seem to restrain the expression of inflammatory cytokines
and inflammation-linked enzymes. The use of green tea potentially
enhances the quality of life for inflammatory disease patients with
no severe adverse side-effects. (3) Back pain and its related
spinal pain conditions like leg, arm, and neck pain, etc., typically have inflammatory components with them, so adding green tea for its anti-inflammatory benefit may be an advantage.
CONTACT Most Chiropractic Clinic
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. James Cox, on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he
describes the interaction of the immune system and pain and
the potential of The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain
Management to benefit the back pain patient.
Schedule your Murfreesboro chiropractic
appointment soon. If you can’t sit for
teatime at home, make your
trip to Most Chiropractic Clinic teatime with a mug of green tea! See
you here soon!