We need to bring back teatime, a quiet time in the
middle of the day to have a quiet
cup of tea away from the bustle of life! (Your Oxford
chiropractor would appreciate such a time again!) Teatime
was good for the mind and spirit and very likely quite good for the body. Today, we just can’t imagine that we have time, but just enjoying tea on the run in an insulated
mug on the commute to your chiropractic appointment at Satterwhite Chiropractic
can be just right, especially
if that tea is green.
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 – common bone and joint diseases afflicting
many people – researchers found that tea offers potential anti-COX
(cycolooxygenase) factors and hormone-like effects. They concluded
that tea has a great potential to be helpful in
medicine and healthcare especially as the mechanisms of the different types
of tea properties are identified as to their
synergistic mechanisms. (1) Tea from plants around us presents us a
tasty way to be healthier and even less
painful!
BENEFITS OF GREEN TEA FOR PAIN
The more we acquire
about what nature offers us via medicinal plants,
the more we must appreciate nature! Green tea is a common
beverage sourced from such medicinal plants. Green tea via lots 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
due to its suppression of inflammation
and oxidative stress. (2) Green tea’s major component, EGCG (epigallocatechin-3-gallate),
has shown itself to be a valuable anti-inflammatory
factor as well as anti-oxidant. Research papers have explained
how green tea is good diseases like obesity, cancer,
diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and neurodegenerative diseases. Green tea and
its EGCG seem to restrain the expression of inflammatory cytokines
and inflammation-linked enzymes. The use of green tea quite possibly
enhances the quality of life for inflammatory disease patients without severe adverse side-effects. (3) Back pain and its associated
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 Satterwhite Chiropractic
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. James Cox, on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he
illustrates the interaction of the immune system and pain and
the capability of The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain
Management to benefit the back pain patient.
Schedule your Oxford chiropractic
appointment today. If you can’t sit for
teatime at home, make your
drive to Satterwhite Chiropractic teatime with a mug of green tea! See
you here soon!