Oxford Pain Relief with Green Tea
We need to bring back teatime, a quiet time in the middle of the afternoon to enjoy a quiet cup of tea and escape 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. Most days, most of us just can’t imagine that we have time, but just enjoying tea on the run in a reusable bottle on the way to your chiropractic appointment at Satterwhite Chiropractic can be advantageous, particularly if that tea is green.
BENEFITS OF TEA OVERALL
In China, drinking tea is a traditional lifestyle factor. That’s a pretty good idea! In assessing 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 offers potential anti-COX (cycolooxygenase) factors and hormone-like effects. They concluded that tea has an immense potential to be helpful in medicine and healthcare especially as the mechanisms of the different types of tea properties are defined as to their synergistic mechanisms. (1) Tea from plants around us offers us a delicious way to be healthier and even a bit painfree!
BENEFITS OF GREEN TEA FOR PAIN
The more we acquire about what nature has for 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 due to its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Green tea is described as 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), is described in the published literature as a valuable anti-inflammatory factor as well as anti-oxidant. Research papers have reported how green tea helps diseases like obesity, cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and neurodegenerative diseases. Green tea and its EGCG seem to curb 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 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 a plus.
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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 reduce back pain.
Schedule your Oxford chiropractic appointment soon. If you cannot find time for teatime at home, turn your drive to Satterwhite Chiropractic into teatime with a mug of green tea! See you here soon!
