Do you think traditional Chinese tea gives adequate benifits, or is it a myth?
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i think that is vary good for you. i think my mom should try it she smoke.
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I definitely prefer the eastern mentality towards healthcare: prevention and not treatment of the symptoms. I have not needed much healthcare, but have had acupuncture on several occasions, and it has definitely worked on me. Of course western medicine has also it's advantages and in emergency cases, medicines and invasive operation have saved many lives.  I only wish more emphasis were given on a healthy lifestyle, less stress, better eating habits, more excercise, to prevent many diseases from starting in the first place.  And I find it shameful of the Pharmaceutical Companies that they invent pills for every conceivable ill under the sun. This dependence on pills is just disastrous. Who knows what all these chemicals will do to our bodies in the long run.
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Well, better try just a small amount because even though its herbal and no chemical involvement you can't be sure that it is good for you.  It may be good for some but you can never be sure that it will be good for you too.  I tried a tea before, it makes me go to the bathroom after about 3 hours.  They say that it is a good sign because it is cleansing my stomach but if you are on a go...i don't think that is good for you.  Try it once, for a couple of days then you will see if it is good for you.  Good luck.
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I tried it and found no positive/negative effect at all. \n\nI checked it out on the net. Siberian Ginseng is actually not ginseng at all but in horticulture terms is a 'distant' cousin to the Oriental ones.\n\nAll forms of ginseng are said to aid in reducing stress, improving vitality and boosting the immune system. Oriental ginseng, whether white or red, is often taken as a daily tonic with the added benefit of an energy boost.\n\nKorean Ginseng has been said to be the best due to the inclusion of 'Panax' - a little wrong because traditional Chinese Ginseng has this as well.
59618
Drinking green tea is thought to lower cholesterol, help the immune system, and support dental health.
365515
Green Tea does help your metabolism out a bit, but it is good for you for other reasons as well, being as it has lots of antioxidants in it.
1107755
Do you mean oolong tea?  If you do than it si very good.  One of my favorites.  \n\nOr the Fat buring tea that is called Wu-Long? I have not tried it.
592184
It is good for you and unless you are allergic to something in it shouldn't hurt you at all. You might turn a nice shade of green tho.....just kidding you won't turn green. I'm just picking about that. I know lots of people who drink it and they are fine, I have had it myself and I'm still here as well. Enjoy your tea.
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no, it's not true. \ntheir religious tenents state that they MAY not, but they are indeed capable of having caffiene. \n\nas for the tea, your friend was possibly just poorly informed, or perhaps it was herbal or decaf.
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hi, i drink green tea every day\nto get the benefits of it, what i learned from a japanese traditional teamaker, you have to drink it many times daily, but by small portions/teacups\nif you drink it many times every day, by small teacups, one will get the benefits of it
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You might find some testamonials... but you're looking at people who probably succumbed to the placebo effect.  You'd have just a good chance as eating a couple of M&M's (sugarpills).\n\nThere is NO scientific evidence that acupuncture works to help quit smoking.  Yet, these lasers supposedly work along the same lines as acupuncture.  Are you beginning to smell a bad odor here?  That's because it's Bullhsit!
76501
I am from an Asian Country Philippines, many chinese herb are being sold here in the market and many person tell story how effective it is scientifically it is not yet accepted but you can try...to prove. no harm in trying.
841970
I don't know anything about Tsaang Gubat Tea but I know a little about experimentation.  Have you tried to repeat the experiment using a tea that you are certain has caffeine?  This will tell you if perhaps your chemicals are outdated or something.  I suppose it is possible to find a tea with an immeasurable amount of caffeine although it's unlikely unless it has been unnaturally altered to remove the caffeine.
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Absolutely not. If fact the are a wonderful herbal Native American medicine.\n\nThe old herbalist says that a good peach-tree tea is good for the nerves, kidney and the liver. It is also highly recommended for morning sickness with expectant mothers.
513334
Yes, the Chinese believe it is healthy to clear your throat (out with the bad things).  And the blowing snot all over the sidewalk, restaurant floor, train floor, you name it...\n\nI teach in China, and even in the classroom I've had students hock a fat one and spit it on the floor.  I have now explained the disease-spreading implications of this behavior and embarrased a few students in mid-spit, so the problem has subsided.\n\nAnd i'm sure you've seen the babies with the slit in the back of their trousers so when they need to do their business, mothers hold them up over a trashcan, a tree, the sidewalk, etc...
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It works and I don't believe it just has to do with whether someone believes in it or not.  I've seen people who don't believe given remedies and they respond to them.  \n\nHowever, it really depends on the skill and experience of the practitioner.  They have to make the right diagnosis and  prescribe the right remedy in order for it to be effective.
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"The price of tea in China" is an expression which is used to denote something which is unrelated to the current topic of discussion.\n\nThis expression has stemmed from economists, who describe everything economic as affecting everything else, trying to find an expression which denotes the furthest logical connection from their current economic focus. In this way, the price of tea in China was used to denote the furthest possibility. It can also be used to denote an irrelevant topic.\n\nIt has the most common form "what does that have to do with the price of tea in China?"\n\nThere may be a second explanation.\n\nIn the 19th century the price for tea in England was the highest when the first ship with the newly harvested tea came in. So for the ship owners it was important to be as fast as possible back to England with the load, otherwise the cost of the passage was not to be recovered from the sale of the tea. Thus there were real races (the tea clipper races) where the sail ships managed to travel the whole distance from China to England in about 80 to 90 days.\n\nThe difference in prices from the first load to the later ones was so high that it was quite unimportant which price for the tea was originally paid in China. So the "price of tea in China" was something that really didn't matter for the ship owners. They had to have the tea in England as fast as possible.\n\nWe're still impressed when a person will not give something up "for all the tea in China." Recent times, however, have made this amount less impressive than in the past. In the twenty five years since the Chinese government reformed agriculture on the mainland, tea production has suffered in both quantity and quality.\n\nThis should come as a surprise to many observers. Tea almost naturally seems as though it would be one of the top success stories of Chinese agricultural reform and economic growth. Not only does it have a long legacy in China, but also its popularity is increasing dramatically around the world, making it a potentially valuable export resource. Yet, the tea industry is still troubled by finding the efficient levels of production and export that will make tea a consistently profitable commodity. Two experts, Dan Etherington and Keith Forster, have called this the "no man's land between the plan and the market."\n\n The Chinese government changed the way agriculture was produced in the 1970s and early 1980s. Previously, farms were state owned, and farmers worked together on farming communes. The government purchased all of the harvest from the state farms at set prices. During the Chinese Reform Era, the farming communes broke down and individual households and farmers could grow their own crops on their own land. Still, not all vestiges of the old system were lost as the government contracted to buy most of the harvest output from individual farmers and continued to operate large scale farm communes through the prison system.\n\nFor most agriculture industries, the new individual household farms have brought significant gains in production and profit. The institution of household farming and the increase in market freedom prompted farmers to adjust their production activities in accordance with profit margins.\n\nYet, the gains are missing in the tea industry. For example, with nearly half the world's total tea gardens, China produces only about twenty percent of the world's tea output. Moreover, in 1990, China's average yield of tea per hectacre was 500 kilograms. This yield is historically low. In 1914 - 1918, Chinese tea farms yielded 900 kilograms per hectacre. This yield is also low compared to other tea producing nations. India, whose tea plantations utilize modern agriculture technology and business practices, yielded an average of 2,000 kilograms per hectacre of plucked land in 1990.\n\nObservers can attribute these disappointing results to one of three problems