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Article: Green tea.(Shorts)
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- Townsend Letter: The Examiner of Alternative Medicine
- Article date:
- February 1, 2007
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In Green Tea Healing Miracle, Billie J. Sahley, PhD, CNC, (with Katherine Birkner, CRNA, PhD) presents information about the health benefits of green tea and green tea extract. Although the Chinese have recognized its medicinal properties for almost 5,000 years, Western medicine noted its immune-strengthening and cancer-preventive abilities in 1965. Green tea comes from the unfermented, dried leaves of an evergreen shrub, Camellia sinensis. These leaves are steamed to inactivate the enzymes that oxidize epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG). EGCG is a catechin that accounts for about 30% of the dry weight of green tea leaves, according to NutraSanus. Researchers attribute most ...