Chinese Oolong Tea

HISTORY OF CHINESE OOLONG TEA

Chinese Oolong Tea actually comes from one original green tea. It is a tea which has undergone half fermentation. Chinese Oolong Tea has become very popular in Fujian Province, where it had originated, it was very well known during the time of the Sung Dynasty.

Chinese oolong tea goes through a half fermentation process to maximize the oxidation of enzymes. There are lots of studies supporting Chinese Oolong Tea as a powerful herbal medicine or dietary supplement for many people.

Chinese Oolong Teas was a well known beverage, before eventually; it came to be known as an herbal medicine. It was documented in the ancient Chinese archives on how it benefits a person’s well being, such as relaxing the body and mind. They also observe how Chinese men and women, although living in a cold country like Europe, look much younger than the European. The reason was Chinese Oolong tea has oxidizing effects which blasts off free radicals which causes stress and yes, aging fast!

There are lots of teas available in England, but Chinese Oolong Tea is a different tea, because it is coming from a different plant. Most teas from Europe are from another different variety of flowers, while Chinese Oolong Tea comes from a plant which has a scientific name called Camellia Sinensis.

HOW POLYPHENOLS IN CHINESE OOLONG TEA WORKS

Have you ever known a beverage rich in polyphenols? Chinese Oolong teas have lots of it. Polyphenols are powerful chemical compounds which releases activities protecting our healthy brain chemicals!

It works as powerful anti-oxidants, prevents the onset of brain disease which can decrease methyl4-phenylpynridine uptake and dopamine (onset of sadness, lethargic feeling and depression), cleaning up free radicals which causes all types of sicknesses, and “iron blasting activity.”

Chinese Oolong tea is also good for preventing inflammation. (4)It is also good for mothers who just gave birth or people who has just undergone surgery.

OBESITY

Most people would want to melt their fats away, as fast as they took them in! Reasonably speaking, this is not really possible, unless you eat less than what you need! Chinese Oolong Tea polyphenols prevents fat and cholesterol from going in your body. If you observed why Chinese people drink lots of tea before and after meals, the reason is precisely to buffer their bodies from rich cholesterol deep fried concoctions.

Chinese oolong tea reduces your cholesterol and fat intake, but it does not hinder growth! It means it does not make your body release added on supplements like Vitamins A, B,D, K and beta carotene.

If you are problematic on maintaining weight and decreasing your cholesterol level, Chinese Oolong tea is the answer! Based on research published in European Journal Clinical Nutrition (2006), Chinese Oolong Tea, helps the body release your increased amount of cholesterol naturally!

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES

Heart ailments are caused by a variety of reasons, Chinese oolong tea are one of those herbs which helps persons suffering cardiovascular diseases back to health.

Heart diseases are not only  scourging  U.S. citizens but people all  over the world are also affected;  as pollution, tension, stress and free radicals attack our body daily, especially our heart! It was found out by the studies of scientists Chong-Zhi Wang, Sanpete R. Emendable, and Chun Su Yuan how cardiovascular diseases are caused by “reactive oxygen species (ROS)”, as the cause of chronic and acute heart ailments. They studied on how Chinese Oolong Tea and other herbs can help in helping the natural antioxidant blasters of our body.

Based on their study Chinese Oolong Tea is an herbal aperitif which can prevent the havoc created by these free radicals, and is a helpful in preventing cardiovascular diseases. (5)

PARKINSON’S DISEASE

When your dopamine neurons located in your substantial Ingra in your brain starts degenerating, it is already an onset of Parkinson’s disease. Dopamine is actually our happy hormones but also a brain hormone very helpful in learning, studying and memory. Degeneration of these hormones is found to be irreversible by scientists, but it can be managed or delayed.

Levodopa Treatment manages Parkinson’s disease, as it delays the degenerative process of the dopamine hormones, however, it looses effect as the disease progresses.

Scientists have found out how Chinese Oolong tea can promote and help in brain diseases and brain surgeries, as they found out how polyphenols work in the body as chelators or blockers of bad metallic ions in the body, it also modulates cell survival, protects the brain because it blocks harmful radicals, it also helps the neuron’s transports neurons within the brain.

The scientific study shows hot it can help in preventing Parkinson’s disease, and how it can slow down the degeneration brain cells and happy brain dopamine hormones. (5)

CANCER PREVENTION

Chinese Oolong Tea Polyphenols cleans up your body and removes free radicals making havoc in your body, so it prevents people from getting cancer; it also has therapeutic effects for cancer patients, based on a research study in 2006 International Public Health Nutrition, Graduate School of Health Biosciences in the University of Tokushima, Japan.

OTHER BENEFITS

This semi – fermented Camilla Sinensis is a powerful herbal medicine as it also works as an anti – allergy, anti – inflammation, diabetes hypoglycemic agents in the treatment of type 2 Diabetes, it is also found to prevent bacterial infections caused by streptococci, depending on the strain of the virus.

It is also great in preventing cavities in your teeth. If you observed the Chinese, they have strong white teeth.

GENERAL INDICATIONS

Persons suffering from heart palpitations and caffeine overdose are not advised to drink Chinese Oolong Tea.

WHERE TO BUY CHINESE OOLONG TEA

There is lots of Chinese Oolong tea market in the internet, however, you can buy it in China in Fujian Province packed in plastics, and it is also available in Japan.

Authentic Chinese Oolong teas are made in China, and sometimes repacked in Japan, made available in the U.S. today.

Chinese Oolong teas have different grades, buying will really depend on you, as the grades reflect how dark your tea is.

Reference for Oolong Tea Articles. Numbers are the same in all articles for cross checking.

(1) International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition, December 2005; 56(8): 551_/559;Comparison of the antioxidant activity of roasted tea with green, oolong, and black teas;EIKI SATOH1,2, NAOKI TOHYAMA2, & MASAKAZU NISHIMURA2;Research Center for Animal Hygiene and Food Safety, and 2Department of Pathobiological; Science, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro 080-8555, Japan

(2) Polyphenol-enriched oolong tea increases fecal lipid Excretion T-F Hsu1, A Kusumoto2, K Abe2, K Hosoda2,4, Y Kiso2, M-F Wang3 and S Yamamoto1International Public Health Nutrition, Graduate School of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima, Tokushima Japan; Institute for Health Care Science, Suntory Ltd, Osaka, Japan and Department of Food and Nutrition, Providence University, Taichung, Taiwan

(3) Induction of Apoptosis and Cell Cycle Arrest in Cancer Cells by In Vivo Metabolites of Teas; Guoying Zhang, Yutaka Miura, and Kazumi Yagasaki; NUTRITION AND CANCER, 38(2), 265–273; Copyright © 2000, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

(4) Chinese Herbs and Herbal Extracts for Neuroprotection of Dopaminergic Neurons and Potential Therapeutic Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease Liang-Wei Chen*, 1, Yan-Qin Wang1, Li-Chun Wei2, Mei Shi2 and Ying-Shing Chan3 1Institute of Neurosciences, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an 710032, P.R. China 2Department of Radiotherapy, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an 710032, P.R. China3Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, P.R. China

Abstract: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a common and debilitating degenerative disease

(5)Commonly Used Antioxidant Botanicals: Active Constituents and Their Potential Role in Cardiovascular Illness
Chong-Zhi Wang, Sangeeta R. Mehendale and Chun-Su Yuan
Tang Center for Herbal Medicine Research, Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA,The American Journal of Chinese Medicine, Vol. 35, No. 4, 543–558 © 2007 World Scientific Publishing Company
Institute for Advanced Research in Asian Science and Medicine

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