Auburn Pain Relief with Green Tea
We need to bring back teatime, that quiet time in the middle of the afternoon to have a quiet cup of tea and escape from the bustle of life! (Your Auburn chiropractor would enjoy such a time again!) Teatime was good for the mind and spirit and most likely very good for the body. Most days, we just cannot imagine that we could possibly have time, but just drinking tea on the run in an insulated mug on the way to your chiropractic appointment at Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. 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 assessing the health benefits of tea and its active ingredients for osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, and rheumatoid arthritis – familiar bone and joint diseases affecting many people – researchers found that tea has 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 various tea properties are defined as to their synergistic mechanisms. (1) Tea from plants around us offers us a tasty way to be healthier and even less painful!
BENEFITS OF GREEN TEA FOR PAIN
The more we acquire about what nature has for us via medicinal plants, the more we will want to thank nature! Green tea is a common beverage sourced from such medicinal plants. Green tea via several 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 owing 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 benefits diseases like neurodegenerative and cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancer, and obesity. 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 with no 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 increasing consumption of 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 describes 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 Auburn chiropractic appointment today. If you can’t sit for teatime at home, make your drive to Dr. Le's Chiropractic & Wellness, L.L.C. teatime with a mug of green tea! See you here soon!
