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Chamomile tea
The article at
http://my.webmd.com/content/article/99/105116.htm?action=related link mentions some possible medicinal benefits derived from drinking chamomile tea:
For thousands of years, the herbal tea has been heralded as a natural cure for many conditions. The fragrant tea has been used as a sedative to calm nerves and has been touted to have anti-inflammatory properties.
Now new research adds credence to the theory that this herbal tea has medicinal benefits. A study published in the Jan. 26 issue of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry has found that chamomile tea contains compounds that may help fight infections due to colds and relieve menstrual cramps.
"This is one of a growing number of studies that provide evidence that commonly used natural products really do contain chemicals that may be of medicinal value," study author Elaine Holmes, PhD, a chemist with the Imperial College of London, says in a news release.
For the small study, 14 volunteers drank five cups of tea made from the German chamomile (Matricaria recutita) plant daily for two weeks. Daily urine samples were collected from each participant at the start of the study, during the tea-drinking phase, and then for two weeks after the tea-drinking phase ended.
Drinking chamomile tea resulted in significantly higher levels of two compounds in the urine, hippurate and glycine.
Hippurate, a breakdown product of tea flavonoids, has been linked to antibacterial activity. Researchers say elevated hippurate levels after tea drinking may explain tea's infection-fighting ability.
Glycine is a chemical that relieves muscle spasms and can act as a nerve relaxant. Holmes and colleagues say higher glycine levels may relax the uterus, explaining why the tea appears to relieve menstrual cramps.
Hippurate and glycine levels remained elevated for up to two weeks after the volunteers stopped drinking the tea, suggesting that drinking chamomile tea leads to prolonged medicinal effects.
Oxford Natural Products help fund the study.
Charles Riggs
http://my.webmd.com/content/article/99/105116.htm?action=related link mentions some possible medicinal benefits derived from drinking chamomile tea:
For thousands of years, the herbal tea has been heralded as a natural cure for many conditions. The fragrant tea has been used as a sedative to calm nerves and has been touted to have anti-inflammatory properties.
Now new research adds credence to the theory that this herbal tea has medicinal benefits. A study published in the Jan. 26 issue of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry has found that chamomile tea contains compounds that may help fight infections due to colds and relieve menstrual cramps.
"This is one of a growing number of studies that provide evidence that commonly used natural products really do contain chemicals that may be of medicinal value," study author Elaine Holmes, PhD, a chemist with the Imperial College of London, says in a news release.
For the small study, 14 volunteers drank five cups of tea made from the German chamomile (Matricaria recutita) plant daily for two weeks. Daily urine samples were collected from each participant at the start of the study, during the tea-drinking phase, and then for two weeks after the tea-drinking phase ended.
Drinking chamomile tea resulted in significantly higher levels of two compounds in the urine, hippurate and glycine.
Hippurate, a breakdown product of tea flavonoids, has been linked to antibacterial activity. Researchers say elevated hippurate levels after tea drinking may explain tea's infection-fighting ability.
Glycine is a chemical that relieves muscle spasms and can act as a nerve relaxant. Holmes and colleagues say higher glycine levels may relax the uterus, explaining why the tea appears to relieve menstrual cramps.
Hippurate and glycine levels remained elevated for up to two weeks after the volunteers stopped drinking the tea, suggesting that drinking chamomile tea leads to prolonged medicinal effects.
Oxford Natural Products help fund the study.
Charles Riggs
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action=related link [nq:1]mentions some possible medicinal benefits derived from drinking chamomile tea:[/nq] Yes, it's good stuff: along with judicious consumption of Marmite and, for Heaven's sake, hard cheese (I swear by Johann Sebastian Bach and Thomas Tallis this isn't a wind-up) it can help to alleviate depression and anxiety. If I can't sleep I find it's very soothing. But get a separate teapot for it: the left-over aroma plays buggery with ordinary tea.
- action=related link [nq:1]mentions some possible medicinal benefits derived from drinking chamomile tea:[/nq] Yes, it's good stuff: along with judicious consumption of Marmite and, for Heaven's sake, hard cheese (I swear by Johann Sebastian Bach and Thomas Tallis this isn't a wind-up) it can help to alleviate depression and anxiety.
- If I can't sleep I find it's very soothing.
- But get a separate teapot for it: the left-over aroma plays buggery with ordinary tea.
- Mike.
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[nq:1]The article at[/nq]
http://my.webmd.com/content/article/99/105116.htm?action=related link
[nq:1]mentions some possible medicinal benefits derived from drinking chamomile tea:[/nq]
Yes, it's good stuff: along with judicious consumption of Marmite and, for Heaven's sake, h
http://my.webmd.com/content/article/99/105116.htm?action=related link
[nq:1]mentions some possible medicinal benefits derived from drinking chamomile tea:[/nq]
Yes, it's good stuff: along with judicious consumption of Marmite and, for Heaven's sake, h
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I don't doubt the results of the study.
What I question is the benefits of taking tea bags containing minuscule particles of expired carmomille, besides the beneficial placebo effect, combined with drinking liquid and the feeling that you're doing something good for your health.
What I question is the benefits of taking tea bags containing minuscule particles of expired carmomille, besides the beneficial placebo effect, combined with drinking liquid and the feeling that you're doing something good for your health.
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I swear, Mike, Brit. English and especially your take on it can send me into giggle fits easier than anything since Laurel and Hardy.
dg (domain=ccwebster)
dg (domain=ccwebster)
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http://my.webmd.com/content/article/99/105116.htm?action=related link
[nq:2] Yes, it's good stuff: along with judicious consumption of ... teapot for it: the left-over aroma playsbuggery with ordinary tea.[/nq]
[nq:1]I swear, Mike, Brit. English and especially your take on it can
[nq:2] Yes, it's good stuff: along with judicious consumption of ... teapot for it: the left-over aroma playsbuggery with ordinary tea.[/nq]
[nq:1]I swear, Mike, Brit. English and especially your take on it can
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[nq:2]The article at http://my.webmd.com/content/article/99/105116.htm?action=related link mentions some possible medicinal benefits derived from drinking chamomile tea:[/nq]
[nq:1]I don't doubt the results of the study. What I question is the benefits of taking tea bags containing mi
[nq:1]I don't doubt the results of the study. What I question is the benefits of taking tea bags containing mi
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[nq:1]The article at http://my.webmd.com/content/article/99/105116.htm?action=related link mentions some possible medicinal benefits derived from drinking chamomile tea: For thousands of years, the ... drinking the tea, suggesting that drinking chamomile tea leads to prolonged medicinal ef
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[nq:1]Oh, I don't know in my childhood, whenever I had a cold or cough or something, my mother gave me chamomile tea, and look how I turned out![/nq]
I used to get a teaspoon of whiskey with sugar in it. Look how I truned oot.
dg (domain=ccwebster)
I used to get a teaspoon of whiskey with sugar in it. Look how I truned oot.
dg (domain=ccwebster)
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[nq:1]Ah,well, there we go: we Antipondians have always done it better than the rickets-infested saponiphobes of the decaying mother country.[/nq]
Saponiphobes? Us? The home of Crabtree & Evelyn, Woods of Windsor, Yardley's English Lavender, Penhaligon, Pears, and if all else fails good old Boots? Class distinctions, democracy and proper drains? (Oops, got a trifle sidetracked there ...)
Saponiphobes? Us? The home of Crabtree & Evelyn, Woods of Windsor, Yardley's English Lavender, Penhaligon, Pears, and if all else fails good old Boots? Class distinctions, democracy and proper drains? (Oops, got a trifle sidetracked there ...)
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[nq:2]Ah,well, there we go: we Antipondians have always done it better than the rickets-infested saponiphobes of the decaying mother country.[/nq]
[nq:1]Saponiphobes? Us? The home of Crabtree & Evelyn, Woods of Windsor, Yardley's English Lavender, Penhaligon, Pears, and if all else fails good old Boots? Class distinctions, democracy and proper drains? (Oops, got a trifle sidetracked there ...)
[nq:1]Saponiphobes? Us? The home of Crabtree & Evelyn, Woods of Windsor, Yardley's English Lavender, Penhaligon, Pears, and if all else fails good old Boots? Class distinctions, democracy and proper drains? (Oops, got a trifle sidetracked there ...)
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[nq:1]Crabtree & Evelyn is, surprisingly, a US company, although you'd be hard put to discover this from the web site.[/nq]
Huh! I feared as much.
Still, it does say "The name Crabtree & Evelyn was inspired by two English naturalists of the 17th and 18th century" and "The foundation of Crabtree & Evelyn products are (sic) influenced by the English still-rooms of the 17th century." I think
Huh! I feared as much.
Still, it does say "The name Crabtree & Evelyn was inspired by two English naturalists of the 17th and 18th century" and "The foundation of Crabtree & Evelyn products are (sic) influenced by the English still-rooms of the 17th century." I think
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