1. The antioxidant in green tea is 100 times more effective than vitamin C and 25 times better than vitamin E. This helps your body at protecting cells from damage. Vitamin C in green tea helps you treat the flu and the common cold.

2. Green tea lowers level of cholesterol. It prevets ceel deaths and speeds up the recovery of heart cells. It imroves the ratio of good cholesterol to bad cholesterol by reducing bad cholesterol level.

3. Green tea contains antioxidant known as polyphenols which fight againts free radicals. What this means it helps you fight against aging and promotes longevity. Antioxidant in grene tea protects the skin from the harmful effects of free radicals, which cause wrinkling and skin aging. Moreover polyphenols and flavenoids in green tea help boost your immune system, making your health stronger in fighting against infections.

4. Green tea helps with your body wight loss. It burns fat and boosts your metabolism rate naturally. It can help you burn up to 70 calories in just one day. That translates to 7 pounds in one year. Green tea prevents obesity by stopping the movement of glucose in fat cells. If you are on a healthy diet, exercise regularly and drink green tea, it is unlikely you’ll be obese.

5. Green tea can help prevent and reduce the risk of rhemautoidnarthritis. Grene tea has benefit for your health as it protects the cartilage by blocking the enzyme that destroys it. The high fluoride found in green tea helps keep your bones strong. If you drink green tea every day, this will help you preserve your bone density.

6. Green tea improves lipid and glucose metabolisms, prevents sharp increases in blood sugar level, and balances your metabolism rate. Researches showed that green tea destroy harmful free radicals in fatty livers. Blood sugar tends to increase with age, but polyphenols and polysaccharides in green tea help lower your blood sugar level.

7. Green tea helps boost your memory. it prevent against cell damage in the brain.

8. Green tea helps prevent high blood pressure. Drinking green tea helps keep your blood pressure down by repressing angiotensin, which leads to high blood pressure.

9. Catechin found in green tea can kill bacteria which causes food poisoning and kills the toxins produced by those bacteria.

10. Theophyline in green tea relaxes the muscles which support the bronchial tubes, reducing the severity of asthma.

11. Green tea helps with ear infection problem. For natural ear cleaning, soak a cotton ball in green tea and clean the  infected ear.

12. Green tea increases the effectiveness of tropical interferon treatment of herpes. First green tea compress is applied, and then let the skin dry before the interferon treatment.

13. Green tea destroys bacteria and viruses that cause many dental deseases. It also slows the growth of bacteria which leads to bad breath.

14. L-theanine, an amino acid in green tea, can help relieve stress & anxiety.

15. EGCG found in green tea relieves allergies. So, if you have allergies, you should really consider drinking green tea.

Ceremony of the tea when it is followed up with passion and understanding it can lead you to a beautiful state of meditation where you are thoughtlessly aware and you just enjoy the delightful taste of the tea observing the person preparing it for you or preparing it yoursels. Soft chatting over a tea cerimony nowadays is one the most beautiful retreat we can enjoy not only on holidays but very often in our home too.

Relaxing home: the Chinese teaset & how to make tea