McHenry Pain Relief with Green Tea
We need to bring back teatime, a quiet time in the middle of the day to experience a quiet cup of tea away from the bustle of life! (Your McHenry chiropractor would enjoy such a time again!) Teatime was beneficial for the mind and spirit and very likely quite good for the body. Today, we just do not have time, but just enjoying tea on the run in an insulated mug on the commute to your chiropractic appointment at OrthoIllinois Chiropractic can be beneficial, particularly if it’s green tea.
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 – common bone and joint diseases affecting many people – researchers found that tea offers potential anti-COX (cycolooxygenase) factors and hormone-like effects. They determined that tea has an immense potential to be helpful in medicine and healthcare especially as the mechanisms of the different types of tea properties are identified 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 by medicinal plants, the more we will want to thank nature! Green tea is a common beverage obtained from such medicinal plants. Green tea via several pharmacological activities and antinociceptive effects can 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 because if can suppress inflammation and oxidative stress. (2) Green tea’s major component, EGCG (epigallocatechin-3-gallate), is described in the published literature as a valuable anti-inflammatory factor as well as anti-oxidant. Research papers have reported 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 potentially improves the quality of life for inflammatory disease patients with no severe adverse side-effects. (3) Back pain and its associated spinal pain conditions like neck pain, arm pain, leg 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 illustrates 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 McHenry chiropractic appointment today. If you can’t sit for teatime at home, turn your trip to OrthoIllinois Chiropractic into teatime with a mug of green tea! Visit soon!
