San Jose Pain Relief with Green Tea
We need to bring back teatime, that quiet time in the middle of the day to drink a quiet cup of tea and escape from the bustle of life! (Your San Jose chiropractor would enjoy such a break again!) Teatime was good for the mind and spirit and most likely very good for the body. Today, we just do not have time, but just enjoying tea on the run in an insulated mug on the way to your chiropractic appointment at Chiropractic Solutions can be just right, 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 – familiar bone and joint diseases affecting many people – researchers found that tea offers potential anti-COX (cycolooxygenase) factors and hormone-like effects. They suggested that tea has a vast 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 presents us a tasty way to be healthier and even a bit painfree!
BENEFITS OF GREEN TEA FOR PAIN
The more information we gather about what nature has for us by medicinal plants, the more we will want to thank nature! Green tea is a common beverage sourced from such medicinal plants. Green tea via a multitude of pharmacological activities and antinociceptive effects can be effective for pain relief due to its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Green tea is explained to be a safe and often effective treatment for pain management due 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 published how green tea benefits diseases like obesity, cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and neurodegenerative diseases. Green tea and its EGCG seem to curb the expression of inflammatory cytokines and inflammation-linked enzymes. The use of green tea potentially improves the quality of life for inflammatory disease patients without severe adverse side-effects. (3) Back pain and its related 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 an advantage.
CONTACT Chiropractic Solutions
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 benefit the back pain patient.
Schedule your San Jose chiropractic appointment now. If you can’t sit for teatime at home, turn your trip to Chiropractic Solutions into teatime with a mug of green tea! See you here soon!
