Drink To Your Health: A Resource Of Medicinal Uses Of Tea

All about Tea - An informative article published in http://www.herbco.com/

Tea drinkers know that there are many benefits to drinking tea, and one of the primary benefits is medicinal. Teas are a decent source of health benefits and of alternative, medicinal uses. Some different kinds of tea are black tea, white tea, green tea, oolong tea, Pu-erh tea and various types of herbal teas. Black tea features more oxidization than either white tea, green tea or oolong tea. White tea only has slight oxidization and comes from China’s Fujian province, while green tea is made from camellia sinensis, and oolong tea is known as a traditional tea that’s made from a method known as withering. Pu-erh tea is a type of post-fermented tea that one can find in China’s Yunnan Province, and herbal teas are not even real tea as they are mere infusions of plants or herbs.

Green Tea

Green tea comes from China and is made exclusively through the leaves of the plant called camellia sinensis that have gone through only slight oxidation during the tea processing. In recent years, green tea has enjoyed a degree of popularity in the West, which is interesting because black tea is the most common type of tea consumed in Western countries. Green tea has been subjected to a number of tests over the years to determine if rumors of its reported health benefits are dependable. Research has confirmed that there is evidence to indicate that green tea helps in lowering the chances of developing heart disease as well as specific kinds of cancer. According to a recent study from Hong Kong, green tea may also aid in staving off eye diseases like glaucoma.

• Overview of Green Tea: This website provides people with a look at the medicinal qualities of green tea.
• Flavor and Green Tea: This website features a news article that discusses how green tea impacts one’s sense of flavor.
• Benefits: This website provides information on a study that found health benefits associated with green tea.
• Leukemia: This website features a report that talks about the effects of green tea to lower the incidences of cancer.
• Autoimmune Disease: This website has information on green tea and autoimmune disease.
• A Look at Green Tea (PDF): This document takes a look at details of green tea.

Black Tea

Black tea is tea with particularly strong oxidization, meaning that, in contrast with less-oxidized teas like white and oolong, it has a strong flavor and greater caffeine content. Black tea is also different from green tea in that it actually keeps its flavor for several years, while green tea only keeps its flavor for up to a year. According to research from Boston University from 2001, drinking black tea alleviates endothelial vasomotor dysfunction. Endothelial vasomotor dysfunction is traditionally seen in patients who suffer cardiovascular disease. Black tea also has a reputation for having high antioxidant properties.

• A Look at Black Tea: This website features information on black tea.
• Kinds of Black Tea: This website offers examples of various kinds of black tea.
• Risk of Stroke: This website provides information on how black tea can lessen the risk of stroke.
• Oral Health: This website offers information on the relationship between oral health and black tea.
• Black Tea Analysis: This website examines the aspects of black tea.
• Processing by Hand (PDF): This document examines how people can home-process black tea.
• Ingredients (PDF): This website provides a look at the individual ingredients of black tea.

White Tea

White tea is only lightly oxidized tea that is both harvested and grown primarily in China’s Fujian province. Made from camellia sinensis, white tea has been found to have a role in lessening a person’s likelihood of dying from cardiovascular disease. White tea has this property because of its polyphenol antioxidants that work towards lowering blood pressure, cholesterol, and bad functioning of the blood vessels. Additionally, it is thought that white tea’s antioxidants may contribute to boosting the immune system.

• Benefits of White Tea: This website provides people with information on some benefits of white tea.
• White Tea Details: This website features brief information for people who are interested in the properties of white tea.
• Health Properties: This website offers information on health properties, like the antioxidant levels within white tea.
• White Tea Explained: This website provides information on why people think white tea is wonderful.
• Osteoblast Proliferation (PDF): This document includes details on the relationship between white tea and osteoblast proliferation.
• White Tea vs. Green Tea: This website provides pros and cons of white tea in comparison to green tea.

Oolong Tea

A traditional Chinese tea, Oolong tea is created by way of a unique process that relies on both withering under the sun as well as regular oxidation. The leaves of Oolong tea are formed in separate styles. Some leaves are wrapped and curled into small beads while others are rolled into leaves that are curly and long. Oolong tea has been credited with providing tea drinkers with a number of health benefits, which include helping against inflammatory disorders, heart diseases, and high cholesterol levels, while promoting advantages like good dental health. It has low caffeine content and provides mental relaxation in those who drink it.

• History: This website features a history of how Oolong tea is produced in Asia.
• Diabetes: This website offers information on Oolong tea and how it relates to Type II diabetes.
• Weight Loss: This website provides information on how Oolong tea can help people lose weight.
• Oolong Tea Explored: This website offers information on Oolong Tea and its role in Chinese culture.
• Is Oolong Tea Healthy?: This website offers information that examines how healthy Oolong Tea really is.
• Oolong Tea Information: This website provides details on many aspects of Oolong tea.

Pu-erh Tea

Made in China’s Yunnan province, Pu-erh tea is made through post-fermentation, which is a way of producing tea that sees the tea leaves going through a microbial fermentation process once they are rolled up and dried. Pu-erh tea is a specialty in China and is, therefore, sometimes referred to as dark tea. This type of tea has a reputation for reducing the blood cholesterol levels in a person, and this has been verified in a few scientific studies. In Chinese culture alone, Pu-erh tea is thought to counterattack the bad effects of alcohol consumption.

• What is Pu-erh Tea? (PDF): This document provides all kinds of information on Pu-erh tea.
• Origins (PDF): This document takes a look at how Pu-erh tea was named and other aspects of it.
• History of Pu-erh Tea: This website features information on the history of Pu-erh tea.
• Health Tonic?: This website provides details on whether Pu-erh tea is a health tonic or not.
• Benefits of Pu-erh Tea: This website offers a list of benefits that this tea provides.

Herbal Tea

Herbal tea, also known as ptisan or tisane, is really a plant or a herbal infusion that is normally not created from tea bush leaves like camellia sinensis. In most cases, herbal tea is nothing more than the mixture of dried fruits, herbs, flowers and boiling water. Medicinally, herbal teas have a reputation for being drunk mainly due to the properties of sedation, relaxation and stimulation. Another reason that people like to drink herbal tea is their therapeutic applications, which has a lot to do with the antioxidant properties of herbal teas.

• Preparing Herbal Tea (PDF): This document offers advice on preparing herbal tea.
• What is Herbal Tea?: This website provides information on herbal tea, such as all its varieties.
• Herbal Tea: Substitute?: This website examines if herbal tea can successfully reduce hunger.
• Fat Burning: This website looks at the fat-burning properties of herbal teas.

The Origin of Pressure Cookers

In the pic: A 6 quart pressure cooker manufactured by Archibald Kenrick & Sons in England, circa 1890.

In 1679, the French physicist Denis Papin, better known for his studies on steam, invented the steam digester in an attempt to reduce the cooking time of food. His airtight cooker used steam pressure to raise the water's boiling point, thus cooking food much more quickly. In 1681, Papin presented his invention to the Royal Society of London, but the Society's members treated his invention as a scientific study. They granted him permission to become a member of the Society afterwards.

In 1864, Georg Gutbrod of Stuttgart began manufacturing pressure cookers made of tinned cast iron.

In 1918, Spain granted a patent for the pressure cooker to Jose Alix Martínez from Zaragoza. Martínez named it the olla exprés, literally "express cooking pot", under patent number 71143 in the Boletín Oficial de la Propiedad Industrial. In 1924, the first pressure cooking pot recipe book was published, written by José Alix and titled "360 fórmulas de cocina Para guisar con la 'olla expres'", or 360 recipes for cooking with a pressure cooker.

In 1938, Alfred Vischer presented his invention, the Flex-Seal Speed Cooker, in New York City. Vischer's pressure cooker was the first one designed for home use, and its success led to competition among American and European manufacturers. At the 1939 New York World's Fair, National Presto Industries, which was then known as the "National Pressure Cooker Company", introduced its own pressure cooker.

Planning to buy a chimney. Please read this review - Rajeev Kohli

Hi Friends,

This is Rajeev From New Delhi.I have a very good experience in home appliances. I have worked for retail industry for almost 4 years & almost 3 years is with the appliances industry.Chimneys as far as everyone knows is used to eliminate the smoke from ur kitchen.

Electrical chimneys is not a very concerned topic for all of us because most of us including me don't use it.we have all those conventional fans fitted in our kitchens.Basically chimneys work the same way as a exhaust fan but they work in a more organised way.u can get a chimney for Rs.2000/-(the basic ones) & also for Rs.1 lakh(the hi-tech ones).Basically the most selling chimneys range from Rs.4000/- to Rs.25000/-.MY PERSONAL SUGGESTION: ALWAYS GO FOR A BRANDED ONE AS U WILL SURELY NEED AFTER SALES SUPPORT.LOCAL ONES NEVER HAVE A AFTER SALES SUPPORT SO PLEASE DON'T WASTE UR MONEY.

Now i'll start from the requirement part:An average indian home will need a basic chimney with hood or without hood depending on their requirement.

Let me tell u the only difference between a chimney without hood or with hood is that the hood makes the chimney look good.but basic part is that both of them will surely need a PVC pipe for exhaust purposes. So if u have a built in hood at home or a place which can hide the PVC pipe then the chimney without hood would do for you.the hood chimneys do have style in them but they r more practical for bigger homes as they have more suction power.it doesn't depends how big ur family is but it depends on how big ur house or apartment is.An apartment with 1-3 rooms can do with a chimney of 500m3/h suction power.maximum would be 650m3/h.

An apartment with bigger rooms & more than 4 rooms surely require more suction power as their kitchens will also be big.the more spacious kitchen u have the more suction power is needed.a chimney with 650m3/h to 1000 m3/h would do for them.the best fitment would be 800m3/h for them.

The maximum suction power for a chimney without hood can be within 250 m3/h to 650 m3/h & The Hood ones would be from 500m3/h to 1600m3/h.

Sizes range from 2Ft to 3 Ft depending on the size of the gas stove or hob.Normally a 2 burner or a 4 burner would require 2 Ft chimney whereas a 3 burner or a 5 burner would require a 3 Ft one.Basically a Chimney should cover the entire gas stove so as to get effective work.

Now About the Brands:

Today there a lots of brands available in the market - from local made to chinese & italian ones. Some manufacturers claim there chimneys to be italian whereas they r local or chinese make.most of the chimneys which r hoodless r made either in india or china the rest with hoods can be made in india, china or italy.

Now Last but not the least:There are 2 types of filters available.

1) CONVENTIONAL ALUMINIUM CASSETTE FILTER: Basically used by all the brands.easy to use & wash but needs to be cleaned every 15-30 days.(Depending on Usage).Can be clened in Soapy water.For best results use a washing powder like ariel or surf excel because they take out the dirt & grease easily.avoiding regular cleaning can ruin their life.Stays best for 2-3 years.don't go on a salesman's word.cheaper in costs.

2) BAFFLE FILTERS: Hyped as the most modern technology as does not requires frequent cleaning.Baffle filters were introduced by Faber in india. Can be cleaned every 4-6 months.Now comes the worst part.as they are made of steel they are very heavy.Needs to opened but its very tough for a normal person.only a trained technician can open it without injuring his hands.Faber's baffle filters are easy to open but the filters inside have steel thorns in them which again can injure ur hands while washing.They also are expensive & again need to be changed every 4-5 years not because they get damaged but because they get rust beacuse of all the dirt & grease.remember they are made of steel not aluminium & steel is made from iron.*

*AGAIN DON'T GO BY A SALESMAN'S WORDS.HE CAN SELL U ANYTHING AS HE IS MADE TO SELL.

Most of the consumers prefer going for casstte type filters as they are better & cheaper.

At Last my favourite brand:-KAFF.(but please don't go by my choice but go on the practicality)

Whenever Buying a chimney look for Better Suction Power, Pricing & Filters.All other features as per your convenience & Budget.

& I think After reading my review it will be more easier for u to decide on what to buy & what not to.

Do Like it, Rate it & Comment on it if you like my review.

Regards

Rajeev Kohli (Curtsy- http://www.mouthshut.com/)