Montreal Pain Relief with Green Tea
We need to bring back teatime, a quiet time in the middle of the afternoon to have a quiet cup of tea away from the bustle of life! (Your Montreal chiropractor would enjoy such a time again!) Teatime was good for the mind and spirit and very likely quite good for the body. Most days, we just don’t have time, but just drinking tea on the run in an insulated mug on the commute to your chiropractic appointment at Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic can be just right, especially if it’s green tea.
BENEFITS OF TEA OVERALL
In China, drinking tea is a traditional lifestyle factor. 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 afflicting many people – researchers found that tea offers potential anti-COX (cycolooxygenase) factors and hormone-like effects. They concluded that tea has a vast potential to be helpful in medicine and healthcare especially as the mechanisms of various 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 less painful!
BENEFITS OF GREEN TEA FOR PAIN
The more we learn about what nature offers us through medicinal plants, the more we will want to thank nature! Green tea is a well-known beverage obtained 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 owing to its suppression of 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 explained how green tea helps 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 quite possibly 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 adding 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.
Make your Montreal chiropractic appointment now. If you can’t sit for teatime at home, make your trip to Dr. Hoang's Chiropractic Clinic teatime with a mug of green tea! See you here soon!
