[FairOpinion]

Interesting. Science frequently discovers that there is something to the "folk remedies", after all.

[joesnuffy]

Dont asians generally drink a lot of green tea?....

[SubMareener]

We mix one half Green Tea, one half Earle Grey. Tastes great!

[Vision Thing]

Another thread talked about how you should have milk with green tea. Otherwise, you can get kidney stones.

[cake_crumb]

Black and green tea have been known by herbalists to have immune enhancing effects for years. In fact, the combination of immune enhancing volitile oils combined with the natural fluride contained in high quantities in both also help prevent tooth decay. Green tea has the higher floride content.

The chemical cocktail created by black tea combined with orange pekoe has a calming, stabilizing effect on the human psyche, and is believed by herbalists to be the root cause of the Brits' famous ability to cope with catastrophe. (A British wife offering to brew a pot of tea for all the survivors after her neighborhood is destroyed by a German bombing raid during the Blitzkreig is a deserved legend)

In case you're interested...and you wouldn't be reading this article if you weren't.

[maddogzwife]

I sent a bunch of green tea supplements to my husband in Iraq. The soldiers are going to need plenty of antioxidants to prevent harm from the exposure to smoke and other firearms residue in the war. I am a firm believer in homeopathic remedies.

[Mr. Mojo]

I'm still waiting for some good news about beer.

[Publicus]

The folk remedies are the result of hundreds of years of trial and error.

It is only now that "modern" medicine is confirming what many people have known all along.

For example, olive oil's reducing of bad cholesterol, garlic's chart-blowing antibiotic powers, mastich gum's cure for most stomach ailments and ulcers, green and black tea's immune boosting properties, etc.