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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.

Thanks for the info. I AM interested.

Do you perhaps have a link, which discusses the healing properties of herbs, you seem to be quite knowledgeable, and I do have an interest, although not much knowledge.

A comedy group at one time in England known as Beyond the Fringe (a precursor to Monty Python) had a great skit on this. After various problems were announced, each time the old codger husband would say "Well, put the kettle on -- let's have a nice cup of hot tea". Finally, the wife goes on about World War II having just started -- guess what the old husband says.

BTW, they also had a great skit about a one-legged man auditioning for the role of Tarzan.