Tea,a Refreshment Or A Poison?

[devdahiya]

Dear members,tea is symbolic of freshness.'Bhai thakk gya ek cha pya de' is a common sentence.Yesterday only i was going through an article,where in it was stated that the chemicals used towards refining of tea these days are responsible for several diseases.What is the truth really? Kindly throw some light on this important topic.Manne tei teddkehein uthhteinhe cha jaroor chehiye?

[rakeshsehrawat]

Tea & Coffee – poison or medicine? The choice is yours

These are the common drinks of Indians and also of population all over world. It is a common knowledge that drinking tea or coffee as a habit is hazardous to health. Let us try to analyze the composition of tealeaves and find out what each constituent does.
Tea:

Tea leaf contains approximately 6% water, 2% caffeine, 17% albumin, 8% soluble substances, 8% toxic substances, 2% dectrine, 3% pectic acid and pictine, 17% tannic acid, 4% chlorophyll and raisin, 26% cellulose and 7% salt.
The toxic elements in tea secretly and gradually affect the body parts, but permanently damage them. It makes the drinker addicted.
Tannin is used in tannery to make leather soft and shining. Tannin blocks the orifices of tiny cells in the body, which absorbs nutrient from eaten food. When tannin reaches stomach it disturbs the secretion of juices for digestion of food. The consequence is indigestion, constipation that affects liver. Since tannin’s effect is to dry up watery contents in the body, the skin also becomes rough and brittle. Its mental effect is similar to liquor or a narcotic drug, which gives a kick for a shorter duration and thereafter, gives rise to lethargy and listlessness. This makes one to gulp another cup of tea to regain earlier euphoria. This leads to addiction and usually these persons feel drowsy and morose if they do not get their ‘cuppa’ to stimulate them.
Caffeine is like nicotine in tobacco and is a dreadful poison, which causes gout and windy diseases. Excessive intake of tea or coffee enhances the quantity of urine and the kidney is heavily loaded. A person addicted to tea passes three times more urine than a healthy person. But the toxic substance does not go out with urine but gets solidified to form uric acid, which in turn gets deposited in joints to cause gout and arthritis.
Tea also contains Thein, cynogen, stricknein, cyanide and aeromic oil. Excessive intake of tea causes giddiness, sore throat, blood impurity, insomnia, windy troubles and even paralysis.
Tea drinking is very bad for teeth. Besides disfiguring these, it weakens the gum also.
Coffee:

Coffee or Kahawa is a powder made by roasting and grinding seeds of a tree known as Coffee Arabica. It tastes like burnt cereal. Both hot and cold coffee drinking is popular.
Medically, coffee is more dangerous a drink than tea. The caffeine content in coffee is 50% more than tea. Like tea it has also tannin. The combined effect of caffeine and tannin creates many neuro-genetic disorders. According to ayurveda, coffee drinking makes the semen very thin, which causes early ejaculation and involuntary night discharge. It decreases reproducing power of both sexes. Coffee drinking badly affects the skin, making it dark and rough.
So much for the ill effects of tea and coffee. Like any poison used in very less quantity can be used as medicine, both tea and coffee can be used sparingly, as a form of medicine.
Medicinal Uses of Tea:

1. To cure loose motions: Lemon tea with biscuits made of husk in two to three doses.

2. To decrease Obesity: Honey tea first thing in the morning.

3. To cure fire burns: Covering the burnt part with a cloth soaked in cold black tea [no milk, no sugar] and replacing and repeating every half an hour.

4. To remove Phlegm in the body: Basil / black pepper / ginger tea

5. To cure windy troubles: After light lunch, take black tea [very little sugar and milk, if a must for any individual to relish tea].

6. Tea as Skin-care Lotion: Apply strained tea leaves on face with very little sugar added to it and leave it to dry. Then remove them by massaging face. After 15 minutes just wash face with lukewarm limewater. This is also effective treatment to remove wrinkles from face.

7. To cure Lethargy and Sleepiness: A cup of hot black tea.

8. Tea leaves as Mosquito Repellant: Dried up strained tea leaves can be sprinkled on to coal furnace or ‘Angithi’.

9. Use of tealeaves in gardening: Add strained tealeaves / powder to soil and it is very good manure. It is being practiced by me with pronounced result for all kind of plants and especially very good for flower plants.

10. Tea leaves solution as Beauty aid: Add a little of tealeaves water to henna soaked in water to leave better marks on palm.
Use of Coffee as medicine:

1. Diarrhoea: A hot cup of coffee generates constipation due to caffeine. Having light coffee twice or thrice a day will stop loose motions.

2. Extreme Cold condition: Adding a few drop of brandy in a cup of coffee cures all the congestion in the lungs. This combination is especially good for persons suffering from pneumonia or bronchitis.

3. Coffee as energizer: When one is extremely tired and fails to get sleep, a cup of hot coffee mixed with a spoon of honey will energize the body to relax it.
Having pointed out the bad and good points of tea and coffee, it is advised that no one should get addicted to these, as they cause enormous harm compared to their usefulness. Between the two evils drinking tea is better than coffee. Some say that tea drinking prevents heart attack.
To leave tea or coffee drinking or to minimize the intake, one is advised to drink water whenever one feels like drinking these beverages. Resort to water therapy.
TO PREVENT STROKE DRINK TEA http://psa-rising.com/eatingwell/gifs/greensteam.gif
Prevent build-up of fatty deposits on artery walls with regular doses of tea. (actually, tea suppresses my appetite and keeps the pounds from invading..Green tea is great for our immune system)!

[ritu]

the only good thing i heard about tea it has antioxidant properties which r good 4 prevention of cancer.green tea is especially good.I personally can not think my life without tea.I can live withoutfood but not tea.






Dear members,tea is symbolic of freshness.'Bhai thakk gya ek cha pya de' is a common sentence.Yesterday only i was going through an article,where in it was stated that the chemicals used towards refining of tea these days are responsible for several diseases.What is the truth really? Kindly throw some light on this important topic.Manne tei teddkehein uthhteinhe cha jaroor chehiye?

[vijay]

Well,

I don't want to read some copy paste good and bad things about tea. As far as i know personally being a science student, tea, in a limited quantity is good for health and all u know that excess of everything is bad.

So, lets have a cup of tea for refreshment.

[cooljat]

Tea is very gud for health....but only if prepared properly!
u know Indian & Chinese ppl been drinkin tea for ages.
even my idol Bruce lee used to drink a lot of Tea so do I :)
Tea Always gives refreshness better then any thing!
aur chai peene se aaj tak to koi naa mara ;)

I luv Ginger Tea :)

Rock on
Jit

[poonam]

Dear members,tea is symbolic of freshness.'Bhai thakk gya ek cha pya de' is a common sentence.Yesterday only i was going through an article,where in it was stated that the chemicals used towards refining of tea these days are responsible for several diseases.What is the truth really? Kindly throw some light on this important topic.Manne tei teddkehein uthhteinhe cha jaroor chehiye?

Dev kaka, jisse chaa hum peewein sae "patti rok dhoodh thok" ..:D ..uste kuchh na ho..main gaurantee lyoon hoon...to aap bedhadak chaa peejiye..:) .

[shailendra]

Ayehaiye!Chaie!!!..... Beats the heck out of these Starbucks coffee/hot chocolate wannabees, doesn't it!?! (Actually Starbucks itself has something on it's menu called: 'Chai'!)..........

I think if you consider other drinks that humans consume (Coffee, Soft Drinks, Beer, wine etc), this is by far the most safe, helpful and with somewhat herbal soothing effects.......

I am not a big tea fan, but wouldn't mind the occasional indulgence and believe me it refreshes the heck outta you.........the perfect thing for those rainy days outside to go with the 'pakoras' too!!!

Kahe ko sochte ho Dahiyaji........ jaaiye aer Mrs.Dahiya ko gana suna deejiye, "Ek garam chai kee pyaalee ho....aer tham usnae pilane waali ho!" ;) .................bus phaer kya hai, garam-garam chai kae mazee lo! :D

[ritu]

Dev kaka, jisse chaa hum peewein sae "patti rok dhoodh thok" ..:D ..uste kuchh na ho..main gaurantee lyoon hoon...to aap bedhadak chaa peejiye..:) .
ya baat poonam tan kati shai kahi.mhara bhans thi ghar me jab bhi koi mahman ata daddy kahte badaiya se chai bana do doodh me patti gerke.:)

[yashmalik]

Dev kaka, jisse chaa hum peewein sae "patti rok dhoodh thok" ..:D ..uste kuchh na ho..main gaurantee lyoon hoon...to aap bedhadak chaa peejiye..:) .

^ agreed !

[devdahiya]

Dev kaka, jisse chaa hum peewein sae "patti rok dhoodh thok" ..:D ..uste kuchh na ho..main gaurantee lyoon hoon...to aap bedhadak chaa peejiye..:) .



Ha...ha...ha...ha.Dacdarni bebe merre tei pachhle din yaad aa gye jib NEEKHHDDU dudhh thhokya karte cha mei....arr uss cha nei kahya karte.......LATTAM-PATTAM. Sachchi baat sei bebe...yu doodhh saari bimariyan nei dabba le sei arr pher iss cha ki patti ke chemicals ki ke himmat je munh thha jya.

[downtoearth]

Dev kaka, jisse chaa hum peewein sae "patti rok dhoodh thok" ..:D ..uste kuchh na ho..main gaurantee lyoon hoon...to aap bedhadak chaa peejiye..:) . heeheh ,,, dacterni ney yu to kasuta baga diya,,,,,:D :p :D ,,,,,,, baaki,,, black tea is best ;)

[sunitahooda]

Mai chaa ki ghani chasduu su par ibb kai bai uthun tai fridge mai bi dhoodh kharab hoya pave....arr patti rokk kai dhoodh thokk kai/ginger/illaichi/herbal tea/lemon tea....sub try maarey pachey fav is strong tea....well boilt....i cant imagine my life without a cup of tea for more than 2 hours....:)

[ssgoyat]

R lahsi piya karo.............garmi ka tem chaal rehya se.......

[dahiyarules]

During exam season I live on caffeine. Sometimes I go 3-4 days without sleep. Gees! I wonder what I would have done without tea and coffee.

[itsnavin]

Morning tea prepares me for the day and evening tea is a best refresher!
A roadside or a dhaba tea is perfect way to get relax on highways...better than these autogrills on french highways!!

[positivelook]

Dev kaka

Agar aapp nyuen article padhe gaye toh yeh ek din rotti khani bhee chudva denge isliye aram teh cha pee liya karo kuch na hote.
Arr nyun khante-pinte marange toh mar jyange, isliye mein toh cha pee liya karoon.

Abhimanyu Phougat

[desijat]

:mad: De "patti rok dhoodh thok" .
HAHAHAHAHHHAHHAHA

Poonam ji, Ya to kassutti baat sunai, mere gaam mein bhi assi chai bane:mad: cha kam doodh ghana lage, jane naam ko cha ger rakhi ho:mad:

[desijat]

Sach bataun to meri to aankh bhi na khulti tadki sulu dhaal, itne chai ki 2-3 Chuski munh mein chali jaa :p

Chahe bhundi ho chahe bhadiya, Cha to cha hai ar iska koi tod ni:p

[desijat]

pachey fav is strong tea....well boilt....i cant imagine my life without a cup of tea for more than 2 hours....:)
Same Istory inghe bhi hai bebe.

Ghani patti, Ghani cheeni kam doodh ar Chai Taiyar :D
Ek bar Singapur mein Chinese Chai piya di kisi ne ar ghoonth bartu hi:eek: Assa laga jane kisi ne Pani ubal ke usme jaw mila ke de diya ho:eek: (Samajhdar log simajh jana ke keh ra)

[ritu]

Sach bataun to meri to aankh bhi na khulti tadki sulu dhaal, itne chai ki 2-3 Chuski munh mein chali jaa :p

Chahe bhundi ho chahe bhadiya, Cha to cha hai ar iska koi tod ni:p

bhundi badiya bani banie te milre se.soch jab bina chai ke oth ke tan bhabiji tahi chai banani padegi:confused: :mad: :D

[desijat]

bhundi badiya bani banie te milre se.soch jab bina chai ke oth ke tan bhabiji tahi chai banani padegi:confused: :mad: :D
Ya to meri maa wali baat keh di bobo:rolleyes: Meri maa kave- Tajhe roj bistar mein pade ku cha chah, ar assi banao wasi banao, Jib ja kale chunde wali aavegi jib dekhungi kyukar phirega nachta aage pache

[devdahiya]

Ya to meri maa wali baat keh di bobo:rolleyes: Meri maa kave- Tajhe roj bistar mein pade ku cha chah, ar assi banao wasi banao, Jib ja kale chunde wali aavegi jib dekhungi kyukar phirega nachta aage pache



VIkkasse...tyari karr le bhai...Maa nei aagge awann aali aandhhi ka ehssass ho liya sei...terri kadd toddegi pherre lewtein-hei..........Ja cha banna lya sabh tahin....ha...ha..ha.Seekh le bhai temm sei ibbe tei.

[pragati]

Tea has many qualities...specially "Green Tea".....Green tea has demonstrated an ability to lower total cholesterol and raise HDL (good cholesterol ) & the cancer-protective effects of green tea are well known. Green tea has been used traditionally to control blood sugar in the body.
Population-based studies have shown that men who drink more than 10 cups of green tea per day are less likely to develop disorders of the liver. Green tea also appears to protect the liver from the damaging effects of toxic substances such as alcohol....But as we know that excess of everything is bad...excess of Tea could cause kidney disorders and stomach ulcers. People who drink excessive amounts of caffeine (including caffeine from green tea) for prolonged periods of time may experience irritability, insomnia, heart palpitation, and dizziness......
Lekin fir bhi jab tak ek cup "Chai" na pi lu, mere to din ki shuruwaat hi nahi hoti....

[ratheetheraist]

Tea has many qualities...specially "Green Tea".....Green tea has demonstrated an ability to lower total cholesterol and raise HDL (good cholesterol ) & the cancer-protective effects of green tea are well known. Green tea has been used traditionally to control blood sugar in the body.
Population-based studies have shown that men who drink more than 10 cups of green tea per day are less likely to develop disorders of the liver. Green tea also appears to protect the liver from the damaging effects of toxic substances such as alcohol....But as we know that excess of everything is bad...excess of Tea could cause kidney disorders and stomach ulcers. People who drink excessive amounts of caffeine (including caffeine from green tea) for prolonged periods of time may experience irritability, insomnia, heart palpitation, and dizziness......
Lekin fir bhi jab tak ek cup "Chai" na pi lu, mere to din ki shuruwaat hi nahi hoti....

hey pragati.....thanks so much for this valuable info.......i used to have a lot f tea.....ibb nu na bera gren tea ke hoyaa karree.....aappaan te jo jaat piyaa karenn ussii chhaa piyyaa karenn.......ibb tee waa kamm karni padeggii parr.........ibb khayaal raakhungaa.........thanks again.......JAI MATA KI

[msingh]

good research work rakesh Tea & Coffee – poison or medicine? The choice is yours

These are the common drinks of Indians and also of population all over world. It is a common knowledge that drinking tea or coffee as a habit is hazardous to health. Let us try to analyze the composition of tealeaves and find out what each constituent does.
Tea:

Tea leaf contains approximately 6% water, 2% caffeine, 17% albumin, 8% soluble substances, 8% toxic substances, 2% dectrine, 3% pectic acid and pictine, 17% tannic acid, 4% chlorophyll and raisin, 26% cellulose and 7% salt.
The toxic elements in tea secretly and gradually affect the body parts, but permanently damage them. It makes the drinker addicted.
Tannin is used in tannery to make leather soft and shining. Tannin blocks the orifices of tiny cells in the body, which absorbs nutrient from eaten food. When tannin reaches stomach it disturbs the secretion of juices for digestion of food. The consequence is indigestion, constipation that affects liver. Since tannin’s effect is to dry up watery contents in the body, the skin also becomes rough and brittle. Its mental effect is similar to liquor or a narcotic drug, which gives a kick for a shorter duration and thereafter, gives rise to lethargy and listlessness. This makes one to gulp another cup of tea to regain earlier euphoria. This leads to addiction and usually these persons feel drowsy and morose if they do not get their ‘cuppa’ to stimulate them.
Caffeine is like nicotine in tobacco and is a dreadful poison, which causes gout and windy diseases. Excessive intake of tea or coffee enhances the quantity of urine and the kidney is heavily loaded. A person addicted to tea passes three times more urine than a healthy person. But the toxic substance does not go out with urine but gets solidified to form uric acid, which in turn gets deposited in joints to cause gout and arthritis.
Tea also contains Thein, cynogen, stricknein, cyanide and aeromic oil. Excessive intake of tea causes giddiness, sore throat, blood impurity, insomnia, windy troubles and even paralysis.
Tea drinking is very bad for teeth. Besides disfiguring these, it weakens the gum also.
Coffee:

Coffee or Kahawa is a powder made by roasting and grinding seeds of a tree known as Coffee Arabica. It tastes like burnt cereal. Both hot and cold coffee drinking is popular.
Medically, coffee is more dangerous a drink than tea. The caffeine content in coffee is 50% more than tea. Like tea it has also tannin. The combined effect of caffeine and tannin creates many neuro-genetic disorders. According to ayurveda, coffee drinking makes the semen very thin, which causes early ejaculation and involuntary night discharge. It decreases reproducing power of both sexes. Coffee drinking badly affects the skin, making it dark and rough.
So much for the ill effects of tea and coffee. Like any poison used in very less quantity can be used as medicine, both tea and coffee can be used sparingly, as a form of medicine.
Medicinal Uses of Tea:

1. To cure loose motions: Lemon tea with biscuits made of husk in two to three doses.

2. To decrease Obesity: Honey tea first thing in the morning.

3. To cure fire burns: Covering the burnt part with a cloth soaked in cold black tea [no milk, no sugar] and replacing and repeating every half an hour.

4. To remove Phlegm in the body: Basil / black pepper / ginger tea

5. To cure windy troubles: After light lunch, take black tea [very little sugar and milk, if a must for any individual to relish tea].

6. Tea as Skin-care Lotion: Apply strained tea leaves on face with very little sugar added to it and leave it to dry. Then remove them by massaging face. After 15 minutes just wash face with lukewarm limewater. This is also effective treatment to remove wrinkles from face.

7. To cure Lethargy and Sleepiness: A cup of hot black tea.

8. Tea leaves as Mosquito Repellant: Dried up strained tea leaves can be sprinkled on to coal furnace or ‘Angithi’.

9. Use of tealeaves in gardening: Add strained tealeaves / powder to soil and it is very good manure. It is being practiced by me with pronounced result for all kind of plants and especially very good for flower plants.

10. Tea leaves solution as Beauty aid: Add a little of tealeaves water to henna soaked in water to leave better marks on palm.
Use of Coffee as medicine:

1. Diarrhoea: A hot cup of coffee generates constipation due to caffeine. Having light coffee twice or thrice a day will stop loose motions.

2. Extreme Cold condition: Adding a few drop of brandy in a cup of coffee cures all the congestion in the lungs. This combination is especially good for persons suffering from pneumonia or bronchitis.

3. Coffee as energizer: When one is extremely tired and fails to get sleep, a cup of hot coffee mixed with a spoon of honey will energize the body to relax it.
Having pointed out the bad and good points of tea and coffee, it is advised that no one should get addicted to these, as they cause enormous harm compared to their usefulness. Between the two evils drinking tea is better than coffee. Some say that tea drinking prevents heart attack.
To leave tea or coffee drinking or to minimize the intake, one is advised to drink water whenever one feels like drinking these beverages. Resort to water therapy.
TO PREVENT STROKE DRINK TEA http://psa-rising.com/eatingwell/gifs/greensteam.gif
Prevent build-up of fatty deposits on artery walls with regular doses of tea. (actually, tea suppresses my appetite and keeps the pounds from invading..Green tea is great for our immune system)!

[msingh]

see the best things with these topics is that ..when u read other people thoughts ,,u want to expresss yours too and when u dont get matter to say u surf..which is again a very good habit coz u come to know so much through net that u r full of ideas...
so i got something for ur information
this info is basically all those smokers 00who r addicted ,,so guys u can try this
Scented Black Tea -- Fermented tea leaves are set on screens to be scented or smoked. Fans are used to spray the leaves with scented fragrances or oils, such as the citrus bergamot which produces an aromatic Earl Grey tea. Fans can also run smoke over the leaves which results in smoky teas like Lapsang Souchong

there are also few teas which r caffeine free
these arethe decaffeinated teas are processed using pure carbon dioxide. This method removes 99% of the caffeine content and leaves no residual chemicals. Tisanes and herbal blends do not contain any tea leaves (therefore there's no caffeine). We have a wonderfully aromatic selection of tisanes and herbal blends. Tisanes are made from pieces of dried fruit and flowers. Come in and ask to smell the fruity tisanes -- they will delight your senses.

hope this info is helpful

[desijat]

VIkkasse...tyari karr le bhai...Maa nei aagge awann aali aandhhi ka ehssass ho liya sei...terri kadd toddegi pherre lewtein-hei..........Ja cha banna lya sabh tahin....ha...ha..ha.Seekh le bhai temm sei ibbe tei.
Hhahaha
Kakaji, MEri maa ku is andhi ka ehsaas bachpan mein ho ga dikhe tha, jibhi majhe 4 saal pahle hi cha banani sikha di:p Ib to bas kise pilani uska intezar hai:p

[ratananmol]

Dev kaka, jisse chaa hum peewein sae "patti rok dhoodh thok" ..:D ..uste kuchh na ho..main gaurantee lyoon hoon...to aap bedhadak chaa peejiye..:) .

:D Ok this was the best by far....total desi dhamaka....any recommendation for the relative proportions?

[fireball]

I believe Tea is gud for health!
lekin jyada peeoge to it can be injurious to health as well :p

regards,
Kiran