Is drinking tea good for health?

[ming57]

Is drinking tea good for health? and drink tea need to pay attention to what

[IdahoHerbalist]

Are you talking about medicinal plant tea or black tea?

[ming57]

IdahoHerbalist wrote: Are you talking about medicinal plant tea or black tea?

black tea.

[IdahoHerbalist]

I do not know of any benefits of drinking black tea.

[Petrucci054]

Of course it’s beneficial to health. Studies have shown those who drink herbal or medicinal teas live a longer life. Black tea has antioxidants.

[IdahoHerbalist]

Black tea has TONS of tannins and other things that are not good for the body too.

[Michelle KochStudent]

Lots of medicinal herbs are high in tannins, one of the things that makes them effective. We will have to just agree to disagree on this one.

As a sidenote: my mother swears by applying black tea to the nipples of pregnant and nursing mothers, to help toughen them up. She says it worked for her. I found vitamin E oil to be better for me, though.

[IdahoHerbalist]

Medicinal plants with tannins are typically for short term usage. Tea is used as a daily and sometimes multiple times a day for long periods. That makes the tannins much harder on the body.

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