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Some good qualities of Tea….

Tea is a very popular beverage in India. If you are worried about the calories you consume and want to cut down on caffeine intake, a cup of green tea is the best choice. Tea benefits seem to emerge from certain compounds known as flavanoids which are antioxidants; that is, they prevent reactive molecules from damaging cells in the body, a critical step in the chain of events leading to heart disease and cancer.

Good Qualities of Tea

- Regular consumption of green tea may reduce heart attack risk.
- Tea consumption may lower LDL cholesterol levels and make it less susceptible to artery damaging oxidation, as well as improve blood vessel functioning, thereby preventing blockages.
- Long term tea drinkers have greater bone density.
- Tea polyphenols stimulate energy metabolism and boost fat burning therby promoting weight loss.

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Coffee vs. Tea – Different Health Benefits Comparison

The most common question people get asked everyday is “Coffee or tea?” Both beverages are enjoyed around the world and is part of almost everyone’ daily routine.
Drinking tea is often thought to be healthful, while coffee drinking has traditionally been maligned as unhealthy. In recent years, however, coffee’s several health benefits have been brought to light. Additionally, the health benefits of tea and coffee have been minimized in certain beverages made with them.
Both green and black teas are known to contain many antioxidants. Tea also helps keep bones strong and, unlike coffee, does not stain teeth. Tea has been shown to boost the immune system and raise metabolism. Recent studies show that those who drink coffee have a reduced risk for getting Parkinson’s Disease, developing colon cancer or getting type 2 diabetes.
When it comes to health benefits, tea will always beat coffee, especially white and green tea. Tea has more antioxidants per cup than coffee does, and also contains less caffeine. A cup of black tea has half the amount of caffeine than a cup of coffee, and a hell of a lot more antioxidants such as flavonoids, catechins, and tannins. Coffee does not have as much as these properties present, but does have its share of minerals.
When it come to tea vs coffee as far as varieties, There are literally thousands of varieties and sub varieties of tea that are processed by many different cultures worldwide. Tea is also a more social beverage than coffee and is a better choice if one just wants to relax with a calming drink.
While both beverages have health benefits, it is clear that tea can be the safer choice between the two. Coffee, despite the good things one can get from drinking it, should really be drunk in moderation. Too much intake can lead to increased heart risk, as caffeine can affect the artery functions, precipitate heartburn, raise anxiety, and quicken heartbeat. Furthermore, caffeine can also speed bone loss, and in pregnant women, this is dangerous as it affects the mother’s birth weight and might result in miscarriage. In these cases, coffee should be cut down or switch to tea instead to avoid further health complications.

Homeopathy vs Allopathy

One of the big problems in today’s health care is the extent to which marketing influences have confused the truth about health. Conventional medicine has traditionally been referred to as “allopathic” by homeopaths. In Greek “pathos” means suffering or illness, “allo” means different and “homeo” means same.

- Allopathy searches for an alleged cause of the main symptoms and a disease name, based on generalities, homeopathy seeks only to build a complete picture of the patient’s suffering that stresses its rich individuality.
- Homeopathic medicines have similar biological effects to the illness
while allopathic medicines have different biological effects from the illness.
- Homeopathic medicines initiate a self-healing process, acting indirectly on the diseased cells and organs of the body while allopathic medicines act directly upon the tissues and the cells of the body, without any effects upon the body’s healing powers.
- Another important distinction between the two systems concerns their therapeutic aim. While homeopathy aims to gently and safely induce a full restoration of healthy and autonomous functioning of the whole organism through natural healing by enhancing the innate vital powers, allopathy chemically picks symptoms off one by one or in clusters, with no regard to the likely longer term consequences of such interventionist actions.
- Homeopathic medicines are free of side effects and toxicity while allopathic medicines may cause side effects in some cases and in the worst cases, may hasten or lead to death from toxicity.
- Homeopathic illness is felt to be a mere sign of biological imbalance which remedies try to correct. Conventionally defined “illness” is merely the reification of the imbalance while Allopathic illness as defined conventionally is felt to be a valid existential construct, equivalent to the sum of symptoms and physical manifestations.
- In homeopathic there is not a division made between mental and physical aspects of of health. The whole person is always treated while in allopathic, the mental and physical are felt to be sometimes overlapping or mutually influencing but separate areas of health, treated by different specialists.