[MD] Tea

[Ron Kulp]

SA,
You seem to be the tea guru! I had no Idea, I just relayed my own
experiences with it, green tea
Hurt my guts after a few cups, white tea seems to agree with me more. My
father used to dig up
Sassafrass root along with strips of young birch bark for tea, said it
had medicine and that
Too much will make you sick. I have a huge eastern hemlock right next to
my house with a nest of flying squirrles
That go from my attic to their "summer home" I do not know of any
hemlock mixtures off hand but corn has ample
Vitamin C, I think acorns too but it's all in how you prepare them, the
first whites who ate the corn got sick
>From vitamin deficancy the corn must soak in ash water before it is
prepared and consumed, somehow this 
Process makes the vitamins absorbable into the body, Acorn mush is made
simularly, but I believe it was
Corn(my people call it maize) that kept them from illness,  whats known
as "pennyroyal" was a medicine common to the Appalatias too, but Its
mostly known for its ability to enduce menstration. Thank you for the
tea info!
-x

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[mailto:moq_discuss-bounces at moqtalk.org] On Behalf Of Heather Perella
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 8:04 PM
To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
Subject: [MD] Tea

Hey x and Case,

     I believe it was you in a discussion with Case, I'm not really sure
though, some posts ago that stated that green tea is a diuretic so you
drink white tea. 
All tea has caffeine and caffeine is the diuretic part.  The only
difference I have found, since tea has become more and more a hobby of
mine, between white and green tea is not the oxidation process, but the
kinds of leaves picked and the shading of tea to rid the green color,
thus, instead of green it is white tea.  The kinds of leaves picked in
white are the youngest whereas green tea is picking of the usual age.
     As to the oxidation process not being different, this refers to
white and green teas [all tea (of the green, oolong, black oxidation
range) is of the same species] not being oxidized, thus, avoiding the
increase in caffeine that accompanies oxidation of tea leaves.  With
this in mind, on the usual oxidation range, green is unoxidized, oolong
(apparently pronounced and more correctly spelled wu-long) medium
oxidation, and black tea is very high oxidation (thus, higher than green
and oolong in caffeine amount). 
Since green tea doesn't increase in caffeine due to increase oxidation,
then the amount of a calming chemical (can't remember the name) and the
amount of caffeine is equal, thus, green tea is known for its'
meditative qualities.  Green tea awakens and calms at the same time,
unlike coffee that has large amounts of caffeine and no calming
chemical.  (I still drink coffee, though not as much as I used to.  I'm
just pointing something out, not advocating against
coffee.)  
     I'm interested in how white is less diuretic than green tea
according to what somebody said for I could not find this to be true in
my research.

thanks.


again the night is dipping below zero degrees F, SA

P.S.  For those living where Eastern Hemlock (also known as Canadian
Hemlock) grows, it has 5 times the amount of Vitamin C than lemons.
White pine has Vitamin C, too, as well as Vitamin A.  This had me think
about how Amerindians in this region during the winter (I'm not an
expert on food sources in this region, but I'm making an educated guess
that during the summer more plants would be growing for the potential of
eating more Vitamin C) would have supplemented their diet with this tea
to avoid what many Europeans died of when they first walked around
here:  scurvy.  By the way, other Vitamin C deficiencies include slow
wound healing, and immune system rundowns.



 
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