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
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Heather Perella Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 8:04 PM To: [email protected] 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. ________________________________________________________________________ ____________ Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail Q&A for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396546091 moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
