Tea Leaf

Tea plant is a shrub with abundant folliage, camellialike flowers, and barriers containing one to three seeds. The tea leaf is convert into a many kind of baverage and some of this tea is converted into oil by using of extraction process.

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Tea Substance Against Eye Disease

Many scientist stated that tea can against of eye diseases. Green tea is said can help to prevent from eye diseases. The scientist found that healthful substance from green tea contains of antioxidant that can fight to penetrate into tissue of the eye. The Lens, retina and other eye tissue can absorb these substances and have benefit to prevent from eye diseases. Substances from green tea called as ‘cathechins’ have been among a number of antioxidants thought capable of protecting the eye from diseases.

Beside contains of antioxidant substances this green tea also contain of vitamin C, vitamin E, lutein and zeaxantin. Until know the scientist don’t know how the cathechins can pass through from gastrointestinal tract into tissue of the eye.

People who consume green tea, seen on the retina absorbed highest level of gallocatechin, while the aqueous humor tended to absorb epigallocatechin. The effect of green tea cathecins in reducing harmful oxidative stress in the eye lasted for up to 20 hours. The study result stated that people who consume green tea could benefit the eye against oxidative stress.

Antioxidant substance work to capture the free substance that exert from the diseases source and neutralize the effect of those bad substances. Like viruses and bacteria that enter to the body can be assumed as strange substances that can be tied by antioxidant substance.