A friend of mine brought me some green tea from Turkmenistan, originaly imported from China. On the package it says "China Green Tea, Art.# 9575", that's all. It's a gunpowder tea and I've been told that it lowers blood pressure and I couldn't believe until I tried it. I searched the web for this tea and all I could find was this site
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that references a Art. No.9575 tea, but I don't think they are selling online.
Has anyone heared of this tea? Would it be possible to find its equivalent in US?
There is no such think as a "blood pressure Tea", since all king of green and oolong teas are suspected to help blood pressure. If you want to find more info about the benefit of drinking tea, you can lurk the UK Tea Concil site:
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or make a simply serch. Many green tea's properties are not yet completely demonstrated, but if you like it this is a valid reason to drink it: it make no harms and there are more then one evidence that teas may do much good to you body.
Giovanni Vanni
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Anything that makes you calm and relaxed will lower your blood pressure. Tea makes _me_ calm and relaxed.
Odds are what you have is a typical low-grade gunpowder green. Try looking for Temple of Heaven brand at your local Chinese market, and tell me if it is not basically the same thing.
Negishi H, Xu JW, Ikeda K, Njelekela M, Nara Y, Yamori Y.Black and green tea polyphenols attenuate blood pressure increases in stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats. J Nutr. 2004 Jan;134(1):38-42.
Stensvold I, Tverdal A, Solvoll K, et al. Tea consumption. Relationship to cholesterol, blood pressure, and coronary and total mortality. Prev Med
1992;21:546-53.
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"White tea also reduces high blood pressure by inhibiting the formation of certain enzymes that cause constriction in blood vessels."
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"The loss of arterial elasticity is one cause of high blood pressure. Youthful arteries expand and contract effortlessly with each heart beat. Aging causes a loss of arterial elasticity. As noted above, green tea inhibits thromboxane production, which is one cause of arterial constriction. A more significant cause of hypertension is an enzyme secreted by the kidneys called angiotension-converting enzyme (ACE). Popular drugs such as Capoten, Vasotec and Zestril function as angiotension-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACE inhibitors). By blocking the effects of ACE, blood pressure is reduced significantly in most hypertensives. Green tea is a natural ACE inhibitor. Published studies show lowered blood pressure in animals and humans given green tea extracts."
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