BLACK YOU (thea sinensis)

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	BLACK YOU
	*thea sinensis*

Name
BLACK YOU

Scientific Name
thea sinensis

BLACK YOU

English: Tea.

French: Thé.

Of the family of the Teáceas or Cameliáceas.

Tonic, digestive and astringent, but at the same time diurético.

External use: In compresas applied on the reddened eyes, tired or inflamed.

Planting of tea also they receive the scientific name of Camellia, in memory of the missionary Gregorius Josephus She-camels, that at the end of the XVll century it presented the infusion in Europe, as they prepared it in the Philippines, where was common drink. In China and India already they used the tea as it plants medicinal about 2,500 years to of C.

The fact that the cultivated tea shrubs are lower than the wild is not no mystery: they do not grow more because they are put under an aggressive pruning, in order that the superior branches with the hands can be collected, with no need of special devices. They exist more than 100 species of planting of tea, that live in wild state in the forests of the tropical zone of Asia; of among them, Thea sinensis is the one that produces the tea that we used in infusion.

CHARACTERISTICS: It is a tree that, is been wild, reaches the 10 ms of height; in the cultivated ones, which is avoided that it grows more of a meter or meter and means, with adopts the aspect of a very graft shrub. The leaves are made oval, of between 2 and 5 cm. in length by width 1 0 2, with the edges coiled towards the inferior part. The ends, sawed, finish in a species of hook. The flowers are great, white, very beautiful (they are like the camellias of the gardens). The fruit is a small capsule with three seeds.

LOCATION: Original of Bhután and Bangla Desh, its culture in China, Japan, India. Java. Asian Sri Lanka and other zones. In the American continent also there are plantations (in Brazil and the United States). It needs sandy and soft, silíceo land (one does not adapt to calcáreos lands). It resists the low temperatures well.

HARVESTING: It is an operation that must be made with extreme well-taken care of not damaging the plant. The "short one" of the branches is made between the year and means and both years to repeat it each five; it intends to avoid the vertical growth of the tree and to favor the development of the branches. As far as the leaves, those of the ends of the young branches are cut, along with the terminal yolks, but following processes different according to the type from tea that is desired to commercialize: for "the green" tea the leaves one to one are cut (the yolks constitute the tea Hyson, and the first leaves the tea gunpowder, that are the best teas). In order to elaborate "the black" tea, they cut to the leaves without pecíolos (the first harvesting, in April, gives origin to the tea Pekoe, of better quality than the one of the leaves collected later. The green tea is elaborated immediately toasting the leaves after the harvesting, whereas to obtain the black tea the toasting is made after a period of rest in which the leaves undergo a slight fermentation.

USES And APPLICATIONS: The tea is a drink of uses current like infusion, like it is it the coffee. Great Britain is one of the countries of the world that more tea consumes by inhabitant. As medicinal infusion is used like stimulating, like diurético and digestive.

Tea harvesting in the environs of Kandy (Sri Lanka). The tea, cultivated in China from the antiquity by its curativas properties, in century VM rose to the "divine idealización", since the same order was in the ceremony of the tea that governs the Universe

Used Part

The leaves.

Active Principles

Xanthic bases (metilxantinas): mainly caffein or theine (3-4%), teofilina, teobromina, adenina, xanthin. Catéquicos tannins (8-25%), partly free and partly combined to the xanthic bases. Abundant flavonoides (kenferol, quercetol, miricetol). Acidos fenolcarboxílicos: clorogénico, gálico. Essential oil plans; Mineral salts, vitamins: C, B; enzymes: teasa.

Farmacológica Action

The xanthic bases, mainly caffein, confer stimulating properties of the nervous system (facilitate the cortical activity, they inhibit the dream, they reduce the fatigue sensation) and cardiorrespiratorio to him (they stimulate the respiratory and vasomotores centers bulbares). The teofilina, and to a lesser extent caffein, presents/displays positive a inotrópica action, increases to the frequency and cardiac and coronary cost. The teofilina and teobromina induce a relaxation of the smooth musculatura, specially at bronchial, ureteral level and of the biliary routes. They stimulate the muscular contraction and they are diuréticas. The flavonoides and proantocianidoles are responsible for their vitaminic action P (venotónica, vasoprotectora). The tannins are astringents. In addition he is slightly hipolipemiante and antiagregante plaquetario.

Indications

Psi'co-physical, diarrea asthenia, bronchitis, asthma; helping in the treatment of the overweight and arteriosclerosis, hiperlipidemias. The extracts you and the theine usually are used topically, like caffein, in creams and gels to reduce the local adiposities.

Contraindications

Gastritis, gastroduodenal ulcer, anxiety, insomnia, tachycardia.

Not to prescribe oral forms of metering with alcoholic content to smaller children of two years nor to consultantes in process of etílica deshabituación.

Indirect effect

Nervousness, insomnia, tachycardia, extrasístoles, poliuria. By his tannin content, it can cause gastric annoyances, nauseas and vomits, mainly if concentrated infusions are taken, or in uninformed.

Precaution/Poisonings

The tea, like the coffee, creates addiction.

To consider the alcoholic content of the fluid extract and the dye.

Galénicas Forms/Dosage

- Infusion: a spoonful of dessert by cup, to instill 10 minutes.

- fluid Extract (1:1): 25-50 gotas/dosis. One to three times to the day.

- It tinctures (1:5): 50-100 drops, one to three times to the day.

- dry Extract (3:1): 50-100 mg to the day, preferably in the morning.

- topical Use: Gels or creams with dry or glicólico extract.

Bibliography

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Bruneton, J. Elementos de Fitoquímica and Farmacognosia. Zaragoza: Acribia, 1991, pp. 546-7.

Paris, RR; Moyse, M. Précis de Matière Médicale. Take II. Paris: Masson, 1967, pp. 238-46.

Peris, JB; Stübing, G; Vanaclocha, B. Applied Fitoterapia. Valencia: M.I. Official school of Phamacists, 1995, pp. 474-6.

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TEA KUKICHA or TEA OF 3 YEARS

They are the small branches of the tea plant gathered when they count like minimum three years of age. They can take it all the people, young and even ill. He is digestive, diurético and stimulating. Aid to overcome the fatigue by its alcalinizantes effects.

TEA MU

It is a wise combination of beneficial plants for respiratory, circulatory problems, diseases of the feminine genital apparatus, weakness, fatigue and alterations of the central nervous system. It purifies the blood. Diurético.

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