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9 Ways Green Tea can Improve Your Health

9 Ways Green Tea can Improve Your Health

Updated 7 September 2017 11:18 AM

Think the only way to use green tea is to consume it? Think again! Discover the various ways you can use green tea to boost your health.


  1. Drink as a herbal tea
  2. Apply as a face mask
  3. Use a green teabag to soothe sunburn, bruises or insect bites
  4. Press a used teabag on a wart to aid in removal
  5. Add green tea to your bath water 
  6. Use brewed tea leaves in a compress to soothe toothaches and headaches
  7. Heal razor nicks and scratches by pressing a wet green teabag against the cut
  8. Place dried green tea leaves inside your pillowcase to relieve insomnia
  9. Smooth green tea leaves over acne and pimples to boost healing.
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Science Notes
Various clinical trials and research studies have illustrated the health benefits of green tea to a degree that the accuracy of using green tea to improve health and wellbeing is now rarely discounted.

Research suggests that green tea can decrease the risk of cancer and heart disease, lower cholesterol levels and blood pressure, support the immune system, aid in weight loss, protect against Alzheimer’s and reduce the impact of Parkinson’s disease, treat multiple sclerosis, decrease tooth decay, prevent and heal acne and even slow the aging process.

Related Tip
If you are using green tea bags, place them in the compost bin after you have used them. >
 

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