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Green Tea may soothe Rheumatoid Arthritis

26 May

Posted by acharya as Arthritis and Joint Pain, Herbal Teas, Researches

Green Tea, which is already well-known for its anti-cancerous and cardio-vascular benefits, also helps ease joint pain and inflammation in patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), says a new study.

The lead researcher from the University of Michigan Health System, Salah-uddin Ahmed, mentioned that the study conducted in the laboratory has revealed so, though the findings are only in the preliminary stage.

Ahmed conducted the study by isolating ’synovial fibroblast’ cells from the joints of RA patients, as these cells form a lining surrounding the joint capsule. This lining when inflamed leads to chronic pain and joint damage.

These cells were then cultured and exposed to ‘epigallaocatechin-3-gallate’ (EGCG), an active ingredient found in green tea. These were stimulated by a protein ‘cytokine interleukin-1 beta’ (IL-1B), present in the immune system which is known to play a key role in joint degradation.

It was found that EGCG suppressed the action of IL-1B and IL-6, the two potent molecules and also blocked the production of Prostaglandin E2, a compound responsible for joint inflammation.

This research by Ahmed, on green tea and RA, if fruitful, could be good news for RA patients providing them with a non-drug option to control pain.

Ahmed mentions that though it would be too early to advise RA patients to begin drinking green tea, the practice of drinking green tea certainly will not hurt, given the numerous other health benefits without any side effects, that the green tea is considered to have. Drinking green tea continuously all through the day, in fact, helps keep the blood vessels more constant.

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Tags: Green Tea, joint pain, Rheumatoid Arthritis

2 Responses

eric

June 17th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
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carolin

June 29th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
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RHEUMATIC AND ITS CAUSES

Rheumatic is one of the chronic diseases. The type of this disease can recover, but its recovery is a ‘quotation mark’ recovery, which means the recovery can reached if it does not relapse, because its disease actually is still inside the body. For the type of this chronic disease, our efforts are to keep the disease in order not to relapse frequently.
There are 50 types or condition of the different rheumatic. Yet, most of rheumatic suffered by many people are rheumatic of tendon acid, autoimmune and osteoarthritis. There is also felt by the patients as the stiffness and the stabbing shooting pain, and usually it relates with the weather called fibrositis. Also rheumatic attacks the children called arthritis rheumatoid.
For the rheumatic sufferers of arthritis rheumatic to the children, they undergo fever, pain, and the rigidity in the joints of hands and feet. For the sufferer of rheumatic fibrositis, they feel the stiffness of muscle and the stabbing shooting pain. In the fibrositis case, the patients do not feel the worse condition in the rigid joint or it is difficult to move, because the sensitive bone becomes thin and hard. For now, some doctors convince that fibrositis happened because of the allocated muscle cramp, similar with the light cramp or the weak part of the muscle layer, so that the inside muscle fiber breaks through out and squeezed.
In general, the special cause of rheumatic is unknown clearly. Yet, something affects to worsen or relapse this disease is the over activity of the individual mentioned. For example; the over weight, becoming old, and the mental stress, so that those cases lessen the productivity of someone. That means the energy used for daily is in the bottom of the average energy of the normal people.
Actually, every person can find by himself the cause of the worse back sore, which can cause the rheumatic, such as sitting by lowering for hours without changing the position, the too cold air, or the psychological stress also the causes of the back sore. If we have recognized the causes of our back sore, we should try to avoid them. If the pain is not as that worse, we can help by giving the analgesic.
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