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Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Does Drinking Oolong Tea Cause Headaches?

By Jared Rothe

Oolong tea has been around for quite a long time. It is a mixture of both green and black teas. May wonder if it causes headaches. In truth oolong tea is used to cure headaches. We'll take a look at why you may experience headaches after drinking oolong tea and find the underlying cause of the aches.

All teas go throught a fermentation process. Black tea goes through the process and through that black tea contains about 40mg of caffeine per cup. So this type of tea should be drank in limited quantities. It so happens that oolong tea is made up of some black tea. So if you drink a lot of oolong tea headaches can occur.

Green tea is the second ingredient in oolong tea. It is processed to contain about 20mg of caffeine per cup. Green tea contains many antioxidants that fight of free radicals and help to protect against cancer and heart disease.

Researches have indicated that when you have a headache, you can actually take caffeine through tea, to help reduce the headache. Most of the people take tea to reduce their headache, and it actually works for them. How much caffeine you need is dependent on your body weight and of course genetics. Oolong tea has been used in China for curing digestive problems and even headaches as a part of traditional medicine.

Oolong tea can cause dependence to caffeine if it is drank too often. Withdrawals occur when caffeine is decreased and this is the cause of some headaches. Likewise, if you don't drink anything containing caffeine and then drink a lot of tea you can experience headaches from the extra caffeine.

One of the many benefits of Oolong tea is that it has many antioxidant properties as mentioned above and has been used in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for years. When a person drinks Oolong tea their body begins to flush out toxins and free radicals that cause damage to the body. This process of cleansing and flushing these harmful agents from your body can actually cause a headache. So it is not actually the Oolong tea that is causing the headaches it is your body's defense mechanism as harmful toxins are flushed out.

So does oolong tea cause headaches? Yes, if you over consume the tea or if you do not drink products with caffeine in them regularly. - 17269

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