White Tea Benefits

For centuries, tea had been the best known and widely used medicine. Loaded with antioxidants and other nutrients, tea was the most preferred household antidote for ailments ranging from cough to diarrhea. In eastern countries, tea is a part and parcel of the culture and tea drinking is a ritual. However, its enormous cultural benefits pale in comparison to the medicinal benefits. From acting as a stress buster to fortifying the body with antioxidants, tea has it all. Available in various forms like the black tea and the green tea, there is a new addition to this family, which is known as white tea. To say white tea as a new entrant can be misleading. It can be considered as new because it gained popularity only in recent years. White tea was cultivated and drank by the Chinese for at least a thousand years. It was hundreds of years later that the rest of the world managed to inhale its aroma. White tea also comes from the same plant as the black and green tea. The only difference is that white tea is made from tea leaves with minimal oxidation. They are also processed in such a way that they wilt only slightly. So, white tea manages to preserve all its medicinal properties because it is less processed unlike other teas. Read below for more on the health benefits of white tea.