As a herbal, green tea is known to have good properties for health. Green tea is tea made solely with the leaves of Camellia sinensis have undergone minimal oxidation That During processing, is used as an anti-aging and anti cancer. Also green tea has been claimed as useful for “weight loss management” possibly by inducing thermogenesis and stimulating fat oxidation. Today green tea was also has benefit for glaucoma treatment.

Green tea is a tea made from the leaves of the tea plant (Camellia sinensis) are learned and experienced the process of heating to prevent oxidation, or it could also mean that beverage produced from brewing tea leaves.

Green tea is a herbal beverage popular in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, Middle East, Southeast Asia and increasingly recognized also in Western countries that used to be black tea drinkers.

Green Tea and Glaucoma Treatment

Catechin on Greentea is effective for glaucoma treatment (image credit to greentealovers.com)

Apparently, the antioxidants in green tea not only as an anti-aging course, According to a study of rats who drank green tea can do an analysis of eye tissue. Evidently, their eyes healthy.

Recent research found that green tea is useful for healthy digestive tract, to the eye tissue. This effect comes from the antioxidant content of catechins in it. Catechins, is one of a number of antioxidants (including vitamin C, vitamin E, lutein and zeaxanthin), which is believed to help protect the soft tissues of the eye from glaucoma and other eye diseases. But earlier is not known whether the catechins in green tea can be absorbed into the eye tissue.

According to wikipedia, Catechin (Pronunciation: /?ka-t?-?kin/) is a polyphenolic antioxidant plant secondary metabolite. The term catechins is also commonly used to refer to the related family of flavonoids and the subgroup flavan-3-ols (or simply flavanols). Catechin is a histidine decarboxylase inhibitor. Thus, it inhibits the conversion of histidine to histamine, and so, is thought to be beneficial through reduction of potentially damaging, histamine-related local immune response(s)

Researchers at Arizona Cancer Center has conducted research relating to the effect of catechin in green tea for human body. This is the first clinical study to show proof that chemicals in green tea can increase detoxification enzymes in humans (Green Tea Boosts Production Of Detox Enzymes, Rendering Cancerous Chemicals Harmless).

In a study published in the Journal of Agricultural Chemistry and Food, the researchers fed laboratory mice with green tea extract. Then the researchers analyzed the mouse eye tissue.

Results indicate that certain parts of catechins in the eye to absorb different amounts. The retina is the eye area with the highest content of catechins. The retina is the light sensitive tissue lining the back of the eye. Medium cornea is the part that absorbs at least catechins. Cornea is the outermost layer of the eye.

And it is claimed that green tea can prevent glaucoma, damage to the optic nerve and cause vision loss. In fact, this Antioxidative survive up to 20 hours.