Does Oolong Tea Cause You To Get Headaches?
April 24, 2009 by Walt Sanberg
Filed under Diet
The tea oolong is a mixture of green teas and black teas. It has been around for centuries and many actually drink oolong to relieve and cure headaches. To understand what causes headaches and why you may have gotten them after drinking lets look at what makes up oolong.
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.
The second ingredient in Oolong tea is Green tea. Green tea is made in a more natural process without fermenting and it only contains 20mg caffeine per cup. It is full of antioxidants and has been found to help with weight loss in helping to fight heart disease and cancer.
Many people of china drink tea for medicinal purposes. One such treatment it is used for is to cure headaches. Researchers believe that when you have a headache tea helps to reduce the problem. It depends on your weight and genetics with how much you should drink.
People that suffer from headaches when taking Oolong tea may do so for any number of reasons. One of the reasons is the person is not used to drink caffeine therefore they can get a caffeine headache. Opposite of this may be that the person has reduced their caffeine intake, as too much is also not good and they are having withdrawals from the 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? Not in the essence that it’s the tea that is causing the headache, it may be one of the underlying reasons mentioned above.
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