For ages people have been drinking tea to empower them during an illness. Not only does the caffeine help fight headaches, and give you the willpower to keep on keeping on, but many teas also have high antioxidant levels, and white tea has been shown to have antibacterial effects as well as be effective in preventing cancer. The heat of the tea can also help to open your airways, as well as soothe your throat as the drink coats it. Finally, herbal teas (without the caffeine diuretic) can help keep you hydrated.
But besides these normal effects, tea can be particularly effective in battling the biggest new flu on the block (swine flu/H1N1) . Because the H1N1 virus cannot live in your stomach, and because it often lives in your throat, gargling with warm salt water, or drinking hot drinks like tea can help loosen the mucus in your throat, and send the infected cells down to the uninhabitable stomach, helping keep your system swine flu free.
Cheers -
Teb
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