Green tea for medicine

I watched The Gerson Miracle.  It also reminds me of MOA natural farming and healing, but also made me think about how green tea may not be benefiting us.

There are so many researches done on green tea revealing how it can be healthy.  Antioxidants are talked about everywhere you go and people talking about how habitual drinking of tea can benefit our health.  Test results and the numbers are convincing, but I just feel that there gotta be something other than or more than antioxidants that benefit our well being and ultimately cure us.

Why in the original text of Lu Yu's "cha jing" describes tea as a medicine, but we consume it as beverage that acts like medicine and even Eisai "kissa yojoki" he describes tea as the best medicine for the heart which in turn controls all organs.

In Gerson therapy, coffee is consumed for cleansing, perhaps if tea is prepared correctly, it will have immediate cleansing effect.

Freshness of green tea is directly influencing its effectiveness as antioxidants.  More fresh than dried processed leaves are fresh leaves, which may need to be prepared in a certain way to keep the enzyme active while still consuming green tea's fresh active ingredients.  Would that combination of these in the body possibly create different effect on our body instead of oxidizing to oolong tea?

Heating the leaf in processing inactivates the enzyme and supposed to make green tea, but can it actually be disabling the essential elements in green tea?  I've had fresh green tea brewed in hot water, but this also cooks green tea and enzyme gone....

How about juicing the green tea and consuming it immediately to intake both enzymes and fresh juice?  Any combination with other foods?

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