CATECHINS
Lowers blood tri glyceride, blood cholesterol
Reduces incidence of cancer
Reduces oxidation by active oxygen
Strengthens blood vessel wall and regulates their permeability
Inhibits increase of blood sugar
Inhibits increase of blood pressure
Reduces tumours
Reduces mutations
Helps in the treatment of radiation sickness
Prevents dental caries
Kills influenza virus
Beneficial in the treatment of dysentery
Prevents halitosis (bad breath)
CAFFEINE
CNS stimulant, hence increased alertness
Gives relief from fatigue, neuralgia and headaches
Acts as diuretic
FLAVONOIDS
Strengthens blood vessel and blood capillary walls
Reduces oxidation by active oxygen
Acts as anti-inflammatory agent
Increases the level of catecholamines
Stimulates folic acid biosynthesis
Normalises thyroid hyperfunction
FLUORIDE
Prevents dental caries
QUERCETIN
Acts as Spasmolytic
Helps in the treatment of acute diarrhoea
VITAMINS
Vitamin – B COMPLEX (RIBOFLAVIN, BIOTIN, NIACIN PANTOTHENATE, INOSITOL)
Aids carbohydrate and fat metabolism
Helps in inter and intracellular Ca++ transport
Helps in moisturisation of the skin
Vitamin- E
Acts as antioxidant and regulates aging.
SALICYLATES
Acts as an analgesic and antipyretic
POLYSACCHARIDES
Lowers blood sugar
METHYLXANTHINE
Acts as diuretic
THEAFLAVIN, THEARUBIGIN
Antagonises the activity of bradykinin
Inhibits arginine and ornithine decarboxylases
THEOPHYLLINE
Modulates immune response
Helps in the treatment of asthma
Salutary effects on cardiac function
ESSENTIAL AMINO ACIDS [LEUCINE, PHENYLALANINE, VALINE,THREONINE]
Helps in metabolism
Maintains nitrogen equilibrium
THEANINE
Helps in ammonia and urea metabolism
Helps in water clearance by renal tissues
LINOLENIC ACID
Reduces platelet aggregation
Tea pigments
Decreases plasma fibrinogen
Seleno-cysteine
Supports normal thyroid function (helps in the conversion of T4 to physiologically effective T3.)
GABA
Lowers blood pressure