Green Tea Can Prevent Kidney Stones
Posted by Green Tea Man on November 15th, 2009
According to researchers in China, drinking green tea can help prevent the formation of large kidney stones. The key component of kidney stones is calcium oxalate crystals and they discovered that green tea is effective in directing the crystallisation to form less stable crystals.
‘Our results suggest that drinking green tea might be a good habit for the prevention of human stone formation,’ says Xudong Li at Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. His team, ‘are now focusing on the evaluation of green tea extract based modifiers on calcium oxalate crystallization and very interestingly have obtained spherical calcium oxalate dehydrate crystals.’