Health Benefits of Orange Peel Tea

Note: Natural foods contain health benefits, but should be used in moderation. Too much of a good thing is not good. Natural foods must not be used like medicine but instead like food.

The benefits of Orange Peel Tea can be gained by consuming three to five cups a week.

Orange peel tea has played an important part in East Indian and Chinese Medicine for hundreds of years. It has been used to heal and cure ailments such as:

Gas and Indigestion

Common Cold

Headaches

Reduce Cholesterol

Improves Your Immune System

Reduce Blood Pressure

Joint Pain and Arthritis

Menstrual Cramps

Cancer Prevention

Prevent Weight Gain

Diabetes Control

Prevents Runny Nose

Dizziness

Ovary Cysts

Heals Constipation

Bronchitis and Asthma

Allergies

Improves Digestion

Hangovers

Making Orange Peel Tea: To make 4 cups of Tea, take 4 to 6 one inch (1”) long strips of Orange Peel.Place the Peels in a tea pot with 4 ½ cups of water and boil for 10-15 minutes.

Turn of fire and leave to draw for a period of 10-30 minutes.

Consume Warm or Cold and even add sweeteners like honey or stevia if you like.

If sugar is added avoid large amounts as sugar is not very healthy.

Dried Orange Peel Is Best: Study done at the Institute of Organic Chemistry in Bulgaria has discovered that dried orange peel, made into a tea released more pectin than fresh orange peel. Pectin is a fiber found in fruits. Pectin is used to prevent high cholesterol, high triglycerides, colon cancer and prostate cancer. Be sure to use Organic Orange Peel not dried in direct sunlight.

Gas and Indigestion: If you are having trouble with gas, stomachaches, heartburn or indigestion Orange peel tea works wonders for these ailments.

Common Cold: Orange Peel Contains More Vitamin C Than the Orange Juice itself. Drinking orange peel tea gives you a Vitamin C boost which speeds up the recovery process from a cold or flu.

Headaches: Breathing in the vapors of the orange peel tea while sipping it, soothe away Headaches and Migraines. You can even add two Peppermint leaves into the tea for added relieve of stress and fatigue.

Reduce Cholesterol: It has been proven Orange peel tea contains pectin. Pectin when combines with bile acids in the liver results in lower cholesterol. Orange peel also contains hesperidin which according to Dr. Elzbieta Kurowska doing research in Canada says, hesperidin helps to lower cholesterol.

Improves Your Immune System: Pectin found in orange peels helps to grow probiotic bacteria in our intestines. Which results in a boost up of your immune system.

Reduce Blood Pressure: Orange peel tea is a must in Traditional Chinese and East Indian Medicine used to lower blood pressure. This is because orange peel contains a powerful anti-inflammatory hesperidin which aids in the reduction of your blood pressure.

Joint Pain and Arthritis: Hesperidin and Polymethoxyflavones are both found in Orange peel these are powerful anti-inflammatory agents that aids in the treatment of joint pain, arthritis, and swelling. Orange peel tea is a much more natural means to deal with Joint Pain and Arthritis than the anti-inflammatory medication “indomethacin”. Orange peel tea is a truly powerful anti-inflammatory remedy that most people take for granted.

Menstrual Cramps: Orange peel tea will reduce menstrual cramps and soothe the digestive system when that time of the month comes around.

Cancer Prevention: Orange peel tea flavonoids has the ability to inhibit the formation of RLIP76 protein which is connected to cancer prevention. Orange peel tea is high in Vitamin C which are a powerful antioxidant which is known to prevents cancer.

Prevent Weight Gain: Tests done at Division of Molecular Diabetes Research Hope Hospital, showed that Orange peels given to mice encourage the production of the protein RLIP76. The results showed it prevented them from coming down with diabetes, obesity, cancer and having high cholesterol.

Diabetes Control: Orange peel tea contain Pectin which in studies has been shown to reduce insulin resistance. Thus keeping your blood sugar stable and help control diabetes.

Prevents Runny Nose: Regular drinking orange peel tea can clear up mucus and prevents coughing because of the high Vitamin C. If you have a sinus infection try Organic Grapefruit Peel instead it works great for sinus infections.

Dizziness: Mild dizziness, sick to your stomach try some orange peel tea and soothe away that feeling. It will also help with Motion and Sea Sickness.

Ovary Cysts: It has been proven that Ovary Cysts can be prevented or reversed with diets high in Potassium.

Orange peel tea contain Potassium and will aid with Ovary Cysts.

Heals Constipation: Drinking hot Orange Peel Tea, Not Warm early in the morning works wonders for persons dealing with constipation.

Helps Sensitive Teeth: Holding mouthfuls of Orange Peel Tea in the mouth before drinking it, helps with sensitive teeth.

Bronchitis and Asthma: Use Orange Peel Tea sweetened with honey throughout the day, for respiratory problems like Bronchitis and Asthma. Orange Peel Tea is also a powerful lung cleanser helping and preventing many lung diseases.

Allergies: Histamines released into your body brings on allergic reactions. When you drink Orange peel tea it prevents the release of histamines thus fighting allergies.

Improves Digestion: If you have digestive problems. Drink Orange Peel Tea it replenishes the organisms that aid with digestion.

Hangovers: Hangover? Drink Orange peel tea with lots of water to deal with that hangover.