Sweet Tea (Rubus suavissimus)

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Consumed mainly as health-promoting herbal tea in Southwestern China and popular in Japan as a natural remedy against seasonal allergies, Sweet Tea leaf is rich in rubusoside and polyphenols with beneficial effects of alleviating obesity, Type 2 diabetes and asthma.

Traditional Use of Sweet Tea (Rubus suavissimus)

Sweet Tea plant thrives like rose bushes (a.k.a. Chinese blackberry), wide spread at 500~1000m altitude
in mountains in Southwest China.
115 times sweeter than table sugar but low in calories, Sweet Tea has a long history of use as natural
sweetener and folk medicine for various health benefits such as weight loss, diabetes and kidney
malfunction.

Modern Research on Sweet Tea (Rubus suavissimus)

Later discovered by a joint study of Chinese and Japanese scientists in the 1990’s, Sweet Tea contains a diterpene glycoside called rubusoside that has demonstrated various important biological functions with implications in alleviating allergy/asthma, obesity, diabetes, and cancer.
Research also revealed that Sweet Tea extract can suppress allergic reactions by inhibiting IgE-mediated histamine release from mast cells, prostaglandin E2 synthesis and cutaneous anaphylaxis.
Studies show that Sweet Tea leaf extract could inhibit NF-κB and R-amylase, which is closely related to
glucose metabolism, and highly potent against angiogenesis by inhibiting both vascular endothelial
growth factor (VEGF) and platelet-derived growth factor receptors in endothelial and smooth muscle cells.

WinVivo uses Sweet Tea in a product that address the following Health Concern:

Broad-Spectrum Alleriges

Articles about this botanical

Improvement of Obesity Phenotype by Chinese Sweet Leaf Tea (Rubus suavissimus) Components in High-Fat Diet-Induced Obese Rats

Drinking an herbal tea to lose weight is a well-liked concept. This study was designed to examine the possible improvement of obesity phenotype by a new tea represented by its purified components, gallic acid, ellagic acid, and rubusoside (GER).

A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of Ten-Cha (Rubus suavissimus) on house dust mite allergic rhinitis

Self-care with Ten-Cha is the most common complementary alternative medicine for allergic rhinitis in Japan, but evidence for an actual therapeutic effect is lacking. The purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of Ten-Cha (Rubus suavissimus) on house dust mite allergic rhinitis.

Product containing this botanical

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