FAQs About Jasmine Tea

Jasmine Tea and herb questions:

Q. Is it okay to drink jasmine tea daily?
A. Jasmine tea does have good antioxidants, but I prefer to alternate different tea. Drinking jasmine tea 2 or 3 times a week would be fine, and the rest of the time you can alternate drinking a number of other herbal teas available in health food stores.

Q. I'm a freelance writer. I've been asked to write a short piece on Jasmine Tea as a potential mood lifter for a magazine. I've written for such magazines as Alternative Medicine, Better Nutrition, Urban Male etc. I've just started my research and discovered recent studies suggest jasmine tea produces calm and vigorous mood states. Would you be so kind to offer a quote for my article? If so, please provide a written response to the following questions?
1. How often do you recommend drinking jasmine tea? Every day, 1-3 times a week, once a week when, how much?
2. Do you find jasmine tea effective in calming mood? Thank you for your time. I look forward to hearing from you.
A. I prefer individuals vary the teas they drink in order to obtain beneficial substances from a number of herbal teas as opposed to ingesting the same substances every day. As such, drinking jasmine tea once or twice a week would be quite acceptable. Jasmine tea has a mild calming effect, but - based on the jasmine tea brands I have tried - it is not as potent as some other teas such as passionflower.

Q. I read a small article about jasmine tea. The source of information was John A. Burns School of Medicine at the University of Hawaii. The article said that jasmine tea can clear arteries of plaque. Do you know if that is true? If true, does it clear arteriosclerosis (calcium) and/or atherosclerosis (fatty)?
A. As of April 2009, I have not seen studies with jasmine herb in humans in terms of its benefit for heart disease. There are countless herbs that have antioxidant and other compounds that can have a beneficial effect on arteries or heart tissue.