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Rooibos, or red tea, is a plant native to the Cape Town region of South Africa. Long used as a beverage tea, it was popularized as a medicinal herb in the late 1960s by a woman named Annique Theron, who claimed that it could help relieve colic and other infant-related problems. Since then, it has been advocated for a wide variety of additional conditions, including stomach distress (dyspepsia), allergies, warts, eczema, anxiety, insomnia and minor injuries.
The tea is harvested during the summer. It is green when picked, but becomes red during a fermentation process similar to that used for making black tea.
Rooibos tea is marketed as a treatment for a wide variety of conditions, including all those mentioned above. However, no proposed uses of this herb have anymeaningful supporting scientific evidence.
Like other forms of tea, red tea contains antioxidant substances in the phenol family. 1 2 3 This alone is the basis for many of the health claims attached to it. However, innumerable substances contain antioxidants; furthermore, the theory that antioxidants provide widespread health benefits has, in recent years, largely collapsed.
Nonetheless, test tube studies , at least, hint that red tea might be helpful for preventing heart disease , 4 preventing liver injury , 5 and reducing cancer risk. 6 Other test tube studies hint that constituents of red tea might...
Safety Issues
As a widely used beverage tea, roobios is presumed to be safe. It does not contain caffeine. Maximum safe doses in pregnant or nursing women, young children, or those with severe liver or kidney disease has not been determined.
