Green Tea as a Mouthwash for Halitosis (Bad Breath)
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Published 2024-06-19
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All Comments (21)
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If you missed the previous video, check out How to Get Rid of Garlic Breath: nutritionfacts.org/video/how-to-get-rid-of-garlic-…
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During WWII, my Okinawan mother as a child used green tea to gargle & brushed her teeth to prevent disease.
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In Shizuoka prefecture, the tea capital here in Japan, children rinse their mouth and gargle with green tea that is available via a faucet at schools. Green tea undoubtedly has positive oral hygiene applications as well as the astonishingly healthful benefits from typical consumption methods.
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1:53 it's distilled water not just regular water. The osmotic effect might have an effect on the bacteria.
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The anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory properties of green tea also make it an effective acne treatment
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What kind of green tea should be used? Is the cheap green tea in tea bags enough? Has cold brewed green tea the same effect?
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So cool :D been using green tea for gargling for a long time now, since the last videos :) thank you so much <3
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Uh, nice-2-know 😎 thank you so much 💝
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Is decaffinated green tea as beneficial as caffinated in regards to all tea drinking benefits of green tea with caffine?
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What about tonsil stones
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If we assume that taking a drink of tea is a swish, then you would be rinsing out the mouth 70% repeatedly throughout the day. So for doing it like 10 times it would be 100% times 0.3^n or you would exceed 99% clean easily, around four or five drinks,
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YAY better breath 🎉🥦💖
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obrigado, eu sofro disso a muito tempo, já pensei em coisas muito ruins, mas sigo acreditando que um dia conseguirei uma boa melhora, TY again.
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I heard mushrooms work, too.
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We don't know where to begin, but you are the most caring doctors that we have ever known Dr Emovon on YouTube. You are “heroes" in your family. Thanks so much for curing me from bad breath, the world will definitely hear about this sir..
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Don't know how strong they are as far as helping, but Trader Joe's has a green tea lozenge.
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Is it better to use green tea leaves or matcha?
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Does it make your teeth yellow?
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What if the chemicals in the placebo mouthwash encouraged the growth of bacteria ?
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I think green tea MOUTHWASH is telling. Is that the same as just plain green tea? If not, what's the difference
