Rucheng Baimao (white-hair) Tea, also known as Mao Tea, is a new product of green tea after the domestication and cultivation of wild camellia ptilophylla. The rare and precious wild tea trees with large leaves and extensive hairs grow in the mountains around Dongling Township, Rucheng County, Chenzhou City, Hunan Province.
The clinical trial results of 64 middle-aged and elderly patients with hyperlipemia who drink the tea show that although both Rucheng Baimao Tea and ordinary green tea have great lipid-decreasing effects, the former has better and faster effects than the latter.
Its lipid-decreasing effect is not influenced by age and gender. It has no obvious side effects. When patients stop drinking it, however, its lipid-decreasing effect will disappear like other lipid-decreasing drugs.