Preventive effects of the extract of kinka-cha, a folk tea, on a rat model of metabolic syndrome

Kinka-cha (dried leaf of Camellia nitidissima) is used as a folk tea for detoxication, diuresis and antihypertension. In the present study, we evaluated the extract of kinka-cha on metabolic, vascular and oxidative stress parameters in a model of metabolic syndrome, SHR/NDmcr-cp/cp (SHR/cp) rats that manifest hypertension, obesity, glucose intolerance and hyperlipidemia. Treatment with the extract of kinka-cha alleviated the increase in blood...