Int. J. Pharm. Sci. Rev. Res., 51(2), July - August 2018; Article No. 06, Pages: 26-34 ISSN 0976 – 044X Review Article A Review On: Green Tea: A Miraculous Drink Verma Poonam*, Mukherjee Archita, Shrivastava Deepali, Gurjar Hemant, Sonu.K. Himanshu School of Pharmacy, ITM University, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India. *Corresponding author’s E-mail:
[email protected] Received: 11-06-2018; Revised: 28-07-2018; Accepted: 08-08-2018. ABSTRACT Green tea is obtained from the plant Camellia sinensis belonging to family Theacae. From ancient times tea is drunk worldwide as a beverage in the form of a decoction. It was used to detoxify the body. This attracted many scientists to work on green tea and discover its therapeutic properties. One of them is its Antimicrobial property in curing various infections. Considering this, the present review has been focused on the antimicrobial aspect of green tea. This includes the history of green tea, its pharmacognostical study, chemical constituents, role and mechanism of its main chemical constituent Catechin in curing antimicrobial infections and other ailments. And finally scope of green tea for further research and in designing and formulating drugs of it has been pondered over. Keywords: Antimicrobial, Catechin, Therapeutic properties. INTRODUCTION recorded reference of tea use in India. However, commercial production of tea in India did not begin until ccording to Chinese legend, the history of tea the arrival of the British East India Company, at which began in 2737 B.C.E. when the Emperor Shen point large tracts of land were converted for mass tea Nong, a skilled ruler and scientist, accidentally A production.