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[camwyn]

Two pint glasses of rooibos tea with maple flavour so far today. 2 pints = 32 ounces = 0.95 liters.

... don't mind me, I'm keeping track for the urologist. I'm supposed to drink two and a half liters of water per day; I think that extends to any non-caffeinated or otherwise non-diuretic beverage, and I checked on rooibos and it's safe for the kidneys. There have been a handful of cases where it presented a problem for livers, but I'm not sure they're enough to be statistically significant, so I'm not fussing about that.

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[derien]

Liver? I guess it's good Eor didn't let me drink it in unlimited quantities when I was trying to get rehydrated after the breast reduction surgery and on the heavy pain meds.

[camwyn]

I didn't read all the details on the liver studies. In most cases it seemed like the symptoms being presented were co-morbid with other conditions- they were individual cases of guys in South Africa presenting at the hospital with jaundice and other conditions, and they were using rooibos as part of some kind of traditional medicine regimen or drinking it on a daily basis. The only studies I found that weren't individual cases were all on mice, and I wasn't sure how well those could extrapolate to humans. I'll admit that I got annoyed when I couldn't find an LD50 but I suppose they weren't testing to see if rooibos could kill the mice, just to see what it would do if they were given a lot of it over a certain amount of time.