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“It is probably significant that the most widespread words in the world—borrowed into virtually every language—are the names of the four great caffeine plants: coffee, cacao, cola, and tea.
[Quoting F.N. Anderson’s ‘The Food of China’ (1988).]”
― The World of Caffeine
[Quoting F.N. Anderson’s ‘The Food of China’ (1988).]”
― The World of Caffeine
“We advise tea for the whole nation and for every nation. We advise men and women to drink tea daily; hour by hour if possible; beginning with ten cups a day, and increasing the dose to the utmost quantity that the stomach can contain and the kidneys eliminate.
[Quoting Dr. Cornelius Buntekuh, Dutch physician in the pay of the Dutch East India Company, c. 1680]”
― The World of Caffeine
[Quoting Dr. Cornelius Buntekuh, Dutch physician in the pay of the Dutch East India Company, c. 1680]”
― The World of Caffeine
“When I have been compell’d to sit up all Night about some extraordinary Business, I needed to do no more than to take some of this Tea, when I perceiv’d my self beginning to sleep, and I could easily watch all Night without winking; and in the Morning I was as fresh as if I had slept my ordinary time; this I could do once a week without any trouble.
[Quoting Dr. William Chamberlayne (1619–89), English physician and poet, in his Treatise of Tea.]”
― The World of Caffeine
[Quoting Dr. William Chamberlayne (1619–89), English physician and poet, in his Treatise of Tea.]”
― The World of Caffeine
