Yerba mate
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Plant Medicine, Excitantia, Caffeine plant
Yerba mate
Ilex paraguariensis
Yerba mate is the dried leaf of an Ilex (holly) species cultivated in southern South America, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, southern Brazil. The Guaraní called it ka'a ("the herb"). Traditional preparation as a shared communal drink, passed person to person from the same gourd.
Black Drink, Coffee, Guarana
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Classes
Plant Medicine, Excitantia, Caffeine plant
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Pharmacy
Preparations
Dried leaves and twigs, infused in a gourd (mate) and drunk through a metal straw (bombilla)
Pharmacology
Routes
Oral
Purported mechanism
Caffeine (sometimes called 'mateine' historically, though chemically identical), theobromine, theophylline, plus polyphenols.