On Jul 6, 8:05 am, "Tiny Bulcher" <alycid
...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> Thus cwaeth hersheyh :
> > On Jul 5, 5:23 pm, Alexandre <alexandr-andr...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > [snip]
> > Inter-plant-ary wars (who knew?):
> >> From Eugenics to Nazism, from the 'Holly Wars' to
> >> Islamic terrorism, history provides us with several examples of how
> >> dangerous can be pseudoscience and religious fundamentalism.
> 'Holly Wars'? Did they use missile-toe?
No it's a taste test between Argentine yerba mate versus the "black
drink" of the Seminoles, both products of the genius *Ilex* [*I.
paraguariensis* and *I. vomitaria*].
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly
[bq] "Several holly species are used to make caffeine-rich herbal
teas. The South American Yerba Mate (I. paraguariensis) is boiled for
the popular revigorating drinks Mate, and Chimarrão, and steeped in
water for the cold Tereré. Guayusa (I. guayusa) is used both as a
stimulant and as an admixture to the entheogenic tea ayahuasca; its
leaves have the highest known caffeine content of any plant. In North
and Central America, Yaupon (I. vomitoria), was used by southeastern
Native Americans as a ceremonial stimulant and emetic known as "the
black drink"[9]. As the name suggests, the tea's purgative properties
were one of its main uses, most often ritually." [eq]
I'd suggest the mate unless you really enjoy tossing your cookies.
