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Healthy brew energizes
The South American drink
mate contains vitamins
and minerals and promotes
energy without caffeine
Aaron Shakra
Pulse Reporter
It’s healthy, non-addictive, gives
you energy and doesn’t contain
caffeine. And best of all, it’s en
tirely legal.
It’s mate, pronounced “ma-tay”
or “mah-tay.” Various cultures
and peoples throughout the
recorded history of the South
American continent have claimed
the small tree — an evergreen
member of the holly family — as
their own. However, none of these
claims are definite.
One prevalent origin story re
lates to the Guarani, a South
American tribal group that once
resided in the territory between
Uruguay and lower Paraguay’s
rivers, according to the Web site,
“Yerba Mate Online,” at
http://incognita.net/oldsanjuangro
cery/mate. “They looked forward
to the coming of a tall, fair
skinned, blue eyed, bearded God
(Pa’i Shume). He unlocked the se
crets of health and medicine and
revealed the healing qualities of
native plants,” the Web site states.
“Yerba Mate: For Better Health,”
a paper authored by Daniel
Mowrey, explores the health bene
fits of the drink made from the
leaves: “The plant is classified
vaguely, according to Western
herbal medicine, as aromatic,
stimulant, bitter, aperient (laxa
tive), astringent, diuretic, purga
tive, sudorific (sweat inducing),
and febrifuge (fever reducing).
Mate contains numerous vitamins
and minerals.”
Mowrey’s paper goes into more
Adam Amato Emerald
Mate is usually drunk from a gourd using a bombilla, or straw that strains tea leaves.
detail about these minerals and vi
tamins. However, in a summary of
these benefits, he writes, “In
1964, one group of investigators
from the Pasteur Institute and the
Paris Scientific Society concluded
that mate contains practically all
of the vitamins necessary to sus
tain life.”
University student Ashlee Harri
son said she drinks mate nearly
every morning instead of coffee.
“I dig it for its medicinal proper
ties,” she said. “It’s a stimulant,
not dehydrating and bad for you
like coffee.”
There are many different ways
to drink mate, but using a gourd
and bombilla — a straw which
strains the tea leaves — or brew- *
ing it like a regular cup of tea are
two commonplace methods of
consumption. The gourd is com
monly known as “mate,” while the
actual mate itself is referred to as
“yerba,” which translates to herb
in English.
University graduate student Ce
cilia Lopez Badano, who taught as
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