The First Herbal Extract? Prehistoric Tea

Popular medicinal teas for modern health.Tea, Camellia sinenesis, is the most popular beverage in the world (excluding water), and most likely, some form of tea was the world’s first herbal extract.1 Soaking dried camellia plants in hot water releases compounds that can have systemic effects, from stimulating caffeine, to cancer preventing polyphenols, to the calming ...