In
Chinese there is a proverb which in literal translation could read:
Drinking a daily cup of tea
Will surely starve the apothecary.
Or,
to give it a more American ring,
A
daily cup of tea or more
Keeps you out of the drugstore.
Only recently has this axiom been tested by modern scientific
methods. Already there is considerable evidence that regular tea
drinking can benefit health, as the Chinese learned through
thousands of years of experience.
The
most elementary reason tea has saved millions of lives over two
thousand years is simply because making it requires boiling water,
which kills disease germs. In areas of poor water quality, every cup
of tea was one less of hazardous water.
