Mate -Gaucho tea-
Herbage Mate or ilex paraguayensi (scientific name)
Is infusion tea drank with a "bombilla" (bamboo or metal tube) into the gourd (calabash) known as mate, is a traditional infusion drinked specially for the people of contryside in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and South of Brazil.
....The herbage mate extract of the shrub with oval leafs and reddish berry, the botany name is ilex paraguayensi, grow in the jungle of Misiones and Corrientes (provinces of Argentina) also in Paraguay, Uruguay and the South of Brazil.
....This shrub whose leafs the natives guaranies called "caa", have different variety Daniel Granados dedicate one chapter entitled "Used and spell of the Yerba Mate" in your book "Superstition of River Plate" to jut out the shrub with whitish log and small leaf and the "yerba mate" more exquisite.
....The historie narrations, described that the natives guaranies chewed the leafs of "yerba mate" in the tirirng walk or drank infusion in his village.
....At first the infusion in his drank directly and after through of the "bombilla" of "cane of Castilla".
....Finding in that habit and antidote for the fatigue and the hunger. The Jesuits persuaded for the benefits of this invigorating liquid obtainable of the yerba mate, diffused the consume of the infusion tea that today it is "mate cocido".
Also promote the formation at the first "yerbatales" (cultivation of herbatage). In replace, repeled the use of "matear" -to drink mate with "bombilla"- and to pretend exile it use, in coherent attitude with his opposition at the superstitions practice. Occured that the mate always was a easy recourse for any sorcery. For example for to give magic potion into the gourd.
The cold infusion of "terere", typical of this region, is always very concentrated resulting very agreeable in the summer days of the tropic zone that impressioned at the settlers for his paradisiac taste.
The mate is antioxidant for his composition of vitamin C, tannin. selenium, and chlorophyll. Stimulus the activity muscular and pulmonary. Regulate the beat of the heart.
To produced well-beng sensation of vigor, and lucidity intellectual. Is diuretic, digestive and help the absorption of the organism, regulating in general all his function of assimilations.
