The coffee plant is endemic to the horn of Africa, specifically Ethiopia, while the tea plant grows wild on the foothill slopes of Southeast Asia, specifically Southern parts of China and Eastern India. Both beverages owe their popularity to their ability to stimulate and invigorate. This ability is based on certain active ingredients such as caffeine, catechins and others that tea leaves and coffee beans possess. These ingredients increase metabolic rates, which in turn, tend to stimulate dormant senses and reinvigorate tired ones. This is only one effective mechanism, though a principal one, that these ingredients initiate to invigorate the human body. Such mechanisms that tealeaves and coffee beans initiate in the human body to stimulate it are diverse and complex and not all are known. Nevertheless, this is a synopsis and a detailed study of such mechanisms must be left to literature with greater scope than this. Tea or coffee in the morning to begin the day with on an alert note is just as appropriate as tea or coffee taken at the end of a very tiring session of work to revitalize the senses, whether that session is in the middle of the day or late at night. Both coffee and tea have been used traditionally in their native lands for thousands of years. The Chinese have been using tea in traditional medicine and as an invigorating drink well before the birth of Christ. The Indians of the eastern parts of the country have also been, for a long time, drinking tea with spices and milk. The native Ethiopians also have used coffee traditionally as a medicinal ingredient before the birth of Christ. Both tea and coffee, as beverages, were dispersed from their traditional areas to other parts of the world. Coffee, initially, became predominantly a South and Central American crop tea while consumption patterns favored European and North American countries. Presently, this bias in
The coffee plant is endemic to the horn of Africa, specifically Ethiopia, while the tea plant grows wild on the foothill slopes of Southeast Asia, specifically Southern parts of China and Eastern India. Both beverages owe their popularity to their ability to stimulate and invigorate. This ability is based on certain active ingredients such as caffeine, catechins and others that tea leaves and coffee beans possess. These ingredients increase metabolic rates, which in turn, tend to stimulate dormant senses and reinvigorate tired ones. This is only one effective mechanism, though a principal one, that these ingredients initiate to invigorate the human body. Such mechanisms that tealeaves and coffee beans initiate in the human body to stimulate it are diverse and complex and not all are known. Nevertheless, this is a synopsis and a detailed study of such mechanisms must be left to literature with greater scope than this. Tea or coffee in the morning to begin the day with on an alert note is just as appropriate as tea or coffee taken at the end of a very tiring session of work to revitalize the senses, whether that session is in the middle of the day or late at night. Both coffee and tea have been used traditionally in their native lands for thousands of years. The Chinese have been using tea in traditional medicine and as an invigorating drink well before the birth of Christ. The Indians of the eastern parts of the country have also been, for a long time, drinking tea with spices and milk. The native Ethiopians also have used coffee traditionally as a medicinal ingredient before the birth of Christ. Both tea and coffee, as beverages, were dispersed from their traditional areas to other parts of the world. Coffee, initially, became predominantly a South and Central American crop tea while consumption patterns favored European and North American countries. Presently, this bias in