Sorry coulden't resist,



The infusion, once recommended in China as a cancer cure, contains some tannin, suspected of being carcinogenic. Chinese regard tea as antitoxic, diuretic, expectorant, stimulant, and stomachic (Leung, 1980). Tea, considered astringent, stimulant, and acts as a nervine or nerve sedative, frequently relieving headaches. It may also cause unpleasant nerve and digestive disturbances. The infusion is also recommended for neuralgic headaches. According to Leung, tea is reportedly effective in clinical treatment of amebic dysentery, bacterial dysentery, gastroenteritis, and hepatitis. It has also been reported to have antiatherosclerotic effects and vitamin P activity (Leung, 1980). Teabags have been poulticed onto baggy or tired eyes, compressed onto headache, or used to bathe sunburn. Duke and Wain (1981) report that the plant has a folk reputation as analgesic, antidotal, astringent, cardiotonic, carminative, CNS-stimulant, demulcent, deobstruent, digestive, diuretic, expectorant, lactagogue, narcotic, nervine, refrigerant, stimulant, and stomachic; used for bruises, burns, cancer, cold, dogbite, dropsy, dysentery, epilepsy, eruptions, fever, headache, hemoptysis, hemorrhage, malaria, ophthalmia, smallpox, sores, toxemia, tumors, and wounds (Duke and Wain, 1981).



Did you see the word narcotic? :stoned: