HERB MATE

(ilex paraguariensis)

HERB MATE
(ilex paraguariensis)

English: Paraguay tea.

French: Maté.

From the family of Aquifoliáceas.

It is the central nervous system stimulant, diuretic and antirheumatic. Taken regularly, helps fight obesity.

Yerba Mate.

What is it?

Mate is a drink like tea consumed mainly in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and southern Brazil.

It is prepared with dried leaves and sticks in the tree Ilex Paraguarensis (Yerba Mate)

The name "Mate" derives from the Quechua word "mati" naming the gourd (Lagenaria vulgaris) which is traditionally used to make mate.

The scientific name Ilex Paraguarensis was given by the French naturalist and botanist Auguste de Saint Hilaire in 1822, the tree belongs to the family Aquifoliaceae and grows between the 10th parallel? and 30th (South) in the basin of the river Parana and Paraguay. Es a plant typical of the regions of Alto Parana, Uruguay and the Northeast High Argentino. It is a tropical and subtropical plant, needing high temperatures, high humidity and up to 1500 mm. of annual rainfall.

On average, 300, 000 tons of Mate are produced each year.

Of course the plant needs about 25 years to fully grow, reaching in this case a height of 15 meters.

The shapes of leaves alternated between, cuneiform, elliptical and oval, with edges slightly DENTELLE.

It blooms between the months of October and December.

The flowers are small, polygamous and dioicous with Calix and corolla in tetrameric available.

The fruit recalls the black pepper.

Among many varieties, there are three that are most important:

"angustifolia", "longifolia" and "latifolia".

The Mate has a characteristic mature flavor that is a little sweet, bitter, as leaf withers, and as alfalfa, similar to tea (Camellia sinensis) 196 volatile chemical compounds found in Yerba Mate, 144 are also found in tea.

The infusion of Ilex paraguarensis is less astringent that the infusion made from tea.

It is used by folk medicine and used in commercial preparations as a stimulant the herbáreas central nervous system, as a diuretic and anti - rheumatism.

Some words related to the Guarani Mate:

Barbacuá: from mbarambacuá = ma (hair) ra (euphonic) mbacuá (roasted thing)

Caa: Yerba Mate.

CAA - guará: from Tomador Mate.

CAA - i - gua: Mate gourd (literally: container of the liquid from the yerba mate)

CAA - u - ei: Thirst for Matt.

Mboroviré: Yerba Mate slightly "stadium" (dissected and broken)

SAPEC, or sambeca sape: low, pea or mbecá (open) or + za Sa (eye) = open blood cells or vesicles of the Yerba Mate by the heating process.

Ticuá Cá ay, "the prime Mate" (literally: pour water into the hole)

Classification:

Category: Anthophyta.

Class: Magnoliopsida.

Subclass: Rosidae.

Order: Celastrales.

Family: Aquifoliaceae.

References:

1. Kawakami, M. and Kobayashi, A. Volatile Constituents of Green Mate and Roasted Mate, J. Agric. Food Chem. 39, 1275 (1991)

2. Gosmann, G. Schenkel, E. P. and Seligmann, O. A New saponin from Mate, Ilex Paraguarensis, J. Nat. Prod. 52 (6) 1367 (1989)

3. Vazques, A. and Moyna, P. Studies on Mate Drinking, J. Ethnopharmacology 18, 267 (1986)

Yerba Mate.

Benefits for Health.

For a better Health.

By Daniel Mowrey, Ph. D.

Yerba Mate, Mate or as is usually called, is a South American herb that has won admirers in large parts of the world.

In the search for a natural stimulant without side effects, or toxic, the Mate is now our best hope.

An energy of mind and body, natural source of nutrition, and a health promoter par excellence, Mate deserves the attention of every person interested in optimal health. The Yerba Mate was introduced to the settlers and modern civilizations by the primitive Guarani Indians of Paraguay and Argentina.

It has always been the most common ingredient in healing in the homes of the Guarani.

Today in Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay, Mate tea has become a ritual almost pathologically in the same way that coffee and tea are in eastern and western countries.

Among the native Guarani, the use of natural medicinal uses for Mate has persisted.

They used to increase immunization, cleanness and destocifincante of blood, tone the nervous system, restore youthful hair color, retard aging, combat fatigue, stimulate the mind, controlling appetite, reduces the effect of debilitating diseases, Reduces stress and insomnia ilimina.

Mate (flex paraguariensis) is a tree peregne, a member of the family of holly.

It grows wild in Argentina, Chile, Peru and Brazil, but is most abundant in Paraguay which is also grown.

The plant is classified vaguely, according to Western herbal medicine, as aromatic, stimulant, bitter, laxative, astringent, diuretic laxative, sudorific (induces sweating) and fever reducer.

The Mate contains numerous vitamins and minerals.

It has the usual collection of resins, fiber, volatile oil, tannins that characterize many of these plants of the same essence.

Contains also carotene, vitamins A, C, E, B - 1, B - 2 and B - compound, riboflavin, nicotinic acid, pantothenic acid, biotin, magnesium, calcium, iron, sodium, patasio, manganese, silicon, phosphate, sulfur, hydrochloric acid, chlorophyll, choline and inositol.

In 1964 a group of researchers at the Pasteur Institute and the Scientific Society of Paris, concluded that Mate contains nearly all the vitamins necessary to live.

In addition to the regular nutrients, El Mate contains substances that belong to the class of specialized chemical compounds called xanthina.

Although only small amounts of these substances present in the Mate, their presence has created an enormous attention.

The first xanthina in Yerba Mate is called Mateine.

Probably bit constribuye the substance, not just in the overall activity of the plant, but has attracted a disproportionate emphasis speculative.

Some xanthina are obviously less desirable, such as caffeine.

Others, such as theophylline and theobromine have a dedicated action and a group of typical side effects.

Although xanthina have similar chemical, each has a unique group of properties.

Researchers at the Institute of Hygienic Free Hamburg, Germany, concluded that although there is caffeine in Mate, the amount is so small that it would take 100 of Mate tea bags in a 6 - ounce cup of water to equate to 6 ounces of coffee regular.

Consequently, the active ingredient in the Yerba Mate is not caffeine.

There is only an effect that appears to be shared by all xanthina:

Mild relaxation of muscles.

It is the action that makes them (with the exception of caffeine, where the relaxation of smooth muscles are desminuídos for other purposes) of clinical bronchial dilator good and positive in the treatment of asthma.

Mateine appears, then, has the best properties of the conbinación xanthina possible.

For example, as other xanthina stimulates the central nervous system, but unlike most, not used or added.

Also unlike caffeine, leads to better and no worse sleep.

It is a mild diuretic, as are many xanthina.

Relaxes peripheral blood vessels, thus lowering the pressure in the blood, without the strong effects in the medulla oblongata (fuinal part of the brain that connects to the spine) and heart displayed by alunos xanthina.

We also know that improves perfomancia of psycomotor without the typical xanthina - induced depressing effect.

Dr. Jose Martin. Director of the National Institute of Technology in Paraguay, writes, "New invistigaciones and better technology has shown that while Mateine has a chemical constituent similar to caffeine, the molecular set is different.

Mateine not tine none of the negative effects of caffeine. ".

And Horacio Conesa, a professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Buenos Aires, said, "There is only one contradictions" by ingesting Mate.

Clinical studies show that up to individuals sensitive to caffeine may ingest Mate without adverse reactions.

Gastrointestinal properties.

Perhaps the area most benefited by Mate is the gastrointestinal track.

Reported effects range from immediate improvement in digestion to the ability to repair damaged tissues and gastrointestinal illness.

Severe or chronic constipation, it can be easily arranged with the use of Mate.

The Mate appears to work primarily by the loosening of the fecal mass, but also appears to stimulate the nomal movement of the intestines to some degree.

IMPACT ON THE NERVOUS SYSTEM.

Better than any other xanthina alkaloid, the Mate has the ability to increase resiliency and speed and doing it without any mental side effects like nervousness and chills.

Seems to act as a tonic, stimulating a weak and depressed and nervous system sedando to a sobrexcitado.

Our knowledge of the effects of Mate are currently limited to comments on the change in the way of acting as more energy and vitality, better ability to concentrate, less nervousness, agitation and anxiety, and increased resistance to physical and mental fatigue.

Improves mood, especially in cases of depression, which often happens after tea.

This may be a direct or indirect result of increased energy.

One of the most remarkable aspects of Mate is that does not interfere with cycles of sleep, now, has a tendency to balance the cycles, inducing a dream with a more rapid eye movement (REM) when needed or increasing the time in state Delta (deep sleep)

CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECTS.

All kinds of heart disease have been treated and prevented with the use of Yerba Mate.

The Yerba Mate has many of the nutrients required by the heart to grow and repair itself.

In addition, increases the oxygen supply to the heart, particularly during periods of stress or exercise.

The Mate has become a favorite of physical culture and anyone interested in the exercise for the benefit of health.

The metabolic effects of mate appear to include the ability to maintain aerobic glycolysis (the destruction of carbohydrates) during periods of longer periods of time.

This results in burning more calories, increase cardiac efficiency, and delaying anaerobic glycolysis and resulting in growth of latic acid during exercise.

Effects on the immune system.

One consistent observation in the literature in South America on Mate is that it enhances the immune response of the body, stimulating natural resistance to disease.

This results in the nutritional and fortalecente effect on the sick person, during the course of the disease and during convalescence, sometimes dramatically accelerating time for improvement.

The exact mechanism of action of Mate has not been resolved, but involves a direct action against infectious organisms, and an effect above the resistance to the disease.

The nutrient content of the plant probably plays a bigger role here, but it is also probable that other constituents contribute to action by stimulating the activity of white blood cells.

Nutrition.

The interaction of many nutrients in Mate have never been systematically studied.

But the stories about the implementation of nutritional Mate tea are nothing less than amazing.

The Mate is often used as a staple food, sometimes replacing important foods such as bread and vegetables.

Easily removes the feeling of hunger and can give so much force as a meal, according to the herbalist known Chilean Zin and J. R. Weiss.

Peace Corps workers have reported cases in which large groups of native Mantin is in good health for extended periods of drought and famine, when they ate only one small meal per day.

How? Drinking large quantities of Yerba Mate tea.

Some natives spend their entire lives in this type of diet and live to advanced ages, sometimes exceeding 100 years.

South American governments have adopted the practice of encouraging mothers, especially in poorer regions, including Yerba Mate in the diet of their school - age children.

Yerba Mate.

Chemical characteristics and therapeutic properties.

From a chemist, Ilex paraguariensis (Yerba Mate) can be evaluated on their appearance or chemical feedstock for various products.

Long before its chemical composition was recognized, the Indians used the yerba mate not only for its taste, but also and mainly because they recognized its virtues in terms of enhanced resistance to cansansio and its powers to reduce thirst and hunger.

Studies show that the Yerba Mate has the following components:

water, cellulose gum, dextrin, mucilage, glucose, pentose, fat, aromatic resin, albumin, xanthina, teophyllina, caffeine, folic acid, caffeic acid, hydrogen viride, clorophila, colesterina and essential oils.

Ashes contain huge amounts of potassium, lithium, sulfur, coal, citric acid, in addition to traces of magnesium, manganese, iron, aluminum, and arsenic.

Xanthine, Teophyllina and theobromine are three related alkaloides who are in the yerba mate and the elements are more interesting from a therapeutic point of view. The level of xanthine of the yerba mate average is 1. 60% and 1. 10% in infusions.

Therapeutic properties.

The yerba mate is basically a beverage stimulant, removes fatigue, stimulating mental activity and physical.

It has a beneficial effect on nerves and muscles and also enhances intellectual work.

As a result of the central stimulant effects of xanthine along with the activation of reserve elements, the cardiovascular activity body strength.

Xanthine has a well - known effect on the central nervous system, which stimulates mental energy.

Thanks to its vitamin B complex, the yerba mate is working with the entry of sugar into the muscles and nerves and the brain activity of human beings; vitamins C and E act as a defense and organic fibers in the body's mineral salts, Along with xanthine, help the cardiovascular work and the flow of blood to lower the pressure, and xanthine acts as a vasodilator.

In such circumstances, hunger can be satisfied.

The yerba mate increases the urine output and is very useful for bladder problems.

The yerba mate also acts on the digestive tract by activating the peristaltic movements; fascilita digestion, helps with gastric problems and increases the evacuation and urination.

The stimulating action of the yerba mate is the largest coffee and has no other effects as insomnia and irritability.

Research done at the Pasteur Institute in Paris showed that yerba mate is a very important role in the process of regeneration of cells.

Yerba Mate.

Legend of the Guarani Indians.

There is an old legend of the Guarani Indians who regard the origins of his people in the Paraguayan jungle.

According to legend, the ancestors of the Guarani had crossed long ago and the great wide ocean from distant lands to settle in America.

There they found a land at once beautiful and full of dangers. With diligence and effort were able to overcome the land and establish a new civilization.

Guarani tribes worked the land and became excellent craftsmen.

Waited anxiously wash of God Pa'i Shumen, high, clear skin, blue eyes and beard, which according to legend descended from the heavens and approved by the Guarani with pleasure.

He brought religious knowledge and taught them some practical agriculture would be beneficial to them in times of drought and pestilence as much as the daily slaughter.

Most significantly, he discovered the secrets of medicine and health and revealed the qualities of native plants.

One of the most important secrets was how to grow and prepare the leaves of the tree of Yerba Mate. The intent of the drink's mate was to ensure the health, vitality and longevity.

Went like this:

The tribe cleared a portion of the forest, planting manioc and corn, but after four or five years, the soil was spent and the tribe had to move to another place.

Tired of so much moving, an Indian man refused to leave and chose to stay where it was. The lowest of his daughters, the beautiful Jary, had a heart match:

or continuing with the youth of the tribe, or was left alone, helping the old man till death do what leads to the peace Marae - Ivy's. Despite the entreaties of his friends ended up staying with her father.

This gesture of love deserved a prize.

One day, an unknown shaman arrived at the ranch and asked him to do would Jary happy.

The girl did not ask for anything. But the old man asked: "I want new forces to track and take Jary to the tribe that went away. ".

The shaman gave a green plant, perfumed with kindness, and told him that the plant, to harvest their leaves, dry fire, crushers, put the pieces in a butternut squash, you throw cold or hot water, and suck the infusion. "In this new drink, find a mate greeted, even in the saddest hours of solitude more cruel. ".

He said this and is gone.

Thus was born and creción the "CAA - mini", which left the CAA - drink and whites take later with the name of Chimarrão in Brazil, and Yerba Mate in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay.

Drinking green with the wise, the old man was recovered, gained new strength and was able to continue the long road to meet with his people.

They were received with great rejoicing.

And the whole tribe adopted the habit of taking the grass green, bitter and sweet, giving strength and courage, and it is encouraging that the friendships in the hours of greatest sad loneliness.

Mate became the most common household cures of the Guarani, and remains so today.

The current practice in modern Argentina and Paraguay, the mate is sumirgiendo the leaves in hot water.

In fact, a large quantity of crushed leaves are first soaked in cold water, and then they add hot water, again and again, until it is removed everything good.

Every time you are pouring hot water, tea is ingested through a straw special wooden or metal, called a bulb, which allows the leaves. It also takes cold.

Yerba Mate.

Legend about the origins of the Yerba Mate.

Much time was that yasi, the moon looked full of curiosity and desire from their dark sky with the deep forests that Tupa, the mighty god of the Guarani, had covered the earth.

The eyes are clear yasi walked the fine, soft grass on the slopes, tall trees, which delayed their shadows in the night Lucienne, the sparkling waters of rivers, and their desire to go down to the woods was becoming increasingly hot.

Then yasi called Arai, the cloud of pink twilight, and said:

Do you want me to get off the ground?

Arai, the sweet companion of the goddess, she was amazed by the strange desire yasi.

But it continued pressing:

Yes. Come with me, Arai.

Tomorrow afternoon we will leave the blue sky and get us through the woods, among the tall trees.

But we all know what we have done, to get the night will notice your absence.

Yasi smiled while her eyes shone mockingly.

Only the clouds, your sisters, you know. The call, ask them to come fast and tight.

Cover the entire sky and nobody will know our adventure.

The words of yasi convinced the pink cloud, and at sunset the following day, two beautiful maidens walked through the woods alone, while black and thick clouds threatening the earth with its stormy aspect.

Yasi excited watching the trees, which offered its fruits odorous; Whispering branches, moved by the wind, the green of the leaves, almost white when she approached.

Yasi felt under his feet bare the softness of the wet grass, and saw her beautiful face lunar reflected in the deep waters of the rivers.

Yasi Arai and were happy in their run through the forest, but their bodies were fatigued.

Walked into the dark night, leaving in their wake a shadow of light.

In the distance, in a clear forest, they saw a ruinous hut, and headed toward it to find a bit of rest, because, although they were goddesses in his heavenly abode, felt fatigue in the form of maidens.

Suddenly, his ears aguzado felt the mild snap of a twig to break.

Yasi turned his face radiating towards that place, and its light illuminated a tiger, a yaguareté who rushed them both to who was dazzled by the sudden brightness. The two maids had no time to lose his corporeal form, but if done quickly to one side, while the tiger failed in their attack.

After they saw as a man, elderly, but with instinct and experience hunter, was on his help and struggled with the yaguareté.

The forest wanted to offer the two goddesses and unique one last adventure.

The man knew his body neatly dodging the claws of a tiger while he sank his knife repeatedly: however, did not appear to have an edge on why the animal.

With no common effort was launched last on the yaguareté; the blade of a knife shone moment in the air and fell heavily on the head of the tiger, which was separated from the body.

The old Indian had lived renovated during the last few minutes that lasted the fight, it seemed as if all the vigor of his youth had returned to his powerful arm, but as soon as the tiger had died, his arms hung heavy throughout the body, although his hand was still holding the bloodied knife with force.

Then, with still panting breath, his eyes searched the two girls.

Ya - you do not have to fear - he told them -

Now I ask you, beautiful young people who accept the hospitality they can offer in my cabin.

Yasi and his companion We gladly accept the invitation at the same time praised the courage and skill that the old Indian had shown in fighting. Then he went after and entered the hut.

Sit on the mats while warning my wife and my daughter to come and offer you the duties of hospitality - said the old man.

And disappeared from that place, while the two young men were filled with astonishment watched without daring to say a word.

Around it all was dilapidated and miserable, and if they had already drawn attention to a single man lived in those solitudes, his astonishment rose to learn that two women lived next to him.

His adventure in the land would acquire a number of unsuspected nuances.

But gave them no time to digress, because the two women announced, full of abetment, where they were entered.

We come to offer our poverty of the old woman said the Indian.

But yasi Arai and just if they were aware of what I was saying, as they had been amazed by the beauty of the young, that lots of recato a shy, he was to them.

No you have to try - said at last emerging from yasi surprised - I would appreciate anything you can offer us as we walked through the woods from the sunset and we are more tired that hungry.

The girl was then rushed to bring a cake of maize, stored on the embers of the fire, had retained its weak and soft.

But what the two goddesses did not know at the time, because under human form had lost some of his divine powers, was that those tasty cakes were made with the only corn that remained in the cabin.

For a while the old marriage and the beautiful maiden tried to make pleasant stay of the goddesses, but yasi remained somewhat alien to what they said.

He found out what so natural that those three people lived there, away from the other men and exposed to the dangers of the beasts, who could not set aside the idea that all this had some mystery.

And, you could not in their curiosity, wonder, finally, making sure that their words do not let your desire, but rather as one who asked something random:

Is there any other cottage close to it?

No - replied the old Indian - live here, completely isolated from other men.

No, there is no next hut.

And do not feel fear in these solitudes? Yasi inquired again.

But the old man knew what he was interested in silence and evasive answer:

No, no, no. We have come here to live by our taste.

After it was lifted, not without some ceremony in his gesture and said:

I do not want to strain under our hosts who are homeless because Tupa look displeasure with the dignity that does not comply with their hospitality.

Therefore, you'll stop to rest the remainder of the night.

Tomorrow, if your desire is to leave these forests, accompany you to where there is no danger.

And once having said that, left followed by his wife and his beautiful daughter.

Yasi when he was again left alone with Arai its clear light that illuminate the stay, because from that found in the woods at the Indian had retreated and darkened on itself for not disclosed. After he heard that Arai said:

What do we do now, yasi? We return to our home and we let these people believe that our meeting has been a dream?

Yasi moved his head negatively.

No, no, Arai. I am full of curiosity to know what is the reason that made them withdraw to the solitude and lock them to that beautiful young woman.

And if we fail to tell us what our power is not enough to guess what.

Wait for tomorrow.

Arai did not quite feel the curiosity of yasi, but was a friend of the pale goddess, and granted his wish, even if you do not like very much to spend the night in the ruinous hut.

Came the new light, and with it the old yasi announced that it was time to leave.

Hope - he said - that just as you have behaved so kindly with us, we acompañiéis, as you said, to the edge of the forest.

But there was no need to remember that the goddess is his promise, because the man was hospitable and truthful, and was followed at the disposal of their wishes.

They left the woman and daughter to dismiss the two adventurous maidens, which, together with the old, undertook the journey.

Hardly had the clear point of the forest where the hut, where yasi, with all its cold cunning, his companion tried to tell them what we wanted.

But the old man had sensed the desire of the young, and, being curious characteristic of women, it was decided to satisfy him, and told him:

A beautiful girl, well I see that he has drawn attention in the distance I live with my wife and my daughter, but did not think that in that there is no reason strange.

Yasi, which began to rejoice with the first words of the old, feel the fear that it will not continue, seeing that there was a pause in his story started.

Arai then, the pink cloud, made an attempt to make the wish of his friend is met, and asked:

And long live in the woods?

Yes, already does a lot, and I can not complain about this loneliness, because she has given me the calm that began missing when I lived among my tribe.

Then cl old Indian, and willing to confidentiality, told the two youngsters why it had withdrawn to live in the 1st humble hut where he had accompanied them.

During his youth he had lived life alongside those of his tribe, a tribe as the many who were in the vicinity of major rivers, dedicated to hunting and fighting.

There he met the woman who was his, and his joy had no bounds to the day when her daughter was born, a girl so full of beauty, which increased the joy of their natural parents.

But this joy was bartering in concern as the girl was growing up, it was so innocent, so full of candor and lack of malice so that the father began to dread the day they lost so beautiful attributes.

Gradually, the anxiety, concern and fear invaded the spirit of the Indian until he determined to move away from the community in which to live in solitude that could save his daughter with those virtues that Tupa had enriched.

I left all that was necessary for me not to live in the forest - said the old - and without telling anyone where it went, I fled like a deer pursued, to loneliness. Since then live there.

Only the love I have for my daughter could do to commit this kind of madness. But I'm happy, live in peace.

Shut the old and neither knew what to answer.

Yasi Then, seeing that the edge of the forest was near, asked him to the left, after a promise that no one would speak of their encounter.

Agreed the old Indian, and, once yasi and Arai were alone, they lost their human forms and amounted to the heavens.

They spent several days in which the pale goddess could not forget about the adventures and whole meeting that had taken into the woods, and watching the old Indian from his heavenly solitude, realized the full value of the hospitality he had offered them in his cabin because he saw that the corn pancakes, that both liked all those tribes had disappeared from their food.

It was no doubt that the fact that they had been offered the last they had.

Then, one afternoon, she returned to speak with Arai and told him what he had observed.

I think - said the rosy cloud - that we should reward those people. What do you think, yasi?

The same thing I thought myself, and that's why I wanted to talk to you.

We could do because the man has such affection for his daughter, so out of the ordinary, that our prize recayese on the young.

You have well - thought, yasi.

And as was so hospitable, and you know that Tupa is happy that the men are that way, we will also be demonstrated.

Since that time, young goddesses were spent with eagerness to find a suitable prize.

At last, they did something truly original and, with the greatest secrecy, it was decided to implement it. To do this, a night infuse the three beings of the hut a deep sleep, and while sleeping, yasi in the form of a white girl was planted in the clear in front of the forest that stretched from the hut, a heavenly seed.

After he returned to his home, and from the dark sky brightened strongly that place, while Arai left soft and gently falling rain often lovingly soaked earth.

Came the morning, yasi was hidden under the radiant sun, but his work was concluded. Given the cottage had sprouted around trees often unknown, and its white flowers and tight shy looming between the dark green of the leaves.

When the old Indian awoke from his deep sleep and left to go to the forest, the prodigy who was amazed at the door of her hut stretched.

Since she was still and silent wanting to understand what had happened, but at the same time with a buried fear that their eyes and their minds were not faithful to reality.

Finally, he called his wife and daughter, and when the three were ecstatic watching what for them was a prodigy, a larger one occurred before their eyes and made them fall on their knees on the wet ground.

The clouds, which scattered roamed the sky bright, and we are gathered tightly turned dark, while a white and radiant down to them.

Yasi, under the figure of girl they knew, they smiled with layers.

Do not fear - he told them -

I am yasi, the goddess who dwells on the moon, and I come to premiaros your kindness.

This new plant you see is the yerba mate, and now forever be for you and for all people of this region a symbol of friendship.

And your daughter will live forever, and never lost or innocence or the goodness of his heart.

She is the owner of the herb.

Later, the goddess made them lift the soil where they were kneeling, and teach them how to roast and taking the mate.

They spent a few years old and the marriage came the hour of death. Then, when the daughter had fulfilled their duties rituals, disappeared from the earth.

And since then usually be seen from time to time between the Paraguayan mate as a young and beautiful blonde whose eyes are reflected in the innocence and naivety of his soul.

Yerba Mate.

How to use it.

YERBA MATE IS THE ONE YOU, AND CAN BE USED AS ANY KIND OF YOU.

WHAT IS MOST COMMON TO COME IN PACKAGES 500 grs. 17. 6 OZ) or a kilogram, as tea loose, and ground is dry.

IN SOME PLACES IS AVAILABLE IN packet AS THOSE OF YOU, MATE'S STEW, BUT THESE DO NOT PROVIDED THE BENEFIT OF THE GREAT more traditional method of taking one.

YERBA MATE (literally "grass MATE") ACQUIRES ITS NAME OF A TRADITIONAL CUP (also called MATE) that is used to take it.

THIS CUP, ORIGINALLY to make dried and decorum, is A PUMPKIN.

IN SOUTH AMERICA, WHERE THE MATE WAS INTRODUCED TO THE WORLD, THE MATE IS STILL IN CUP TAKES MATE FILTER USING A DECORATIVE WOOD OR METAL'S BULB.

Drink OF THE MODERN MATE CAN CHANGE SEVERAL TIMES extracting HERB OF THE BENEFICIAL TE.

MAY BE ISSUED AS A NORMAL AND TE SUELTO filter before putting it into the cup.

MAY BE USED IN A CAFE DE presser, WHERE DO THE GRASS AND INFUSION WITH HOT WATER AND THEN THE GRASS is pressed like a TE.

CAN DO WITH ICE IS ALSO IN THE DAYS TO TAKE VERY hot summer. CAN BE DONE AS THE COFFEE IN AUTOMATIC coffee maker (MAKE SURE THAT USE LARGE AMOUNT OF GRASS)

AND IF YOU HAVE CUP OF BULB AND MATE, YOU MAY FOLLOW THE STEPS TO TAKE A MATE TRADITIONAL.

HOW TO PREPARE AN INFUSION IN A TRADITIONAL MATE.

PREPARING FOR THE INFUSION OF MATE, HE LEAVES THE YERBA MATE dried, crushed INSIDE THE CUP AND YOUR MATE ADDS HOT WATER (approx 70C) it's called "PRIME MATE. " IS THE INFUSION SUCTION through a filter CALL OF METAL "BULB" WHICH HAS A FILTER TO PREVENT bits of YERBA SKIP TO MOUTH.

THERE ARE DIFFERENT TECHNIQUES TO PREPARE FOR MATE, AS USUAL LOS HOLDERS OF MATE, THIS IS THE TRADITIONAL METHOD:

FILL THE CUP TO MATE UP MATÉ ¾ of its capacity. AN ALTERNATIVE TO ALLOW MORE TAKE YOU TO A TASTE FOR INFUSION LESS POWERFUL, IS FILL THE CUP OF MATE BY HALF, OR a little less.

Pour water WARM UP TO FILL THE CUP ALMOST.

DO NOT worry if some PARTY IS DRY IN THE TOP.

POSSIBLE WATER absorb the infusion FOLLOWING.

Leave it rest FEW SECONDS WITH HOT WATER AND FILL THE PAST AND HAS BEEN ABSORBED MATE IS THE SECO.

Soak IF NOT MORE WATER, INSERT THE BULB STRONGLY IN THE MATE.

Who does not add sugar or some herbs (AS EXAMPLE MENTA) REPLACE SOME WATER BY MILK, ESPECIALLY FOR CHILDREN.

YOU TAKE and absorb MATE WITH THE HOT WATER ALL TIMES UNTIL THE LIQUID AND ALMOST HAVE NO TASTE.

THE EXTRACTION repetitive HOT WATER IS AN EFFICIENT WAY OF THE BENEFICIAL DRAWN FROM THE GRASS.

Enjoy! DESPITE THE FIRST TASTE FLAVOR WILL BE AN UNUSUAL FOR NEW CONSUMERS, IS A PERSISTENT YOU TASTE TEST AND OTHER AGAIN.

IS ALMOST AS IF THE BODY KNEW WHAT IS GOOD FOR YOU AND MATE AS YOU CALL FOR MORE.

Yerba Mate.

How to cure mate?

The infusion of mate should be prepared using a mate cured.

The healing process is preparing to mate for the kind of infusion for which will be used.

The mates are divided into two categories: curable and incurable.

The incurable mates are those made of non - porous material (glass, metal, porcelain, pottery, etc.

This kind of mates should not be used because they lose all the "memory" of flavor when they are washed and also lack the capacity to provide that old flavor that only a mate can be cured.

The healing process has two steps: first, healing properly or first use, then the healing that is the daily use of mate with one kind of infusion (for example, matte pure with no additives)

The proper cure is twofold: to remove the soft tissues and adapted to the type of mate particular infusion to be used.

To remove tissue, be filled with yerba mate mate used, add hot water and let the preparation for a day.

It is better to use pure yerba mate and yerba mate who has not been used with sugar because it decomposes more easily later.

The next day we must stir the pot, rinse the material and remove soft tissue.

Then repeat the whole process once again.

To adapt to the matte black or Maroons (ie, yerba mate pure with no additives such as sugar, for example) fill the fresh material yerba mate with and add boiling water.

Leave it rest for a day.

Repeat the process for two or three days if desired.

For sweet mate, first add two or three teaspoons of sugar, tea and a piece of coal boiling.

Cover the mouth of the mate and shake vigorously to burn the sugar evenly.

Then empty your matte and proceed as in the case of the Cimarron mate.

Yerba Mate.

How to prepare for the infusion of Mate.

To prepare for the infusion of Mate (known as "Mate") chopped dried leaves of yerba mate are placed inside a gourd called "Mate" or Porongo in Uruguay (hard skeleton of a local fruit) you can also use any container of the same forms of a glass into suitable metal, glass or wood and hot water (approx. 70 Celsius) is added (this is called priming the "Kill")

The infusion is sucked by a metal tube called "bulb" that has a strainer at the end to prevent the extent of chopped leaves of the terba to the mouth.

There are many different techniques for preparing the Mate, as drinkers Mate (Mater) suggestions to follow:

Fill the yerba mate with up to 3 / 4 of its capacity so.

Put your hand or a piece of paper in the "mouth" of what Matt and gently shaking with the top down.

This should force the smaller particles of grass (such as dust) to the top of Mate, in this way is less likely to diminutives of the bulb holes are blocked by the herb.

Mate gently reverse the normal position.

From here there are several procedures that vary according to the primer and this depends on the quality of the herb.

Possibilities:

A - poured cold water or warm or hot and who is in the kettle or boiler or thermos, let stand a few minutes to allow the grass to swell (the dried leaves of the Mate absorverán water agreement) and make the bulb.

B - Getting the grass inside the container to one side, perimtiendo than 1 / 4 of an empty hole in it. Place the water in any of its three options listed above and leave inflate or the lamp placed in the hole and just pour the water in case of being cold or warm, but if it is hot, do so slowly and on the bulb, using a such as exhaust pipe of the highest heat of the water again allow to stand a few minutes (10 minutes is recommended)

Some people add sugar and / or some herbs (such as mint, for example) Some replace the water with milk, especially for children.

Straightens out the light bulb leaving it upright and add the hot water in the hole is not allowing water to exceed the existing hole.

You drink and caters to mate again with hot water many times until the liquid comes out with almost no flavor.

Then, remove the bulb and is positioned scratched the edge of a new hollow given that it has been used 1 / 4 mate, this procedure is known as "give back" to mate.

Procedures that could be done up to 4 times, although there are expert finishers who "give back" the "Kill" up to 8 times.

A typical Mate can contain about 50 grams of tea - mate.

The caffeine content of the grass - mate is about 1 - 1. 5%, in the weight you can expect about 500 - 750 mg of caffeine in a Mate.

Repeating the extraction of the hot water appears to be an efficient way to extract caffeine, so you get the same amount of caffeine in each "cebadura" of Matt.

Vazques and Molina reported 0. 56% of caffeine, theobromine and 0. 03% from 0. 02% of theophylline (HPLC is extracted simultaneously to drink Mate)

In comparison, about 7 ounces (coffee cup) contains about 80 - 175 mg. depending on the method you use to prepare) and a cup of tea about 40 - 60 mg. See Frequently Asked Questions about coffee and caffeine)

The drink Mate is a habit and many social drinkers generally share the same Mate with other people, you can finally get a lower dose of caffeine.

Interesting is that despite the tremendous popularity of the drink Mate (in countries where it is consumed) Mate is impossible to obtain in any bar, restaurant or other places where tea and coffee are served.

Finally, you can prepare an infusion of Mate in the same manner as an infusion of tea and in this case it is called Mate cooked.

Apparently the first - consuming yerba mate (the natives in the region where it is grown) mascaban more tender leaves.

Yerba Mate.

THE MURDER OF MATE.

A TYPE OF PRIVACY.

The Mate is more than just good for the body, is good for the spirit.

Drink it can be a form of meditation or reflection, letting his goodness enter the body while stimulating and resting the mind.

But this quality does not always happen alone.

In the traditional use of Mate, mate is often shared with friends and family, using the same bulb.

Reminiscent of a kind of intimacy that writes Robert Heinlein in "Stranger in a strange land" where the characters are "brothers in the water" or "sisters of water" when taken from the same cup one after the other, those who have Matt shared the kind of forming a bond of health and meditation of the Yerba Mate, in a sign of acceptance and friendship.

In Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil, gauchos or fellow farmers, united in the taming of a wilderness, they share the Mate around the fire enlarging their companionship.

Montevideo is common to find a loving family group or two, or two or three close friends sharing the Mate, an outlet to a park or the beach.

In all these places, where an individual or group finally offers to include it in its Mateada, be taken as the highest honor and should be accepted with appreciation.

To avoid offending the offering, there are a few rules that you. should continue as part of co - Mate.

In a traditional Mateada, there is a person who is the primer and serves the mate on a group of friends, this person is usually the anfritión.

Outdoors or at home, Responsibility Mateada can switch from one to another.

Generally the primer and Matt begins a new taking the first.

He or she drink the mate until there is no water and feel the air passing through the bulb.

Once done, the primer will fill the mate again with hot water and what will happen the next mater, who will also take up the matte finish the water and I went back to the primer.

The mate will be primed again and moved to another mater, who will do the same.

This process will continue, passing around the circle many times, until there is no taste in the mate.

Some are concerned that the share is well insanitario.

Probably it is, but no more than kissing.

It is precisely this that makes the sharing Mate an event of intense friendship.

You. not share it with casual friends.

You. share it with you to share your soul.

The friendship of Matt is the best friend you may have.

Yerba Mate.

RULES FOR SHARING THE MATE.

Request 1. No sugar.

Many people are accustomed to using sugar in your coffee or tea, and it is perfectly proper to ask for it.

Many people also took Mate with sugar.

But when you. is invited to a Mateada you. can commit the greatest imaginable sacrilege to ask for sugar.

2. No say that the Mate is unhygienic.

You. may think that it is unhygienic to put your mouth where others put theirs.

Of course he is, but that is precisely the experience of an intimate Mateada.

The offer of sharing something so intimate is the highest honor. If you. does not want to be as intimate with someone, do not share the Mate with them.

If you want to share a mateada then, to say nothing about hygiene.

3. Do not say that the material is too hot.

If everyone else is happy with the temperature Mate, it was considered bad manners to ask what the cool or wait until it cools.

4. No Mate to leave the half to take.

Despite the similar between Mate and the pipe of peace, there are some basic differences.

While everyone takes a hit from the pipe and passes, never do that with a mate.

You. must take all the water until you hear the sound that indicates that the mate is empty.

See the following rule.

5. No feel ashamed of noise at the end.

If, after sucking you. listen mate "snoring" will not feel embarrassed. It's normal, no one is going to look like a churlish. Is what you should do.

6. No stir mate.

The mate can hide from time to time by himself, or by the Yerba prepared by the Mate.

If it happens, you. has every right to complain.

But please do not stir the mate.

Talk to who offered him the Mate, or that happened to you mate.

But do not stir the mate, do not stir the mate and, above all, do not touch the bulb with your fingers.

7. No change the order.

A mateada turned the clock.

The mate goes hand in hand always in the same order.

If you. is being used to roll mate primer.

If there are people fattened with its own water, which happens in some places, always pass the next person, without changing the order.

8. No delayed the pace.

Take a Mate only is a great way to think about things in her life.

You. you take it slowly, thinking about anything that happens in the mind.

Drinking Mate in a Mateada is completely different.

The essence is not meditation but integration.

In a Mateada you. talk, discuss, laugh, curse you. is part of the community is a brotherhood.

Do not forget to suck the rest of the people are waiting.

9. No order the primer for taking the first mate.

If you. said the primer is bad because he or she prepares the Mate and takes the first mate, well, you. is churlish.

Suck the stronger the first, and whoever takes makes it a favor to the group.

10. Do not say thank you ahead of time.

It was only when one says thank you no longer want to continue Mateando.

Yerba Mate.

The ancient drink of health and friendship.

Contents of Vitamins in the Yerba Mate (100 gr.

Min Quantity maxima Amount Amount Average.

Carofina (mgs) 0, 639 2, 267 1, 234.

Carofina (IU vitamin A) 1, 065 3, 779 2, 095.

Thiamin (gamma) 62, 300 313, 100 222, 700.

Riboflavin 246, 000 573, 900 404, 300.

Ascorbic acid 8, 200 20, 700 11, 900.

Composition promedial of yerba mate (100 gr.

Minimal Amount Amount Amount Average maxima.

Humidity 5. 36 9. 80 8. 17.

Protein 8. 30 13. 45 10. 89.

Carbohydrates 9. 70 14. 18 12. 04.

Starch 2. 56 6. 63 4. 55.

Glucose 1. 30 6. 14 3. 84.

Fibers 14. 96 19. 95 16. 96.

Mineral composition of the yerba mate (100 gr.

Minimal Quantity Maximum Amount Amount Average.

Ash 6, 310 7, 780 6, 910.

Chlorine (g) 0, 082 0, 160 0, 116.

Sulfur 0, 082 0, 168 0, 125.

Phosphorus (g) 0, 074 0, 214 0, 120.

Calcium 0, 597 0, 824 0, 668.

Magnesium 0, 134 0, 484 0, 337.

Potassium (g) 1, 181 1, 554 1, 350.

Sodium (g) 0, 000 0, 003 0, 002.

Iron (mg) % - 94, 000 59, 900.

Copper (mg) 0, 600 1, 600 1, 260.

Manganese (mgs) 30, 200 183, 000 133, 180.

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