WHY TEA RELIEVES WORRY.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXVI, Issue 46, 19 November 1909, Page 7

WHY TEA RELIEVES WORRY.

A FAMOUS DOCTOR'S DICTUM. The refreshing and reedperative influence of tea on mind and body is known to everyone ; though probably the reason why it so operates is not fullv understood by one person in a Hundred! Dr. S. W. Saleeby, M.D., ¥. R.S., Edin., takes the opportunity in his recently-published book, "Worry, the Disease of the Age." to -furnish the, reason, and his exposition should prove interesting to all who love "the cup that cheers."

The principal constituent of tea, it seems is caffeine. According to Dr. Saleeby, caffeine "favours the life of the body, promotes the processes of combustion on which life depends, increases vitality, and that power to work which is the expression of vitality. And so it is that a cup of tea is* refreshing, producing renewed Vigour, and heightening the organic sense of well-being and the consciousness of fitness and capacity. This action is utterly distinct from that of alcohol or opium in deadening the sense of illbeing;. Tea antagonises the sense of ill-being not by deadening ones consciousness of 'it, but by the positive substitution for it of that sense of well-being which is the index of vitality. It relieves' worry not by a temporary and actually nutritive and fostering submergence of ft, but by attacking its causes. And it riiffers fundamentally from all the sedatives in that it itoes not produce n need for a continuous increase of-the dose.' But while oommendiwr tea so highly, Dr. Saleeby warns his readers against two co-nmon practices of teadrinkers. First is the mistake of infusing tea too long. An infusion which lasts only a few minutes is quite sufficient to extract the cafielne with its good qualities, and it is not sufficient to release the tannin with itsi bad qualities. The use of tea is the second way in which harm can be done by the beverage. Too muteh stress cannot be laid on the necessity for getting tea which is guaranteed pure. - "Tiger" Tea is guaranteed free from admixture of anv kind, and is composed solely of the choicest growths of lea leaves. Of all teas sold in the Dominion indisputably none is more rich, than Tiger Tea in the healthful properties which go to relieve what Dr, Saleeby calls :-'.'Th« Disease of the Age-Worry,"-