SOUTH AMERICAN PLANT WHOSE LEAVES CURE FATIGUE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 201, 12 December 1876, Page 4

SOUTH AMERICAN PLANT WHOSE LEAVES CURE FATIGUE.

The plant from which the cttea leaves are obtained (says the British Medical Jewrnal) thrives best in the elevated forests of the Andes. In time it is covered with delicate white tlowers, which are succeeded by red berries. The leaves can be stripped from the plant three 'imea a year, and are at once thoroughly dried. When the packages of cttea are opened they omit a powerful tealifce od«>ar. Mr. Christison has tried the effects of the leaves open himself. He has taken Ion? and fatiguing walks, living at the same time after his osttal manner; then he has repeated the walks for even greater distances, and when overcome with fatigue, at some resting-place, he has chewed thoroughly and swallowed eighty grains of cuca. No real effects were observed until he wvat oat of doors and resworn! his rapid waiting ; then alt sense of weariness disappeared, and he could walk not only ■with ease', btrt elasticity. At the end of the walk the pulse was ninety, and in two Jwors feß to seventy-two. At dinnertime there was neither feeling of hunger or thirst after abstaining froin food for nine hoars, bat upon dinner appearing ample justice was done to the meal. No unpleasant effects were felt the next day. Mr. DowdeaweU, in on article in the Zancat for April 29, 1876, has the same *o the great and wonderful power once gained by its use.

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