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Coffee, Coffea arabica

Common name

caffea

Where it's found

native to a province of Abyssinia and cultivated throughout the Tropics.

Which parts are used?

the seeds and the leaves

What it does

Coffee is commonly used as a drink, but it can also be applied as a medicine. It is a brain stimulant, causing sleeplessness and therefor is useful in cases of narcotic poisoning. (For this reason, incidentally, it is very good for snake bites, because it stops people falling into a coma.) Caffeine can be valuable for heart disease and fluid retention. As a powerful diuretic, it can help ease goat, rheumatism, gravel (crystals that form in the urinary tract) and dropsy.

How it's taken

beverage, caffeine preperation