Yerba mate

Plant Medicine, Excitantia, Caffeine plant

Yerba mate

Ilex paraguariensis

Yerba mate is the dried leaf of an Ilex (holly) species cultivated in southern South America — Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, southern Brazil. The Guaraní called it ka'a ("the herb"). Traditional preparation as a shared communal drink, passed person to person from the same gourd.

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See also

Black Drink, Coffee, Guarana

References

Pharmacy

Preparations

Dried leaves and twigs, infused in a gourd (mate) and drunk through a metal straw (bombilla)

Common uses

Classification(s)

Classes

Plant Medicine, Excitantia, Caffeine plant

Pharmacology

Routes

Oral

Purported mechanism

Caffeine (sometimes called 'mateine' historically, though chemically identical), theobromine, theophylline, plus polyphenols.