Talk:Tea

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Tea is an aromatic beverage commonly prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured leaves of the Camellia sinensis, an evergreen shrub native to Asia.

Chemistry

Tea contain both theanine and caffeine.

Society and culture

Entheogen

Tea ceremonies has been ritualized for centuries. Also, tea is an entheogen that have been drunk by Buddhist monks since the Sui Dynasty (589–618 BC) to maintain a state of “mindful alertness” during long periods of meditation.[1]

Tea cermony

A tea ceremony is a ritualized form of making tea practiced in Asian culture by the Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Indian, and Vietnamese.

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