Primarily, Yerba Mate serves as a great substitute for coffee by providing great levels of energy without causing the usual jitteriness and thus reducing the amount coffee you are used to drinking. It helps to keep you alert and suppresses your appetite yet provides your body with all the nutrients needed to sustain life including 24 vitamins and minerals and 15 amino acids. If that is not enough for you, here are just a few of the documented health benefits of Yerba-Mate Tea:
- Great Diet Aid
- Increases Focus
- Increases Strength
- Energy, and Endurance
- Reduces Blood Pressure
- Reduces Cholesterol
- Reduces Fatigue
- Contains Antioxidants
- Contains 15 Amino Acids
- Contains 24 Vitamins and Minerals
- Strengthens the Immune System
- Best natural remedy for constipation by softening the faecal mass
- Increases Creativity
- Rejuvenates
- Breaks Down Fat (Lipolytic)
- Balances Sleep Patterns
- Increases Libido
- Delivers Oxygen to the Heart and Lungs During Exercise
- Diuretic
- Is a Whole Body Tonic.
Yerba Mate, an invigorator of the mind and body, a natural source of nutrition, and a health promoter par excellence, deserves the attention of every person interested in optimum health. Mate tea was introduced to colonizing and modern civilizations by the primitive Guarani Indians of Paraguay and Argentina and has seemingly always been the most common ingredient in household cures of the Guarani. In modern Argentina and Paraguay, however, Mate tea has become almost pathologically ritualized in a manner reminiscent of coffee and tea abuse in Western and Eastern countries. Among the native Guarani, on the other hand, the natural use of Mate for healthful purposes has persisted. They use it to
- boost immunity
- cleanse and detoxify the blood
- tone the nervous system
- restore youthful hair color
- retard aging
- combat fatigue
- stimulate the mind
- control the appetite
- reduce the effects of debilitating disease
- reduce stress
- and eliminate insomnia.
Mate (flex paraguariensis) is an evergreen member of the holly family. It grows wild in Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Brazil, but is most abundant in Paraguay where it is also cultivated.