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Article: Coffee: food or drug? (Column)
- Article from:
- Tea & Coffee Trade Journal
- Article date:
- August 1, 1992
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1992 Lockwood Trade Journal Co., Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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During mankind's association with the human diet, coffee has served in many capacities as it alternated between beverage, food and medication. During this millennium, coffee has been used by physicians for practically every disease known, in most cases with mild benefit, although it seldom cured. Its gentle stimulant action on respiration, digestion, respiration, urination, cerebration and other human physiological processes often gave signal relief in cases when ailments occurred here. Even today a cup of coffee with or without an aspirin, Advil or Tylenol will often dismiss a mild headache.
But to get back to medieval days, ill individuals, as their health ...
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