Article: Coffee: food or drug? (Column)

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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