Three plants that stimulate the world, legendary origins

In Science Daily Online we talk to you once about cocoa, the gift of the gods.On this occasion we present three super stimulating and wonderful plants that soak our day to day life.Do you try them with us?

Coffee in sips

The legendary history of coffee begins around the ninth century, with two stories: the first is the pastor of a the ancient Abyssinia, current Ethiopia, that discovered the effects of the plant when it saw what the consumption of its fruits did in its goats .It is the best known, it may be an apocryphal story, as it was first published in 1671.

Another legend involves a mystic sufi yemeni , who traveling through Ethiopia observed some birds that behaves Open very vitally, this led him to taste the berries they were eating and that gave him great energy .Everything points to the domestication and consumption of the fruits of this shrub being made in Yemen or Ethiopia, and already in the fifteenth century it was consumed in suffering monasteries in Yemen.

From meditation to the imperial dream: the tea

Around the tea there are also two legends that involve figures of greater rank: a Hindu prince and a Chinese emperor .The prince is in a story from India, and tells that Siddharta, the future Buddha, was meditating under a Bodhi tree, and considering the sufferings that surround the lives of human beings I drop a tear, and in the place where this fell a tea plant.

Three plants that stimulate the world, legendary origins

The Chinese fable develops five thousand years ago (2737 BC) and deals with the emperor Sheng Nung , who fell asleep in the shade of a bush while boiling water in a bowl, which dropped some leaves .The emperor tasted the drink and liked it.

A drink from the gods: cocoa

Two myths, two gods, two cultures: the invention of this wonderful American plant is attributed by the Maya to Kukulkan, who gave the fruit to humans shortly after being created from another extraordinary plant, the corn.

Three plants that stimulate the world, legendary origins

For the Aztecs instead it was Quetzaltcoatl, “ the feathered serpent ”, who gave the first cocoa plant to humans, and with which it was prepared the first xocolatl.

Afr ica, Asia and America united by three plants that in addition to their divine origins have something else in common: the caffeine.

Images: Nick Lee, Amanda, John Tann, USAID's Development Credit Authority

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