GRASS KILLS ((ilex paraguariensis))

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	GRASS KILLS
	*(ilex paraguariensis)*

Name
GRASS KILLS

Scientific Name
(ilex paraguariensis)

GRASS KILLS

English: Tea Paraguayan.

French: I killed

Of the family of the Aquifoliáceas

He is stimulating of the central, diurética and antirheumatic system nervous. Seizure habitually, aid to fight against the obesity.

Grass Kills

What is?

Kill is a drink like the tea consumed mainly in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and the south of Brazil.

One prepares with the dry leaves and palitos of the tree Ilex Paraguarensis (Grass Kills).

The name "Mate" "mati" derives from the word quechua; that it names the pumpkin (Lagenaria vulgaris) that traditionally is used to take it kills.

The scientific name Ilex Paraguarensis fué given by the naturalist and French botanist Auguste of Saint Hilaire in 1822, the tree belongs to the Aquifoliaceae family and grows between the parallels 10o? and 30o (South) in the river basin of the rivers Parana and Paraguay.Es a typical plant of the regions of the Parana Stop, Uruguay Stop and the Argentine Northeast. It is a tropical and subtropical plant, needing high temperatures, discharge humidity and up to 1500 mm of annual rain.

In average, 300,000 tons of Kill are produced every year.

Naturally the plant needs near 25 years to grow completely, reaching in that case a height of 15 meters.

The forms of the leaves alternate between, cuneiforms, elliptical and made oval, with edges slightly dentellados.

It blooms between the months of October and December.

The flowers are small, polígamas and dioicous, with calix and corolls in disposition tetrameric.

The fruit remembers the black pepper.

Between many varieties, there are three that are most important:

"angustifolia", "longifolia"y "latifolia"

Mate tastes characteristic mature that is a little sweet, bitter, like withered leaf, and like alfalfa, seemed to the tea (Camellia sinensis) [ 1 ]. Of 196 composed chemical volatiles found in the Grass It kills, 144 also are in the tea.

The infusion of Ilex paraguarensis is less astringent than the infusion done of tea.

It is used by the popular medicine and employee in commercial herbáreas preparations like stimulating of the central nervous system, like diurético and anti reúmatico.

Some guaraníes words related to Mate:

Barbacuá: of mbarambacuá = ma (hair) + ra (euphonic) + mbacuá (toasted thing)

Caä: Grass Kills.

Caá-guará: Taker of Kills.

Caá-i-guá: Pumpkin kills literally (: container of the liquid of the grass kills)

Caá-u-ei: Thirst of Kills.

Mboroviré: Grass Kills "canchada" slightly; (dissected and broken)

Sapeca, sambeca or sapeá: pocá, peá or mbecá (to open) + za or sá (eye) = to open to the globules or vesicles of the Grass Kill by the heating process.

Ticuá cá ay: to "cebar the Mate" (literally: to throw water in the hole)

Classification:

Category: Anthophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Subclass: Rosidae

Order: Celastrales

Family: Aquifoliaceae

References:

1.Kawakami, M. and Kobayashi, A.; Volatile Constituents of Green Mate and Roasted Mate, J.Agric.Food Chem. 39, 1275 (1991)

2.Gosmann, G., Schenkel, E.P. and Seligmann, Or; To New Saponin from Mate, Ilex Paraguarensis, J.Nat.Prod. 52(6), 1367 (1989)

3.Vazques, To and Moyna, P.; Studies on Mate Drinking, J. Ethnopharmacology 18, 267 (1986)

Grass Kills

Benefits for the Health.

By a Health better

By Daniel Mowrey, Ph.D.

Grass Kills, or Kills like usually is called, is a South American grass that has won admiring in great parts of the world.

In the stimulating search of a natural one without indirect effect, nor toxic, Mate is at the moment our better hope.

Power of mind and a body, natural source of nutrition, and a health promoter par excellence, Mate deserves the attention of each person interested in the optimal health. The Grass Kills fué introduced to the colonos and modern civilizations by the primitive Guaraníes Indians of Paraguay and Argentina.

It has been always the ingredient commonest to cure in the homes of the Guaraníes.

Nowadays in Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay, the tea of Kills has become almost pathologically a ritual in the same way that the coffee or the tea is in Eastern and western countries.

Between native the Guaraníes, the natural use of Mate for medicinal uses has persisted.

They used to increase it the immunization, cleaning and destocifincante of the blood, to intone the nervous system, to recover the youthful color of the hair, to slow down the oldness, to fight the fatigue, to stimulate the mind, to control the appetite, reduces the debilitating effect of the diseases, reduces stress and ilimina the insomnia.

Kill (flex paraguariensis) is a tree peregne, member of the family of the holly.

It grows wild in Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Brazil, but he is more abundant in Paraguay where also it is cultivated.

The plant is classified vaguely, according to the western herbal medicine, like aromatic, stimulating, bitter, laxative, astringent, laxative diurético, sudorifíco (induces to sweat), and reducer of the fever.

Mate contains numerous vitamins and minerals.

It has the usual resin collection, fiber, volatile oil, tannins that characterize to many of these plants of the same escencia.

It contains, also, carotín; vitamins To, C, and, B-1, B-2, and B-compound, riboflavin, pantoténico nicotínico acid, acido, biotín, magnesium, calcium, iron, sodium, patasio, manganese, silicone, phosphate, sulfide, hidroclórico acid, chlorophyll, choline and inositol.

In 1964 a group of investigators of the Pasteur Institute and the Scientific Society of Paris, concluded that Mate practicamente contains all vitamins necessary to live.

In addition to the regular nutrients, It kills contains substances that belong to the specialized class of chemical components called xanthines.

Although only small amounts of these substances concur in Mate, their presence has generated an enormous attention.

First xanthine in the Grass Kills is called Mateine.

The substance probably constribuye little, without in something, the total activity of the plant, but has attracted an out of proportion speculative attention.

Some xanthines obvious less are wished, like caffein.

Others, as theophylline and theobromine has a specialized action and a group characteristic of indirect effect.

. Although xanthines has similar chemistries, each one has a unique group of properties.

Investigators in the Free Institute of Hygienic of Hamburg, Germany, concluded that although there is caffein in Mate, the amount is so small that he would be needed 100 bags tea of Kills in a cup of 6 ounces of water to equal to 6 ounces of regular coffee.

Consequently, the active principle of the Grass Kills is not caffein.

There is only an effect that seemed to be shared by all xanthines:

Smooth relaxation of muscles.

It is the action which it makes (with the exception of caffein, where the smooth relaxation of muscles is desminuídos by other effects) good clinical dilatador of bronquío and positive in the treatment of the asthma.

Mateine appears, then, it has the best conbinación of the properties of xanthine possible.

For example, as others xanthines stimulates the center of the nervous system, but on the contrary that the majority, does not accustom or adds.

Also unlike caffein, it induces to improve and not to make worse the dream.

It is a smooth diurético, as they are many xanthines.

It relaxes the peripheral glasses of the blood, thus lowering the pressure in the blood, without the strong effects in medula oblongata (fuinal part of the brain that it connects with the spine) and the heart exhibited by alunos xanthines.

Also we know that it improves the perfomancia of the psycomotor without the typical one xanthine-induced depressing effect.

Dr Jose Martín. Director of the National Institute of Technology in Paraguay, writes, "Nuevas invistigaciones and better technology has shown than while Mateine has a constituent chemistry similar to caffein, the molecular set is different.

Mateine not tine none of the negative effects of cafeína".

And Horacio Conesa, professor of the Medicine Faculty of the University of Buenos Aires, says, "No is one sóla contradición" to ingest It kills.

Clinical studies show, that until sensible individuals to caffein can ingest Kills without adverse reactions.

Gastrointestinales Properties

Perhaps the area with more benefitting by Mate is the gastrointestinal route.

Reported effects vary from the immediate in the digestion to the ability to repair to the damaged weaves and ill improvement gastrointestinales.

Severe or chronic Constipación, can facilmente be fixed with the use of Mate.

Mate pretends to work mainly by the relaxation of the fecal mass, but also it pretends to stimulate the nomal movement of the internal in some degree.

EFFECTS IN THE NERVOUS SYSTEM

Better than any other xanthine alkaloid, Mate tien the ability to increase to the vividness and the mental rapidity and making it without no indirect effect like nervousness and chills.

It seems that it acted like a tonic, stimulating a weak one and depressed nervous system and sedando to one sobrexcitado one.

Our knowledge of the effects of Mate at the moment is limited observations in the change in the way to act like more energy and vitality, better ability to concentrate itself, less nervousness, agitation and anxiety, and an increase of the physical and mental fatigue strenght.

It improves humor, specially in cases of depression, that quite often it happens after taking tea.

This it can be a direct or indirect result of the increase of energy.

One of the remarcables aspects of Mate is that it does not interfere with cycles to sleep; at the moment, it has a tendency to balance the cycles, inducing to a dream with a faster movement of the eye (REM) when it is necessary or increasing to the time in state delta (deep dream).

CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECTS

All type of diseases of the heart has been treated and come up with the use with the Grass It kills.

The Grass Kills presents/displays many of the nutrients required by the heart to grow and to repair itself.

In addition, it increases the provision of oxygen to the heart, specially in periods of stress or exercise.

Mate has become a favorite of the physical-culturistas and all that interested in the exercise for the benefit of the health.

The metabolic effects of glycolysis kills seem to include the ability to maintain aerobic (the destruction of carbohydrates) during exercises of longer periods of time.

This is in burning more calories, increasing the efficiency cardiac, and delaying anaerobic glycolysis and being in growth of acid latic during the exercise.

EFFECTS IN THE IMMUNOLOGICAL SYSTEM

A consistent observation in Literature in Sud America on Mate is that it increases the immune response of the body, stimulating natural resistance to the disease.

This is in the nutritious and fortalecente effect in the ill person, during the course of the disease and the convalescencia, some times accelerating dramatically the time of improvement.

The exact mechanism of the action of Mate has not been solved, but con surrounds a direct action organimos infectious, and an effect coverall to the resistance to the disease.

The nutritious content of the plant probably plays a greater role here, but it is also probable that other components contribute to the action stimulating the activity of celulas white in the blood.

NUTRITIOUS PROPERTIES

The interaction of the many nutrients in Mate never systematically has been studied.

But the stories around the nutricional application of the tea Kill are nothing less than incredible.

Mate is used amenudo like food of first necessity, sustituyéndo to sometimes important foods like the bread and the vegetables.

It eliminates the hunger sensation easily and can grant as much vigor as a complete food, in agreement with known the herbalistas Chileans J.Zin and R.Weiss.

Workers of the Body of Peace have reported cases in which great groups of native mantinen in good health per extended periods of drought and hunger, when they ate only one small food per day.

How? Drinking great amounts of tea of Grass It kills.

Some native ones pass their whole life in that type of diet and live until ages outposts, sometimes exceeding the 100 years.

The South American governments have adopted the practice to animate to the mothers, specially in the poorest regions, to include Grass Kills in the diet of their children in scholastic age.

Grass Kills

Chemical characteristics and therapeutic Properties.

From a chemical point of view, Ilex paraguariensis (Grass Kills) can be evaluated under its chemical aspect or like raw material for several products.

Long before which its chemical composition was recognized, the natives used the grass not only kills by their flavor, but also and mainly because they recognized his virtues, as far as the increase of the resistance in cansansio and its powers to reduce to the thirst and the hunger.

Studies show that the Grass Kills has the following components:

water, cellulose, chicle, dextrin, mucilago, aromatic glucose, pentosa, fat, resins, albumina, xanthina, teophyllina, caffein, fólico acid, acid cafeico, viridico acid, clorophila, essential colesterina and oils.

The ashes contain enormous amounts of potassium, citric lithium, sulfides, coal, acids, ademas of magnesium signs, manganese, iron, aluminum, and arsenic.

Xanthin, Teophyllina and Teobromine are three related alkaloides that are in the grass kills and are the interesting elements but from a therapeutic point of view. The level of xantine of the grass kills is 1,60 % average and 1,10% in infusions.

Terapeuticas Properties

The grass kills is basicamente a stimulating drink, eliminates the fatigue, stimulating the mental and physical activity.

It has a beneficial effect in nerves and muscles and also it increases the work intellectual.

Like result of the stimulating central effects of xanthin along with the activation of reserve elements, the cardiovascular activity fortaleze the organism.

The xanthin has a well-known affluent effect in the Central Nervous System, that stimulates the mental energy.

Thanks to their vitamin complex B, the grass kill collaborates with the entrance of azucar in muscles and nerves and with the cerebral activity of the human being; vitamins C and E actuan like organic defense and in fibers of the organism; the mineral salts, along with the xanthin, help the cardiovascular work and the circulation of the blood when lowering the pressure, already the xanthin acts like a vasodilator.

In such circumstances, the hunger can feel satisfied.

The grass kills increases the diuresis and is very useful for problems of vejiga.

The grass also kills acts on the alimentary canal activating the peristálticos movements; fascilita the digestion, helps with gastric problems and increases to the evacuation and urinación.

The stimulating action of the grass kills is but long that the one of the coffee and does not have the other effects like insomnia and irritability.

Investigations done in the Pasteur Institute of Paris show that the grass kills has a very important paper in the process of regeneration of celulas.

Grass Kills

Legend of the Guaraníes Indians

There is an old legend of the guaraníes Indians that counts the origins of its town in the Paraguayan forest.

According to the legend, the ancestros of the guaraníes had long ago crossed the huge and ample ocean from distant earth to settle down in America.

There they found a simultaneously beautiful and full land of dangers. With diligence and effort they could win to the Earth and establish a new civilization.

The guaraníes tribes worked the Earth and they became excellent craftsmen.

They hoped anxiously lavenida of the God Pa'i Shume, stop, of clear skin, blue eyes and beard, that according to the legend descended from skies and approved of the guaraníes with pleasing.

It brought certain the religious knowledge to them and he taught práctias to them of agriculture that would be to them beneficial in the days of drought and pestilencia as much as in the daily task.

Very significantly, it discovered the secrets of the medicine and the health and revealed the qualities of the native plants.

One of the most important secrets was how to cultivate and to prepare the leaves of the tree of the Grass It kills. The intention of the drink of kills was to assure the health, vitality and longevity.

It happened thus:

the tribe cleared a part of the forest, planted mandioca and maiz, but after four or five years the ground was spent and the tribe had to change itself to another place.

Tired of as much change, an old Indian refused to go away and preferred to remain where he was. The minor of his daughters, the beautiful Jary, had the divided heart:

or it followed with the young people of the tribe, or it remained isolated, helping the old one until the death took it to La Paz of Ivy-Marae's. In spite of the requests of its friends, it finished remaining with its father.

This gesture of love deserved a prize.

A day, they shaman stranger arrived at the farm and it asked to him Jary what would make it happy.

The girl did not request anything. But the old one requested: "Quiero new forces to follow and to take to Jary to the tribe whom alejó".

They shaman gave a green plant him, perfumed of kindness, and it said to him that it planted it, that harvested its leaves, dried them to the fire, it crushed them, it put the pieces in a calabacita, it threw cold water to him or it warms up, and it absorbed the infusion. they "En this new drink, will find a companion saludabe, still in the sad hours of the solitude more cruel."

It said to this and fué.

Thus creción was born and "caá-mini", which caá-y left the drink that the targets adopted later with the name of Chimarrao in Brazil, and Grass Kills in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay.

With drinking the green wise person, the old one replenished, received new forces and fué able to continue the long way until being with its people.

They were received with the great rejoicing.

And all the tribe adopted the habit to take the green, bitter and sweet grass, that gives to forces and anger, and that comforts the friendships in the sad hours of greater solitude.

It kills one became the component commonest of the homemade cures of the guaraníes, and continues being it nowadays.

The present practice in modern Argentina and Paraguay, kills is done sumirgiendo the hot water leaves.

In fact, a great amount of crushed leaves is soaked first in cold water, and soon hot water is added to them, time and time again, until all the good one has been extracted.

Whenever hot water lies down to him, the tea is ingested through pitillo special of wood or metal, call light bulb, that does not let pass the leaves. Also cold is taken.

Grass Kills

Legend on the origins of the Grass Kills.

Long time did that Yasí, the moon, watched desire and curiosity flood from its dark sky the deep forests whereupon Tupá, the powerful God of the guaraníes, had covered the Earth.

The clear eyes of Yasí crossed the fine and smooth grass of slopes, the high trees that extended their shades at night luciente, the sparkling water rivers, and its desire to lower until the forest was become more and more ardent.

Then Yasí called to Arai, the pink cloud of the twilight, and it said to him:

- You want to lower with me to the Earth?

Arai, the sweet companion of the goddess, remained astonished of the strange desire of Yasí.

But this one followed urgent:

- Yes. They see with me, Arai.

Tomorrow in the evening we will leave the sky blue and we will put by the forest, between the high trees.

- But all will know what we have done; when arriving the night they will notice your absence.

Yasí smiled while their eyes shone mockingly.

- Only the clouds, your sisters, will know it. I will call them, I will request to them that they come quick and tight.

They will cover all the sky and nobody will know our adventure.

The words of Yasí convinced to the pink cloud, and to the dusk of following day, two beautiful doncellas took a walk by the solitary forest, while black and dense clouds threatened the Earth their stormy aspect.

Yasí watched excited the trees, that offered their olorosos fruits; the whispering branches, moved by the wind; the green one of the leaves, almost white when she approached.

Yasí felt under its naked feet the humid smoothness of the grass, and vió its beautiful reflected lunar face in deep waters of the rivers.

Yasí and Arai were happy in their excursion through the forest; but their bodies were gotten tired.

They walked at night dark leaving to its step a light shade.

The distant spot, in a clear one of the forest, they saw a ruinous cabin, and towards her they were directed to look for a little rest, then, although they were goddesses in its celestial dwelling, felt the fatigue under the form of doncellas.

Suddenly, his sharpened ears they felt slight the chasquido one of a small branch when becoming broken.

Yasí returned its radiating face towards that place, and its light illuminated a tiger, yaguareté that was rushed simultaneously on them who were dazzled by the sudden luminosity. The two doncellas did not have time to lose their corpórea form, but if to be made quickly towards a side, while the tiger failed in its attack.

Later they saw like a man, of age outpost, but with instinct and experience of hunter, it came in its aid and it fought with yaguareté.

The forest wanted to offer to the two goddesses a last and singular adventure.

That man knew simultaneously to avoid skilfully his body of the claws of the tiger that sank its knife repeatedly to him: nevertheless, it did not seem for that reason to take advantage on the animal.

With a not at all common effort it was sent for the last time on yaguareté; the leaf of the knife shone a little while in the air and fell heavy on the head of the tiger, that was separated of the body.

The old Indian had lived rejuvenated during the last minutes that the fight lasted; it seemed as if all the vigor of its youth had returned to its powerful arm; but, as soon as the tiger was dead, its arms hung heavy throughout the body, although the hand continued holding with force the covered with blood knife.

Later, with the still jadeante breathing, their eyes looked for the two girls.

- No longer you must why fear - it said to them -.

Now I request to you, beautiful young people who you accept the hospitality that I can ofreceros in my cabin.

Yasí and its companion simultaneously accepted gustosas the invitation that praised the value and the skill that the old Indian had demonstrated in the fight. Later they were after him and they entered the hut.

- Sentáos on those mats while warning to my woman and my daughter so that the duties of the hospitality come to ofreceros - the old one said.

And it disappeared of that place, while the two young people watched floods of astonishment without daring to say nor a word.

To his around everything was ruinous and miserable, and, if already the attention had called them that a single man lived in those solitudes, its astonishment raised when finding out that two women lived next to him.

Its adventure by the Earth was acquiring a series of unsuspected shades.

But it did not give time them to digress, because the two announced women, full of afectuosidad, entered where they were.

- We come to ofreceros our poverty said the woman of the old Indian.

But Yasí and Arai hardly if they realized of which said to them, because they had been astonished by the hermosura of the young person, who, Ilena of a timid one I hide, was before them.

- you do not have esforzaros - Yasí said, finally, leaving its astonishment - we will thank for any thing to You that you prune to offer to us, because we have walked by the forest from the dusk and more are tired than hungry.

The young person hurried then to bring maize cakes that, kept on the embers from the fire, had conserved their tepidity and softness.

But what the two goddesses did not know at that moment, since under human form there were lost some of his divine powers, was that those flavorful cakes were done with the only maiz that was in the cabin.

During a good short while the old marriage and beautiful doncella tried to make the stay pleasing of the goddesses; but Yasí remained a little other people's to which they said.

It found so outside natural that the those three people lived there, remote thing of the other men and exposed to the dangers of the fierce ones, that it could not separate the idea that in all it there was some mystery.

And, not being able more in its curiosity, I ask, finally, trying that their words did not let see their desire, but rather like who asks something at random:

- There is some other cabin near this one?

- Not - the old Indian answered -; we lived here completely isolated on the other men.

No, there is no next cabin.

- and you do not feel fear in these solitudes? - Yasí inquired again.

But the old one, knew to shut up what it interested to him and responded evasively:

- No, no, none. We have come here to live by our pleasure.

Later one rose, without certain ceremony in its gestures and did not say:

- it did not want to tire in who take refuges under our ceiling, because Tupá watches with displeasure to which it does not fulfill with dignity the hospitality with its resemblances.

Therefore, we will let to you rest what it is at night.

Tomorrow, if your desire is to leave these forests, I will accompany to you to where does not exist no danger.

And, once said this, it left followed its woman and her beautiful daughter.

When Yasí vió solo with Arai left its clear light again illuminated the stay, because since they found to the Indian in the forest it it had folded and grown dark on itself not to be discovered. Later it heard that Arai said to him:

- What we do now, Yasí? We return to our dwelling and we left these people create that our encounter has been a dream?

Yasí moved the head negatively.

- No, no, Arai. I am full of curiosity to know which is the reason that has made them retire to these solitudes and lock up with them that beautiful young person.

And, if we did not obtain that us they say it, our power is not sufficient to guess it.

Let us wait for manaña.

Arai did not finish feeling the curiosity of Yasí; but she was friend of the pale goddess, and acceded to his desire, although it did not please much to him to spend the night in the ruinous cabin.

The new light arrived, and with her Yasí announced to the old one that the moment had arrived for marching.

- We hoped - it said to him - that, as well as you have behaved with us so amiably, us acompañiéis, according to dijistéis, until edge of a forest.

But it was not necessary that the goddess remembered its promise to him, because the man was hospitable and truthful, and immediately made available of its desires.

The woman and the daughter left to dismiss the two adventurers doncellas; that, accompanied by the old one, they undertook the way.

Hardly they had separated from the clear one of the forest where it was the cabin, when Yasí, with all its cold cleverness, tried that its companion said to them what as much wished.

But the old one had intuído the desire of the young person, and, attributing it to own curiosity of woman, it was decided to satisfy it, and it said to him:

- Beautiful doncella, I see well that the alive distance has called you the attention in which with my woman and my daughter; but you do not think that there is in it no strange reason.

Yasí, that had begun to rejoice with the first words of the old one, felt the fear of which this one did not continue, when seeing that it made a pause in his begun story.

Then Arai, the pink cloud, made an attempt so that the desire of its friend was satisfied, and asked:

- and long ago that you live in the forest?

- If, already it does enough, and I cannot complain this solitude, because it has given the tranquillity me that I began to need when she lived between those on my tribe.

Then Indian old CL, already arranged to the secret, told to two jovenes the reason by which it had retired to live in 1a humble cabin where they had accompanied to him.

During its youthful life it had lived next to those on its tribe, a tribe like many that were in the proximities of the great rivers, dedicated to the hunting and the fight.

There it knew which fué its woman, and its joy did not have limits the day in which was born its daughter, a so full girl of hermosura, that it increased the joy natural of its parents.

But this joy fué trocando in preoccupation as the girl fué growing, because she was so innocent, so full of candor and so lack of malicía, that the father began to fear the day in which lost so beautiful attributes.

Little by little, the uneasiness, the restlessness and the fear invaded the spirit of the Indian until it determined to move away of the community in which it lived so that in the solitude her daughter could keep those virtues whereupon Tupá had enriched it.

- I left everything what it was not necessary me to live in the forest - said the old one - and, without saying to anybody towards where it went, I fled like a deer persecuted, towards the solitude. Since then alive there.

Only the affection which I have my daughter could make me commit this species of madness. But I am happy, alive calm.

The old one shut up and no of the two knew what to answer to him.

Then Yasí, seeing that it edge of a forest was close, requested to him that it left them, after promising to him that to anybody they would speak of his encounter.

The old Indian acceded, and, once Yasí and Arai were single, they lost its human forms and they ascended to skies.

They spent some days, in which the pale goddess could not forget the adventures mainly and the encounter that it had had in the forest, and, observing the old Indian from its celestial solitude, included/understood all the value of the hospitality that that one had offered to them in its cabin, because vió that the tortitas of maize, of which as much they pleased all those tribes, had disappeared of their food.

He was doubtless that those that was offered to them had been the last ones that they had.

Then, late, it returned to speak with Arai and it told him what it had observed.

- I create - the sonrosada cloud said - that we must award those people. What seems to you, Yasí?

- The same I have thought, and for that reason I have wanted to speak with you.

We could do, since the old one likes that by its daughter so, outside the common thing, that our prize fell on the young person.

- you have thought well, Yasí.

And like fué so hospitable, and you know that Tupá is glad of which the men are that way, we will also have to demonstrate it to it.

From that moment, the young goddesses dedicated themselves with eagerness to look for a suitable prize.

Finally, something truely original was happened to them and, with the greater secret, they were decided to put it in practice. For it, one night they instilled to the three beings of the cabin a deep dream, and, while they slept, Yasí in white form doncella was seeding, in the clear one of the forest that in front of the hut extended, a celestial seed.

Later it returned to its dwelling, and from the dark sky it strongly illuminated that place, simultaneously that Arai dropped smooth and sweetly a slight rain that soaked the Earth lovingly.

Manaña arrived, Yasí was hides under the radiating sun, but its work was concluída. Before the cabin slight trees had appeared, strangers, and their white and tightened flowers showed timid between green the dark of the leaves.

When víejo Indian woke up of its deep dream and left to go to the forest, it was astonished at the prodigy who before the door of his hut extended.

From her he was quiet and quiet wanting to include/understand what it had happened, but simultaneously with a buried fear of which their eyes and their mind were not faithful to the reality.

Finally, it called to its woman and to its daughter, and, when the three were extáticos watching what for them he was a prodigy, the other greater one happened before its eyes and it made them fall of knees on the humid earth.

The clouds, that desperdigadas vagaban by the luminous sky, were joined very tightly and they returned it dark, at the same time that a radiating form blanquísima and descended until them.

Yasí, under the figure of doncella that was well-known, smiled to them with fiadamente.

- you do not have any fear - it said to them -.

I am Yasí, the goddess that lives in the moon, and come to premiaros your kindness.

This new plant that you see is the grass kills, and from now on for always it will constitute for you and all the men of this region the symbol of the friendship.

And your daughter will live eternally, and she will never lose neither innocence nor the kindness of its heart.

She will be the owner of the grass.

Later, the goddess made raise them of the ground where they were made kneel, and I teach the way to them to toast and to take it kills.

They spent some years, and at the old marriage the hour arrived to him from the death. Later, when the daughter had fulfilled her duties ritual, it disappeared of the Earth.

And, since then usually it is let see of time in time between the Paraguayan yerbales as a beautiful and blond young person in whose eyes the innocence and the candor of their soul are reflected.

Grass Kills

LIKE USING IT.

The GRASS KILLS IS YOU, And CAN BE USED LIKE ANY TYPE YOU.

The COMMON MAS IS THAT grs COMES IN 500 PACKAGES OF. (17,6 OZ) or a Kilogram, LIKE I LOOSEN to YOU, DRY and IT IS GROUND.

IN SOME PLACES HE IS AVAILABLE IN SOBRECITOS LIKE THOSE, CALLED TO YOU KILLS SPANISH STEW, BUT THESE DO NOT PROVIDE THE GREAT BENEFIT WITH THE METODO TRADITIONAL MAS TO TAKE IT.

GRASS KILLS (LITERALLY "HIERBA MATE") IT ACQUIRES HIS NAME OF A TRADITIONAL CUP (ALSO CALLED IT KILLS) THAT THE USA TO TAKE IT.

THIS CUP, ORIGINALLY TO MAKE IT DRY and IS DECORATED, is a PUMPKIN.

IN SUD AMERICA, WHERE IT KILLS WAS INTRODUCED To the WORLD, IT KILLS TODAVIA IS TAKEN IN CUP FROM KILLS USING A DECORATIVE FILTER OF WOOD Or CALLED METAL LIGHT BULB.

THE MODERN DRINKER OF KILLS CAN CHANGE TO SEVERAL BENEFICIAL TIMES EXTRACTING YOU OF THE GRASS.

IT CAN BE ELABORATED LIKE I LOOSEN NORMAL And FILTRATE To YOU BEFORE PUTTING IT IN The CUP.

IT CAN BE USED IN A CAFE PRESS, WHERE INFUSION WITH The GRASS BECOMES And HOT WATER And SOON The GRASS IS PRESSED AS IF OUTSIDE YOU.

IT CAN TAKE CONTROL ALSO OF ICE TO TAKE IN THE VERY WARM DAYS OF SUMMER. IT CAN BE DONE LIKE THE COFFEE, IN A COFFEE AUTOMATICA (TO MAKE SURE THAT IT USED GREAT AMOUNT OF GRASS).

And, IF YOU HAVE CUP OF KILLS And LIGHT BULB, IT CAN FOLLOW The STEPS TO TAKE KILLS TRADITIONAL.

AS TO PREPARE AN INFUSION IN IT KILLS TRADITIONAL.

IN ORDER TO PREPARE The INFUSION OF IT KILLS, The GRASS LEAVES ITSELF KILLS DROUGHT And CRUSHED WITHIN The CUP OF IT KILLS And HOT WATER IS ADDED To HIM (APPROX 70C) THIS Llama "CEBAR MATE". The INFUSION IS SUCKED To TRAVES OF A CALLED METAL FILTER "BOMBILLA" WHICH HAS A FILTER TO COME UP THAT THEY PASS SMALL PIECES OF GRASS To The MOUTH.

THERE ARE DIFFERENT TECNICAS TO PREPARE KILLS, ACCORDING TO THE HABITUAL TAKERS OF KILLS, THIS IS THE TRADITIONAL METODO:

TO FILL THE CUP OF KILLS WITH GRASS KILLS UNTIL ¾ OF ITS CAPACITY. A VARIANT THAT ALLOWS TO TAKE MAS YOU BY INFUSION To A LESS POWERFUL TASTE, IS TO FILL The CUP OF KILLS BY HALF, Or JUST A LITTLE BIT LESS THAN THAT.

TO SPILL HOT WATER UNTIL ALMOST FILLING THE CUP.

NOT TO WORRY IF SOME PART IS DRY, IN THE SUPERIOR PART.

POSSIBLY ABSORBERA THE WATER IN FOLLOWING INFUSIONS.

TO LET IT REST SECONDS And FILL UP WITH HOT WATER WHEN The PREVIOUS One HAS BEEN ABSORBED And HAS BEEN KILLS DRY.

WHEN NOT ABSORVE MAS THE WATER, TO INSERT THE LIGHT BULB FIRMLY WITHIN KILLS.

MUCH PEOPLE ADD AZUCAR To HIM Or SOME GRASS (AS MINT For example) SOME REPLACE The WATER BY MILK, SPECIALLY FOR The CHILDREN.

YOU TAKE And ABSORB KILLS WITH HOT WATER ALL The TIMES UNTIL I ELIMINATE ALREADY ALMOST DOES NOT HAVE PLEASURE.

THE REPETITIVE HOT WATER EXTRACTION IS AN EFFICIENT FORM TO EXTRACT THE BENEFICIAL THING OF THE GRASS.

DISFRUTALO! To Grief THAT FIRST TASTE SERA An UNUSUAL FLAVOR FOR NEW CONSUMERS, IS A PERSISTENT TASTE THAT UD YOU PROVED ANOTHER ONE And Again.

IT IS ALMOST AS IF The BODY KNEW The GOOD Thing THAT IT IS KILLS FOR YOU And YOU CALLED IT To YOU TO TAKE MAS.

Grass Kills

How to cure kills?

The infusion of kills must be prepared using kills cured.

The treatment process prepares to kills for the type of infusion for which it is going to be used.

You kill them are divided in two categories: curable and incurables.

You kill incurables are those facts of not-porous materials (glass, metal, porcelain, stoneware, etc).

This type of you kill do not have to be used because they lose all "memoria" of the flavor when they are washed and in addition, they do not have the capacity to provide that aged flavor to him that only kills cured can give.

The treatment process consists of two stages: in the first place, the appropriate treatment or first use and soon, the treatment that is from the daily use of kills with a single class of infusion (for example, it kills pure without additives).

The appropriate treatment has two objectives: to remove smooth weaves and to adapt kill the type of particular infusion that is going away to use.

In order to remove weaves, it has to fill kills with grass kills used, to add hot water and to let this preparation during a day.

He is better to use grass kills pure and grass does not kill that it has been used with sugar because later is disturbed but facilmente.

On the following day it is necessary to remove the grass, to rinse kills and to eliminate smooth weaves.

To repeat all the process soon, once again.

In order to adapt it to it kills wild black or (this is, grass kills pure without additives like azucar, for example), to fill kills with grass kills fresh and to add boiling water.

To let it rest by a day.

To repeat the process during two or three days if it is desired.

For it kills candy, to add first two or three tea teaspoons of azucar and a trocito of boiling coal.

To cover the mouth with kills and to shake vigorously to burn azucar in homogenea form.

Soon to drain kills and to come as in the case of it kills wild.

Grass Kills

How to prepare the infusion of Mate.

In order to prepare the infusion of Mate (called properly "Mate"), the dried perforated leaves of Mate of grass are placed within a called pumpkin "Mate" or porongo in Uruguay (hard skeleton of a local fruit), can also be used any container of the same forms of an suitable metal glass, glass or wood and hot water (approx. 70 centigrade ones) is added (this is called to fatten "Mate").

The infusion becomes lean by a called metal tube "bombilla", that it has a strainer in the end to prevent alcanze with the leaves pricked of terba to the mouth.

There are many techniques different to prepare Mate, as drinkers of Kill (Materos), suggestions to follow:

Approximately fill Mate with grass up to 3/4 of its capacity.

Put the hand or a piece of paper in "boca" of Mate and it smoothly shakes it with the superior part downwards.

This will have to force small particles but of grass (like dust) to the top of Mate, this way it is less probable that the diminutivos holes of the light bulb are blocked by the grass.

Smoothly to revert Mate to the normal position.

From aqui several procedures exist that varian according to the boot and it depends on the quality of the grass.

Possibilities:

To - Vertir cold or lukewarm water or or warms up that the turkey hen or boiler or thermus are in, to let it rest minutes so that the grass swells itself (the dry leaves of Mate will absorverán the previous water) and to introduce the light bulb.

B - To take the grass within the container towards one of the sides, perimtiendo that 1/4 of the receiving emptiness are a hollow in the same one. To put the water in anyone of its three mentioned options previously and to let swell or place the light bulb in the hollow and just to spill the water in cold or lukewarm case of being, but in case of being hot, slowly of doing it and on the light bulb, using to this as sewer of escape of the supreme heat of the water; again to let rest minutes (10 minutes he is the recommendable thing).

Some people add to azucar and/or some grass (like mint, for example). Some replace the water with milk, specially for the children.

The light bulb is straightened On guard leaving it vertical and the hot water in the hollow is added not allowing that the water exceeds the existing hole.

You drink and supply again to Mate with hot water often until the liquid leaves with almost no flavor.

Then, the light bulb retires and it becomes places scratching the edge of the container in a new hollow considering that has been used 1/4 of kills, this procedure is known like "dar it vuelta" to it kills.

This procediemiento could be made up to 4 times, although expert boots exist that "dan vuelta" "Mate" up to 8 times.

Typical Mate can contain about 50 grass g - it kills.

The caffein content of grass-kills it is about 1-1,5 %, in the weight you you can hope about 500-750 mg of cafeina in Mate.

The repetitive extraction of the hot water seems to be an efficient way to extract caffein, so you obtain the same amount of cafeina in each "cebadura" of It kills.

Vazques and Molina inform 0,56% into cafeina, 0,03% of theobromine and 0,02% of theophylline (of HPLC Mate is extraido simultaneamente when drinking).

In the comparison, 7 ounces (coffee cup) contain about 80-175 mg. (depending on the method that uses to prepare it) and a tea cup near 40-60 mg. (It frequently sees Questions about Cafe' and Cafeina).

Drinking Mate is a social habit and many drinkers share generally to the same one Kills with another people, you you can finally obtain a low dose but of cafeina.

Interesting he is that in spite of the tremendous popularity to drink Mate (in paises where it is consumed) it is impossible to obtain Kills in any bar, restaurant or other places where tea or coffee uses.

Finally, you can prepare an infusion of Kills in the same way as an infusion of tea and in that case him flame Kills spanish stew.

Apparently the first consumers of grass-kill (the native ones in the region where he cultivates himself) chewed the tender leaves but.

Grass Kills

THE FRIENDSHIP OF KILLS

A TYPE OF PRIVACY

Mate is more than only good for the body, it is good for the spirit.

To drink it can be a form of meditation or reflection, leaving its kindness between in the body while it stimulates and it rests the mind.

But this quality not always happens solo.

In the traditional use of Mate, it kills quite often is shared with friends and family, using the same light bulb.

Reminiscente of the type of privacy of which extraña" writes Robert Heinlein in "Extraño in a earth;, where carácteres "hermanos become of agua" or "hermanas of agua" when they take from same cup one after the other, those that have shared Mate forming a type of health bond and meditation of the Grass Kill, in a friendship and acceptance sign.

In Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil, companions gauchos or farmers, united in the taming of a wild earth, share Mate around the fire enlarging their comradeship.

In Montevideo it is common to find to a familiar group or two lovers, or to two or three intimate friends sharing Mate, in an exit to a park or the beach.

In all these places, when an individual or group finally offers to include it in its Mateada, it must be taken as the highest honor and must be accepted with esteem.

In order to avoid to offend to that it offers, there are some few rules that You would have to follow as she leaves from companion of Kills.

In a traditional Mateada, there is a person who is the boot and serves kills in a group of friends, this person is usually the anfritión.

Outside or in the home, responsabilid can change from a Mateada to another one.

The boot begins a new one generally Kills and takes first.

He or she will drink kills until it is not left water and the air feels to happen through the light bulb.

Once fact this, the boot will fill kills again with hot water and it will pass it to the next matero, who also will take kills until finishing the water and went it of return to the boot.

It kills will be fattened again and happened to another matero, who will do the same.

This process will continue, passing it around del circle many times, until which there is not flavor in kills.

Some will worry that sharing it thus he is insanitario.

Probably it is it, but not more than to kiss itself.

He is indeed this that does sharing Mate an event of intense friendship.

You do not share it with accidental friends.

You share it with whom You would share your soul.

The friendship of Mate is the best friendship than one can have.

Grass Kills

RULES TO SHARE KILL.

1.No requests sugar.

Much people are customary to use sugar in her coffee or tea, and are perfectly correct requesting by her.

Much people also taking Kill with sugar.

But when You are invited to a Mateada, You can commit the greater imaginable sacrilege to request sugar.

2.No says that Mate is unhygienic.

You can think that its mouth is unhygienic putting where the others put hers.

Of course that is it, but that is indeed the intimate experience of a Mateada.

The supply to share something so intimate is the highest honor. If You do not want to be so intimate with alguién, she does not share Mate with them.

If it wishes to share then mateada, it does not say anything on the hygiene.

3. It does not say that it kills is very hot.

If all the others are contentments with the temperature of Mate, requesting would be considered of bad education that they cool or waiting for until cools off.

4.No leaves Mate to means to take.

In spite of the similidad between Mate and the pipe of La Paz, there are some basic differences.

Whereas each one takes one tooted from the pipe and it happens, it never does that with kills.

You must take all the water until she listens to the sound that indicates that it kills is empty.

See the following rule.

5.No feels shame of the noise in the end.

If, after absorbing, You listen you kill "roncando", one does not feel ashamed. It is normal, nobody is going it to watch like a bad-mannered one. It is what one is due to do.

6.No revuelva kills.

It kills is possible to be covered by itself once in a while, by the Grass or by which it prepared Mate.

If he happens, You have all the right to complain.

But, please revuelva does not kill.

Speak with whom it offered Mate to him, or to which she happened to him it kills You.

But revuelva does not kill, revuelva does not kill and, first of all it does not touch the light bulb with its fingers.

7.No changes the order.

Mateada gives the return like the clock.

Raisin of hand in hand in the same order always kills.

If You are being served she happens kills the boot.

If there is people fattening with its own water, that happens in some places, always paselo to the following person, without changing the order.

8.No retards the rate.

To take Mate is only an excellent way to meditate on the things of its life.

You slowly take it, thinking about any thing that happens to him through the mind.

Taking Kills in a Mateada is completely different.

The essence is not the meditation but integration.

In a Mateada, You speak, discuss, laugh, curse, You you are part of the community; it is a brotherhood.

One does not forget to absorb, the rest of people is hoping.

9.No condemns the boot to take the first one kills.

If You say that the boot is bad-mannered because he or it prepares Mate and takes the first one kills, good, You are the bad-mannered one.

Absorbed the more fort is first, and that the taking does a favor to him to the group.

10. It does not say thanks before time.

One only says thanks when one no longer wants to follow Mateando.

Grass Kills

The old drink of the health and the friendship

Vitamin content in the Grass Kills (100 gr.

Amount minima maximum Amount Amount average

Carofina (mgs) 0,639 2,267 1.234

Carofina (vitamin To UI) 1,065 3,779 2.095

Tiamina (gamma) 62,300 313,100 222.700

Riboflavina 246,000 573,900 404.300

Ascórbico Acido 8,200 20,700 11.900

Promedial composition of the grass kills (100 gr..)

Minima amount maximum Amount Amount average

Humidity 5,36 9,80 8.17

Proteinas 8,30 13,45 10.89

Carbohydrates 9,70 14,18 12.04

Starch 2,56 6,63 4.55

Glucose 1,30 6,14 3.84

Fibers 14,96 19,95 16.96

Mineral composition of the grass kills (100 gr..))

Candidad Minima Maximo Amount Amount Average

Ashes 6,310 7,780 6.910

Chlorine (g) 0,082 0,160 0.116

Sulfide 0,082 0,168 0.125

Fosforo (g) 0,074 0,214 0.120

Calcium 0,597 0,824 0.668

Magnesium 0,134 0,484 0.337

Potassium (g) 1,181 1,554 1.350

Sodium (g) 0,000 0,003 0.002

Iron (mgs) % --- 94,000 59.900

Copper (mgs) 0,600 1,600 1.260

Manganese (mgs) 30,200 183,000 133.180

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