Inca Tea

The history of the inca tea is based in the coca plant, the real name of this plant is Khoka, word that minds tree and is original from the aymara tribe, today the real name of this plant is Koka Kintu; It is important to understand the difference between coca and cocaine. The coca plant is been use by the people of the andes for more than 6000 years, the cocaine is a European invention 140 years old, 41 chemicals are needed in order to extract cocaine from the coca leaf and will require 110 kilos of leaves to produce 600 grams of cocaine.

The coca contains 14 alkaloids stimulants, according to scientific studies, the coca leaf contains less than 0.08 percent of cocaine alkaloid, which enters into its active form by the action of the saliva when is chewed; So the amount of cocaine in one cup of inca tea is cero, because “the coca plant is not cocaine”, the real benefit to drink this tea is the large amount of calcium (more than 2000 mg compared to 120 mg of milk), vitamin A, complex B (including B-12), zinc, magnesium, potassium; The coca leaf is a very complete food, highly assimilated and with very special medicinal properties.

The uses of the coca leaf are: The tender leaves in salad for direct consumption, highest antioxidant source; The dried leaves for chewing, great energy source, nutrition and above all, its beneficial alkaloids; The dried leaves, toasted and in powder, as a direct source of highly absorbable nutrients and energy; The dried leaves in infusion (inca tea), is the best known digestive, amazing fat burner and antidepressant; Peruvian doctors recommends three cups per day.

The nutritional power of the inca tea and the chewing of the coca leaves is proof by a simple example: If you replace chewing the coca leaves by the coffee, the farmers in the andes could not finish their work hours and will end up suffering from nerves; The coca leaves provides calories and nutrients needed to sustain the energy needed by the farmer during the hours of work; Coffee on the contrary, has no nutrients or calories to generate the energy needed.

People believe that, the inca tea and the chewing of the coca leaves only removed the hunger, then as an experiment, we could replace the coca leaves, with amphetamines and we will see that within a few days of the change, the farmers in the andes will not be able to lift his own plow to work, because the amphetamines takes away the hunger but not fed the person like the coca leaves.

Each 100 grams of coca leaves provides 305 calories, 19 grams of protein, 5 grams of fat, 46 gr of carbohydrate, 1.5 grams of calcium, 1.4 grams of vitamin C and 11,000 IU of vitamin A; Ones again the myth, build by ignorant people about this plant create barriers to understand the real potential of the coca plant.

The cocaine alkaloid in the coca plant was discover in 1858, in 1949 the coca plant, for no reason was considered harmful for an investigating committee of the Organization of the United Nations, in 1961 United States made all necessary arrangement to persuade the world convention on narcotics and the United Nations to take the official position that chew coca, is a form of drug addiction, despite of no evidence of addictive conditions in the coca leaves.

Inside the Chilean territory, the inca tea and chewing the coca leaves is banned, as there is a profound ignorance of the difference between the nutritional benefits of the plant and the consumption of cocaine; The coca leaf is not guilty of drug addiction as well as the grape is not guilty of alcoholism; As incredible as it sounds, all the benefits of this plant are only known in Peru and Bolivia, all over the rest of the world is immediately related to narcotics, due a plain ignorance about the benefits of the coca plant.

The coca leaf has been industrialized in more than 30 different products such as shampoo, toothpaste, pharmaceuticals, infusions (inca tea) and a variety of medications, however because of the criminalization of coca plant by the United Nations, it is prohibited the export of coca leaf products out side of Peru or Bolivia; Ironically, the only legal export of coca leaves to the United States, is done by the Stephan Company, which imports annually around 175,000 kilos of coca leaves, to produce a cocaine serum to give flavor to the Coca Cola.

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