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Physician's Materia Medica on Paraguay Tea

PARAGUAY TEA
   The leaves of ILEX PARAGUAYENSIS. St. Hil. Resembles in its effects Chinese Tea, but in large doses is emetic and cathartic. In hot infusion diaphoretic.1


References

1) Nelson, Baker & Co., 1904, Physician's Handy Book of Materia Medica and Therapeustics, Detroit, Michigan.