Why is Coca tea being called the rediscoverd divine health tea in some South American countries?

Question

Why is Coca tea being called the rediscoverd divine health tea in some South American countries?

Answer 1

Coca tea has got all sorts of healthy stuff in it.  Calcium, phosphorous, iron, potassium, magnesium, sodium,  vitamins A, C, E and some B's.  In addition, it has a few healthy stimulating alkaloids which many South Americans prefer over the "jittery" caffiene alkaloid found in coffee.

Answer 2

probally because" coca" comes from the same plant as cocaine

Answer 3

Coca tea, also called mate de coca, is a tisane (herbal tea) made using the leaves of the coca plant. It is made either by submerging the coca leaf or dipping a tea bag in hot water. The tea originates from the Andes mountain range, particularly Peru.

The leaves of the coca plant contain several alkaloids including cocaine;[1] in fact, they comprise the sources for cocaine's chemical production, though the amount of cocaine in the leaves is so small, around 0.2%,[1][2] that in order to make a gram of cocaine, 500 grams of coca leaves would be needed.[3][4]

Owing to the presence of the stimulant alkaloids, the coca tea provides a source of energy similar to coffee. The tea is often sold commercially in filtering bags, each of which usually contains approximately one gram of the leaf. As coffee can be decaffeinated, the coca tea can also be decocainized. Just like "decaf" coffee does retain a minute quantity of caffeine, "decocanized" coca tea will still contain a minute quantity of the drug. When the cocaine is removed, the amount of cocaine is small enough for the product to legally sell in the USA according to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs. In the 1980s the tea was used to wean cocaine addicts off of the drug.[2]

The coca plant comprises four main species and varieties of Erythroxylum coca, often spelled koka in Quechua and Aymara, is a plant in the family Erythroxylaceae, native to northwestern South America.

Though also known as mate, the mate de coca is not drunk through a straw like with mate of yerba mate, but as a tea