SF: Coke I OrNin sXLV. 
Tus far I have chiefly endeavoured to trace the effects 
of Tea as a part of our diet. In medicine it has at prefent but 
_ very little reputation amongft us. It is even fearcely ever re- 
commended as a part of the furniture of a fick chamber; it is 
feldom mentioned even as a gentle diaphoretic: in cafes, how- 
ever, where it 1s neceflary to dilute and relax, to promote the 
thinner fecretions, it promifes at leaft as much advantage as 
-moft other infufions. - For, befides its other effects, it feems to 
contain: fomething fedative in its compofition (Srer. II. Exe. 
Ill. IV.), not altogether unlike an opiate. Like this clafs of 
-medicines, it mitigates uneafinefs, perhaps more than any 
- other merely aqueous infufion: and, like very fmall dofes of 
opium, it fometimes siete reft, and gives a SEPT flutter 
to the {pirits. 
_ Where, therefore, large ciiokees of the infafion mug be 
: taken, to produce or fupport a confiderable diaphorefis, a de- 
_ coétion of Tea, or a firong infufion, may be adminiftered with 
great propriety, particularly in inflammatory complaints; the 
Ss . fedative power of Tea, affifted by the diluting effects of warm 
2 eee producing a diaphorefis, without ftimulating 
fyt tem. The Chinefe moft commonly give it as a medicine 
t not At ony in a zvevety of ~Sileaies y but if the infufion were 
