Drink Your Tea and the Quest for the Panacea of Beverages
Two exhibits are on display at Shields and Carlson Health Sciences Libraries in conjunction with the 5th Annual Colloquium of the Global Tea Initiative for the Study of Tea Culture and Science.
Shields Library
Drink Your Tea (or Wine) curated by:
Daniel Goldstein (dgoldstein@ucdavis.edu)
Leyla Cabugos (lrcabugos@ucdavis.edu)
Carlson Health Sciences Library
The Quest for the Panacea of Beverages curated by:
Erik Fausak (edfausak@ucdavis.edu)
Drink Your Tea (or Wine)
Books on the science and culture of tea and wine
A library exhibit in conjunction with the 5th Annual Colloquium of the Global Tea Initiative for the Study of Tea Culture and Science curated by Daniel Goldstein and Leyla Cabugos.
Located in the Shields Library Lobby.
The Eastern Towhee whose call is similar to someone saying, “drink your tea”, is the mascot for this exhibit.
Daniel Goldstein, co-curator
Leyla Cabugos, co-curator
Bibliography
Global Tea Breeding: Achievements, Challenges and Perspectives
Author: L Chen, Z Apostolides & Z Chen
Call Number: Shields Lib SB271 .G56 2012
Cultivating Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan
Author: R Corbette
Call Number: Shields Lib GT2910 .C67 2018
Organic Tea: Cultivation and Marketing
Author: H Ghosh
Call Number: Shields Lib SB272.I5 G46 2006
Tea: A Potted History of Tea in New Zealand.
Author: S Goldsmith
Call Number: Shields Lib GT2907.N45 G654 2006
Tocklai & Tea : –as the Road Fades Away
Author: M Hazarika, M Talukdar, SH Patgiri
Call Number: Shields Lib HD9198.I4 .T63 2011
The Rise of Tea Culture in China: The Invention of the Individual
Author: B Hinsch
Call Number: Shields Lib GT2907.C6 H55 2015
Tea and Tourism: Tourists, Traditions and Transformations
Author: L Joliffe
Call Number: Shields Lib GT2905 .T413 2007
Ancillary Justice
Author: A Leckie
Call Number: Shields Lib PS3612.E3353 A83 2013
Homegrown tea: an illustrated guide to planting, harvesting, and blending teas and tisanes
Author: C LIversidge
Call Number: Shields Lib SB271 .L66 2014
The Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Colony Farm and the Creation of Japanese America
Author: DA Metraux
Call Number: Shields Lib F870.J3 M48 2019
DIY Kombucha: Sparkling Homebrews Made Easy
Author: A Potter
Call Number: Shields Lib TP650 .P68 2018
A Taste of Bitterness: the Political Economy of Tea Plantations in Sri Lanka
Author: R Rote
Call Number: Shields Lib HD9198.C42 R6 1986
Everyday Sustainability: Gender Justice and Fair Trade Tea in Darjeeling
Author: D Sen
Call Number: Shields Lib HD6073.T182 I474 2017
Hand-Book of Castes and Tribes Employed on Tea Estates in North-East India
Author: Tea Districts Labour Association
Call Number: Shields Lib DS422.C3 T4 1924
Korean Tea Classics
Author: M Yi
Call Number: Shields Lib GT2907.K6 Y56 2010
Cha Pu. 第1版
Author: J Chen
Call Number: Shields Lib GT2907.C6 C46533 2007
Chigusa and the Art of Tea
Author: LA Cort
Call Number: Shields Lib NK4695.S76 C49 2014
Tea: History, Terroirs, Varieties
Author: K Gascoyne, H Americi, J Desharnais, F Marchand, & Camellia Sinensis Tea House
Call Number: Shields Lib TX415 .G3713 2018
The Tea Lords
Author: HA Hasse
Call Number: Shields Lib PT5838.H45 H4713 2011
The Tea Enthusiast’s Handbook: A Guide to Enjoying the World’s Best Teas
Author: ML & R Heiss
Call Number: Shields Lib TX415 .H438 2010
Das Geheimnis Des Tees
Author: H Hu & C Steenberg
Call Number: Shields Lib GT2905 .H8 2009
Tea Manufacture in South India
Author: KBW Jones
Call Number: Shields Lib TP650 .J65
Bian Yin Zhongguo Cha. 第1版. ed.
Author: T Li
Call Number: Shields Lib
GT2907.C6 L523 2013
Race, Tea and Colonial Resettlement: Imperial Families, Interrupted
Author: J McCabe
Call Number: Shields Lib DS430 .M35 2017
Tea Culture of Japan
Author: S. Ohki
Call Number: Shields Lib GT2910 .O39 2009
New Tea Lover’s Treasury
Author: JN Pratt
Call Number: Shields Lib TX415 .P68 1995
The Japanese Tea Ceremony: Cha-no-yu and Zen Art of Mindfulness
Author: AL Sadler
Call Number: Shields Lib GT2910 .S3 2019
World Atlas of Tea: From the Leaf to the Cup, the World’s Teas Explored and Enjoyed
Author: K Smith
Call Number: Shields Lib GT2905 .S65 2016
500 Teapots: Contemporary Explorations of a Timeless Design
Author: SJE Tourtillott
Call Number: Shields Lib
NK4695.T43 A14 2002
Dong Yang Cha Wen Hua
Author: Z. Zhao
Call Number: Shields Lib GT2907.C6 D664 2016
The Quest for the Panacea of Beverages
Wine, tea and health through the ages
A library exhibit in conjunction with the 5th Annual Colloquium of the Global Tea Initiative for the Study of Tea Culture and Science, curated by Erik Fausak.
Tea and Wine have been historically associated with medicinal purposes for centuries. This exhibit follows the progression of tea and wine in health literature over the centuries, from expert opinion to clinical trials to the epitome of evidence-based medicine, systematic reviews. In our display we start with tea and a famous book that examines it’s health benefits, Ben Cao Gang Mu:
Tea and Health
Tea is an entry in the comprehensive medical text, Ben Cao Gang Mu, or Compendium of Materia Medica. This text took 27 years to write: 1573 – 1593
The author, Li Shizhen (1518-1593), was a pioneer of Chinese herbal medicine.
See the original text at the World Digital Library.
Pictured: Peking University Health Science Center Statue of Li Shizen, 2004. The original uploader was Snowyowls at Chinese Wikipedia
Tea vs Wine is Not New
We can find that tea versus wine has often been discussed and this discussion can be witnessed in this 1840 book review and the original book being reviewed, Tea; its effects, medicinal and moral, can be found on HathiTrust:
Then Came Clinical Trials:
” A research study in which one or more human subjects are prospectively assigned to one or more interventions (which may include placebo or other control to evaluate the effects of those interventions on health-related biomedical or behavioral outcomes.”
Retrieved 12/18/19 from UCSF Clinical Research Resource HUB
Butacnum, a., Chongsuwat, R., & Bumrungpert, a. (2017). Black Tea Consumption Improves Postprandial Glycemic Control in Normal and Pre-diabetic Subjects: A Randomized, Double-blind Placebo-controlled Crossover Study. Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 26(1), 59
Greyling, A., Ras, R. T., Zock, P. L., Lorenz, M., Hopman, M. T., Thijssen, D. H., & Draijer, R. (2014). The effect of black tea on blood pressure: a systematic review with meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. PloS one, 9(7), e103247.
Visit PubMed to see the results of the great quantity of clinical trials that occur.
Then emerged evidence-based medicine
Systematic Reviews
A systematic review is a summary of the medical literature that uses explicit methods to perform a comprehensive literature search and critical appraisal of individual studies and that uses appropriate statistical techniques to combine these valid studies.
Attributed to Centre for Evidence-based Medicine
Look at how many systematic reviews exist on tea and it’s health benefits.
We follow a similar trajectory with Wine and the Incipit Tractatus de Vinis:
Wine and Health
Wine’s health aspects are described in this treatise by Arnaldus de Villa Nova, Incipit Tractatus de Vinis. This editions is from around 1500.
The author Arnaldus de Villa Nova (1238-1311) taught medicine in Southern France, Montpelier. He translated many works from Arabic and Greek focusing on Galen and Avicenna.
Foppa, M., Fuchs, F. D., Preissler, L., Andrighetto, A., Rosito, G. A., & Duncan, B. B. (2002). Red wine with the noon meal lowers post-meal blood pressure: A randomized trial in centrally obese, hypertensive patients. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 63(2), 247-251.
Chiva-Blanch, G., Urpi-Sarda, M., Ros, E., Valderas-Martinez, P., Casas, R., Arranz, S., … & Estruch, R. (2013). Effects of red wine polyphenols and alcohol on glucose metabolism and the lipid profile: a randomized clinical trial. Clinical nutrition, 32(2), 200-206.
If you would like to see the great quantity of clinical trials that occur, see the results in medical literature database, PubMed
Systematic Reviews
A systematic review is a summary of the medical literature that uses explicit methods to perform a comprehensive literature search and critical appraisal of individual studies and that uses appropriate statistical techniques to combine these valid studies.
Attributed to Centre for Evidence-based Medicine
Del Bo, C., Bernardi, S., Marino, M., Porrini, M., Tucci, M., Guglielmetti, S., … & Zamora-ros, R. (2019). Systematic Review on Polyphenol Intake and Health Outcomes: Is There Sufficient Evidence to Define a Health-promoting Polyphenol-rich Dietary Pattern? Nutrients, 11(6), 1355.
Visit PubMed for more systematic reviews on wine.