1592 - Reputation As A Stimulant Among Europeans
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1592 - The native indigenous tribes drank the yerba maté beverage for 1000s of years with a small cane (Bombilla or Bom-bee-u) placed inside a small hollow gourd which they used as a cup. Soon this beverage spread out, so quickly that it gained reputation as a stimulant, an aphrodisiac and even a drug among the Spaniards. Jesuit missionaries were the first to start cultivating yerba maté among the new Europeans.
