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Drink Your Tea and the Quest for the Panacea of Beverages

Shields Library (Lobby - Entrance)

January 6, 2020 - February 28, 2020

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)

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.

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The Quest for the Panacea of Beverages

Erik at Display for the Quest for the Panacea Beverages Display at Carlson Library

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:

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 can be found here:

If you would like to see the great quantity of clinical trials that occur, see the results in medical database, PubMed

Look at how many systematic reviews exist on tea and it’s health benefits in PubMed

We follow a similar trajectory with Wine and the Incipit Tractatus de Vinis:

If you would like to see the great quantity of clinical trials that occur, see the results in medical literature database, PubMed

For more systematic reviews on wine, please see these results from PubMed