November 23, 2009
6,000-year-old Tea Helps Memory
The following is an excerpt from Memorypacker.com.
If you’re sick and tired of misplacing your glasses or car keys…forgetting names…or having “senior momentsâ€â€¦then this is one of the most exciting messages you’ll ever read. Here’s why:
Scientists have discovered an amazing breakthrough that improves memory, speeds up thinking, reduces stress, and even slows down brain aging.
But although this breakthrough is new to Western science, it’s actually been around for over 6,000 years.
The Secret of the Ancient Rishis
Thousands of years ago — before the written word — people passed on their knowledge and wisdom from generation to generation through exhaustive oral histories. In ancient India, this task was entrusted to the Rishi holy men. The Rishi were famous for their ability to perform epic poems at will…and for days on end.
They could reel off hours of Hindu prayers and recite epics completely from memory, without pausing. One famous oral history, the Rig-Veda, contained 1,028 hymns — each one taking eight hours to sing! Another classic poem, the Mahabharata, took several weeks to recite in Sanskrit.
When finally translated to written form thousands of years later, some of these epics contained nearly 9,000 pages of text. But the Rishis were able to recite them word-for-word!
How Did They Do It?
The Rishis attributed their amazing memory to a special tea brewed from a wild herb that grew along the sacred River Ganges. This humble plant was so prized for its memory-enhancing power, they named it Brahmi, after the Hindu creator god.
Thousands of years later, modern scientists began to study the plant, known as bacopa monnieri. And what they found shocked them: 14 separate studies found that bacopa really works!
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