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What is the legend about tea s quality to banish sleep?

According to the legend, Bodhidharma, an ancient Buddhist ascetic, cut off his eyelids because he felt sleepy during meditations. Ten tea plants grew out of those eyelids. The leaves of these plants when put in hot water, supposedly banish sleep, after intake of that water. 

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It is said that once a holy man was meditating . While meditating he fell asleep. The holy man did not like it. So he cut his eyelids and throw them on to the land. There grew ten tea plants. When the leaves of these plants put into the hot water , they removed asleep.
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