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Tea is primarily tannic acid. There is no disease that tea can prevent. Well, I guess is you drink enough you could prevent dehydration, but it contains caffeine. Boiled cedar was reputed to contain sufficient vitamin C to help stave off scurvy which was afflicting European sailors and settlers in the 16th Century.

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