title: [The textual research on the related names of ancient health-care drinks].
abstract: There are many kinds of related names of ancient health-care drinks such as tea, tea soup, herb soup, soup, boiled water, thirsty water and cold decoction etc. Following textual research on each connotation of all kinds of names, they have the same aspects as well as different special contents. Among them, the tea soup is some kind of health-care and curative drink, mainly containing tea with other plant decoctions; not only referring to the drinking tea, but also the decoction drunk as tea. The 'tea soup can mostly reflect the original meaning of ancient health-care drinks, and also accord with the understanding of current health-care drinks, thus comprehensively and exactly summarize the content of ancient health-care drinks.
authors.affiliation: The Japanese Institute of Traditional Mongolian Medicine, Tokio.
authors.forename: Nuo
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Su
mesh_terms: D001628:Beverages / Q000266:history*; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D008517:Phytotherapy / Q000266:history*; D028321:Plant Preparations / Q000266:history* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D013662:Tea / Q000266:history; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014867:Water
chemical_list: D028321:Plant Preparations; D013662:Tea; D014867:Water