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Coffea arabica

Plant Name: Coffea arabica
Hawaiian Name: KOPE
English Name: Coffee
Family: Rubiaceae
Status in Hawai'i: Alien pest. Native to Ethiopia.
Where it grows in Hawai'i: Coming to a dry forest near you.
Part Used: Kernals, leaves.

Uses:
* Coffee is second only to oil as a world commodity and is the most popular beverage worldwide with over 400 billion cups consumed each year. In the last three centuries, 90% of all people living in the Western world have switched from tea to coffee
* Coffee is most commonly used medicinally for asthma, depression, constipation, fatigue, and hangover.
* The Japanese use coffee as a body scrub and skin cleanser.
* In Trinidad, black coffee is mixed with lime juice for arthritis. Fisherman have been known to use cold coffee to wash the smell of fish off their hands.
* Wake up and smell the coffee! A University of California study reports that the steam rising from a cup of coffee has the same amount of antioxidants as three oranges.
* The caffeine in coffee beans is bound to an organic acid and requires roasting to become active, but dark roasted coffee (unlike tea) has less caffeine than the lighter brews.
* After hearing that coffee was "the Devil's potion", Pope Clement VIII tried a cup and declared it to be "so delicious that it would be a pity to allow the Muslim infidels to have exclusive use of it." He then baptized the coffee to make it a Christian beverage. Even Martin Luther agreed with this. About the same time J.S. Bach wrote his Coffee Concerto.
* A morning without coffee is like… sleep. - - Graffitti

Cautions:
*Heavy coffee drinking is correlated to increased risk of suicide and decreased risk of colorectal cancer and Parkinsons disease. Coffee can raise blood pressure.
* Not in pregnancy or while nursing.
* Not in large doses with muscle spasm; shoulder, neck, or back pain.