Back in the 1960s, the contraceptive pill ushered in the sexual revolution. Forty years later, a new kind of pill is promising to revolutionise the genteel world of tea.

...the tea pill is starting to have an unexpected effect: a faint, but pleasurable tingling in the finger-tips. It is difficult to describe: not quite a "buzz", but definitely a sense of well-being complemented by the lingering after-taste of tea...

Peter Forster, tea corresponent for the London Daily Telegraph.


Jorhat - Assam Biochemists at the Tocklai Experimental Tea Research Station have developed a ground-breaking new process for reducing the liquour of the brewed leaf to a fragrant, golden-brown powder that, unlike the fecal dust commonly used in office vending machines, retains all the flavour and goodness of the original.

The powdered tea-extract has been undergoing trials in a range of innovative prototype products, including a tiny tea-pill that distils all the benefits of a satisfying cuppa into a go-anywhere lozenge weighing less than a third of a gramme. The pill comes in two basic forms, a chewable sweet and a soluble tablet that can simply be dropped into a cup of hot water. Other products currently being tested include a paste that can be spread onto the gums, a 'tea-snuff' for nasal inhalation, and a super-concentrated essence that can be heated in a spoon and taken intravenously.

"Here at Tocklai we like to think outside the pot" chief biochemist Dr Ted Pepuramali quipped as he rolled up a 500 Rupee note and snorted two generous lines of tea-snuff from a silver tray on his desktop. "Praise Vishnu! That hits the god damned spot!" he added, dabbing his streaming eyes and nose with a silk handkerchief and presenting his arm to a syringe-bearing assistant. "Why don't you try some of our triple-strength Assam Brownies, then I will show you the tea-jacuzzi and massage room. I should be getting the god damned Nobel Prize for this, you know."

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