咖啡因又名茶素,在医藥上用途极广,因国內生产不足,每年多向资本主义国家进口,以滿足国内需要。去年四川省商业厅棉麻菸茶貿易局的同志們在思想大跃进的基础上,破除迷信,从废棄的“泡水茶”(吃过的茶叶)中提制出咖啡因,并利用提制咖啡因后的茶渣做雪茄菸和醬油的原料,經过多次試驗已获得成功,使廢棄的“泡水茶”得到充分利用,均加了社会主义財富,如按全省茶叶銷量囘收百分之七十廢茶 Caffeine, also known as catechin, has a very wide range of uses in medicine. It is imported into capitalist countries on an annual basis for lack of domestic production to meet domestic needs. Last year, comrades from the Cotton and Linen Tobacco Trade Office of the Commercial Department of Sichuan Province broke away from superstition on the basis of the great leap forward in thinking. They raised caffeine from abandoned “soaked tea” (eaten tea) Tea made after caffeine as cigar and soy sauce raw materials, after many tests have been successful, so that abandoned “soaked tea” have been fully utilized, both added to the socialist wealth, such as the recovery of the province’s tea sales Seventy percent of waste tea