Hot drinks are a staple across these parts now and I find it hard to imagine that they just started drinking them when tea/coffee was first imported. What would they have drank on a chilly morning or as a pick me up?
And another question: there are many teas that can be made here,have they really only started drinking tea after it was imported from China? Didn't anyone before though of drinking cammomile or something like that?
Older hot beverages in Europe--mulled wine, hot punch, possets--were typically alcoholic, as far as I know. That makes them less useful as a morning pick-me-up.
It was typical in some eras and places to drink small beer (lower alcohol content than our beer) in the morning.
Edited to add: they did have herbal teas (tisanes). I don't know how much they were used for nonmedicinal purposes.
Before coffee and tea, most Europeans would drink some sort of heated broth or a posset (hot milk curdled with wine or ale) for a hot beverage. Herbal teas don't seem to have been terribly common for non-medical daily consumption, although there are scattered references to herbal teas made from common herbs like chamomile or chicory.
By the early 17th century, coffee was very common in the Middle East and the greater Mediterranean, but both coffee and tea were just starting to become popular in Northern Europe. While both tea and coffee were available from specialty shops in cosmopolitan cities like London and Amsterdam by 1600, the first true coffee-houses don't appear in England until 1652, and remained largely a domain of middle-class males until well into the 18th century.