www.yogitea.com Has some nice tea also and if go to their web site will mail you 2 free samples& a booklet of their teas and a .50 cupoun.

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All about Tea
How teas are made

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Like many of you, I drink green tea, oolong tea, jasmine tea, black tea (Earl Grey/loose or baggged) for the antioxidant property (polyphenols), essential oils (bergamot), plus manganese, potassium, niacin, folic acid, and trace amounts of vitamins B1, B2, and K.

Tea is an essential beverage for us before, during and after meals.

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Amor est vitae essentia.
Love is the essence of life.

Muskrat,

I'm at college right now in an itty-bitty town with no car. We ahve a health food store with the ready made mix, but I prefer to make it myself starting with raw ingredients. I suppose I'm going to have to break down and buy the mix stuff.

applescruff

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And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.

Applescruff I was going to say alot of mail order companies will ship to you but it looks like you got all the advice you need.
I'm planning on growing herbs mainly for herbal teas and medicinal use but their is so many herbs to choose from. I've been looking through Richters catolog and am having troble deciding on what to get. Can any one help narrow it down to essentials. Anything that I can grow inside is a plus but I'm building a greenhouse that can over winter at what ever temp. is needed, only one temperature, it's just that I'm my gardening zone fluctuates all the time. I've seen some say I'm in zone 2A and some say up(or down, Which ever way you look at it) to zone 3or4(wasn't a detailed map of my reigon).
So to clarify everything, I have a small somewhat shaded spot, a sunny deck, a 6-6" greenhouse and a west facing window I can put them in so almost any conditions can be met.
Thanks, mabey I should have just started a new post .

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The answers will come when needed. Otherwise, I'm guesing time will make me feel silly.

Just thought I'd add insomnia pleggs me as well.

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The answers will come when needed. Otherwise, I'm guesing time will make me feel silly.

Muskrat,

Thanks for all the links! I think I might try ordering spices off the net.

Apples,

I did a quick web search and came up with a few common herbs.

CATNIP - Make a tea to to relieve colds and fevers. Also used to treat headaches and upset stomachs. Has mild sedative qualities.
CHAMOMILE - Use in a tea as a mild sleep aid or to aid digestion. Make a cream to treat dry, rough skin
CORIANDER - Chew leaves or infuse as a tea to relieve upset stomachs. Also used as a mild sedative
HYSSOP - Make a cream to treat bruises and burns. Infuse as tea to treat colds, flu, bronchitis and sore throats.
RED CLOVER -
VALERIAN - Roots used to relieve nervous tension, anxiety, insomnia and pain. Roots used in a cream to treat acne or skin rashes.

This is what a quick search turned up and I'm sure if you did a more extensive search you could find more. If you find yourself with time to kill, try these sites: http://www.magdalin.com/herbs/
http://www.holistic-online.com/Herbal-Med/hol_herb.htm

Let me know how your growing goes!

*smile*
applescruff

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And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.

Apples, Have you tried Lemon Balm Tea for that insomnia?

Apples, I can personally attest to the sleep benefits of the lemon balm tea...(thanks, P&L )
No drugs, non-addicting, etc...

But...if you want to calm what my family used to call the "jitsies" in your legs....
See if you can find (in your health food store) a liquid calcium/magnesium supplement. It WILL help; my promise....

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....which is extremely good advice, P&L ...oranges & 'nanners are great for a potassium deficiency...

But...

if ye ain't getting up there in years like we are... (we more "mature" folks tend to lose potassium) and considering Apples younger age...

I would still stick with calcium/magnesium depletion.

... my $.02

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Not too sure, Weez... it's not tooo common to have calcium overload unless yer over-doing dietary supplements...or have the arthritic-type calcium build-up in yer joints (More an affliction of us older folks)

Here's the stuff I use...& my-boss-the-doc recommends it...

restless leg syndrome

It tastes pretty good, too.

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Ah, I think you're right about charlie horses & too much or not enuf calcium.... I was taking a guess with Apples being depleted.....

Apples? Ever been a guinnea pig???

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I. Don't. Think. So.

Prolly hitting onesself in the head with a ball-peen hammer would be safer

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Hey, sorey I haven't been around to say thanks

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Oh shure... I think I may be alergic slightly to bananas but I eat one every day, it just kind of bugs my asthma if I eat them fast or many. I don't drink much milk though so that probably explains it. I have been latly because I've been eating(cereal) brekfast that requires it but still not too much. I'm planning a trip to the docks very soon so I'll tell him about it. I'm not laghing as hard as the graemlin, not in any meen way. That's one of the few things I know about St.johns wort . Works very good in a balm to help cuts heal faster. When ever I rip under my finger nails I stick my finger in the balm go to sleep and wake up with a brand new finger!
Hey you want to know something(I don't know about funny but definitly ironic). Soy milk is in part other then for vegins an alturnative to milk for lactose intolerent people... My mom since going to her nature path has been band from dairy products. For 2-3 weeks I was drinking 2-3 glasses of soy milk a day and became alergic some how to that brand! It was such a short time but I guess it's cause they were big glasses . I like goats milk and am intent on getting a few in the future but for now I don't know what to drink in place of milk because the place we get it the cardboard they use in the container makes it tast stale. Any suggestions on that. I could maby find a farmer with some goats.
By the way their's a possibility I grow in dog years so it just might be the pottasium!
One thing I've found releaves the jitsies temperarily is some yoga position, I think it's called the japanese sitting pose but maby not. you simply sit on your nees with your feet flat undernieth you until just when you think there going to go numb. It helps the circulattion in your legs alot I find! It may be called the warriers pose come to think of it. I don't know my yoga all that well.

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The answers will come when needed. Otherwise, I'm guesing time will make me feel silly.

I don't mind at all. This place is made to be fun. Plus any info I get here is a bonus since I'm just being to lazzy to read up my self. I've got a list going so I'm thinking I'll put it up in a new post n see what you people think.

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My folks raised goats when I was young and sold the milk, my younger bro was lactose intolerant and it was what got them into the goat thing, only thing I remember was that Dad would not let them graze until after milking and then put them inside before dark, he said it took the off taste fromthe milk, must have because I LOVED it! phil

Me Too! I have lots of clover here, I also have white violets! just like the ...Ummm violet,violets Maybe they are called WHITES! any way they are the same plant, haven't researched them, but a wise old owl told me they were good to ward off Cancer if made into a Tea...any imput?

Phil, I'm so silly It talks about the white ones also. Looks like they might be good for my lungs, wana send me some?
The flowers of White Violets ripen and dissolve swellings. Taken fresh, the flowers or herb are effectual in pleurisy and diseases of the lungs and help hoarseness, hot urine and pains in the back or bladder. Anyways you should read the whole thing for your self Magdalin

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The answers will come when needed. Otherwise, I'm guesing time will make me feel silly.

I love teas, especially herbal teas and I wanted to pass along a GREAT new tea, I found!

It seems to be good for everything that ails: calms and strengthens, helps circulation, mood, lowers cholesterol, builds immunity, slows the aging process, prevents arteriosclerosis.. ect.. ect.

It is called Jiaogulan Tea.

You can buy it in many health food places, but I get it at a local chinese market for $1.25 for a box of 40 tea bags!

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I asked my sister about this tea, as I have seen it in her cupboard. She directed me to a couple of web sites...here is the info I gathered.

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Jiaogulan is a Chinese herb (Gynostemma pentaphyllum,) which goes by many names including Southern Ginseng, Immortality Herb, and Miracle Grass. In Japan it is called Amachazuru. In fact, four of the 85 saponins (called Gypenosides) in this herb are identical to those of Ginseng but about four times as concentrated. Others are converted into Ginseng saponins but other saponins are unique to this herb. Ginseng has about 25 saponins.

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Learn more here: Jagulana Herbal Products
Sounds like a great product Fleur-de-ni. Thanks for sharing

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Hi Chrissy!!

So are you drinking it now? Has your sister found it helpful?

This is to me, the most impressive herb I have come across, in years.

mugs~ ~of tea

de ni

Yes, I have drank the tea once, just to give it a try over at my sister's place yesterday. It actually tastes pretty good & I didn't feel the jitters either that I usually expect with an energy tea. My sister swears by it & loves it. She has been drinking it for about 6 months now. I put in an order for some at our local health food store...so I will keep ya posted on how it does for me:)

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