Showing posts with label medicinal herbs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medicinal herbs. Show all posts

Saturday, December 6, 2008

Chamomile Tea - Medicinal Tisane!

Need to unwind from a busy day?

Chamomile tea will soothe your nerves and rest your mind.
Chamomile is one of the oldest garden and the safest medicinal herb. It has a mild honey-flowery aroma, golden yellow hue, and a delicate semi-sweet smooth taste. The name chamomile is derived from the Greek kamai-melon, meaning ground apple.
Chamomile tea
is a naturally caffeine-free tisane (herbal tea) and has a comparable amount of health benefits to its cousin, green tea. One of the safest medicinal herbs, chamomile is a soothing, gentle relaxant that has been shown to work for a variety of complaints from stress to menstrual cramps.
Benefits of Chamomile Tea

Best known as a muscle relaxant and antispasmodic, chamomile also has antiseptic and anti-inflammatory capabilities.
Health benefits are:
Help induce sleep.
Calm nervous stomach and improve digestion.

Soothe skin irritations, including sunburn, heat rash and haemorrhoids.
Relieve toothache.

Improve bronchitis.
Help with bladder troubles.

Treat eye inflammation and infection
Heal mouth sores and prevent gum disease
Treat irritable bowel problems and various gastrointestinal complaints

Help Regulate menstrual periods.

Reduce menstrual cramps

Good for the kidneys and spleen health.
Help alleviate symptoms of the common cold.

Promote relaxation and alleviate stress.
Help to expel worms and other parasites.

Improve liver function and relieve jaundice.
Help prevent gangrene.

Relieve back pain.

Improve rheumatism.
Chamomile & Cranberry Tea
This unlikely combination is a great after-dinner quaff, as cranberry juice cleanses the palate while chamomile settles the stomach.
This after-dinner "'drink" will surely become a habit in your house! Make a one-cup serving for yourself (with one teacup of chamomile and 1/4 cup cranberry juice) or a full teapot to share with family and friends.
Makes 4 servings
4 chamomile teabags
4 cups boiling water
1 cup cranberry juice cocktail, at room temperature
Sugar to taste
Add sugar to taste. Stir and serve immediately in teacups. Discard the teabags and add the cranberry juice. Steep the teabags in the boiling water in a teapot, for 8 minutes.
Uma Mays is married with two young children and lives in England. She has over 15 years experience in IT Project Management working for mainly Telecommunications companies. Since becoming a mother and wanting to work from home, she has developed an online Tea business retailing Speciality Teas. Teaworld has been operational just over two months is growing steadily.

Monday, November 17, 2008

Green Tea: Natures Miracle Heath Drink

It is best to drink pure green tea without preservatives or other artificial flavors. The best variety is said to originate from tea farms in China, especially those protected from pesticides. "Camellia Sinensis" or Green Tea is rich in Catechins, which are antioxidants.
In Japan, it was discovered that drinking 10 or more cups of green tea daily delays the onset of cancer by some nine years among women and about three years in men. Green tea in particular can also help in battling cancer. Teas have been found to have powerful effects on levels of cholesterol in the blood stream and on your health in general.
Pure green tea is said to be 100 times more effective than vitamin C from other sources, and 25 times better than vitamin E from other sources. Green tea also has carotenoids, chlorophyll, polysaccharides natural vitamins C and E, manganese, potassium, and zinc, all essential to your health. Catechins destroy free radicals. These are delicious teas and contain large amounts of polyphenols and flavoniods (catechins which are also immune system boosters), and natural vitamins and minerals.

Pure green tea is the high-grade tea sold at Japanese Tea Online. Green tea also has carotenoids, chlorophyll, polysaccharides natural vitamins C and E, manganese, potassium, and zinc, all essential to your health. Catechins destroy free radicals. These are delicious teas and contain large amounts of polyphenols and flavoniods (catechins which are also immune system boosters), and natural vitamins and minerals.

Another source of good green tea is the high-grade tea sold at Japanese Tea Online.
You may find green tea mixed with other medicinal herbs in leading drug stores, but rarely can you find pure green tea sold alone. Green tea is usually sold in tea bags, but modern processing has made possible its liquefied form in bottles, and also its powdered form in sachet packages, without damaging its health and healing benefits.
Green tea and other natural food supplements carry micronutrients that feed your immune system and strengthen your body cells. When the immune system becomes stronger, tissue and cell repair is enhanced in a way that the body retains the ability to heal itself; thus, ailments and even serious diseases are healed. It is not the food supplement itself that heals, but the empowered immune system.
A Japanese monk, Eisai, wrote in 1211 AD that (green) tea is a miraculous medicine for the maintenance of health. "Tea has the extraordinary power to prolong life. Anywhere a person cultivates tea, long life will follow."
Eisai further wrote that tea in general was known as an elixir that created the "immortal" mountain dwellers.
It eliminates distress by refreshing your mind and body. It actually delays the aging process. In the 16th century, European explorers were said to have found that tea, especially green tea, was used to treat fever, headache, joint pains, and stomachaches and some other health ailments.Green tea, according to modern nutritionists and herbal medicine experts, can help prevent high blood pressure, cancer, diabetes, heart ailments, skin diseases, and lung ailments.

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