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Healing Herbal Teas: A Complete Guide to Making Delicious, Healthful Beverages

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We use this book a lot in our little tea shop. There are many tea remedies formulas that are very tasty and helpful. The general information on the different plants is very good too! Very complete and clear to understand. Truly a great source book to have handy.

Many people drink herbal teas simply because they are wanting to avoid caffiene. Herbal teas are really a wonderul method of creating natural, gentle, safe, and effective holistic remedies. This book is a lovely introduction to blending (tea) herbs for health and pleasure.

Bar none, this is one of my favorite books. I bought this book some years back, it is no longer in print, worth every cent you have to pay for it and a must have for anyone. If you have ever read a Brigette Mars book of any type of healing, you would have to be ashamed not to own this one. She covers it all so to speak with Medicinal Teas. I recommended this book to my students, customers and to you. A must have book if you really what to know,understand and experience Herbs and using them.

As I drink a lot of herbal tea I was interested in reading more about them! One might think that there is not a lot to say about this subject or at least not a lot one doesn't know but that is not correct at all! This book will become my tea bible and I am sure that I will refer to it often enough! There is a lot of practical information: tea bags or bulk herbs, drying of the herbs, storage, wildcrafting, other uses for herbal teas like baths, topical use, eye washes, beauty, dry herbs versus fresh herbs, the 5 flavors of tea..... Then the author discusses in detail 45 common and less common herbs (maybe all very common for anyone living in the USA). She tells you a lot about each herb, also the very important cautions you should have because we shouldn't think that an herb is an herb and no harm will come from it! The only thing I missed was the explanation is more details of whether the use should be topical or internal. For example, a tea to strengthen vision, should one drink it or use it as eyewash? Or tea against age spots, should one apply it to the age spots of drink it? If it is true that age spots appear because the liver is not working well then both might be true, but it is not clear!

The suggestion to not always boil the water to make the tea but infuse the herbs in cold water either in the sun or moonlight is very interesting! The instructions for the garden are also very welcome! Also the fact that there are many herbs one uses in the kitchen, like basil or parsley but one wouldn't think of making a cup of tea with them.

I have to confess that I don't understand how a tea can be sedative but stimulant at the same time, laxative but also help with diarrhea.... But there must be an explanation for that, maybe because it regulates the body? Another example, Hawthorn tea should be used with caution in case of poor digestion but at the same time is a digestive tea?

As far as fluoride helping strengthening the teeth this is something not all experts agree with. From everything I have read so far it is better to stay away from fluoride and it surely will do more harm than good. The thought that cholesterol is something to be lowered doesn't seem to be very accurate either! Women who live the longest have as a rule higher cholesterol! But these are common beliefs!

Another doubt I have is as far as green tea goes: green tea is an unfermented tea but under the Oolong teas there is the mention to Pouchong tea being used to make Jasmine tea (a green tea) although Pouchong tea is a fermented tea although it ferments less time than most Oolong teas. Another interesting piece of information is the fact that Tea (green, black and Oolong) appear to be hypotensive (lowers blood pressure) but further down you can read that tea should be avoided in case hypertension! Well, if it is hypotensive it would be great for people with high blood pressure?

There are also a lot of idea for blends you can make yourself and even recipes for snacks to eat with your high tea. The glossary at the end is very handy in case you come across any words you are not sure what they mean. All in all, even despite the fact that I had some doubts about the contents, this is a book I am happy I read! The writing style is very agreeable as it flows well without the endless repetitions one often finds in nowadays' health books! A little book but packed with information!

I have used this book as a springboard for my own line of teas, DRINK ME Herbal Medicinal Teas. There is so much information not only about the botanical/pharmacological aspect, but the philisophical/ethereal aspect as well, which I also use in mixing my herbs. A great source for further inquiries into herb lore.

This book is pretty interesting. It contains numerous recipes and these don't include completely exotic materials that you could only obtain by traveling to foreign countries-you can get most of the spices at a health food store or on the Internet. Her opening was very interesting. All in all, it's a respectable read.

All things were good with this book, except that the spine was broken and the bottom three quarters of the book was bent backwards, so it is difficult to turn the pages. This, I believe, is due to the fact that it was handled roughly in the mail. Otherwise, the book came in a good condition like the description the sender meant. It arrived on time and I have no other complaints.