Use:Cold, Fever.Ingredients

1 ounce dried Elder Flowers
1 ounce dried Peppermint Leaves
½ pint distilled water

Procedure

Mix the herbs. Place in a quart saucepan. Pour 1/2 pints of distilled boiling water over it. Cover and allow to steep in a hot place for 10 to 15 minutes (do not boil). When ready, strain into another saucepan. Sweeten with honey if desired.

Note: Once covered for steeping, do not raise the lid, as this will cause it to lose some of its strength.

Recommended Dose:

Take this in bed, well covered with blankets to retain the heat.
For severe colds and fevers, drink one pint as hot as possible, and remain in bed, well covered.
For children: one half to one cup.

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Once upon a time - way back there in the early '70's - herbal tea was introduced to the American market. Tea drinkers complained that herbal tea wasn't really tea at all and that it should be called an infusion or like the French, a tisane. But the majority agreed, if it looks, acts and brews like tea, but it's caffeine-free and made from herbs, it's simply herbal tea. Along came the '90's and Caroline MacDougall created Teeccino, a new herbal beverage that looks, acts and tastes just like coffee, plus it's caffeine-free. In the beginning, she called Teeccino an herbal espresso because she began brewing it in an espresso machine, but finally it dawned on her that everyone was brewing Teeccino whichever way they preferred to brew coffee. Of course, she realized, Teeccino is herbal coffee! It was one of those things that after you say it, it's so obvious, you wonder what took you so long.

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Iced tea is a summertime staple for many, but what about using herbal tea instead? This alternative gives the tea drinker a wider variety of flavors to choose from and can be much healthier.
Sun Tea
When the sun is shining making sun tea is a fun, family affair! Choose a large glass jar, either made for sun tea or a big pickle jar washed very well. If just one or two people will be enjoying the tea use a quart jar instead.
For a gallon:
4 herbal tea bags
Fill with filtered water, leaving room at the top to add sweetner if desired
Honey, natural sugar or stevia - sweeten to taste
Add the herbal tea bags and water to the jar and place in a sunny window or outside on a secure step in full sun. Children, and adults, love watching the colors of the herbal tea bags swirl out into the water. Depending on the tea blend and sun strength let brew for several hours. Add sweetener if desired, local honey is said to help with strengthen the immune system against allergies.
Delicious Herbal Iced Tea with Fruit Juice
Try something different by combining a favorite herbal tea with a complimenting fruit juice. The Moosewood Restaurant New Classics cookbook [Clarkson Potter 2001] recommends combining flavors such as:
Spearmint with apple raspberry juice Chamomile with peach juice Lemon zinger with apple juice and a pinch of cinnamon Iced Chai Tea.

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Many alternative medicine health care providers feel that using certain herbal teas during pregnancy is a great way to support optimal pregnancy health. Herbal teas can often provide an additional source of nutrients such as calcium, magnesium, and iron. However, due to the lack of studies on most herbs, the FDA encourages caution when consuming herbal teas.

To understand which herbal teas are safe to consume during pregnancy, let’s first look at the different types of teas and how they are made.

Difference in Teas: Non-herbal and Herbal Teas
There are two different types of teas, non-herbal and herbal. The non-herbal teas can also be broken down into 3 categories: black, green, and oolong.

Non-Herbal Tea
Black tea is the most common type of non-herbal tea, including blends such as English breakfast, Earl Grey, and Orange Pekoe.
Green tea has a more delicate taste than black tea; the oolong teas are a combination of green and black tea.

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It has developed, changed and been refined numerous times over the centuries as the causes of illness and disease processes have been discovered. In its native country it is not viewed as alternative medicine, but instead is used in hospitals to complement more modern medical treatments.

For thousands of years, Chinese herbal remedies have been used to treat all kinds of diseases around the world, but are just now gaining some measure of mainstream approval with Western physicians and patients.

The reason that Chinese herbal medicine works is the simple knowledge that health is more than just the absence of disease, it also involves keeping the body in a condition to properly fight disease and the mind balanced and clear. A doctor that specializes in Chinese herbal remedies will treat the symptoms you are currently having, but the traditional view places the greatest importance on preventing disease before it occurs.

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One May, I spent a few days in San Diego visiting a friend. She took me to a taco stop where I tried a drink called Jamaica Ole. I was pleasantly surprised and said, “What’s Jamaica Ole?” pronouncing it like the Caribbean country. Laughing, my friend explained it was pronounced “ha-my-kah” and the “Ole” was just a sugary brand name.
Jamaica or Hibiscus tea is an herbal infusion from the flower, Hibiscus sabdariffa. It is popular in Latin America and many other countries around the globe. It has a beautiful red hue and a tangy, almost punch-like taste. Often, ginger is added to the steeping process, but sugar, clove, cinnamon, and nutmeg can also be added. Rum is a sassier additive. When traveling in Mexico, asking for iced tea often means you will be served Jamaica.

If the above descriptions haven’t convinced you to try it, perhaps a recent health finding will. Hibiscus tea has been linked with lowering blood pressure. As reported by WebMD, one study found that 3 cups of the herbal tea a day lowered blood pressure in research subjects by an average of 7 points. Apparently, this effect is comparable to the effects of regular blood pressure meds. Researchers are still trying to determine if the effects will be long-term.

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There are whole systems of medicine that are complete in and of themselves. Naturopathic medicine is one of those systems. Naturopathy focuses on creating and maintaining health.
The practice of naturopathy is based on six key principles:
1. Promote the healing power of nature.
2. First do no harm. Naturopathic practitioners choose therapies with the intent to keep harmful side effects to a minimum and not suppress symptoms.
3. Treat the whole person. Practitioners believe a person's health is affected by many factors, such as physical, mental, emotional, genetic, environmental, and social ones. Practitioners consider all these factors when choosing therapies and tailor treatment to each patient.
4. Treat the cause. Practitioners seek to identify and treat the causes of a disease or condition, rather than its symptoms. They believe that symptoms are signs that the body is trying to fight disease, adapt to it, or recover from it.
5. Prevention is the best cure. Practitioners teach ways of living that they consider most healthy and most likely to prevent illness.
6. The physician is a teacher. Practitioners consider it important to educate their patients in taking responsibility for their own health.
A naturopathic doctor (ND) can be your primary care physician. NDs speak and understand the language of conventional medicine yet have a very refreshing and kind approach to treating their patients.. Among the most common ailments they treat are allergies, chronic pain, digestive issues, hormonal imbalances, obesity, respiratory conditions, heart disease, fertility problems, menopause, adrenal fatigue, cancer, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. NDs can perform minor surgeries, such as removing cysts or stitching up small surface wounds. They do not practice major surgery. NDs are trained to utilize prescription drugs, although the emphasis of naturopathic medicine is the use of natural healing agents.

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What is Acne?
Acne is the scientific term for what we normally call pimples, blackheads, whiteheads or nodules that form on the face, chest, upper back or shoulders. Acne sufferers experience persistent, recurring reddish blemishes on the face, chest, shoulders, neck, upper back or buttocks. When these blemishes are spots that have a dark, open center, they are called blackheads. Whiteheads are spots that bulge under the skin and have no opening. Pimples, on the other hand, are whiteheads that rupture. The boil-like lumps are called nodules.

Around three-quarters of all teenagers and young adults suffer from acne. However, men and women in their 30s and 40s can also suffer.The exact cause of acne remains unclear but more is known about how the spots that are part of acne form. And there are more and more treatments to help deal with this distressing condition.

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Get your dream body the natural way – with Birt&Tang and Elemis.

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Birt&Tang Pu’er tea with camomile offers the perfect aid to slimming. A favourite of Victoria Beckham’s, it is known for increasing the metabolism, reducing cholesterol levels, and digesting fatty foods.

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Herbal Ice "San Huang San" is composed of three cooling Chinese herbs that reduce inflammation while dispersing congealed blood and fluids. This is the single most useful herbal poultice for your first aid trauma kit! This is most helpful for immediate sprains, strains, turned ankles, muscle pulls, twisted wrists or severe contusions. Where ever you would use ice, this should be substituted right away.

When an injury occurs, blood will stagnate in the muscle tissue and often does not reabsorb back into the system. The blood can congeal and harden, adhering the muscle fibers together and blocking normal circulation in normal areas, creating pain and stiffness. Applying ice, can exacerbate this injury in the long term.

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