An Introduction, and My Newest Tea Discovery

 

This is the tea I drank tonight that finally inspired me to start this: my first blog on my adventures with discovering holistic and traditional medicines (as well as the idea of using diet to help control my ailments). So after trying only a few teas, and finding this one to be the best one so far, I figured it would be a good post to start with.

My initial interest in medicinal herbs was actually started with an onion (we'll get to that story another day), but a close second is my lungs. Anyone who knows me knows that I have a pretty bad case of chronic asthma, and that having no insurance certainly doesn't help anything. I have done a handful of things to ease my pain, and to minimize my inhaler usage (my OTC inhaler actually says that it destroys the ozone...), but I have found that tea is one of the single most helpful things when it comes to asthma.

As you have probably noticed, I chose the domain name of "SteepFor10Minutes" for this particular blog, and there is an amazing reason behind that. If you are drinking tea, any kind of tea, and what to take advantage of the healing properties of that tea, to make it 'medicinal strength', you must steep the tea bag for at least 10 minutes. Most boxes of tea suggest 2 - 3 minutes, but not Traditional Medicinals. These guys actually SUGGEST a 10 - 15 minute steep time (so you know they mean business).

The actual taste of this tea is rather earthy (as opposed to the Yogi 'Breathe Easy" tea which wins the taste test between these two, as it tastes like orange Pez!) However, a little honey goes a long way, and even I could manage to drink it without anything in it (although the tea box reassures you that honey may actually ENHANCE it's effects, something I will certainly have to look into later).

It's a little expensive for tea (just over $5 for a box of 16 tea bags), but so far I think it's totally worth it. My chest congestion cleared up immediately, along with any other wheezing I had. The tea box and bags even look medicinal, which is very reassuring to be drinking a medicinal tea made by people who specialize in that area. This yea (like almost every other respiratory tea) uses licorice and eucalyptus, which helps with coughing and chest congestion, and is almost immediately effective.

I have yet to try any other kind of their tea, but now that I know who they are, and what they do, I am certainly going to keep my eye out for more of them and their teas.