Why Drink Herbal Tea?

In the early 1990s I attended a seminar where the well-known herbalist rosemary gladstar was speaking on the importance of herbal tea. She was impassioned that tea, used for our comfort, health, and healing was becoming a lost art. It made a big impression on me and I have carried her words and her passion about tea with me ever since. tea seems so simple and unimposing that it often loses its place in the repertoire of our self care. I am here to remind us of Rosemary’s mission and vision that tea regain its rightful place, providing us with love and easily absorbed vitamins and minerals, supplied from our mother earth. ...Tamy

“Herbalism is not merely a replacement for modern allopathic medicine, but offers an entirely different system of healing. When one tries to superimpose herbalism over the Western allopathic system of healing, herbalism loses much of its potency. In truth, there is little separation between health and vitality or sickness, or between medicine and food. That is, perhaps, where herbs are strongest, their potency most revealed, their natural healing most profound — in the daily use of herbs as food and as beverage tea for health and wellbeing. ‘An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure’ is certainly true of herbal medicine and other forms of holistic healing…

Have you thought deeply about that beverage tea you’re drinking? Those herbs are grown from the heart of the Mother; they are gifts that capture memories, create moods, evoke the exotic or carry to the heart what’s familiar and homey. Those herbs are nourished by seasons and cycles of many moon risings, sunsets, lightning bolts and storms. Who knows what divine mystery is implanted in the memory code of that plant? Into the teapot it goes, stirred with a touch of your magic, brewed with divine water.” …Rosemary gladstar - herbalist