Lavender Tea

[pyrite]

LAVENDER TEA ON ICE: The lavender plant is native to North and East Africa, the Mediterranean, Southern Europe, India and Arabia, but is also now cultivated and grown in such places as the United States and Japan.

The beneficial constituents of lavender include flavonoids, tannins, courmarines, and essential oil containing camphor, geraniol and linalool.

You can get fresh lavender from your local health food store like Whole Foods and even better can order tea from: http://www.harney.com/Details.cfm?Pr...y=38&secondary


Let the tea steep for about 7 to 10 minutes. Then strain, try adding a sweeter, lemon then pour over ice and just enjoy!

Here are a few health benefits attributed to lavender tea: But please know, we all have choices in life and one must do what's best for self! BUT PLEASE NOTICE IT SAY "MAY HELP" I know I love anything lavender!


Tips!
Lavender tea may help ease insomnia.

Lavender tea may help calm nervousness and anxiety. It may also be used to alleviate stress and uplift flagging spirits.

Lavender tea may help treat an upset stomach, as well as flatulence and colic. It may also be used to treat stomach and bowel infections.

Lavender tea may help alleviate depressive and migraine headaches.

Lavender tea, when applied topically, may help alleviate colds, cough, asthma, bronchitis and similar problems in the respiratory system.

Lavender tea may help induce sweating and consequently reduce the body temperature during fever. —

[Alpha]

This looks amazingly delicious and the color is stunning.

Wonder if the tea tastes like lavender?

I have a lavender plant in my yard...wonder if I can dry the leaves and make tea out of them??

[pyrite]

This looks amazingly delicious and the color is stunning.

Wonder if the tea tastes like lavender?

I have a lavender plant in my yard...wonder if I can dry the leaves and make tea out of them??

they use the blossoms to make the tea as far as i know ...you can buy dried blossoms....i love the taste of lavenders and roses...so tea made from dried rose petals would be good too

http://www.herbalcom.com/store.php3?...es&lett=i-lI-L
just one of many sites selling dried or powdered lavender

[Dera]

I went to a fashion show on the Washington State Peninsula. I think we were in the outskirts of the town of Sequim. (pronounced "squim" without the "e"). It was held in a remarkably lovely old big restored home in the middle of fields of miles and miles of lavender. The fashions were clothes from the 1800s and very gorgeous. I can't imagine that those women were so tiny--their waists were teensy weensy--no wonder the romance novels say they were a man's "hand-span" size.

After seeing all of the spectacular dresses and accessories, we had tea and cookies in the parlor. It was hot lavender tea and had lavender blossoms baked right into the cookies. Probably quite delicious once you become accustomed to it. Just OK in my inexperienced opinion - but very fun!

I'd love to live in Sequim if it wasn't so far from my friends and loved ones. It is a very beautiful part of the world. It is protected by the Olympic mountains from the bad weather that the area is generally famous for. Over on the Pacific Coast where I camp hosted is more known for its rain forest and all of the peeps have webbed feet and grow mold and mildew on them over there. But it is absolutely gorgeous, scenic and cool all summer. I thought it was like living in a picture postcard.

http://www.sequimwa.gov/ It has become a very popular retirement community as people found out about it--and as being in a "premium" area, prices have gone up accordingly. Sigh.

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