True Brew is made in Plano and sold in stores all over Texas. You can order online but shipping makes it kind of expensive.
Posted on 01/24/2009 1:02:20 AM PST by neverdem
Does anyone here already quaff hybiscus tea on a regular basis? Have you noticed any difference from it — good or bad? Report! :)
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I use hibiscus in herb formulas - it’s tasty when sweetened, it comes in powder form which I use, also the whole flower and cut and sifted pieces. It is a tropical flower, not the pretty kind you see in Hawaii, it’s a smaller variety. It makes a beautiful ruby color tea which can also be drunk cool in the summer.
It is very refrigerant - cooling for summer or fevers or just hot symptoms, good for mental “cooling” as well, infections, over heated blood (a CHinese and Ayurvedic description), good for other organs and systems such as the liver and female system.
It goes very well with some fruit juices such as adding a bit of lemon or lime juice. It’s much cheaper to buy it in bulk by the pound.
Should have added - I don’t have high blood pressure so I can’t comment on that part. But I hate the heat and do drink it a lot in the summer and it definitely helps to cool the body. It also works well combined with peppermint. Hibiscus has a pleasantly fruity sour taste, I prefer it sweetened.
Bookmark to answer later! This a great tea!
This is purely empirical, anecdotal evidence, so take it FWIW, but after a year of trying to get my wife’s BP back to normal levels, guess what seemed to do it?
Fish oil, and vitamin supplements with manganese, calcium, molybdenum, and chromium.
YMMV, and “kids, don’t try this at home...”
Yes, and eating olive oil will add half a century to your life.
The study was supported by the Agricultural Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and by Celestial Seasonings.
Very very old news in China.
You are right on the money about fish oil.
My Chinese Herbal Doc uses this all the time in my “tonics.” I no longer have to take my BP meds. BP was 120/79 yesterday.
Thanks for posting!
True Brew is made in Plano and sold in stores all over Texas. You can order online but shipping makes it kind of expensive.
IMPORTANT NOTE: THERE ARE OVER 200 VARIETIES OF HIBISCUS. Do not assume they are all the same. They aren’t.
I would just about give anything to get off of the HBP meds I've been on. For some reason, they either put me to sleep, affect my mental acuity or give me dizzy spells.
Do you have any links to where I can get more information on this?
Does this tea have caffine or sugar?
Some of the herb teas by Celestial Seasonings at your supermarket use hibiscus. Look for teas that are reddish and read the labels, as the ingredients are listed in order of composition.
Besides, if this study gets much press, the market will respond with high hibiscus content teas in short order. Remember when pomegrante juice was touted as a potential Alzheimer's inhibitor a few years ago? Its easy to find pomegrante juice on the shelves now, but I'd just about never seen it in the supermarket before then.
Caffeine no. Sugar?? Check the website that is linked in my original post. Or buy the Hibiscus tea bags and make it however you like it. Cheaper that way too.
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