Tea
today home made iced tea. protection/healing tea.. after this week i needed it.
i used
rose hips,Rose buds & petals (red): Healing, Health, Love, Luck, Creativity, Balance, Anointing, Divination, Clairvoyance, Protection, Psychic Awareness.
Parsley (Petroselinium sativum) – Healing Drink
Parsley settles stomachs after meals. If also helps clear congestion due to colds and is soothing for asthma. To use: make a strong tea using1 teaspoon dried, ground parsley in 1 cup hot water. Let steep 10-15 minutes. Take once a day.
Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) – Healing Drink
Rosemary is used for most head pains. To use: as tea, to relieve nervous tension, make a strong tea.
also good for: Rub rosemary essential oil on the temples to relieve headaches.
Mix essential oils or leaves with olive oil to make a dandruff treatment.
Chamomile:
Love, healing, and reducing stress, success, remove hexes, curses and spells.
(“athair talamh” – father of the ground)
One of the finest healing
herbs, has been used for centuries. Good for stomach disorders,
anti-inflammatory for wounds, sedative for nervous disorders.
Anise: a spice
Purification, Protection, entices spirits to aid in spells, divination, psychic awareness, youth.
http://www.answers.com/topic/anise-seed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anise
Anise is the dried ripe fruit of the herb Pimpinella anisum. The crescent shaped seeds are unmistakably identified by their distinctive licorice-like flavor. Anise is not related to the European plant whose roots are the source of true licorice.
Anise is native to the Middle East and has been used as a medicine, and as a flavor for medicine, for many centuries. In China, Anise Seed is known as Huei-hsiang. Ancient Romans hung Anise plants near their pillows to prevent bad dreams. They also used Anise to aid digestion and ward off epileptic attacks. Colonists in the New World used it as a medicinal crop as well. The Anise seed is used as an expectorant, to assist digestion, fight infections and enhance milk production. It is also helpful for menopausal symptoms.
and a blend of loose tea we got at the Griffin Tea room in Savannah GA.
you heat the water to a rolling boil
then geta tall glass, pitcher, or rinsed juice bottle.
and put into it
what you want of each of the ingerdiants.
i like a little extra anise for a licorice taste..
