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9 Herbs to Cleanse and Renew You

T’s Tonics Renewal Green Tea

cleanse and renew

Cleanse, Recharge & Energize your system naturally with this pleasing green tea blend of All Organic herbs. A robust green tea, with the pleasing zing of ginger and juniper.

Here’s 9 herbs and how they Cleanse and Renew your whole being. They work together synergistically to strengthen each part of your system:

Jasmine Green tea has powerful anti-oxidants and tannins shown to strengthen our immune systems, increase metabolism and energy and help fight bacteria.

Eleuthero (Siberian Ginseng) can help the body cleanse, recharge and respond better to stress. Good for both male and female hormones. Used to treat many conditions including fatigue, insomnia, lethargy, memory, endurance, and immune system.

Pau D’ Arco Cleanses the whole system. It is high in calcium, is a blood purifier and antifungal, and is also helpful in fighting yeast infections and skin problems.

Red clover is high in minerals and cleanses as an excellent blood purifier.

Ginger has been used for digestive disorders, motion sickness, fever and coughing and helps lower cholesterol.

Nettle cleanses the blood and then rebuilds it. It is high in vitamin C and minerals. It also strengthens liver and kidney function. Helpful for allergies.

Olive Leaf cleanses as a natural antibiotic, antioxidant, anti-parasitic and anti-fungal shown to lower blood pressure, cholesterol, help respiratory response and heart and skin health.

Chickweed is high in vitamin C and helps dissolve fat and mucous in the body. Good for skin problems.

Juniper berries act as a diuretic and disinfectant. They strengthen the adrenal glands, blood and kidneys. Good for diabetes. Helps build defense against allergies.

It’s a great way to put a spring in your step and zip in your day! Order Renewal Green Tea Here. Your body with thank you.

Statements are for educational purpose only. Not intended to diagnose, treat or cure and diseases. Created by T’s Tonics.

Why are Teas so Popular Right Now?

6 Reasons Teas Are Popular Right Now:

Tea is flying off the shelves at an all time high lately. What is making teas so quick to sell when January and February are traditionally slow retail months?

Here are 6 reasons for tea’s rising popularity, just for starters:

  1. Baby, it’s cold out there!

    cold!

    cold!

In these cold winter months, wrapping your hands around a steaming mug of tea is more than comforting! Having a hot drink helps take the frosty edge off the hard work of the day. Tea is a great option to other hot drinks because it is low in calories, yet high in healthy benefits such as anti-oxidants, nutritionally dense herbs and natural stimulants/relaxants. It is easy to get, easy to make, and can be steeped again and again.

  1. Health, health, health

    Basket of Herbs

    lots of goodness

People are becoming educated on the many health benefits of tea. Beyond New Years resolutions to start the year out healthier, people are choosing to take personal charge of their health. Healthier food and drink options, in general, are in demand. Tea is one of the easiest, actionable ways to jumpstart and recharge health, because it is just adding a tasty drink into your routine. Drinking tea is an enjoyable way to lighten the load, energize the body systems, detoxify and cleanse, and increase the anti-oxidants and immune boosters to stay healthy through the winter.

  1. Variety

There are so many different kinds of tea and tea blends now available! Blacks, greens, whites, reds, herbals, chai, mates, concentrates, bubble teas and more. Stimulating blacks to start the day, greens and citruses to continue the day, and mellow herbals for relaxing in the evening, there is tea for every occasion, time and season, hot or cold. When you get bored of one variety, just switch it up.

variety

variety

They are also used in more and more specialty foods, cocktails and mixed drinks. Recipes

  1. Millennials

Consumer reports show that over 87% of millennials (those in their teens and twenties) are drinking tea. They are driving the market on specialty blends; preferring organics, loose leaf, green teas and variety.

In fact, consumer reports show that tea sales- specialty teas and loose leaf teas at the top- have increased over the last few years at a growth rate of 5-10 % each year, more than coffee, sodas or other consumables! (http://www.teausa.com/14655/tea-fact-sheet)

  1. Price

When compared to other drinks, the value of tea far outshines, in both price per cup and nutritional quality per drink. Compare to sports drinks in energy and anti-oxidant levels. Compare to coffee beans and sodas. Compare to alcoholic drinks. Even organic, gourmet specialty teas are reasonable and sustainably priced per cup in comparison and many tea leaves can be steeped again and again!2016-02-17 12.06.47 (1)

  1. It’s just plain Good

Amazing flavor, health, variety, mixing ability, price, popularity (tea is the most consumed drink in the world after water), need I say more?

Simple Health Hacks for a Cold-Free Winter

Staying Healthy This Winter – Simple?

Winter has shown up in Central Oregon! Winter HealthSo much so, in fact, that I joked with my friend the other day that “it’s hard to tell Bend from Mt. Bachelor.”  It’s snowed so much in the past month that I’ve been forgetting what everything looked like without a colossal blanket of white over it. However, if you think that a little snow is stopping locals from getting outdoors, you’re wrong. The residents of Bend are as active as ever, because they’re getting creative. How? Just look outside –Bendites these days are getting their errands done by snowboarding and skiing around town!

While you may be one of these winter go-getters, playing in the snow does have its drawbacks if the correct measures aren’t taken first. During the cold weather season, bodies become more susceptible to catching bugs like the cold, the flu and pneumonia. In fact, as you expose yourself to cold weather, your air passages and skin dry out. This means that you become dehydrated faster which makes it all the easier for viruses to sneak in. Now, I know that I’m not the type of person that likes to spend hours mixing up cocktails of vitamins and supplements to find the perfect cold cure. So instead, I’ve found two quick, and ridiculously simple immune fixes that are easy to administer daily at your own home in under a minute.

This first winter health remedy is one that I’ve been loving for external protection –an incredibly handy organic balm by T’s Tonics. It’s called “Grab Salve” and it works on pretty much everything you want to grab it for.

Grab this salve for dry cracked skin and lips

Grab this salve for dry cracked skin and lips

Enthusiastically built for cuts and burns and infections, this salve has proved itself the perfect winter friendly pocket accessory for chapped lips, noses and hands as well. In fact, I’ve successfully used it in place of chapstick probably more times than I’d like to admit! It’s great for cracked heels too. It can be found in Bend at the Patagonia store.

My other favorite winter hack is easily green tea. Loaded with vitamins and nutrients, I’ve made it a point to drink at least one cup per day since fall began. green teaDid you know that one cup of green tea has up to 10% of your vitamin C for the day? To further the healing properties, I’ve been loving adding in a special Jamaican flower called hibiscus. In addition to boasting beautiful pink petals, this flower is wonderful for helping the body with its naturally high vitamin C and antioxidant content. Besides being warming to the soul, green tea with hibiscus is also the perfect way to give your immune system that vital boost! T’s tonics has made a deliciously health-conscious tea that includes both of these goodies, PLUS orange peel, lemon peel, rosehips and more boosters and you can find the link here: Citrus Hibiscus 

Citrus Hibiscus TeaIt’s easy to stay healthy for all the winter fun, all it really takes is a little know how and a couple quick tricks –like tea and a pocket-sized multi-use balm. If you have any stories or quick natural fixes that work for you, feel free to share them in the comments below. After all, exchanging experiences is what helps us grow and stay healthy for the stuff that matters –like skiing, sledding and snowball fights!

contributed by Isabella Moseley

 

Mo-Tea-To Recipe with Lemon Refresh-Mint Tea

Refreshing Mo-Tea-To

This “Mo-Tea-To” green tea version of a Motito was well liked when it made it’s appearance at the Bend Art Walk.

It is a flavorful, sparkly and refreshing drink with a feel-good peppermint finish. The green tea gives the traditional summer time recipe more depth and interest, I think.  People were asking for the Mo-Tea-To recipe, so here it is:

Mo-Tea-Tos

4 oz T’s Tonics Lemon Refresh-Mint Tea, prepared, (follow directions on back).

mo-tea-to Ingredients

mo-tea-to Ingredients

2 Tbs Raw Honey Simple Syrup

2 oz. Spritzer or Sprite

2 slices lime

10 pc. Mint leaves (optional)

2 oz light Rum (optional)

 

It was very easy to make as the T’s Tonics Refresh-Mint Tea itself has the 3 main ingredients of Green Tea, Peppermint and Lemon.

Green Tea Lemon Refresh-Mint

Prepare a cold infusion of lemon Refresh-mint tea.

You can do this by steeping a tea strainer of the tea in 16 oz. (or 1/2 cup for a gallon) of hot water for 4 minutes and then cool it down in fridge with a ziplock bag of ice submerged in it for speed.

You can also make a sun tea by putting 1/8 c lemon Refresh-Mint in a glass jar, activating the leaves with a covering of warm water, then filling the rest of the jar with cool water and placing covered in a sunny window or warm spot for a couple hours until ready.

 

Make a simple syrup. I made a honey mint simple syrup for my recipe.

Here’s how:  A simple syrup is simply made by heating 1 part sugar to 5 parts water.

I used raw local honey instead and steeped a few sprigs of fresh peppermint leaves in it as it was heating. I then strained it honey mint simple syrupinto a glass measuring cup and put it in the fridge to cool.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Slice lemons and limes. I juiced 1 lime and 1/2 lemon to add to my gallon of tea.

tea art

tea art.

Blend the cold tea, spritzer or sprite, some lime juice, the simple syrup and light rum, if desired, together. Add ice cubes, slices of lemon and lime and fresh mint sprigs to garnish.

 

 

 

 

 

Serve and enjoy!

mo-tea-to art walk

Angelinas Organic Skincare art walk

 

10 Herbs for Spring Energy

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10 Herbs for Spring Energy

Spring is all about Energy!

spring energy

spring energy

Yet we naturally feel “sluggish” coming out of the slower time of winter. Our systems need recharged and our blood thinned to be ready for the quickness of spring.

Regardless of the time of year, the one thing I want is to feel energetic and full of life. I especially feel the need for this in the spring. Everything is coming to life again and the juices are stirring, encouraging me to jump and move and create. It seems inspiration is everywhere you look in nature. Baby animals are being born and green is shooting out of the ground. You can feel the added energy in the air. It always inspires me to want to grow too.

Renewal TeaThese 10 herbs  put “Spring” in your step. Let me tell you why:

  • Help recharge and strengthen all of your systems
  • Naturally energize without spiking you adrenals or blood sugar
  • Encourages weight loss by helping dissolve fat and expel mucous.
  • Helps strengthen the kidneys & glands which are weaker in the winter
  • Helps with allergies

The 10 spring helpers are:

Jasmine Green tea has powerful anti-oxidants and tannins shown to strengthen our immune systems, increase metabolism and energy and help fight bacteria.

Eleuthero (formerly known as Siberian ginseng) can help the body respond better to stress.  Good for both male and female hormones and is used to treat many conditions including fatigue, insomnia, lethargy, memory, endurance, and immune system.

Pau D’ Arco is high in calcium, a blood purifier and antifungal, helpful in fighting yeast infections and skin problems.

Red clover is high in minerals and is an excellent blood purifier.

Ginger has been used for digestive disorders, motion sickness, fever and coughing and helps lower cholesterol.

Nettle is a blood purifier high in vitamin C and minerals, strengthens liver and kidney function.  Helpful for allergies.

Olive Leaf is a natural antibiotic, antioxidant, anti-parasitic and anti-fungal shown to lower blood pressure, cholesterol, help respiratory response and heart and skin health.

Chickweed is high in vitamin C and helps dissolve fat and mucous in the body.  Good for skin problems.

Juniper berries act as a diuretic and disinfectant, strengthen the adrenal glands, blood and kidneys.  Good for diabetes.

Stevia leaf is used to treat digestion, liver and intestines as well as being a natural sweetener.

They can be found in our Renewal Tea which is good anytime but was designed for spring. 

Get started on energizing today!green teas

Note: We always and only use all organic herbs for our teas.

Statements are for educational purpose only.  Not intended to diagnose, treat or cure and diseases.  Created by T’s Tonics. All rights reserved.

13 Ways to Help Digestion

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13 tips towards Better Digestion

If it’s true that most “dis-ease starts in the gut”, (as claimed by Dr. Schulze (super tonic), Stanley Burroughs (the Master Cleanser), my childhood doctor, and many others, than it pays to have a healthy gut, literally.

Here are 13 simple herbs, foods and ideas to help, some you probably know, some may be new:

citrus fruit

Citrus fruit for energy

1. Vitamin C:   It’s true. Vitamin C, among other great benefits, can help make you regular. In fact, studies done among the oldest peoples of the world, found one commonality they all share was that they all started their day with fresh (local) fruit and water, (first thing before breakfast). You will see fairly quick results in improved digestion in increasing your intake of fresh fruit or a vitamin C supplement by even 1-2 more a day. (Your can’t overdose on vitamin C, you will just get the “runs” if you have too much.)

“fruit, I must have fruit.” – from Monte Python.

2. Water: This is the one I notice right away. If I haven’t been drinking enough water, things go more difficult. We all know good water lubricates, hydrates, oxygenates, energizes, cleanses and flushes our cells and whole systems. But for me, it is the first thing that gets left behind when I am out of my normal routine, traveling or too busy.
3. Movement: Oxygen and circulation are key to keeping our systems functioning. These are most quickly increased with movement.
4. Probiotics: Good probiotics give your intestines hundreds of little digestion helpers. Who doesn’t want hundreds of entities working on their behalf? Probiotics contribute greatly to a healthy, working gut. Get them in yogurt or kefir or a good probiotic supplement.
5. Fermented foods: Works similar to probiotics above. Sauerkraut, kimchee, kombucha, etc.
6. Vinegar: the powerhouse. A tablespoon of cider vinegar taken after a heavy meal of proteins and fats will help cut the digestion time in half! Taken daily it keeps your pH balanced.
7. Aloe vera: Good for lubricating the digestive tract as well as helping skin, allergies, whole system, internally and externally

aloe vera

aloe vera plant

8. Diatomaceous Earth (Fossil Shell Flour) – can help by cleaning out the gut. It moves through the digestive tract “attracting and absorbing bacteria, fungi, protozoa, viruses, endotoxins, pesticide and drug residues, E. coli, and heavy metals” and passes them out of the body. –explained by and available at bulkherbstore.com
Herbs:
1. Fennel-Good for colic, (used in “Gripe Water” which is great for upset tummies), aids digestion especially when uric acid is a problem, as in gout.
2. Cascara Sagrada –For when you are really constipated. Works well without causing the runs. It restores the tone of the bowel producing a permanent beneficial effect. Best at night on an empty stomach.
3. Safflower – helps to prevent and eliminate uric and lactic acid buildup as well as water retention and so it’s good for gout as well.
4. Ginger root has long been used as a remedy for digestive disorders, nausea, morning sickness, fever and coughing among other things.
5. Peppermint – mild enough for babies, it has been used for centuries to alleviate colic as well as minor bloating, gas, indigestion and digestive problems in all ages.

chamomile

chamomile

Bonus: Chamomile – safe for babies and all ages, mild and restorative. Works well with other herbs. Has calming effect also.

Bonus 2: Slippery Elm bark powder – Not only great for the throat (opera singers love this), Actually coats the stomach lining and strengthens it. Will stop the runs, even safe for babies and animals. Available at the health store.

A lovely way to get as many aids in at a time is in a tea blend such as our Tummy Tea that you can sip thoughout the day.

All systems are different and some herbs work for some types, but may not for you. Hopefully, you have found a gem here to help. “A happy gut makes everything better” so keep exploring, this is just a few suggestions to inspire.

We would love anyones adds and suggestions.