Healing Teas: A Practical Guide to the Medicinal Teas of the World -- from Chamomile to Garlic, from Essiac to Kombucha

Product Description A complete guide to medicinal teas from around the world and their amazing healing powers For thousands of years, cultures throughout the world have known the healing power of teas.  Tea has been used as a holistic treatment for a host of illnesses, from arthritis to migraines, and is a time-tested all natural path to overall health and wellness. Healing Teas is a complete, easy-to-follow and informative guide, blending together proper methods of preparing teas with the latest scientific research into their homeopathic qualities. Healing Teas also provides a unique A-Z guide to herbs, individual brews, and home remedies. From essiac to kombucha, chamomile to garlic, learn to prepare teas from around the world—and maximize your health. About the Author Marie Nadine Antol has more than 15 titles to her credit, including Healing Teas, The Incredible Secrets of Mustard, and Confessions of a Coffee Bean. She lives in the Los Angeles area. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. ACKNOWLEDGMENTSI AM DEEPLY INDEBTED to the following people for sharing their expertise on various healing tea protocols:First and foremost, I am most particularly grateful to Morgana, proprietress and guiding light of The Raven of Venice, California. She was my primary consultant on the American and European brewing herbs that comprise most of the healing teas in this book. Her vast knowlege of herbology, coupled with her long experience in dispensing the very finest of brewing herbs through her shop, made her counsel invaluable. Morgana not only read the manuscript with her expert eye, she provided some very real insight on a number of teas that I might have missed. This book is much, much richer than it would have been had she not been kind enough to give me so much time.Thanks also go to the staff members at the Ayurvedic Health Center of Pacific Palisades, California, for supplying me with so much information on East Indian teas and the traditional healing herbs of India, and for a guided tour of their impressive facility.My experienced consultant on the centuries-old whole-body tonic teas of China was James Rea-Bailey, who dispenses knowledge and Chinese healing teas at the Tea Garden Herbal Emporium of Venice and West Hollywood, California. His willingness to take time to discuss these sustaining and health-promoting teas with me is very much appreciated.I appreciate, too, the efforts of David Porrello at Avery Publishing, who labored to make the measurements in this book consistent and accurate.PREFACEMY LOVE AFFAIR with tea began a very long time ago. I not only enjoy teas of all kinds, I appreciate their gentle effects. The earliest “treatment” my mother applied when one of us felt ill was a “nice cup of tea.” She believed there was nothing a good brew couldn’t fix. Considering everything I’ve discovered in the past twenty years, it seems as if mother was right.Many years ago, I became personally interested in the healing power of teas. At that time, my niece experienced a dramatic turnaround in her health through diet and herb teas. Nutrition’s role in health was not being discussed much back in the early ’70s. I began to wonder what else medical science might have missed. Thus began my lifelong investigation of natural medicinals.I have often wished for a book that included good basic information on healing teas. I’ve done a lot of research and have yet to find a single source that told me everything I needed to know. It’s taken me a long time to piece everything together. In one way or another, in a purely personal “family” way, I’ve been “working” on this material for over twenty years now.My immediate family has benefited countless times from a combination of healing teas and modern medicine. All four of my adult children still call home for advice on natural medicinals whenever something goes wrong. I’m a grandmother now. My small Number One (and only) grandson has already benefite