Moroccan Mint Tea |
1. Fill a glass half way with mint leaves.
2. Add a spoonful of gunpowder tea to a tea pot. Fill with boiling water. Add honey or sugar to taste.
3. Pour the tea from a high distance above the glass to make bubbles in the tea. Moroccans will typically pour the tea into a glass and then back into the pot three times to help the brewing.
4. Mix in sage, lemon balm, or other herbs for unique flavors.
5. Serve piping hot and sip slowly.
"He who rushes is already dead."
Berber Proverb related to the Moroccan Mint Tea ceremony.
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Active Ingredients: Green Tea, Water, Mint, Honey
Active Ingredients: Honey, Water, Green Tea, Mint
Active Ingredients: Green Tea, Mint, Honey
Active Ingredients: Green Tea, Mint, Honey
Active Ingredients: Mint, Honey, Green Tea
Active Ingredients: Green Tea, Honey
Each dosha reflects a distinct metabolic nature and describes strengths & weaknesses in bodily function, and how these affect energy levels, digestion, susceptibility to disease, and many other tendencies.
Your metabolic nature not only affects your physical characteristics, but also influences your mental thought patterns, confidence, and enthusiasm.
Ayurveda balances these metabolic strengths & weaknesses to support your body's vitality and prevent recurrent disease cycles. This support is a critical aid, especially in chronic or incurable disease conditions.
The 3 metabolic body types (doshas), are Catabolic (Vata), Metabolic (Pitta), and Anabolic (Kapha).
Through dosha, Ayurveda empowers people to identify metabolic imbalances early, break repetitive patterns of disease, and cultivate habits that support long-term vitality and well-being.
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Active Ingredients: Green Tea, Mint
MILD QUENCHES-THIRST An herb or substance that relieves thirst.
Active Ingredients: Water
MILD RELIEVES-BURNING Herbs that soothe a burn or reduce an internal burning sensation, such as aloe vera.
Active Ingredients: Water
Active Ingredients: Mint, Green Tea
Active Ingredients: Mint, Green Tea
Active Ingredients: Mint, Green Tea
MILD DOPAMINERGIC Dopamine lifts mood, but also reduces prolactin, follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), and lutenizing hormone (LH).
Active Ingredients: Mint
Active Ingredients: Mint, Green Tea
STRONG STIMULATES-ENERGY This category groups thyroid and adrenal stimulating herbs.
Active Ingredients: Mint, Green Tea, Honey
Active Ingredients: Mint, Green Tea
MILD REFRESHES-SKIN Flushes the lymphatic system to cool, awaken, and revive the skin.
Active Ingredients: Mint
MILD DIAPHORETIC An herb that induces sweating, often by dilating blood vessels close to the skin.
Active Ingredients: Mint
MILD CARDIAC-STIMULANT Herbs that increase the heart rate. Useful in cardiovascular health, blood stagnation, and subjective feeling of heaviness in the chest area.
Active Ingredients: Green Tea
MILD DIURETIC Herbs that promote urine formation, thereby flushing the kidneys and urinary tract while eliminating any excess water retention. As diuretics reduce water retention, they are often used to reduce blood pressure.
Active Ingredients: Green Tea
MILD LOWERS-THYROID Reduces thyroid function. Useful for people with hyperthyroid.
Active Ingredients: Green Tea
STRONG COUMARIN Moderately toxic, vascular tonic, hypotensive, and anti-inflammatory.
Active Ingredients: Green Tea, Honey, Mint
Active Ingredients: Green Tea, Mint
MILD 5A-REDUCTASE-INHIBITOR Active Ingredients: Green Tea
MILD TANNINS Active Ingredients: Green Tea
MILD CATECHINS Antioxidant that reduces cancer and blood clots, dilates blood vessels, and is antimicrobial.
Active Ingredients: Green Tea
MILD QUERCITIN Active Ingredients: Green Tea
MILD ROSMARINIC-ACID Inhibits autoantibodies from binding to TSH receptors in the thyroid.
Active Ingredients: Mint
MILD SALICYLATES Salicylates relieve inflammation, are anti-cancer, and antidiabetic, but some are allergic to it.
Active Ingredients: Green Tea
MILD POLYPHENOLS Polyphenols are powerful antioxidants seen in many fruits and vegetables. There are more than 8,000 types.
Active Ingredients: Green Tea
MILD AROMATASE-INHIBITOR Blocks estrogen synthesis by inhibiting conversion of progesterone and testosterone into estrogen.
Active Ingredients: Honey
MILD CAFFEINE-METHYLXANTHINES Methylxanthines are purine alkaloids that have a stimulant and bronchodilating effect.
Active Ingredients: Green Tea
MILD FLAVONOIDS Flavonoids are a colorful type of polyphenol. As all polyphenols, they have a strong antioxidant effect. Many flavonoids have an anti-inflammatory, and/or antiallergen effect.
Active Ingredients: Green Tea
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John's hobbies & specialties include advanced digestive disorders, virtue psychology through classical & Christian philosophy, languages, cooking & botany. He holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harvard University. John, his wife Natalie, and their 8 kids live in Asheville, NC.
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