Kombucha Tea

A friend of ours who we hadn't seen for a number of years brought over from Libya-his home country- some Chinese green tea.The actual type is gunpowder,Temple of Heaven. Now as I am an avid consumer of herb teas,such as fennel and camomile,and rarely drink our insipid ordinary teas out of a teabag,I was delighted.You make in an ordinary teapot,which is now a novelty in itself these days,and do not use milk,otherwise it is ruined.It has a lovely mellow taste,not strong at all,and I find it really invigorating. It has not got that heavy feeling that our teas leave you with,and a strange after taste.This is light,with very little aroma at all,if any. ...

I was introduced to the little known kombucha tea a year ago. It is basically a mushroom/culture that grows on a mixture of sweet tea and vinegar, you simply drain off the tea when it has fermented and start again. You are meant to drink the tea daily, gradually increasing your intake to the equivelent of a wine glass a day. I say gradually, because it has very effective cleansing qualities and you will find that you sweat out and urinate out a lot of crap in the first week or so, but that is just one sign of how effective it is. Since I've been using Kombucha tea I have never had a cold, my insomnia is practically non-existent, and my ...