When it comes to herbal teas I go through stages with them. Sometimes I love them and sometimes I hate them but always I prefer flipping normal tea to be totally honest with you lol! However I do like teas that promise to help my body and my mind and give them a whirl quite often. I do drink alot of fennel tea which I really do actually enjoy which aids digestion (works for me anyway!). It's the only tea (other than ordinary) that I can honestly say I would go into say a cafe and order (if of course they had it). I would love to be someone who genuinely liked herbal and fruit infusions because even if they don't do anything for you as such they are just plants ...  Read the complete review

A short while ago I went a bit crazy with tea reviews - my aim was to find the ultimate 'healthy but drinkable' tea, and my quest led me to some unusual concoctions. Easily the most hideous was 'Dr Stuart's Detox', which I found to be the most evil tasting drink ever to have passed my lips; whilst the most pleasant were the teas which comprised Twinings 'A Moment of Calm' range. I recently realized that I hadn't reviewed any camomile tea, and so purchased a box of Twinings Pure Camomile which costs 95p for 20 teabags from Tesco. The product is available from the majority of supermarkets, and can also be found in a selection of health food ...  Read the complete review

BACKGROUND INFORMATION Due to my constant lack of energy I had decided to try a new eating plan, which my sister Helen had recommended; this involved cutting out wheat, yeast, milk and all stimulants. I must admit I do like my cups of tea so I thought this was going to be a real problem for me, but not at all. Helen had kindly left some camomile tea bags in my kitchen so I decided to try one, not expecting too much from it at all. I was very pleasantly surprised so read on for the details. PRODUCT The name of the product is Twinings Pure Camomile Tea. They are currently priced at 86p for a box of 20 or two boxes for £1.40 in Tesco's. They ...  Read the complete review

"It is profitable for all sorts of agues that come either from phlegm, or melancholy, or from an inflammation of the bowels, being applied when the humours causing them shall be concocted". Camomile; and this is only an extract from the list of its uses Nicholas Culpeper gave us in his "Complete Herbal". Ok, Culpeper wrote this in the 1640's, but he talks about the same Camomile that Twinings, Heath and Heather, and various healthfood shops sell in their tea-bags. Camomile 'tea' has been used for its very mild sedative properties for ages. To call it a tea is a misnomer, as in fact it is a herbal 'tisane' or weak infusion ...  Read the complete review

I thought for a moment that Camomile Tea didn’t have its own category, as I was looking in the herbal bit, but phew! It’s here - as it is really the epitome of the wishy-washy, arty-farty image of herbal tea. (I know it’s in “Floral Tea” but flowers count as herbs too, really!) Its name conjures up a delightful scene of barmy little old ladies sitting round a table with a doily in the middle, picking pink fondant fancies from a silver tiered cake stand. I started drinking camomile tea in my teens, when the stresses of combined GCSEs and PMT led me to sample its reputed calming properties. Then, at university, I discovered that it ...  Read the complete review