If you’re feeling heavy and dull, give your digestive fire a little boost.

Fresh ginger and fennel seed do the work of stoking digestive fire and promoting heat and movement.

Try this simple digestive tea to get things moving. I make a hot pot in the morning and store in a thermos to sip throughout the day...⁠

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It’s time to leap into spring! Soon, flowers will be blossoming. Generating heat and movement internally will support balancing the cold, wet and heavy qualities of spring. While helping to prevent common spring imbalances such as congestion, sluggishness and stiffness. A natural antidote for producing internal warmth to break-up and move stagnation within the body are heating spices.

The flavors and aromas will inspire cooking. While their medicinal qualities will bless the meal with the ability to help heal.

Tisane tea is an herbal tea made from parts of a particular plant. “Tisane” and “herbal tea” are the same thing. The correct term in the tea industry for teas made from anything outside of the tea plant (Camellia sinensis) is a “tisane.”

The tea and herbal industries market tisanes as a tea; however, tisanes are not a true tea.