Relax With Natural Organic Herbal Bedtime Tea
Sleep is an important part of good health, and Yogi Bedtime® Tea, made from certified organic ingredients that are backed by centuries of traditional medicinal use, is a natural way to help relax for good night's rest.
When referring to tea, most think of a beverage made from hot or boiling water and leaves or leaf buds of Camellia sinensis. The most common of these are black tea, oolong tea, green tea, white tea, and pu-erh tea which normally contain caffeine.
Yogi Bedtime® Tea is an herbal tea which contains neither Camellia sinensis, nor caffeine. Instead, herbs that have long been considered natural sedatives and relaxants, Chamomile, Passion Flower, Skullcap, St. John's Wort and Valerian Root are combined with Licorice, Cardamom and Cinnamon to create delicious, warming flavor just right for drinking before bedtime.
A Little Yogi Tea History
Spiritual leader Yogi Bhajan (1929 - 2004), famous for introduced Kundalini Yoga and Sikhism to the United States in the late 1960's, would serve his students a traditional tea made from cardamom seed, cinnamon bark, clove bud, ginger root and black pepper. It is believed in traditional Ayurvedic medicine that these spices have unique healing properties when used together.
His students began referring to it as "Yogi Tea" and when some of them started the Golden Temple Vegetarian Restaurants in the 1970's, Yogi Tea was served to their customers.
By the mid 1980's, the Yogi Tea Company was distributing three teas based on the original formula to health food stores. The company has continued to grow and expand it line of teas ever since.
Yogi Tea has also shown a dedication to the health and well-being to their customers by using the highest quality ingredients, most are certified Organic by Quality Assurance International. Their tea blends are based ancient yogic wisdom using herbal knowledge from around the world.
The Five Spices
The Ayurvedic Spices In Original Yogi Tea
Black cardamom - is a plant in the family Zingiberaceae. Its seed pods have a strong, smoky, camphor-like flavor.Amomum - commonly known as black cardamom, brown cardamom, Kravan, Java cardamom, Bengal cardamom, Siamese cardamom, white or red cardamom.
Unlike green cardamom, this spice is rarely used in sweet dishes. Its smoky flavor and aroma derive from traditional methods of drying over open flames.
Amomum is used as a spice and as an ingredient in traditional medicine in systems of the traditional Chinese medicine in China, in Ayurveda in India, Japan, Korea and Vietnam.
-- Amomum related entries
from Wikipedia
(Image: Amomum subulatum Black Cardamom seed pods.
Photographed by Brian Arthur.)
Cinnamon - a small evergreen tree 10 - 15 metres (32.8 - 49.2 feet) tall, belonging to the family Lauraceae, and is native to Sri Lanka.The name cinnamon is correctly used to refer to Ceylon cinnamon, also known as true cinnamon. However, the related species, Cassia, Saigon Cinnamon, and Cinnamomum burmannii are sometimes sold labeled as cinnamon.
Cinnamon bark is widely used as a spice. It is principally employed in cookery as a condiment and flavoring material.
In medicine it acts like other volatile oils and once had a reputation as a cure for colds. It has also been used to treat diarrhea and other problems of the digestive system. Cinnamon is high in antioxidant activity. The essential oil of cinnamon also has antimicrobial properties, which can aid in the preservation of certain foods.
-- Cinnamon
from Wikipedia
(Image: © Luc Viatour GFDL/CC)
Cloves - The aromatic dried flower buds of a tree in the family Myrtaceae. Cloves are native to Indonesia and India and used as a spice in cuisine all over the world.Cloves are used in Ayurveda called Lavang in India, Chinese medicine and western herbalism and dentistry where the essential oil is used as an anodyne (painkiller) for dental emergencies.
Cloves are used to combat flatulence by increasing hydrochloric acid in the stomach and to improve contraction of smooth muscles in the digestive tract.
Cloves are also said to be a natural way to expel parasitic worms from the body.
The essential oil is used in aromatherapy when stimulation and warming are needed, especially for digestive problems.
Topical application over the stomach or abdomen are said to warm the digestive tract.
-- Clove
from Wikipedia
(Image: Dried Clove Buds
Photographed by Brian Arthur.)
Ginger - a spice which is used for cooking and is also consumed whole as a delicacy or medicine. It is the underground stem of the ginger plant, Zingiber officinale.Its actual name is Root Ginger. It is commonly referred to as ginger, as the meaning is well known.
The medical form of ginger historically was called "Jamaica ginger"; it was classified as a stimulant and carminative, and used frequently for dyspepsia and colic. It was also frequently employed to disguise the taste of medicines.
Ginger is on the FDA's 'generally recognized as safe' list, though it does interact with some medications, including warfarin.
Ginger is contraindicated in people suffering from gallstones as the herb promotes the release of bile from the gallbladder.
Ginger may also decrease joint pain from arthritis, though studies on this have been inconsistent, and may have blood thinning and cholesterol lowering properties that may make it useful for treating heart disease.
-- Ginger
from Wikipedia
(Image: 25.4 pound ginger root
US Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center)
Black pepper - a flowering vine in the family Piperaceae, cultivated for its fruit, which is usually dried and used as a spice and seasoning.Dried ground pepper is one of the most common spices in European cuisine and its descendants, having been known and prized since antiquity for both its flavour and its use as a medicine.
Black peppercorns figure in remedies in Ayurveda, Siddha and Unani medicine in India.
The 5th century Syriac Book of Medicines prescribes pepper for such illnesses as constipation, diarrhea, earache, gangrene, heart disease, hernia, hoarseness, indigestion, insect bites, insomnia, joint pain, liver problems, lung disease, oral abscesses, sunburn, tooth decay, and toothaches.
Pepper is one of the few medicines allowed to be carried by a Buddhist monk.
-- Black pepper
from Wikipedia
(Image:Dried_Peppercorns.jpg)
Bedtime® Tea
Yogi Tea
Yogi Organic Bedtime® Tea is a safe, gentle, and delicious way to help you get a restful night's sleep.Valerian and other calming herbs included in this organic formula have been used for centuries to naturally promote sleep. Valerian itself has been prescribed to treat insomnia since at least the time of the Roman Empire.
Bedtime® Tea also includes organic chamomile, which has been used for thousands of years to treat many conditions, including sleeplessness and anxiety.
Mild relaxants such as organic St. John's wort and passion flower are also included in this formula. St. John's wort is widely used as a low-cost, natural, herbal anti-depressant. Native Americans in North America have a long history of using the leaves and roots of the passion flower plant. It has been used to treat insomnia, hysteria, and epilepsy.
This tea is also enhanced with organic skullcap, which has been used traditionally as a mild sedative and nerve tonic by Native Americans.
INGREDIENTS: Organic Licorice Root, Organic Spearmint Leaf, Organic Chamomile Flower, Organic Skullcap Leaf, Organic Cardamom Seed, Organic Cinnamon Bark, Organic St. John's Wort Leaf and Flower, Organic Rose Hip, Natural Orange Flavor, Organic Raspberry Leaf, Valerian Root Extract, Organic English Lavender Flower, Stevia Leaf, Passion Flower Extract.
Note: Statements about the health effects of this tea have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
Yogi Tea Calm, Bedtime, Tea Bags, 16-Count Boxes (Pack of 6) [Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging]
- Six .85-ounce boxes, each containing 16 tea bags (total of 96 tea bags, 5.1 ounces)
- Natural sleep aid, features valerian and St. John's wort
- Certified organic ingredients and caffeine-free
- Boxes wrapped with cellophane; teabags packed in heat-sealed envelopes for freshness
- Ingredients carefully handled in organically certified facility in Eugene, Oregon
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- Stazjia Stazjia Jun 25, 2009 @ 4:23 am
- Another of your informative lenses about tea.
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- lakeerieartists lakeerieartists Dec 16, 2008 @ 9:21 am
- Haven't tried this yet. But I could definately use it.
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- I think it is a great idea to include some of the reviews from people who enjoy this tea on your lens. I will keep that 'trick' in mind for the future.
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- Chamomile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Chamomile or camomile is a common name for several daisy-like plants. The word, a combination of
- Passion flower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- The passion flowers or passion vines (Passiflora) are a genus of about 500 species of flowering plants, the namesakes of the family Passifloraceae.
- Scutellaria galericulata - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Common Skullcap (Scutellaria galericulata var. epilobiifolia), also known as Marsh Skullcap or Hooded Skullcap, is a hardy perennial herb native to Britain, Europe, and Asia.
- St John's wort - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- St John's wort is the plant species Hypericum perforatum, also known as Tipton's Weed or Klamath weed, but, with qualifiers, is used to refer to any species of the genus Hypericum.
- Tea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Tea refers to the agricultural products of the leaves, leaf buds, and internodes of the Camellia sinensis plant, prepared and cured by various methods. "Tea" also refers to the aromatic beverage prepared from the cured leaves by combination with hot or boiling water, and is the colloquial name for the Camellia sinensis plant itself.
After water, tea is the most widely-consumed beverage in the world. It has a cooling, slightly bitter, astringent flavour - Valerian (herb) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Valerian (Valeriana officinalis, Valerianaceae) is a hardy perennial flowering plant, with heads of sweetly scented pink or white flowers. The flowers are in bloom in the northern hemisphere from June to September. Valerian was used as a perfume in the sixteenth century.
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