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Herbal teas have been cherished for their healing properties for centuries, offering a natural remedy for everything from stress and fatigue to digestion and immunity. Each tea is a unique blend of ingredients designed to support the body and mind in different ways. Whether you're looking for a calming brew or a revitalizing pick-me-up, the right tea can be the perfect companion for your daily routine. In this post, we’re highlighting some of our favorite medicinal herbal teas, each with its own special benefits. From uplifting blends to soothing formulas, explore how these teas can support your health and well-being.

 

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Tea Descriptions:

For Grace's Medicinal Tea

For Grace's medicinal tea is made from herbal ingredients that are like my dog, Grace. She was sweet like a peach, spicy like ginger, and beautiful like a rose, and complex like holy basil. Ginger is a warming herb, but in heat allows the pores to open and cool the body on a warm day. Most importantly, Holy basil helps the body adapt to stress by allowing the adrenal glands to help regulate the cortisol release, and long-term, this is good for the body’s hormones. This tea lifts your spirits and allows you to live like my Gracie, spicy, sweet, and happy.

 

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Awakening MaMa Earth Medicinal Herbal Tea

Awakening MaMa Earth medicinal herbal tea is blended to lighten your spirit following a long winter and brighten your spirits into spring. It is good for drinking hot for those cooler days, but iced and cooling for those warm or hot days in the spring and summer. Medicinally, overall all the tea is lightening and liver supporting for the spring dawning. Ashwagandha and red clover are good herbs to support and cleanse your liver, but there are so many other medicinal benefits from this blend. Ashwagandha is one of those special herbs that helps with many things. This herb helps to calm the nerves. Good for weakness in any form and helps restore and rejuvenate, especially in old age. Red clover, a wonderful spring flower, helps cleanse the blood and liver and bring spring to this tea.

 

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Shaman’s Mystery Herbal Tea

Shaman’s Mystery herbal tea is a warming and healing tea. Healing herbs abound in this tea that comes alive throughout the autumn and winter. You may know that elderberry is a huge antiviral and is supported in this tea by Holy basil, pomegranate, and the spices cinnamon and cloves. Red clover supports as an assist for lymphatic congestion. Vitamin C abounds in rosehips and orange peel. Ginger is warming and an expectorant. Many of these herbs help to slowly regulate your immune system to help you fight off infections and viruses. If you are like me, you just love a warming tea after dinner when the cool weather sets in, so I make it by the pot! Salute!

 

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Peace, Love, Groovy, and Soul Medicinal Herbal Tea

Peace, love, groovy, and soul medicinal herbal tea combines many wonderful organic herbs, including Linden Flower, Lemon balm, and hawthorn berry, in this relaxing and calming tea that is light and airy. This tea is good served hot or iced. The combination of herbs makes this tea a great heart tonic if enjoyed daily over time. The strong herbs of linden and hawthorn help to relax blood vessels and take a load off the heart. Studies have shown that these herbs can help lower blood pressure if combined with a healthy lifestyle.

 

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Tickle Your Chakra Medicinal Herbal Tea

Tickle your chakra medicinal herbal tea is prepared to help you deal with stress in your life as well as improve your sleep. The special combination of herbs will help your body adapt to stress better and reduce excessive nerve activity throughout your body. This will allow you to relax and sleep through the night. When drinking this for medicinal purposes, drink 2-3 - 8oz. cups hot or iced per day for several days, an hour before bed. If you are one of the few people without stress, try this tea just to enjoy the wonderful and complex flavors.

 

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Hugs and Kisses Medicinal Herbal Tea

Hugs and kisses, medicinal herbal tea is a spring tea to move you out of the fatigue and depression of winter (or post-COVID symptoms of depression and lung issues, fatigue). We have included herbs to fight depression. Lemon balm, lemon grass, and oat straw have been shown in research to help decrease depression and improve sleep. Oat straw is very nourishing and immune-building. Adaptogens were added. Astragalus, eleuthero root, and Schisandra help to fight chronic fatigue, improve the ability to deal with stress, and energize your body through the adrenals. Marshmallow helps lungs and that lingering cough of post-COVID. Welcome to healing, welcome to spring!

 

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Magical Rainbow Chai

Magical Rainbow Chai…What can we say? This Chai tea is wonderful and warming. As if that isn’t enough, Holy basil, cloves, and cinnamon have antibacterial qualities to help with a sore throat, and lavender, cinnamon, and fennel have antiviral qualities that help to chase away many other winter ills. Try making this into a latte by adding a little milk product and some local honey! This is a good treat for after dinner when we are full and maybe sitting in front of a fire with our loved ones. So, drink up! Remember, love each other.

 

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Shrinking Rose Medicinal Herbal Tea

Shrinking rose medicinal herbal tea is blended to increase metabolism and decrease the urge to eat. This doesn’t mean you can eat a poor diet, though. This is an opportunity to learn more about a good eating plan. Herbs always raise the level of your health, and these are no different. Reishi and Fenugreek are blended in to help you feel full, and reishi, rose petal, and lemon grass help boost metabolism. Ginger, hibiscus, and lemon balm also help by doing things like decreasing fat cell growth and size. These also help with jobs like increasing digestion, improving liver function, and improving blood sugar levels. Marshmallow root soothes the stomach and decreases constipation to help round out the experience. Don’t use this with other weight loss medications or injections. Remember, teas are meant to be used gently.

 

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Power to the Elderberry Medicinal Herbal Tea

Power to the elderberry medicinal herbal tea may help boost the immune system. There are numerous research studies that reveal the secret power the elderberries over colds and flu. We have included other special herbs that are known for their anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory, and health-boosting properties, so you have an aid in fighting sore throats and other winter ills. Drink this tea for health, and more often when feeling colds or flu sneaking up on you, or if you were exposed to illness. Enjoy this wonderful spicy tea iced or hot.

 

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Marshmallow Secrets

Marshmallow secrets is, quite frankly, a magical tea. Marshmallow is a demulcent herb. It helps to soothe irritated tissue in the lungs, belly, or throat while quieting dry coughs. And here is a secret: the tannins found in these herbs can also help soothe a urinary tract infection. This tea also contains herbs that help body tissues that are inflamed. Although it doesn’t exactly taste like the marshmallows you know, the naturally sweet taste of this tea will have you brewing cup after cup even if you have no symptoms. To soothe tissues or a cough, drink several hot or cold cups per day.

 

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Aloha Tummy Medicinal Herbal Tea

Aloha tummy Medicinal herbal tea recipe is prepared to relieve a full or angry tummy. If you ate too much, are having indigestion or an upset stomach, brew this tea. The wonderful blend of fruits and flowers helps to relax your body and your tummy. The blended herbs also aid digestion. Especially hibiscus aids in digestive enzyme production. This tea is also a wonderful and naturally sweet, and fruity tea to drink for no particular reason. Exceptional taste when served both hot and cold. Drink whenever thirsty.

 

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E=mc2 Herbal Tea Recipe

E=mc2 herbal tea recipe has many herbs to make your day and give you a higher level of energy and focus. Eleuthero root is amazing as it increases your exhaustion point and improves muscle endurance. Peppermint is a stimulating nervine increasing alertness while relieving stress - what could be better! Among the great many things that rosemary does, it improves memory and concentration as well as prevents your brain from aging. Ginkgo and ginger increase the blood flow throughout the body, allowing improved brain and muscle function and alertness. Schisandra berries are super at adapting to stress and improving memory, among other benefits. Maqui berry helps keep you from that midday energy slump by supporting normal blood sugar. Drink up and enjoy your day!

 

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Tea as Art

Tea as art is a delightfully floral and sweet tea without added sugars. But it doesn’t just taste wonderful. The herbs in this tea are also selected to provide a gentle relaxation without making you tired. So, run, garden, or do your daily activities and then sit down to a nice cup or glass of this tea. Passion flower and linden help with balancing mood and relaxation, lowering your blood pressure, and improving your sleep by reducing anxiety. Linden works in much the same way. Rose and Rosehips add to your health by being strong providers of vitamin C. Lemon Balm helps your body adjust to stress from all that physical effort! But just look at the beauty of this tea and how it is blended. Just like a piece of art… This tea was made to celebrate Florence Scott Libbey, who was instrumental in the building of the Toledo Art Museum. Truly a local hero who should be remembered.

 

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Earl’s Marvelous Elixir

Earl’s Marvelous Elixir is a blend of herbs that address pain and inflammation. In the 1990s, it was discovered that the body can produce an enzyme that causes pain and inflammation. This is the COX-2 enzyme. It is present in osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis, among other diseases. NSAIDS reduce the Cox-2, but can be very hard on the stomach and kidneys. Elderflower, holy basil, lemon balm, and rosehips help to reduce the Cox-2 as an alternative. Calendula is great for decreasing muscle soreness. Passion flower helps with exhaustion, decreases anxiety, and reduces spasms. Lemon Balm and Elder are soothing and relaxing nervines that help reduce stress and allow relaxation so that the COX-2 inhibitor portion can work best. Drink up and cheers to you and a more pain-free life!

 

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Bones and Brains Medicinal Tea

Bones and Brains medicinal tea is made from herbal ingredients that are powerful antioxidants and enhance the health of both bones and brains. Brain herbs, including horsetail, oat straw, lion's mane mushroom, red clover, and holy basil, increase cognition, nerve growth, memory recall, rapid learning, and protect against dementia. These same herbs have powerful antioxidant properties for bones, inhibit bone loss, increase bone formation, and much more. All herbs used form a tasty, naturally sweet spearmint-flavored drink.

 

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Dolittle’s Detox (Seasonal)

Dolittle’s Detox (seasonal) is made to be taken daily for one week to clear all the bad things out of your body and give you energy for the new season. Don’t we all know the great cranberry is good for setting your bladder right. Red Clover is pretty to look at, but we put it in the tea to help purify your blood. The shaman feels that the liver is an amazing organ that we must protect. Yet we drink alcohol and take in toxins from the environment and even from bacterial overgrowth. So we have Dandelion root, milk thistle, and blue vervain to softly help you cleanse this important organ.

 

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From boosting your immunity to offering relief from stress and anxiety, the right tea can make a world of difference in your health and well-being. Each of these carefully crafted blends offers something unique, whether it's a soothing moment of relaxation or a natural way to support your body’s various needs. So next time you're feeling the need for a little self-care, reach for one of our medicinal teas and let the herbs work their magic. Drink in the healing power of nature and embrace the wellness that these special blends provide.

 

 

Brewing Instructions and Tips

Hi! This is Martha from The Shaman and the Bear. Below you will find important information for brewing your tea, along with some helpful tips and ideas for larger batches and iced tea. I hope you enjoy your tea!

 

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Brewing and Steeping Your Tea:

Hot Tea:

Brewing herbal tea is special because the teas are made from a variety of herbs, dried fruits, and spices. To preserve the full flavor and healing properties of your tea, heat your water to just below boiling and pour it over the tea ingredients. For blends with flowers, stems, and leaves, steep for 5-15 minutes. For blends with berries or roots, you can steep for longer, up to 30 minutes.

Use 1 rounded teaspoon per 8 oz. cup. If you’re making a pot, you may use less tea, depending on your taste preference.

 

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Iced Tea:

To make iced tea, brew and steep your tea following the instructions above. After brewing, pour the tea into a canning jar or an airtight container. Place it in the refrigerator to cool. This method ensures that your tea will not be diluted when served cold.

 

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Brewing Larger Amounts:

If you’re making a larger batch of tea, a larger tea infuser pot works great! These are available online, and we also sell them. Costco has an electric tea infuser pot that is perfect for both hot tea and larger quantities of iced tea.

If you don’t have an infuser pot, you can brew and steep your tea in a pan. Follow the brewing instructions above, then use a sieve or strainer to filter out the ingredients, leaving you with your hot or cold herbal tea.

 

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Tea Accessories:

Here are some accessories you can use to brew your teas:

• Tea ball
  
  

• Individual tea infuser
  
  

• Tea infuser pots and cups (available for purchase through us)
  
  

If you have an electric tea infuser pot, you’ll also need a way to heat your water. Costco (and possibly other stores) carry a 42 oz. electric infuser pot, which is my preferred choice for brewing both hot and iced tea.

 

 

Now that you have the perfect brewing instructions and tea accessories, it’s time to brew up your favorite herbal blend. Whether you’re enjoying a relaxing moment with a hot cup of tea or refreshing yourself with an iced brew, these teas are sure to bring healing and comfort to your day.