The Many Benefits of Red Raspberry Leaf Tea (Rubus idaeus)

According to the giant herbs and nutrition bible that almost everyone consults in the natural health industry, Prescription for Nutritional Healing by Phyllis A. Balch (4th edition), Red Raspberry is useful for the following:

“Reduces menstrual bleeding, relaxes uterine and intestinal spasms, and strengthens uterine walls.  Promotes health nails, bones, teeth, and skin.  Good for diarrhea and for female disorders such as morning sickness, hot flashses, and menstrual cramps.  Also heals canker sores.  Combined with peppermint, good for morning sickness.”

It is also rich in vitamins and minerals including vitamin C, calcium, magnesium and iron.  People who aren’t familiar with the many uses of herbs, always seem to find it hard to believe that one herb or tea is useful for so many different things!  Hey if you tried it and it works for you for many things then stick with it!

When I worked at a local health food store for a few months, because I thought I wanted to buy it!, I used to recommend red raspberry tea a lot to pregnant woman, women who had cramps, and people who had nausea. We carried the tea in both the tea section and the “women’s section”.  Traditional Medicinals has a good organic raspberry tea that I recommend.  Each teabag contains 1,750 mg of red raspberry leaf.  They recommend the tea as a “uterine tonic for difficult and painful menstruation and for use during pregnancy in preparation for childbirth”.

Lost of women swear by this tea and say it helped them with their pregnancy.  From American Pregnancy:

Medical studies have shown that red raspberry leaf can be consumed safely during pregnancy and can decrease the length of labor and decrease the number of interventions used such as artificial rupture of membranes (AROM), assisted delivery, and cesarean delivery.¹ Red raspberry leaf also seems to help prevent pregnancies from pre-or post-term gestation (delivering too early or too late).

There is some controversy about whether this should be used throughout pregnancy or just in the second and third trimester, so many health care providers remain cautious and only recommend using it after the first trimester.

You can buy Organic Red Raspberry Leaf Tea Leaves loose from Frontier Natural Brands for About $5.00 here.

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Daytrip: Dynamic Greens Wheatgrass Farm and Richters Herb Farm

Today me and Dean went to the Dynamic Greens Wheatgrass Farm in Stouffville about 30 minutes north from my house in Richmond Hill. It was so much fun! When we got there Tom Stem, the owner, gave us 4 cubes of wheatgrass each and dissolved it with a bit of hot water. It was soooo good. Wheatgrass if you don’t know is basically the young grass from the wheat berry seed. Our bodies can’t digest the fibers so we need to juice the grass in order to get all the health benefits of it. It is extremely nutrient and enzyme rich.

Often people who have serious health ailments turn to wheatgrass to boost their immune system and drastically improve their health. If you haven’t tried wheatgrass yet I highly recommend you get your hands on some. A note of caution though, most wheatgrass contains mold on it as it is not properly grown outdoors which will cause nausea or vomiting. Haha this happened to Lilac while we did a shot at Fresh on Spadina in Toronto, Canada. Not good. Even the wheatgrass I grew ended up having mold on it.

The frozen ones aren’t very good quality either even if they are grown outdoor as they can be brown from oxidation. This is why Dynamic Greens is such a great company because they have both air tight packaging and outdoor mold free organic wheatgrass. For $160 you get 200 cubes which is really really cheap. It’s about $3 a shot at a juicebar and it’s moldy! I highly recommend you buy the book Wheatgrass Nature’s Finest Medicine by Sproutman if you want a more in depth look at this amazing and cheap health product. We will definitely be going there again during the spring when the grass is actually growing. I’ll keep everyone posted!

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After we left Dynamic Greens about 2 hours later, we went to Richter’s Herb Farm in Goodwood, Ontario. It’s sooooo cool there! There are hundreds of fresh organic herbs growing in huge greenhouses ranging from Mint for your Mojitos to the herb Stevia where the sweetener comes from to Lemongrass (pictured on the right).  Even though it was pretty nippy outside today, it was nice and humid inside the greenhouses.

I felt like I was in the tropics!  It gave me a wide variety of herbs to browse and look through to get ideas for my tea blends so that was really fun and useful. If you love fresh tisane herbs you have to go there, or even dried. Check out their website. I saw in their catalogue that they also have the camellia sinensis plant aka the plant that tea comes from – white, green, black, oolong, pu-erh. So I will definitely be going back to grab one next time I’m there. They also have a lot of free seminars on site! The next one is February 22 on Success with Seeding.

Oh yes I also finally decided on a company name! I registered the domain today, I’m going to register the company as a business tomorrow in Ontario/Canada etc. I’m so excited!

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