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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I Am Officially Part Of The Tea Association of Canada
I had 3 different types of tea today, types, not cups! If you wanna count cups I probably had about 7-8. In the morning I started with Aveda’s Organic Comforting Tea with licorice and peppermint. It’s really really good. I recommend this tea for when you are stressed out and just need to relax. The licorice and peppermint really pair well together as a tea. For 140g it’s about $30 Canadian at any Aveda retailer.
The second tea I had today was Organic Rooibos and Honeybush by Traditional Medicinals. I had this while I was reading, before lunch, and after lunch. I’ve actually never had honeybush before. A lady at the House of Tea told me that honeybush was from the bark part of a tree and it was more “woody” than rooibos. I couldn’t clearly separate the taste of honeybush away from the rooibos although I did taste a more earthy tone in my normally pretty predictable sweet rooibos tea. Next time I definitely have to try Honeybush by itself.
The third cup of tea I had today was at night when I was at Mikki’s house, True Blueberry Tea by Celestial Seasonings. A little weak but you could taste the blueberries come through.
What did you drink today?
I also got my first Mighty Leaf samples today they were – Jade Oolong and Wuyi Oolong. I gotta get on my video blogs, any ideas which format I should use? Youtube, Vimeo, Vidder…? Oh and I am officially part of the Tea Association of Canada. Woo Hoo!
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Tea Battle #1 – Pukka Detox Tea VS Traditional Medicinals Roasted Dandelion Root Tea Review
February 9, 2009 by Diana
Filed under Health, Tea Battle, tea
pukka detox tea
I’m a huge fan of both Pukka teas and Traditional Medicinals. They’re both well known companies with lots of research backing each of their products. Traditional Medicinals boasts using medicinal quality herbs. Pukka, from the UK, on the other hand actually launched a supplement line. I decided to try the Pukka detox tea and see how it would compare to a Traditional Medicinals Roasted Dandelion Tea in taste, quality and overall effacicy for this tea battle numero uno.
Round #1 – Ingredients, packaging and price
Pukka – Aniseed seed, Fennel seed, Cardamom seed, Coriander seed, Licorice, Celery seed
Traditional Medicinals – Roasted danelion root (1500 mg)
These teas are both organic and tisane, meaning they’re caffeine free, bonus points in my book. The teas are both around the same price around $4.99 – $5.99 depending on where you get it. 16 in a box for TM and 20 in a box for Pukka. In terms of packaging and packaging I have to say Pukka wins on this one. The trendy white box with their signature print all over it clearly states what this tea is for, detox. The TM box on the other hand tells you what dandelion root is for only on the side of the box, if you can find it (increasing appetite and bile flow i.e. helps your liver function). More ingredients does not necessarily mean better, especially when TM states the mg dosage you are getting from the herb. However, because Pukka stated right off the bat what their tea is for I have to declare the winner of round 1 – pukka.
Round 2 – Smell and color
Okay the Pukka tea smells gross! If someone made the casear into a tea this is what it would smell like. It actually smells salty, with a bit of pepper. I think it’s the smell of the celery seeds that is really affecting me. Gross! I can actually imagine tomatoes swimming in my tea now. The color is a nice light yellow. The TM roasted dandelion tea on the other hand smells awesome. The smell is nice and light, the nice roasted honey notes really come through on the nose. Love it. The colorr is a deep browish yellow. Winner TM!
Round 3 – Taste
Okay this was over even before it began, Traditional Medicinals clearly is the winner for taste. If smell is any indication of taste, in which case it is in many times with tea, TM won. The TM tea was sweet and not bitter at all. The pukka tea as I predicted tasted like a warm casear. I gave my Pukka detox teas away to a lucky reader already. Overall, I would buy TM again if I wanted to use it for liver detoxification. The Pukka tea does help with other functions though, aniseed and fennel seed help to relax digestion and flush the urinary system, cardamom seeds can help to clear excess mucus, coriander and celery seed help to wash toxins from the body, and licorice root is calming and tonifying. So if you want more of a full body detox and you don’t mind the taste of a warm casear, go for Pukka.
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