Tea Quotes May 30, 2010

 

I love tea ! What would the world without tea?

Tea brightens mornings, Tea warms the nights…

Here I collected famous tea quotes or Tea Wisdom….enjoy reading, while sipping the tea

• Women are like teabags; we don’t know our true strengths until we are in hot water | Eleanor Roosevelt  (1884-1962)
• Ecstasy is a glass of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth | Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)
• If you are cold, tea will warm you. If you are too heated, it will cool you. If you are depressed, it will cheer you. If you are excited, it will calm you | William Gladstone (1809-1898), British Prime Minister
• Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world | Tien Yiheng, Chinese Poet
• If this is coffee, bring me tea. But if this is tea, please bring me coffee | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
• What would the world do without tea? how did it exist? | Sydney Smith (1771-1845), English writer and clergyman
• It has a strange influence over mood, a strange power of changing the look of things, and changing it for the better, so that we can believe and hope and do under the influence of tea what we should otherwise give up in discouragement and despair | The Lancet, London, 1863
• There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to ceremony known as afternoon tea | Henry James (1843-1916)

 

• Drink a lot of Tea and it will restore your spirits to full strength | Eisai
• Drink Tea and make friends | Chinese Proverb
• Coffee isn’t my cup of tea | Samuel Goldwyn

Angel came down

From heaven yesterday,

Stayed with me just long enough

for afternoon tea

and she told me a story yesterday;

About the sweet Love

Between the moon and the deep blue sea | Jimi Hendrix

• Drinks your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis which the world Earth revolves-slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future | Thich Nat Hahn

 

Herbal teas May 2, 2010

Teh yang berasal dari herbal itu menyehatkan. Apakah ada teh yang tidak berasal dari herbal?

Teh sendiri berasal dari tanaman teh (camellia sinensis), yang diambil bagian daunnya. Herbal tea bisa diartikan sebagai tisane, ramuan yang asalnya dari batang, daun, bunga, akar , bahkan buah yang dikeringkan. jadi herbal tea tidak mengandung daun dari camellia sinensis. Contoh dari herbal teas adalah: Chrysanthemum, Chamomile, Rosella, Jati belanda, Pegagan, Jahe, Kumis kucing, dan masih banyak lagi contoh lainnya. Manfaat dari herbal teas bermacam-macam, dapat menurunkan tekanan darah, meringankan sakit kepala, menurunkan kolesterol, menurnkan kadar asam urat. Lalu bagaimana cara membuat teh herbal? Supaya manfaat nya terasa, Biasanya herbal yang telah dikeringan, direbus sampai maksimum 30 menit, setelah itu hasilnya siap untuk diminum. Cara seperti ini yang disebut dengan decoction. Istilah decoction ini mengarah kepada manfaat kesehatan atau penyembuhan bagi peminumnya. Jadi herbal teas merupakan minuman yang sangat bermanfaat bagi kesehatan tubuh. Jadi… tunggu apa lagi, kembalilah ke alam, kenalilah tanaman disekitar kita, siapa tahu tanaman tersebut bisa dijadikan teh. It’s tea time…