Friday, November 30, 2007
Tea flowers
I have some tea plants that grow in some plots that I have. I got the original cuttings from Jessie who swears by its therapeutic properties. He says drinking tea from these plants worked wonders for people with ailments. Although I am a great believer in herbal medicine, I shy away from huge claims that border on the miraculous. Plants and herbs have therapeutic and medicinal properties as the Chinese and Indian sources inform us. These two cultures probably have the oldest, continuous traditions in herbal research and most of what we take for granted have been researched and studied thousands of years ago.
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I planted a few cuttings that I got from Jessie and these have multiplied beyond my expectation. He told me that I could have a plantation of these in no time, if I wanted to. He was not exaggerating, to be sure. Lately, I have been taking the tea regularly and I must say that I have gotten used to having it instead of just drinking water. I cannot attribute anything miraculous to it although I do feel a little better in many ways. Going back to the tea plants, flowers have begun to show and these are very delicate white flowers which form a kind of pyramid. I do not know if they can be made into tea or if they make seeds for growing. There is just too many plants and cuttings are an easy way to propagate them.
baby-boomer, baby-sitter, baby, babylon, baccarat, bachelor, bacilli, backache, backbeat, backbone, backchannel, backdoor, backgammon, backhoe, backlight, backpack, backswing, backtrack, bacolod, bacteria, bad-blood, bad-egg, badge, badger, badminton, baghdad, bagman, bagpipe, baguette, baguio, bahai, bahamas, bahia, bahrain, baht, bail, bailiwick, bait, baja-california, bake, bakery, balalaika, balance-sheet, balance, blog, bob-dylan, Ching’s Illusion
I planted a few cuttings that I got from Jessie and these have multiplied beyond my expectation. He told me that I could have a plantation of these in no time, if I wanted to. He was not exaggerating, to be sure. Lately, I have been taking the tea regularly and I must say that I have gotten used to having it instead of just drinking water. I cannot attribute anything miraculous to it although I do feel a little better in many ways. Going back to the tea plants, flowers have begun to show and these are very delicate white flowers which form a kind of pyramid. I do not know if they can be made into tea or if they make seeds for growing. There is just too many plants and cuttings are an easy way to propagate them.
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