☕️ How to grow your own tea? Where does the tea come from? From Camellia!

• 🍃 Did you know that tea comes from a Camellia plant?
Camellia sinensis - Tea Leaf Tree - is the plant used to make all types of true tea: green, black, white, and oolong.
• 🍃Tea is the second most consumed beverage in the world, after water.
• 🍃Green tea is rich in antioxidants, which help protect your cells from damage.
• 🍃Drinking tea can boost your immune system, help fight off infections, improve oral health by reducing the growth of bacteria.
• 🍃Regular tea consumption is linked to improved bone health and reduced risk of osteoporosis. It can aid in weight loss by boosting metabolism and help reduce the risk of heart disease.
• 🍃Tea contains caffeine, which can improve mental alertness and focus. On the other hand, tea contains L-theanine, an amino acid that promotes relaxation and reduces stress.
• 🍃The plant is very slow growing, can be grown in container or in the ground in frost-free areas. Takes sun to semi-shade.

📚 Instructions how to make tea from tea leaves (PDF)

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How to make healthy food taste delicious? Longevity Spinach Super-food Recipes.

• ☘️ Gynura procubens (Longevity Spinach, Okinawa Spinach) is one of the Superfoods, known for its longevity-promoting properties in traditional medicine.
• ☘️ Native to Indonesia, commercially grown in China. It is a relatively hardy perennial that once planted, you will have these healthy greens for many years!
• ☘️ Both the stems and the leaves are edible and nutritious, can be eaten raw or cooked. They have a unique flavor with a faint hint of pine, and will add a beautiful aesthetic element to cuisine.
• ☘️ This green is also known as cholesterol spinach, and there are many claims that it lowers can cholesterol.
• ☘️ Perfect for hot and humid climates unlike traditional Spinach that only grown in cooler areas. It will thrive in any type of soil, any type of light other than dark shade, and is pest-free.
• ☘️ Very adaptable to container gardening and even grows well on a windowsill.
• ☘️ The leaves and young shoot tips can be steamed, used in stir fry, tempura, stews, and soups. Just add them at the very end.

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📚 Gynura: Longevity Spinach Superfood Recipes

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🍇 How Mulberry fruit helps with diabetes

• 💜 Mulberry Tree (Morus x Alba hybrids) originated from China. Everyone knows this sweet, tasty, juicy fruit but very few people are aware of its amazing health benefits.
• 💜 Mulberry fruit can lower blood sugar levels in patients with diabetes. They improve the absorption of carbohydrates in the gut. Eating this fruit slows the breakdown of sugar in the stomach so that it's absorbed more slowly into the blood. This helps the body keep blood sugar levels in a healthy range.
• 💜 Mulberry fruit have a low glycaemic index, making them suitable to consume after meals to avoid spikes in sugar levels.

💜 More health benefits of Mulberry:


- help prevent fatty liver diseases, and lower cholesterol levels.
- Mulberry leaves show their benefits against cardiometabolic risks, including antioxidative, anti-inflammatory, antiobesity
- Due to flavonoids and other phytochemicals, Mulberry juice has been shown to have anti-cancer properties, specifically against breast cancer cells.
• 💜 Mulberry is called Tree of Life for a reason.
Revelation 22, Verse 2: "In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month, and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations."
• 💜 Mulberry Tree is very cold hardy and can grow in wide range of climate zones, from USDA 5 to 10. Dwarf cultivars available - perfect for container culture. One of them is called Dwarf Everbearing - it fruits virtually year around!

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⚡️ What kind if flower Snake plant has?

Clinacanthus nutans (Snake plant, Phaya-Yor) has curious showy flowers resembling snake's open mouth. In Thai traditional medicine, its leaves are used to treat skin conditions and insect bites.

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☕️ What is Nescafe Coffee made from? Purple Jade.

💜 Earlier we mentioned Green Jade Vine and Yellow Jade Vine. This one is purple!

• Mucuna pruriens - Nescafe, Purple Jade Vine has unusual royal purple flowers. The dark violet blooms appear closely pushed together in grape like clusters, up to 1 ft long and 6" in diameter.
• The seeds known as mucuna beans or Nescafe and used as a coffee substitute.
• It has been used for generations in India as a medicinal plant.
• Very vigorous woody tree creeper - during warmer weather this vine can grow 2 feet a day!
• Related to red Jade vine (Mucuna bennettii).

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