Health and Healing with Green Tea – Relief from 4 Common Ailments

Cold & Flu While it certainly won’t cure your flu, drinking green tea acts as a backup to your immune system and gives it the extra jolt of minerals and antioxidants it needs to help you recover faster. Adding ginger, lemon and honey will also help to soothe a sore throat. Stress & Anxiety Amino-acids…

The Birth of Ceylon Tea

The early 1880s were a lean time in Ceylon. The colonial economy had been built almost entirely on the coffee enterprise, and when the enterprise collapsed, so did the economy. Plantations ‘up-country’ were sold for a song, while in Colombo there were runs on the banks. Frantic experiments with indigo and cinchona came to naught….