HERB - Fighter's Tea

[Trish Waldon]

Hello, Everybody,

My name is Rowan Oldway (from the Kingdom of the West) and I've been
listening to the list for a couple weeks now and enjoying it immensely. If
it please you, the recent discussion of steeping/simmering has raised a
question I would like to put forth to you.

In the last couple of years I have developed what I call "Fighter's Tea" -
it's something I like to try to get down my household fighters after wars
to get a jump on the stiffness that seems to set in on them afterwards.
What I have been doing is simmering willow bark pieces in water for several
minutes and then adding either iced herb tea or (their favorite) a black
cinammon-orange tea like Good Earth.

Now I am wondering if the simmering of the willow bark is destroying its
helpful effects. Should I just steep it a few minutes and leave it at that?
The tea has seemed to help them in the past (the post war headaches have
stopped, too), but of course there could be other factors at work here.

Anybody have any thoughts on this? And does turning it into iced tea have
any detrimental or diluting effects?

Thanks all,
Rowan Oldway of Oakhaven
Caer Darth, the Mists, West

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Trish Waldon                    voice: (408) 459-3857
Social Sciences Development     fax:   (408) 459-5900
310 Social Sciences I           email: trishw at cats.ucsc.edu
University of California
Santa Cruz, CA  95064


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