SC - Question on tea

[Jenne Heise]

> Infusion is a perfectly good word for what it is; you might also
> investigate use of the word "tansy", which, while it has been used to
> refer to an herb by that name, and an egg dish containing it, and I'm
> not aware of the source of that name, has also been used as a corruption
> for the word "athanasia", which means, roughly, "banishing death".
> Whether that usage has any link to the herb tansy I don't know, but I
> have heard "tansy" used to describe infusions of herbs other than tansy itself.

Um, I suspect that you may be confusing 'Tansy' and 'Tisane' or at least
your informant is. Tisane is another word for infusion.
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