The Healing Power of Tea by Caroline Dow Review!

Book Details Paperback: 264 pages Publisher: Llewellyn Publications (November 8, 2014) Language: English ISBN-10: 0738740330 ISBN-13: 978-0738740331

For centuries, tea has been used for healing and improved wellness, and now you can learn to rejuvenate your health with The Healing Power of Tea. Whether a new or expert tea drinker, Caroline Dow provides you with "tea-rrific" knowledge, including detailed explanations of different tea types and their advantages, as well as a list of ailments and what blends will alleviate them.

From black to green to oolong, enjoy many aspects of tea and tea culture. Discover the delicious ways tea will improve your life with extensive recipes and an easy-to-use reference guide. From the history of tea to growing a tea garden, this comprehensive book takes you on a fascinating journey into the world of teas and tisanes.

About the Author

Caroline Dow (Boulder, CO) has been a tea-leaf reader and herbalist for thirty years, and conducts popular workshops on tea-leaf reading all over the country. She is the author of fourteen books under various pen names, and is the owner and manager of a successful herbal mail order company. She also holds a Ph.D. in Luso-Brazilian Studies and received a Fulbright Dissertation Research Fellowship to Brazil. Her book Magic from Brazil: Recipes, Spells, and Rituals (Llewellyn, September 2001) chronicles those experiences. She has lived in Mexico, Brazil, England, Scotland, Wales, Portugal, Spain, and Italy, speaks five languages, and has studied esoteric traditions in those lands.

My Thoughts

I am a tea lover as is everyone else in my family, actually we are tea and coffee snobs, meaning that we just don't drink the Lipton or Folger's. We have to have teas that are strong, robust in flavor and good either iced or hot. My daughter and I have recently found black and green matcha teas. So delicious as an iced drink mixed with vanilla or plain soymilk over ice. I will soon be trying the matcha as a hot drink as our weather here in Northern Wisconsin is getting colder.

I digress though, when I saw this book I had to take a look. I think most everyone that drinks tea knows the benefits arrived from this delectable plant. The Healing Power of tea takes the reader through anything you ever wanted to know about tea, the kinds and the benefits of each tea such as black tea, green tea, white tea and much more. There is a section on what type of tea can help in certain ailments from A-Z. Wow, I never knew that these teas helped for so many types of ailments. In this book you can also learn the proper way to brew tea and also where to get these teas, there is also a chapter that deals with herbal and the types of herbs to use for in what teas.

I found this book to be an amazing source of information. The Healing Powers of Tea is not released until November and if I were you and you love tea or want to get that special someone an awesome book for Christmas...this is the one. I highly recommend it.

I received a copy of this book from Netgalley for review and was not monetarily compensated for my review..