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[fairdinkumseeds]

Tagetes fillifolia has a great, really sweet licorice taste. Same chemical componants as stevia/artificial sweeteners, grows like a weed being marigold family.
Ginger/galagal and chilli is my other current favorite blend.
Loquat leaf is good.

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[aphinar]

For winter months, especially when got flu or cold:

Thymus (dried)
Mint (dried)
Lemon peel
Lemon oil

In general:

St John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum)
Silene undulata root
Valeriana officinalis (sometimes)
Heimia salicifolia (sometimes)
Salvia officinalis
Ocimum sanctum
Cnidium monnieri
Glechoma hederacea
Sanicula europaea
Rosmarinus officinalis (sometimes)
Passiflora incarnata (sometimes)

If i can find organic seeds of calea ternifolia i am very enthusiast to make it tea for nights.

[delta9hippie]

If i can find organic seeds of calea ternifolia i am very enthusiast to make it tea for nights.

It is quite nice Companionplants.com has some live plants of high quality. (http://companionplants.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=603)

[Auxin]

If its quite nice then its one of the fraudulent not-Caleas 
Genuine Calea is incredibly bitter with kind of a buttery taste. Most frauds are non- or only slightly bitter, and slightly peppery or minty.

[delta9hippie]

If its quite nice then its one of the fraudulent not-Caleas 
Genuine Calea is incredibly bitter with kind of a buttery taste. Most frauds are non- or only slightly bitter, and slightly peppery or minty.

Oh, it's definitely super bitter. I meant, it's nice as in for an effective tea for sleeping and dreaming.

What's the deal with fake calea? I thought it was just renamed from a cultural to a botanical latinization. Are there fakes? What species are the fake caleas? Now I am super interested!

[Auxin]

lol, ok, when you said nice tea I envisioned enjoying it with grandma before bed. Calea brews make me shiver and make noises 

Yes there are fakes, one from somewhere in the mint family actually dominates the live Calea market and many sellers know its not Calea but sell it as Calea anyway. [...] Its not bitter (unless someone thinks all vegetables are, in which case they need a better diet). Its human toxicity is unknown, and its identity is unknown.
Down in Oz a common weed grew when someone tried to grow Calea from seed (its standard germination rate is 2%) and it got spread around as Calea for a bit as well. But in america the fraud is widespread and intentional.

The zacatechichi versus ternifolia is just a nomenclatural change among the taxonomists. They are, indeed, the same plant.

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[teonanocatl]

mugwort, lemon balm, spearmint, peppermint, burdock, passionflower, valerian.

[gnosis]

Hey is there a tea for teenage acne?

[DmtGardener]

Camellia sinensis(black tea, green tea, ect.) and lavender. 

[BubbleCat]

Topical or systemically working ? Gnosis ?

I guess youre joking anyways


AFAIK Acne and its extend highly depend on the genes, theres no tea that helps with those, but bacteria are amongst other things responsible for it getting severe, so does inflammation. And there is plenty of tea-able plants against both. Like

Cedar
Thyme
Tea
Peppermint
Many other minths and related
Calendula
Garlic
Rose
St Johns wort


most of theese would want to be put on topically, only some work systemically, like garlic.

Anti inflammatory: http://eyestrain.sabhlokcity.com/2011/12/list-of-plants-and-foodswith-anti-inflammatory-properties/

And please everyone, dont discuss activity of Calea and Calea-lookalikes or preparations