20,000 Secrets of Tea: The Most Effective Ways to Benefit from Nature's Healing Herbs Mass Market Author: Visit Amazon's Victoria Zak Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0440235294 | Format: PDF
20,000 Secrets of Tea: The Most Effective Ways to Benefit from Nature's Healing Herbs Mass Market Description
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An ancient Chinese legend: Once there was a man who knew 100,000 healing properties of herbs. He taught his son 80,000 secrets. On his deathbed, he told his son to visit his grave in five years, and there he would find the other 20,000 secrets. When the son went to his father's grave, he found, growing on the site, the tea shrub....
Teas are the gentle, natural, most beneficial way to absorb the healing properties of herbs--easily and inexpensively. A simple cup of tea not only has the power to soothe and relax but to deliver healing herbal agents to the bloodstream more quickly than capsules, tinctures, or infusions. Feeling tired? Rose hip tea will rev you up and beautify your skin. Need some help with your diet? Ginger tea will provide the boost you need and help aching joints too. Hot or iced, these pure and simple drinks offer delicious ways to stay healthy and revitalize you from the inside out. This unique guide offers:
An A-Z listing of common ailments followed by the teas best used to treat them
Instructions on how to create your own medicinal kitchen
Advice on creating your own tea blends
Descriptions of the top 100 herbs and their secret healing properties
And much, much more!
About the Author
Victoria Zak is an award-winning writer, researcher, and co-author of
The Fat to Muscle Diet and
The Dieter's Dictionary and Problem Solver. Her work has appeared in many national publications, including
Ladies' Home Journal, Prevention, Shape, USA Today, The Boston Globe, and
Glamour. She lives in Massachusetts and has been featured in
Who's Who in the East.
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- Mass Market Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: Dell; 10.10.1999 edition (November 9, 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0440235294
- ISBN-13: 978-0440235293
- Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.2 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
I ordered this book last week and have LOVED reading it. Ms. Zak has done a wonderful job of writing informatively and interestingly. Her paragraphs overflow with information and anecdotes and it just makes me excited to read about all the ailments that herbs, used correctly, can address.
That said, I started to have a few small items come up as I was reading that I thought, "That could have been done better." Chapter 5 is all about an A-Z guide of ailments with the herbs listed beneath them to address that particular malady. On further research of the individual herbs, however, we find that some herbs only marginally affect that illness while others are not recommended and others yet might be the *perfect* herb for that illness. I have found myself going back and forth between the list and the sections detailing each herb and either crossing out certain herbs the author recommends against (blue cohosh, for instance) or highlighting the herb that is "the supreme" herb for that problem. For ease of reference, I wish the author or editor had done that for me-- using a ranking system of some sort to mark the extremes (those herbs either absolutely excellent for a certain condition or those that, while they address it, are not recommended for it). Flipping back and forth in the book is a bit of a pain, no matter how much I've enjoyed learning more about the herbs.
That was only a personal preference, however, and nothing that would keep me from recommending the book. It's inconvenient, but doesn't reflect on the content of the book, merely the manageability.
Stepping up the inconvenience, I found I had to repeatedly look outside of this book to reference something the book said. In Ms.
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