Cold Season Herb Tea Sampler by Traditional Medicinals

16 Bags

List Price: $4.79 Your Price: $3.83

Product Description:

The Cold Season sampler includes 4 tea bags each of: Throat Coat®, Echinacea Plus®, Breathe Easy® & Gypsy Cold Care®.

Throat Coat provides a protective coating on the membranes that line the throat. Throat Coat contains herbs with demulcent action, and in a double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical study it was shown to provide rapid, temporary relief of sore throat pain.

Organic Echinacea Plus activates and stimulates immune cells,* helping you to reduce the duration of symptoms. A double blind, placebo-controlled clinical study on Organic Echinacea Plus showed that it was effective in reducing symptoms as well as shortening their duration.

Breathe Easy promotes normal respiratory tract health by reducing mucus and helping to keep the nasal passages open.* Breathe Easy combines eucalyptus, fennel and licorice; herbs that have been found to have beneficial effects on upper respiratory tract health. Their effects are complemented by the addition of Bi Yan Pian, a traditional formula for the sinuses, widely recommended by practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Gypsy Cold Care is a multi-action formula that helps regulate body temperature and encourages normal breathing.* Based on a traditional European formula, these herbs have been used for centuries to assist the body's natural responses to challenging seasonal conditions.

Recommended Use:

For Maximum benefit, medicinal tea must be properly prepared.

Pour 8oz. freshly boiled water over a tea bag in a cup. Cover cup and steep 10-15 minutes. These steps directly influence the amount of beneficial components that will end up in your teacup! Gently squeeze the tea bag to release any remaining extract.

Notes:

How does it taste?

Throat Coat is sweet, aromatic, earthy and viscous (which allows the herbs to coat your throat). Children love the sweet, soft and soothing feel of Throat Coat.

Organic Echinacea Plus has a fresh and mild mint flavor with a twist of citrus. You can taste a characteristic tingle on your tongue from the alkylamides in Echinacea, which is one of the important indicators or herb quality.

Breathe Easy is a complex blend of herbal tastes - spicy, aromatic and cooling, somewhat bitter and astringent, and slightly sweet.

Gypsy Cold Care is a complex and aromatic blend of herbal tastes-pungent, slightly bitter, minty and sweet.

Ingredients:

Throat Coat - Licorice root, organic slippery elm bark, licorice root dry aqueous extract (8:1), organic marshmallow root, wild cherry bark, bitter fennel fruit, organic cinnamon bark, organic sweet orange peel.

Organic Echinacea Plus - Organic Echinacea purpurea herb, Echinacea purpurea root dry native extract (6:1), organic Echinacea angustifolia herb, organic West Indian lemongrass leaf, organic spearmint leaf.

Breathe Easy - Licorice root, eucalyptus leaf, bitter fennel fruit, Bi Yan Pian dry aqueous extract (8:1)**, organic peppermint leaf, organic calendula flower, pleurisy root, organic ginger rhizome.

**Bi Yan Pian is a pure water extract made from a mixture of xanthium fruit, magnolia flower bud, siler root, forsythia fruit, wild chrysanthemum flower, schisandra fruit, platycodon root, fragrant angelica root, anemarrhena rhizome, schizonepeta herb, and Chinese licorice root.

Gypsy Cold Care - Organic elder flower, yarrow flower, organic peppermint leaf, organic hyssop herb, organic rose hip, organic cinnamon bark, organic ginger rhizome, safflower petal, organic clove flower bud, licorice root dry aqueous extract.