Medicinal brews down to a tea
The word “tea” used to mean only one thing: a drink made by pouring hot water over the cured leaves of the tea plant, Camellia sinensis. Then came herbal teas, which are prepared using the same method but the leaves used, which are supposed to be medicinal, do not necessarily include tea. Now my health-conscious friend Julia is into brewing her own herbal tea using fresh instead of cured…