Your phone is off the hook/Lifelines

Four months ago I completely stopped taking any capsule supplements and began drinking medicinal teas every day. Capsule supplements began feeling like a chore for me to take and I experienced little to no healing benefits from them. They're usually ineffectively low in dosage and absorption, and isolated components of something medicinal found in nature. I began wanting to experience healing straight from the source, plants and herbs organically grown, in their complete form from nature.  I pictured all the factories churning away synthetic, candy-flavored gummy vitamin supplements on conveyor belts and, in stark contrast, tea leaves grown on lush green mountains and dried in air so clean you feel your soul coming back online with every breath. Exploring these different teas has taken me to different cultures all around the world, places and people I want to visit and embrace for their healing. Much of this journey has reminded me of the book Heidi I read in childhood, and its themes of reconciliation with nature, or God if you like, and the subsequent restoration of health. Lately I've also been thinking of the lyrics of the Bjork song All is Full of Love. 

You'll be given love

You'll be taken care of

You'll be given love

You have to trust it

Maybe not from the sources 

You have poured yours

Maybe not from the directions 

You are staring at

Twist your head around

It's all around you

All is full of love

All around you

All is full of love

You just ain't receiving

All is full of love

Your phone is off the hook

All is full of love

Your doors are shut

Here's a list of some of the teas I've been enjoying. A ton of research and desperation led me to these, and I'm looking forward to more coming into view for me.

Tie Guan Yin: Iron Goddess of Mercy Oolong- Art of Tea, Rishi and MeiMei

KOHEI High-grade organic GABA green tea - grown by Takahashi Yuzo & his mother in Oita, Japan

Jia Ye GABA - Taiwan Alpine Oolong tea- XIN QING 

Golden Saffron Threads & Davidson's Organics South African Rooibos

Holy Basil (Tulsi) alone, or combined with Lemon, Ginger and/or Chamomile- Organic India, Pure Indian Foods, Davidson's Organics -also PJ Farm & Black Locust Gardens carry the Amrita variety on its own. Amrita is sanskrit for immortality and is sometimes translated as nectar. "Nectar of immortality"

Artemisia Annua (Annua only/GRAS) - Rishi & Siyah Organics

Anise Hyssop - PJ Farm

Hyssop Officinalis- Alkaline Electrics

Organic Soursop Dried Leaves- MOKSHA and Fresh Drink US (I also do a daily shot of NILO Soursop Juice or a glass if my blood sugar is dropping)