02-15-2013, 07:43 AM
here is some info I just looked up on the 2 endemic plants for tea...
MÄmaki leaves and fruit are no reported toxicity.
Dried or fresh mÄmaki leaves are used to make a mild but invigorating and healthy tea and one few commercially available native herbs for consumption. The tea helps with listlessness. MÄmaki leaves generally have a more pleasant aroma and taste than koÊ»okoÊ»olau. [2] The fresh or dried leaves for mamaki tea have been used to help with many internal disorders such as for the stomach, colon, bladder, liver, and bowels. [3]
Infused leaves can be used in treatment for high blood pressure, high cholesterol, liver problems, depression, bladder problems, bladder infections, and PMS. However, In some people mÄmaki can cause mild agitation or insomnia. [9]
David Bruce Leonard adds: "A remarkable friend, mÄmaki has a soothing effect on the nervous system in a similar way to jasmine tea. It works well for irritability or just to decompress after a day in Babylon." [9]
All species of koʻokoʻolau can be brewed as a tonic and each are said to have distinct flavors. Regarding Bidens spp., Isabella Abbott comments that "I find that the roughly half a dozen species common in Hawaiʻi offer two or three slightly different flavors, each a bit more subtle than commercial black tea." [2]
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save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha
MÄmaki leaves and fruit are no reported toxicity.
Dried or fresh mÄmaki leaves are used to make a mild but invigorating and healthy tea and one few commercially available native herbs for consumption. The tea helps with listlessness. MÄmaki leaves generally have a more pleasant aroma and taste than koÊ»okoÊ»olau. [2] The fresh or dried leaves for mamaki tea have been used to help with many internal disorders such as for the stomach, colon, bladder, liver, and bowels. [3]
Infused leaves can be used in treatment for high blood pressure, high cholesterol, liver problems, depression, bladder problems, bladder infections, and PMS. However, In some people mÄmaki can cause mild agitation or insomnia. [9]
David Bruce Leonard adds: "A remarkable friend, mÄmaki has a soothing effect on the nervous system in a similar way to jasmine tea. It works well for irritability or just to decompress after a day in Babylon." [9]
All species of koʻokoʻolau can be brewed as a tonic and each are said to have distinct flavors. Regarding Bidens spp., Isabella Abbott comments that "I find that the roughly half a dozen species common in Hawaiʻi offer two or three slightly different flavors, each a bit more subtle than commercial black tea." [2]
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save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha
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save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha
save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha