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Quilter's Comfort Tea grew out of our interest in designing special teas for family and friends for more than two decades. Why choose Quilter's Comfort Products? Our herbal products are all grown on Certified Organic Farms and packaged without artificial flavorings or colorings. Quilter's Comfort is a sustainable business supporting permanent systems of organic agriculture. Please phone 812-331-0886 or contact info@quiltcomfort.net for more information and with your questions. |
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| Quitter's Comfort Tea is blended for use during those quite moments between the stitches that create the complex patterns of our lives. Take a break and enjoy a cup of Quilter's Comfort Tea. We enjoy it alone or with family and friends. QTC is a delicious blend of certified and energized organic herbs that are combined to soothe, energize, and nurture your creative spirit. | |||||||||||||
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 We use them because
they provide us with a much fresher product with far better taste
and health benefits and tea experts agree that loose teas have the
best flavors because the leaves expand and release their full qualities.
When you chop herbs into very small pieces the beneficial essential
oils present on the herbs are destroys. Because these herbs are
full of wonderful flavors, be careful not to overfill your tea ball
or strainer. Our teas are blended in small batches for freshness! Quilter's Comfort Tea is a unique blend made from the freshest dried organic herbs available, then energetically enhanced. Our teas are hand-blended from plants certified organic by OTCO, certified OQK Kosher, free from irradiation and ozone treatment, sulfur, gasses and sanitary chemicals. Unsurpassable in color, depth, taste and aroma, our preservative free tea is specially crafted to have a delicious inviting taste and benefits. Enjoy a cup or a pot of
Quilter's Comfort, we think you will enjoy it hot or cold. Once
you try QCT, you may become fond of our good comforting taste, long
lasting quality and very economical cost. We encourage you to share
this small comfort with friends. |
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Herbal Properties
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| Alfalfa has been used for centuries as a human food. Its name is Arabic for "father of all foods." It provides beta-carotene and vitamins C, E, and K. The nutrient K helps blood to. Vitamin K likewise helps bones to knit by working with vitamin D and glutamic acid to activate osteocalcin. Your body can't use calcium without vitamin K. If you're taking anti-rejection drugs for kidney transplant, don't use any form of alfalfa. When taking Coumadin, treat alfalfa as you would any other green, leafy vegetable. Because of the vitamin K it can interfere with anti-coagulant drugs. | |||||||||||||
| Red Clover is a blood purifier and is also soothing to the nerves. Clovers' contained polysaccharides increase the body's ability to resist various infections and reduce the risk of cancer diseases. | |||||||||||||
| Elderberries the Native Americans used the flowers, berries, and bark of elderberry trees to treat fevers and joint pain for hundreds of years. Israeli researchers have developed five formulas based on elderberry fruit that have been clinically proven to prevent and ameliorate all kinds of influenza. Berries contain Potassium nitrate, sambucin, sambunigrin, sugars. The berries have a tart sweet taste. | |||||||||||||
| Nettles -In naturopathy nettles are an ultrative which means they have many nutrients...In Chinese Medicine nettle help build Jing a deep energy in your body which is responsible for growth and reproduction and life expectancy. nettle tea offers is minerals. Stinging nettles, like many other common weeds/wild plants, have a nice, developed root systems and are very good at sucking lots of healthy stuff out of the dirt and making it into a pleasant-to-drink-as-tea, herbal form. Nettle tea has calcium, magnesium, iron, silica, and potassium. If you avoid high (boiling) temperatures while brewing (just like with green tea), you can also keep a lot of the vitamin C and other heat-sensitive vitamins in your tea. | |||||||||||||
| Oatstraw - in Modern European herbal medicine uses oat straw as a nervous system restorative and to strengthen a weakened constitution and illnesses related to the skin. Precaution - only if you are allergic to oats. It contains carbohydrates, silicic acid. | |||||||||||||
| Sage - common garden sage has
been known and used for culinary and medicinal purposes for centuries. Since time before the ancient Greeks, sage has been considered a valuable healing herb, and has been used to treat consumption, ulcers and other digestive problems. It has been used to lower fevers and treat snake bite. Whlen used as a tea, sage can either stop sweating when drunk cold, or produce sweating when taken hot. It has also been used to treat headache, and is believed in various cultures to aid memory and thinking. Salvia comes from the Latin word meaning to heal. Sage contains Thujone (35 to 60%), 1,8-cineol (15%), camphor (18%), borneol (16%), bornyl esters, a-pinene and salvene. It has a peppery flavor. |
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Peppermint has antibacterial properties which fight infections, stimulate the immune system and can help ward off colds. It helps ease congestion and headaches by removing phlegm and clearing respiratory passages. Red Raspberry leaves are very pleasant-tasting, some consider it similar to black tea, without the caffeine. Raspberry leaf tea was given to women of a number of North American Indian tribes as a tonic and support to the reproductive system, and have earned approval of the authoritative British Herbal Compendium. As a folk medicine it has been used to treat canker sores, cold sores, and gingivitis in persons of all ages and anemia, leg cramps, diarrhea, and morning sickness in pregnant women, and as a uterine relaxant. It has a fruity taste. Peppermint is a general stimulant. The essential oil of peppermint (up to 2.5% in the dried leaf) is mostly made up from menthol (ca. 50%), menthone (10 to 30%), menthyl esters (up to 10%) and several monoterpene derivatives (pulegone, piperitone, menthofurane). Traces of jasmone (0.1%) give the oil its characteristically "minty" scent. It is strengthening to the nerves contains an essential oil that is unique to other mints for its quality and flavor. |
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| Red Raspberry Leaves are very pleasant-tasting, some consider it similar to black tea, without the caffeine. Raspberry leaf tea was given to women of a number of North American Indian tribes as a tonic and support to the reproductive system, and have earned approval of the authoritative British Herbal Compendium. As a folk medicine it has been used to treat canker sores, cold sores, and gingivitis in persons of all ages and anemia, leg cramps, diarrhea, and morning sickness in pregnant women, and as a uterine relaxant. It has a fruity taste. | |||||||||||||
| Rose Hips rose hips also contain A, D and E, as well as antioxidant flavonoids that may reduce the effects of aging and help prevent cancer. They are one of the most concentrated sources of vitamin C available as well as Vitamins A, D, E, flavonoids, lycopene, iron. Because it's potent antioxidant action, it helps to protect the body from the effects of stress, aging and the environment. It has a tart sweet taste. | |||||||||||||
| Thyme has powerful antibacterial properties which fight infections, stimulate the immune system and can help ward off colds and help treat chronic yeast and urinary tract infections. Thyme contains tannins that cause proteins in skin to cross-link, forming a barrier to infection.Teas of thyme can be taken orally to treat allergies, asthma, colds, and coughs. It has a bright taste, lively, clean taste. | |||||||||||||
| Yerba Mate
is the dried leaves and stems of a South American rainforest holly,
and is the national beverage of Paraguay. Yerba Mate is one of the
worlds most effective and healing beverages with over 196 active compounds
which shadows the active compounds found in Green tea (Camellia sinensis)
which has about 144. It contains Tannins, antioxidants, polyphenols,
amino acids, saponins, vitamins and flavonoids. Yerba mate is diuretic,
inotropic (increasing the strength of each heartbeat), chronotropic
(making the heart beat faster), glycogenolytic (breaking down stored
glycogen in the liver, allowing it to store calories from the next
meal), lipolytic (breaking down fats), and analeptic (stimulating
the central nervous system). Yerba mate assists weight loss by increasing the transit time of food through the digestive tract, helping users feel fuller, longer. The British Herbal Compendium also recommends Yerba mate for treating fatigue and headache. It has a flat taste. |
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Here is a link to Herbal Resources for a wide variety of information sources and resources. |
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Bring water to boil in stainless
steel pot. Pour one cup of steaming hot water over 1 teaspoon of
tea using a French press, tea ball or basket, or loose in a cup
or pot. (When using loose herbs in a cup, we enjoy using a Bombia
(drinking straw). Steep covered 3-5 minutes for general use. For
added therapeutic value, steep 10-20 minutes. We enjoy the tea as
is, or with a bit of honey or stevia.
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Important: Always consult your family health practitioner when starting or changing your personal wellness regimen; including herbal beverages and skin care products. Web design by Quilter's Comfort 2006. All rights reserved. All photography © 2006, 2007 Quilter's Comfort Tea. Text and photographs may be used by anyone who currently sells our products. If you want to use our copyrited photographs and are not a customer, please ask permission. |
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Press Release Now
at quilterscomfort.net, Quilter's Comfort Teas, and other
products, including Beautiful Biscuit Mixes to promote balancing,
relaxing and grounding in the simple pleasure of tea and sweet and
savory biscuits. -- Now available at quilterscomfort.com and quilterscomfort.net is Quilter's Comfort Teas and Other Products. QCTand all the other QC Products are blended to be just right for those quite moments between the stitches of your life. QCT loose teas are delicious blends of certified organic an certified kosher herbs combined to soothe, energize, and nurture your creative spirit. The
QCT herbs used have a variety of supportive, nutritive and
protective qualities with a great unique taste! Current interest and popularity with teas is due to lifestyle choices that lean toward rising interest in improved health and well being, and consumers love the many unique custom blends available to suit their taste. Try some potentized Quilter's Comfort Teas and Other Products! QCT is energertically potentized using quartz crystals that have been cleansed using traditional techniques and amplified with Reiki energies. Our intention is to be of service and every item we offer is presented with the idea that it will be of use to someone. Questions concerning Quilter's Comfort Tea and Other Products can be sent to QCT, P.O. Box 8172, Drawer B, Bloomington, IN 47407, 812-331-0886 or emailing us at quiltcomfort@quilterscomfort.net |
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