Mountain teas

[Orion]

I really love longjing green tea, I have it often. Silver needle white tea is also a favourite, but my supplier went out of business and he had access to the best of the best.

 

I admittedly don't have a lot of experience with oolong, would love to learn more.

 

A friend who spent time in Asia taught me how to make tea "the right way" last year, with a tea table and everything. Doing it that way makes it a much more medicinal experience...

[Gerard]

Pottery that will enhance the tea drinking experience:

 

http://teamasters.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/jam-session-earth-and-fire-cups-by.html?m=1

 

http://david-louveau.com/pages/travail.html

 

Enjoy your wonderful tea!

[Daoisme]

Is there a benefit of high mountain teas vs regular teas, just wondering what kind of difference it makes as I'm sure it does make a difference in the chemical composition to some degree.

[Daoisme]

Thanks for chiming in and saying hello. I wish I were a teamaster

 

Yes, puerh is a very special tea, but so is dancong also a great favourite of mine. There are pretty amazing offerings out there with a lot of complexity and subtlety but unfortunately I can't afford any of them at the moment. If you are interested I can provide a link from a HK based company.

 

A longevity tea for all Tao Bums and anyone else lucky to stumble upon this thread (it uses Chinese herbs and not camellia sinensis):

 

Polygonum multiflorum root (he shou wu). 9-30g

Ginseng root (ren shen) Alternatively <i>dang shen (codonopsis root)</i> which is cheaper version (the root belongs to the same family as ginseng) but amounts need to be more or less doubled to get the same effect as ginseng. 1-9 g (ren shen) & 6-14 g (dang shen)

Dioscorea rhizome/Chinese yam (shan yao). 9-30 g

Lycii/wolf/goji berries (gou qi zi). 5-18 g

Cooked Rehmannia root (shu di huang). 9-30 g

Reishi mushroom/ganoderma lucidorum (ling zhi). 3-15 g

Sichuan Lovage rhizome (chuan xiong). 3-10 g

 

The dosages are for decoction. Start with a lower dose and adjust accordingly. Only for practitioners who know their bodies and minds really well, if you are unsure check with a TCM doctor so they can adjust the quantities accordingly.

 

Best

Very interesting, those are known to be good herbals on their own , am just wondering are they all compatible together in a decoction, since that's a lot of different substances, will there be any deleterious interactions?

Edited March 2, 2017 by Daoisme

[Gerard]

The Chinese have a long history with tea. Trust them as I do...plus my own experience drinking those teas.

Edited November 7, 2018 by Gerard

[gonzaleza]

One indication, do you know the herbs Cistanche tubulosa or Rou Cong Rong?

I suggest that you give it a look, its disclosure is recent but its use is antiquated.

Very used in Tibet, Nepal , etc. very difficult to get, but ...

 

 

[Gerard]

Enjoyed an early morning brew of Taiwan Tian Chi Jade oolong from Tea Masters. High mountain oolong tea can't get any better than this.

 

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