There are two components to any good herb tea - the healing herbs and the flavoring.  In many cases, the flavoring comes from herbs, spices, berries and/or fruit, all of which can have healing properties.  So that cup of tea you're drinking to combat night blindness can be quietly soothing your nerves, easing muscle tension, or providing important nutrients.  Flavoring is important!

I'm sure if I asked everyone who came to this page to list their favorite foods, and enough people did so, nearly everyone would find something on the list they just can't stand.  That's one problem with formulas designed to taste good.  They can't taste good to everyone.  The other is that the flavorings used can themselves be selected to either enhance the effects of the primary healing herbs, or to target another issue.  Remember that tea to combat night blindness?  If you're also congested, flavor with peppermint.

At Green Fire Herbs, all teas are hand blended for you when ordered.  This allows us to be very flexible in the choice of flavorings we provide.  Realizing you may not be familiar with the flavors of many of the herbs used, we provide two aids to help you decide how you want your tea to taste.  Most of our blends will soon be available in a "Beginner Set".  The "Beginner Set" contains 20 teabags: one teabag in each of 15 flavors, and five teabags with no flavorings added.  These last five are so you can see how the tea blend itself tastes, and so that you can experiment with flavorings at home.  Some suggestions are fresh, in season berries (or frozen berries allowed to thaw before being added to the tea), fruit juices, milk, etc.  

We also have a "Flavor Set", and a "Mini Flavor Set".   The "Flavor Set" contains 15 teabags, one for each of our flavor herbs/spices.  The "Mini Flavor Set" contains 10 teabags, omitting those flavors that are likely to be found in your spice cabinet. 

All our tea blends are packaged as loose tea.  You can purchase the tea with your choice of flavorings, or without.  If you purchase the tea without flavorings, you can keep some of our flavoring herbs and spices on hand and blend them with your tea when brewing (or use spices from your spice rack), using exactly the amount of flavoring you like.  This not only gives you some variety, but you can keep flavorings on hand to help deal with additional health issues.

IMPORTANT: Some herbs should be avoided in certain conditions.  These conditions are clearly indicated where applicable.  If you are pregnant, have certain health conditions, have certain allergies, or are taking certain medications, read any restrictions very carefully, and DON'T use the herb if it's contraindicated for your condition!