Algonquin Tea

100% certified organic (pro-cert and USDA organic) hand picked indigenous Canadian herbs. All of the herbs are handpicked in the wild in a sustainable manner, picking amounts that a deer would graze. Those herbs which are rarer are grown organically using non-mechanical, ecologically integrated and permacultural methods. Only the finest quality herbs are hand picked at the optimum time. There are 6 delicious and healthy gourmet herbal tea blends. All herbs are naturally dried, 100% safe, and caffeine free. The tea packaging is 100% Canadian made using 100% recycled materials. Sealed, air tight, in reusable plastic bags with 24 bleach free tea bags.

The Algonquin Tea Company is based in the Algonquin bio-region in northeastern Ontario. They are committed to producing delicious herbal teas in an ecological sustianable way, using only indigenous certified organic herbs.

Answers to Common Questions:

- Yes, these herbs are safe for pregnant women.

- Yes, these teas are mild enough to use every day.

- Yes, these are all indigenous Canadian plants.

- No, wildcrafting does not endanger wild plants when harvested sustainably.

Available in 6 varieties including (see details below):

1. Awakening Tea: Balanced Energy Stimulant

2. Homestead Blend: Cold and Flu Blend

3. Lucid Dream: Enhanced Dream Recall

4. Peace Tea: Security Tranquility Sleep

5. Sacred Blend: Vision Communion Clarity

6. Sweetfern Tonic: Daily Immune Booster

 

The Algonquin Tea Co Story is one of close relationships, to the Algonquin land, from which the knowledge and the herbs themselves come, and to humanity, through which the story of these special teas has spread.

While organic teas are rare, hand-picked wild Canadian herb teas are absolutely unique. Canadian herbs have been safely used for thousands of years and are renowned world-wide for their medicinal potency. Through careful harvesting practices we are able to provide not only an environmentally sound product, but also one of unprecedented quality. We harvest wild plants in canoes by glistening rivers, in warm morning fields of flowers and cool spring valleys full of roots.

Algonquin Tea blends fully meet the demands of the most discerning ecology-minded and health conscious consumer. At the same time, these flavours satisfy the palate of everyone from the average tea drinker to the most gourmet connoisseur.

1. Awakening Tea: Balanced Energy Stimulant

Blends nutritious and supportive herbs with stimulating herbs, producing a balanced, uplifting tea that energizes without the side-effects of caffeine.

TRADITIONAL USES: Stimulant, Aphrodisiac, Tonic for blood circulation to reduce arthritic and headache pain

INGREDIENTS: Labrador Tea, Mountain Mint, Alfalfa, Nettle, Astragalus, Angelica, Joe-Pye, Calamus, Ginseng. Awakening tea is ideal for when we want a boost to keep up running, dancing, playing working, sex, to get going any time of day.

THE AWAKENING TEA STORY: You are sitting on a rock plateau above the lake and land. Between yourself and the water is a fresh green rolling expanse of thick mint filled fields. When you look down to the lake there is peace and abundance as the flowers open and the sun clears the dew. Birds are singing brightly and you gaze up, across the lake and the land rises to the first of many flowing pine ridges that move like dancing waves into the distance, to a blue expanse of morning sky. When we drink Awakening tea... our being is lifted and invigorated by its higher chakra stimulants - labrador tea, mint, pine and angelica, while being supported by the nutritive elements of nettle, astragalus and alfalfa, and grounded with the primal chakra stimulants of joe-pie, ginseng and calamus.

INGREDIENT TRADITIONAL USES: These herbs have been used for a variety of disorders: - indigestion, to increase appetite, for headaches, arthritic and rheumatic pain, colds and fevers, circulation and blood tonic, menopausal and menstrual ailments, cancer, anti-spasmodic and as a aphrodisiac.

• LABRADOR TEA - stomach ache, fever, bronchial ailments, liver-blood tonic.
• MOUNTAIN MINT - headaches, colds and fever, indigestion.
• ALFALFA - synergistic and nutritive high in vitamins and minerals.
• NETTLE - kidney blood tonic, spleen, circulation, rheumatism.
• ASTRAGALUS - stimulant, tonic for spleen, kidneys, lungs.
• ANGELICA - colds, flatulence, appetizer, stimulant.
• JOE-PYE - rheumatism, gall bladder urinary tract, impotence.
• CALAMUS - stomach, fevers, colds, coughs, stimulant.
• GINSENG - blood circulation, mental stimulant, adaptogenic.

 

2. Homestead Blend: Cold and Flu Blend

Named for the pioneers who enjoyed these herbs for fighting colds, fevers and flu, as well as being a delicious and soothing drink. Great iced tea.

TRADITIONAL USES:

• Flu, cold and cough relief
• Muscle relaxant
• Hormone balance
• Digestive aid

INGREDIENTS: Anise Hyssop, Red Clover, Raspberry Leaves

THE HOMESTEAD BLEND STORY: Anise Hyssop's beautiful purple flower spires are signposts of wild elixir to the bee. This perennial herb was enjoyed by natives and early pioneers who used it green, as a culinary herb, and dried for a relaxing flavourful tea. Let the luxuriant taste signal the comfort and security that comes from knowing you are home.

INGREDIENT TRADITIONAL USES

• ANISE HYSSOP (Agastache Foeniculum) - colds, fever, coughs, angina and weak heart.
• RED CLOVER - blood purifier, expectorant, sedative, asthma, bronchitis, coughs, cancer.
• RED RASPBERRY - blood tonic, back and stomach pains, diarrhea, dysentery, inflamed throat, menses, uterus tonic.

3. Lucid Dream Tea: Enhanced Dream Recall

Handpicked by canoe in the algonquin wilderness, sweet gale is a light flavourful herbal tea which is said to enable one to have more memorable dreams.

TRADITIONAL USES: Stomach ache, Fever, Bronchial ailments, Liver-blood tonic

INGREDIENTS: SWEET GALE (Myrica Gale). Lucid Dream Tea can help you remember your dreams, or to dream with others, try a cup as you go to bed. Lucid dream tea is not a sedative but has an immediate calming effect.

THE LUCID DREAM TEA STORY: As the Haunting calls of the Loons fill the vast silences of Canada's Northern nights, a musical web is created, from Lake to Lake, telling tales of the night. Growing along these shores, Sweet Gale's red and golden roots are woven into each other underwater, producing plants with the magic to move us into Lucid Dreaming.

INGREDIENT TRADITIONAL USES: Leaves are used traditionally as a light flavourful green tea, and its seed nutlets as sage or bay like cooking spice. Sweet Gale leaves were dried to perfume linen and make candles because of its beautiful fragrance. Also used to allay thirst. Astringent, diuretic, and emetic properties have been scientifically recognized.

 

4. Peace Tea: Security Tranquility Sleep

Peace tea instills the tranquillity, patience and beauty of the earth. This rich, bittersweet blend grounds us in a flowing meadow of healing herbs.

TRADITIONAL USES:

Peace tea is ideal for calming down before, during or after any busy period.

• Sedative
• Anti-depressant
• Sleeping aid
• Irritability
• Nervous exhaustion

INGREDIENTS: Blue Vervain, Lemon Balm, Catnip, Oat Straw, Red Bergamot, Chamomile, Hops, Motherwort, Valerian, Skullcap and St John's Wort.

PEACE TEA STORY: Peace tea has strong cat medicine, the masters of calmness. We also associate it with our porcupine friend because he was so trusting and gentle, falling asleep at a moment's notice in the sun, on Kim's belly or Steven's head! The herbs in this blend were combined to enable us to feel the tranquillity and calmness of the earth and ourselves. This rich, musky bitter-sweet tasting tea grounds our being in the sweet beautiful flowing meadow culture of herbs, giving us the peace and security of a warm sunny park.

INGREDIENT TRADITIONAL USES

Traditionally the herbs in this blend have been used as sedative, anti-depressant, anti-tumor, nervine, as a sleeping aid, and for irritability and other ailments associated with nervous exhaustion.

• BLUE VERVAIN - nerve tonic, spleen and liver, fever, circulation
• LEMON BALM - insomnia, antibacterial-viral, menses, headache
• CATNIP -colds, restlessness, headaches, heavy menses, sedative
• OAT STRAW - physical and nervous fatigue, depression, thyroid
• RED BERGAMOT- colds, fever, headache, insomnia, stomach ache
• CHAMOMILE - insomnia, indigestion, headaches, cramps
• HOPS - sedative, cramps, fevers, estrogenic, rheumatism
• MOTHERWORT - nerves, regulates heart, mood swings, menses
• VALERIAN - nerve tonic, irritability, sedative, depression
• SKULLCAP - sedative, nerve tonic, antispasmodic
• ST.JOHNS WORT - depression, inflammation, sedative, wounds

5. Sacred Blend: Vision Communion Clarity

These three sacred herbs bless us with a healing sense of communion, tranquillity and focus, for which the herbs are known by native americans.

TRADITIONAL USES:

Sacred blend is ideal for meditation or sacred group activities.

• Decongestant
• Anti-inflammatory for joint pain
• Cools fevers
• Relieves indigestion

SACRED BLEND STORY: With this blend I think of the shelter of deep woods in the winter, or a warm sunny spot on a forest path where the heady scent of the sweet earth envelopes you like love, I think of sacred circles attended with elders and loved ones, I think of the warmth of communion with those who have gone before, those who are present and those who are coming. I give thanks to the great spirit and to the mother earth, who gives us these herbs as her sweet blessing.

In a sunny opening on a forest path comes a divine scent of pine, sage and sweet grass and you feel the warm communion of elders and loved ones past, present, and future. Give thanks to spirit and earth, who give us these herbs as a blessing. Drink in the sacred circle.

These three sacred herbs offer us a blessing to help cleanse and heal our lives. Their power bring us many healing qualities, as well as a deep sense of tranquility, calm and focus. Well-known historically by Native Americans who use these herbs to 'smudge' ceremonially

INGREDIENT TRADITIONAL USES: Among the traditional medicinal values of these herbs are decongestant, anti-inflammatory, for joint pain and cools fevers.

• WHITE PINE - rheumatism, lungs, kidneys, anti-inflammatory
• SWEET GRASS - coughs, bleeding, venereal infections, sore throat
• SAGE - headache, congestion, inflammation, infections

6. Sweetfern Tonic: Daily Immune Booster

This delicious and healthy gentle tonic can be enjoyed daily. Carefully formulated to assist every organ in the elimination of toxins. Tastes like black tea.

TRADITIONAL USES: Delicious daily tonic formulated to assist every major organ in the cleansing of toxins. Great iced tea. Tastes similar to black tea.

• Detoxifies blood
• Strengthens organs and immune system
• Clears skin
• Eases rheumatism

THE SWEETFERN STORY: On high sunny ridges of the Canadian Shield, where birds of prey glide thunderclouds are born, Sweetfern fills the air with its spicy aroma.

INGREDIENT TRADITIONAL USES:

The full spectrum of herbs in this blend traditionally served to cleanse and strengthen the body in a balanced way.

• SWEETFERN (Comptonia Peregrina)- used by natives and settlers as a general tonic tea. Stronger decoctions made with Sweetfern have been used for rheumatism, internal bleeding, leucorrhea, dysentery and topical astringent. Folk use as cancer remedy.
• RED CLOVER- flowers used traditionally as blood purifier, expectorant, sedative, asthma, bronchitis, coughs, cancer.
• RED RASPBERRY- leaves used traditionally as nourishing blood tonic and for back and stomach pains, diarrhea, dysentery, inflamed throat,menstruation cramps, stimulates and relaxes uterus.
• YELLOW DOCK (Rumex Crispus)- roots used traditionally for blood purifier, skin ailments, rheumatism, lymph glands, liver, sore throats.
• ECHINACEA - used traditionally as immune tonic, aches, flu, colds, sore throat.
• DANDELION - roots have been used traditionally for problems of the liver, gall bladder, kidney and bladder. Also used for constipation and weak digestion.
• BURDOCK - roots have traditionally been used for a blood purifier, liver and kidney ailments, rheumatism, gonorrhea and cancer.