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Like all our Special Rare Green Teas, Refreshing & Brisk is totally free of the bitterness sometimes associated with conventional green teas.
Green Tea Health:
Green tea is not only lower in caffeine than black tea but it also contains many antioxidants.
Medical institutions and research bodies around the world are investigating the role green tea could play in areas ranging from heart disease to cataracts. We will watch these studies with interest and bring you the latest news as it becomes available.
Green tea also contains polyphenols called catechins that are considered to be many times more powerful than Vitamin C.
Finally, green tea is alkaline so if you’ve had a heavy, rich meal, it can help to balance out the acidity.
Green Tea is Inner Calm:
Wu Xin is a Chinese phrase that can be translated to mean a calm heart, as clear as an undisturbed pond.
As the mind and body are seen to be closely interlinked in the Chinese tradition, inner calm and harmony is of great importance to physical well-being.
Chinese medicine considers the well-being of the whole body. Within it, chi is the all pervasive life force and healthiness is defined by its free flow.
Green tea is seen as a positive source of energy and warmth that stimulates chi, refreshing the body and mind, bringing balance to the whole being.
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Give yourself some special time for your Wu Xin moment.
- Empty yourself of all your problems and cares.
- Breathe gently and relax.
- Get comfortable and relax with your cup of tea.
- Sense the slight aroma and vapour from the tea
- Sip slowly
- Sense a very slight sharpness on the end of the tongue.
- As the tea lingers in your mouth, the sensation changes to a cooling, slight sweetness (tea masters say drinking water after fine tea makes even the water seem slightly sweet).
- Experience and bring into awareness the nuances and resonances of each sip.
- Feel fresh and full of vitality.
- Breathe gently without thinking.
- Feel goodwill for these special Wu Xin moments - your heart is a gentle reflecting pond.
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At Dragonfly Teas we consider that the way crops are grown is intrinsic to the well-being of everyone.
Working with nature to achieve the best quality with little or no chemicals involved is in our view, the way things should be.
The demands of the modern world for more; faster; better has resulted in short term exploitation of the land and the people who work it, with no thought for the future.
So we prefer to do things differently.
We believe that it is important to respect the relationship to the land of those who patiently grow our food (often under great hardship).
We are aware of the difference that the ancient country artisan traditions of food–making can make. Traditions that are thankfully still used today to create high quality teas and other foods, such as fine wines and local cheeses.
There are reputedly up to 8,000 different hand-made teas in China. They are part of a 1,500-year-old tradition. These are disappearing rapidly through mechanical and chemical intervention. The world has plenty of poor quality teas with very few of high quality on offer. This is because of lack of consumer awareness of the rich heritage of taste experiences produced by the smaller artisan tea-makers.
Dragonfly Teas is pledged to bring these teas to the discerning palate and in so doing, help to keep alive the traditions and skills that have created them.
We believe strongly in the ideals of the Slow Food movement, which is growing fast throughout Europe. We think it is important that every country has a dynamic small-scale agricultural food production sector. It ensures that rural people are rewarded for their efforts and helps to stop the depopulation of the countryside.
We also support non-political Fair Trade that campaigns to ensure we pay fairly and as directly as possible to the farmers with as few intermediaries as possible. This means that more of the profits end up directly in the hands of the communities that grow the crops.
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