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Stuart Camenzind
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City Dweller, Heal Thyself by Stuart Camenzind

June 11th, 2008 8:48 PM

INSTRUCTIONS: Find an old-school recipe for a healing brew, or tisane, or facial or powder. Any pre-western medicine healing remedy. Make it from herbs and plants growing wild in the city.

Bonus points for details on if it works for you or not!

I think I'm getting a cold, so tomorrow I will go out and try to find some herbs to make rosemary mint tea. The recipe is as follows:
Ingredients

* 2 tablespoons rosemary, minced
* 2 tablespoons mint, minced
* 1 teaspoon grated orange zest
* 2 cups boiling water

So I found all of the ingredients. The mint was in my yard by an old greenhouse. I don't really know how it got there because we never planted it. The rosemary was in my neighbour's yard; yea, I hopped the fence and took it without asking. He's not going to miss it. The orange however was a little difficult to find. I had to walk two streets over and eventually found an orange bush (tree?) growing in front of a house, so I just walked up and picked an orange. Pretty good example of suburban harvesting, if I say so myself. I then cut up all the ingredients and brewed them in my tea set. The hardest part was making orange zest, as all I had was a santoku knife--a rather big blade for such fine cuts. The tea itself is quite good; I thought the rosemary might give it a funky flavor, but it didn't. Well, I feel a little better, but I think it may have more to do with the vitamin C in the orange I felt obligated to eat than the tea.

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Rosemary
Mint!!
Oranges!
The ingredients
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posted by Darkaardvark on June 11th, 2008 9:08 PM

Simple. Elegant.

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posted by Evil Sugar on June 12th, 2008 6:59 AM

Gummy bears do not get sick or drink tea. But if they did get sick, and they did drink tea, they would definitely try this recipe.

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posted by Rainy on June 12th, 2008 7:19 AM

There's a katana in your tea. Cool.