Perhaps you’re looking for a morning alternative to coffee this year? Look no further than the awesome benefits of a very ancient ritual known as the match tea ceremony. This ceremony involves the tools listed above as well as a matcha bowl and of course the tea known as Matcha!

We’ll talk more about the Matcha Tea Ceremony itself in a later post, but for now let me inform you more about the above tools used in the matcha tea ceremony.

Bamboo Tea Whisk

The bamboo tea whisk is the authentic tool for preparing a perfect cup of Matcha. Used skillfully, whisking in a zig zag motion, the whisk will give your Matcha a smooth and frothy consistency, heightening this flavorful experience.

Bamboo Tea Scoop

The bamboo tea scoop is the authentic tool used for scooping matcha from its tea tin to the matcha bowl. Bamboo is used to allow a tea enthusiast to prepare tea without breaking or damaging tea leaves or spoiling the tea with the natural oils from their hand.

Bamboo Water Scoop

The bamboo water scoop or ladle is the authentic tool used for scooping water from the kettle and pouring it over matcha tea.

These tools pictured above are the authentic tools used to perform your own Matcha Tea Ceremony. Using quality tools is essential to achieving the best results of the tea ceremony. I personally purchase all of my tea utensils, tea, and tea pots from Blue Dragon Tea House in San Diego, CA. Sometimes not all of their products are on their website so it is good to call them to see what they have in stock.

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What is Dit Da Jow?

Herbal liniments have been used by ancient Chinese monks and herbalists for thousands of years! Although not widely know in the United States, they are currently used the world over.
According to Chinese folklore, this liquid was used externally to protect their bodies, prevent injuries, and fix all sorts of physical ailments and maintain the body from aging. Our results have been enormously successful and have been very well received throughout many communities, come and see for yourself!

Why Dit Da Jow?

If we move, we are using a joint. The more we move this joint, the more wear and tear it takes. Our body is like the most complex machine you can possibly imagine. All machines need some loving occasionally! The more the machine is used, the more it wears down unless you maintain it in direct proportion to how much you use it.

Unfortunately most people stop doing what they love to do because they phsyically aren’t able to. How does that feel? Not good. Most people stop running because of knee or ankle pains. Most people stop dancing because of a hip injury or they throw out their lower back. Most people stop tennis because of what? Tennis elbow!

The question is are you going to allow that to limit your lifestyle, or will you find a solution?

What Else do I need to know?

The most important thing to know is that Dit Da Jow was used primarily as a preventative to injuries by strengthening the physical body. Although it was used, according to Chinese folklore to fix some issues of the physical body, but wasn’t the intent of the formulas.

The Shaolin and Daoist monks have been using Dit Da Jow for thousands of years and still do for the purpose of improving their training, whether it’s a physical body training regimen or a spiritual meditative practice. Everything boils down to energy. Eastern philosophy consideres this Chi or Qi. Western science calls it vibration or life energy. Regardless of what we call it, it’s the flow of life through our body. Good flow, we feel great. Bad flow we aren’t feeling so great.

It’s just like your sink. If it’s clogged up with hair, it’s not going to drain properly…water wil not flow well. If it’s clear, water flows through without resistance. This is true of your body’s energies. The job of accupressurists, accupuncturists, and chiropractors is to unclog your body, figuratively speaking, and help the energy flow properly.

When the body functions well, most of the things below are a natural part of how your body works. Dit Da Jow helps your body to perform a normal function exceptionally well.
The Benefits of Dit Da Jow according to Ancient Chinese folklore…

What else can Dit Da Jow do for me?

For those who are fortunate enough to live life unscathed, congratulations! Keep it that way with proper maintenance. For the rest of us, it’s a seeming part of life to hurt ourselves, whether it’s through neglect, typical wear and tear or an accident of some sort. What do you do when that happens? Hopefully fix it, right?

We’ve all come across therapies that worked, and some that didn’t work. Regardless of what methods you are doing, Dit Da Jow will only help! According to Chinese folklore, Dit Da Jow:

How Do I Use This? It is incredibly simple to use!

Pour some Dit Da Jow into the palm of your hand and do not ingest;
Apply this in a clockwise direction to the body (which is the same way the energy circles and circulates in the body)

That’s it!

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Additional Resources

We haven’t found many resources online for Dit Da Jow, but they are out there somewhere! There also aren’t many studies we can reference to since it is more of an Eastern form of medicine. While searching you will come across sites that will give you a recipe to put together your own Dit Da Jow, and intitial reaction is to try it, but we all know that we get what we pay for. Something freely posted will come with associated “free” dangers. We just ask that you are careful about your investment into your own body.

In brewing High Quality Loose Leaf Tea it is very important to follow these directions to get the most out of your tea!

Every tea can be brewed many different and to a variety of steeping times. It largely depends on the tea and the drinker’s preference. If you’re using standard Western brewing styles, however, here are the basics (remember to experiment with steeping times to find the flavor that’s most appealing to you):

1. Fill a kettle with fresh, cold water. Tea is 99 percent water, so the better the water, the better the tea. Bottle spring water is ideal for premium loose-leaf tea. Most tea experts cringe at the idea of using hot water from an espresso machine or coffee-maker -temperature control is uneven and water may be tainted with coffee odor.

2. Heat the water to a rolling boil (203 degrees F) for black tea. Water for oolong tea should be stopped just short of a boil (198-203 degrees F), depending on the degree of oxidation. Green tea should have cooler water still (185 degrees F). It’s important to use the correct water temperature when brewing tea, as it will affect the final product. However, you may have to experiment with different temperatures to find the ideal infusion.

3. Preheat the teapot or brewing receptacle by adding hot water and then pouring it out.

4. One teaspoonful is the usual amount of dry loose-leaf tea per gallon (cheap tea will yield about a cup). Experiment with that amount in order to find what tastes best for you.

5. Pour the hot water over the leaves and infuse to taste. Generally, steep black tea for 5 minutes, oolong tea for 3 – 6 minutes, green tea for 2 – 4 minutes. For fragile teas (white tea and some green teas), infuse for 1 – 3 minutes. The art form is in the tea master’s ability to produce consistent taste over multiple servings of the same tea.

Keep in mind – With High Quality Loose Leaf tea it is perfectly acceptable to leave the tea leaves in the brewing receptacle as it will not over-brew!

Keep in mind – With High Quality Loose Leaf tea you can also re-steep the leaves many times…for example if you put a teaspoon of tea in a cup you’ll be able to re-steep those leaves 5 to 7 times or more! So don’t throw away the leaves after only one steeping!

Virtually every culture which consumes tea has developed some ceremonial approach to tea service. The Chinese and the Japanese have highly ritualized and detailed ceremonies which go beyond the purpose of brewing tea, and attempt to gain some greater spiritual end. Many of these ceremonies are beautiful and interesting, and there are a wide range of resources available for exploring them at greater depth (I’m one of them!).

Any questions about this, please feel free to post on this article!

Enjoy your tea!

1. Fill a kettle with fresh cold water (keep in mind the better the water, the better the tea as tea is 99%
water…I usually use purified water, but any filtered water will do). Heat the water to a rolling boil (203 degrees F)

2. Turn off the heat and let the boiling stop. Wait about 30 seconds to 45 seconds, then pour into a glass container or any container really (from a tea pot or vase or 5 gallon container).

WARNING: Make sure the container can handle hot water before pouring the hot water into that container!

3. Then drop one tea bulb into the container. It will bloom within 3 to 7 minutes (if the water has cooled too much it may take longer to bloom), let steep for 10 minutes (or as long as you would like as it will not over-steep because it’s very high quality tea). I usually keep the bloomed tea in the water as it’s very beautiful to look at while I enjoy my tea!

4. Then drink! you can also put into smaller bottles to keep for later and make more or
drink the tea pot amount, then put into fridge so you can have it the next day!

5. Keep in mind not all teas taste great both hot and cold…however I find the blooming
teas and almost all Jasmine teas all do:)

If you have any questions please feel free to post to this article and I will respond!

Enjoy your tea!

In the world of tea there is “High Quality Loose Leaf Tea” and there is everything else. In recent years the supermarkets, including Whole Foods and Henry’s, have expanded their tea isles to astronomical proportions. There is also choosing between tea-bag tea, loose leaf tea, and ready-to-drink beverage tea. If a person is now choosing to drink tea because they’ve heard things like “green tea makes you healthier” or “black tea makes you slimmer” then it’s important to find out “Is all tea created equal?”

According to many scientific reports about tea, the benefits of tea primarily come from how many polyphenols the tea contains (it’s basically very important that the tea has lots of nutrients). Here is where High Quality Loose Leaf Tea separates itself by miles from the rest of the tea world! Let me start with some questions:
What tea do you think would have more polyphenols and health benefits:

A tea grown in nutrient rich soil or a tea grown in “normal” to “depleted” soil?

Tea grown at the most ideal altitude for tea to grow by families who have been growing tea for generations or tea grown on massive “tea farms” where companies bought land that could support a large tea farm?

Hand-picked tea (so that the leaves and stems are separated, healthy leaves are separated from unhealthy ones, etc) or tea picked by a machine?

I think we all know the correct answers to the above questions. There are anywhere from 18 to 26 different grades of specific white, green, oolong, and black teas on the tea market. Any of the tea-bag teas are usually filled with the bottom 24 to 26 grade tea…also known as “tea dust”. How many health benefits are in “tea dust” do you think? When a company tries to hide the fact they are serving their customers tea dust they add “natural” flavors, colors and even synthetic caffeine so a person feels they are getting “a kick”. Those are the teas that usually taste decent (because our pallets are used to chemicals and artificial things) but give people headaches and jitters (it’s not “tea” in general that gives headaches and jitters, it the additives to the “tea”). For example Lipton’s Citrus Green Tea is a brand that does contain synthetic dyes. And Arizona Green Tea with Honey and Lipton’s Citrus Green Tea contains as much sugar or high fructose corn syrup as a soda.

Yes High Quality Loose Leaf tea is more expensive per bag of tea (usually anywhere from $25 to $100 for 20g) but believe it or not when you factor into the equation that you can re-steep your tea leaves multiple times it usually comes out to being cheaper per cup than “cheap tea”…and of course you get all of the tea benefits that the medical studies promise and more!

So now you may ask “Where on earth can I get high quality loose leaf tea!?” Honestly the only place I have found it is on the internet at Blue Dragon Tea House…a tea importer in San Diego. Their tea is amazing…it tastes awesome! Makes you feel great! And it’s still such a new company that it’s “undiscovered”. So I recommend discovering it yourself! Go to www.bluedragonteahouse.com or google it to find where you can buy some! Good Luck and enjoy!

(P.S. I bought a blooming tea from Blue Dragon Tea House that yielded over 5 gallons of tea per bloom! I liked it so much I started selling it…see the blooming tea at the top right of this page:))

Welcome!

We’ve been drinking blooming teas for years and know that only the highest quality blooming teas will give you all the benefits you’re looking for. Don’t trust just anyone talking about this stuff…trust only those that drink it everyday!

The Mission

The mission I’ve chosen to accept is to educate the world on all of the positive effects of tea…namely blooming teas. All of our teas come with a large warning label that reads: By Consuming this Tea You Are Agreeing To Accept a Healthier Lifestyle

According to Ancient Chinese Folklore these teas will:

Is All tea the same?
NO! – We’re going to take a look at nature right now to answer this one. Is it easier or harder to grow plants in depleted soil? Harder – yes. That is because there are not enough nutrients in the soil to support much life. Can you imagine tea that is grown in depleted soil as having many nutrients? didn’t think so. But you can imagine if they were to sell that tea it would sell for pretty cheap wouldn’t it? But why would anyone want it as it is without nutrients, thus without health benefits? This tea is also machine picked/cut…no differentiation between good and bad leaves. Not much care goes into the mass production of these teas.

Good Healthy Tea is grown in nutrient rich soils, at altitudes known to add to the tea’s benefits. It is hand picked so that only the best leaves are kept. You can imagine that the tea produced in this manner will have more nutrients to it, thus will have the health benefits. It is very difficult to achieve economies of scale with High Quality tea, thus the highest grades of tea sell for thousands of dollars an ounce. Usually those high grades are reserved for only the wealthiest families in their respective countries (because they know what tea does for them!).

Conclusion

So if you’re going to drink tea at all…it only makes sense to drink the good stuff! Here at bloomingteas.org we only have the best blooming teas allowed out of China (again the top stuff is reserved for their country’s elite). So enjoy the great information and buy our teas…you’ll be glad you did!

Enjoy!

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Health disclaimer:
The information provided in this article should not be construed as personal medical advice or instruction. No action or inaction should be taken based solely on the contents of this article. Readers should consult a naturopathic doctor or a qualified health care professional on any matter relating to their health and well-being.