This month we want to shout about our herbal tea: Rooibos (Pronounced: Roy – Boss) or directly translated into English as ‘Red Bush’.
You see, Rooibos is technically not a tea (from the Camelia Sinensis species) but rather a shrub that grows in only one area in the world – the Cedarberg in the Western Cape of South Africa in what is now a protected World Heritage site approximately 200km north of Cape Town.
Anecdotally, Rooibos has been used by locals there for more than just drinking pleasure. When there is a skin ailment – it is bathed in. For pregnant and new mums nursing their babies – the tea is drunk in copious amounts to ease the body’s changing biomechanics. To aid in increasing ones appetite – it is also consumed (although of all the urban legends I have heard I am not so sure about this one).
Lastly – the great thing about Rooibos is that it is also caffeine free.
Whether you like your Rooibos flavoured, unflavoured, with a bit of spice, with some lemon or with some real chocolate stars we have no doubt it will warm you up from the inside out - especially this time of year.
Go ahead. Get your Red Bush on here!
Anecdotally, Rooibos has been used by locals there for more than just drinking pleasure. When there is a skin ailment – it is bathed in. For pregnant and new mums nursing their babies – the tea is drunk in copious amounts to ease the body’s changing biomechanics. To aid in increasing ones appetite – it is also consumed (although of all the urban legends I have heard I am not so sure about this one).
Lastly – the great thing about Rooibos is that it is also caffeine free.
Whether you like your Rooibos flavoured, unflavoured, with a bit of spice, with some lemon or with some real chocolate stars we have no doubt it will warm you up from the inside out - especially this time of year.
Go ahead. Get your Red Bush on here!
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