[MD] Tea

[Ron Kulp]

Here you go SA, I found some info.

 Alternate Names 
Canada hemlock, hemlock spruce    

Uses 
Industry: Eastern hemlock was early valued for its bark, an important
source of tannin for the leather industry.  
Trees were felled and stripped of their bark, which was then milled for
tannin extraction.  To simplify stripping
 the bark and turning the logs, trees were often felled into lakes.
Many of these logs were much later extracted
 from northern lakes and milled.    

The wood has been used for light framing, roofing, boxes and crates, and
pulping, but it tends to be brittle and 
eastern hemlock is not presently important as a timber tree.  Commercial
stands have been greatly reduced by 
prior harvesting and lack of restocking.  

Ethnobotanic: American Indians used the cambium as the base for breads
and soups or mixed it with dried 
fruit and animal fat for pemmican.  Natives and white settlers also made
tea from hemlock leaves, 
which have a high vitamin C content. 

Looks like I'll have to brew a batch!!my girls will love it, they make
"stew" with needles all the time.
Thanks SA! 

-----Original Message-----
From: moq_discuss-bounces at moqtalk.org
[mailto:moq_discuss-bounces at moqtalk.org] On Behalf Of Heather Perella
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 8:04 PM
To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
Subject: [MD] Tea

Hey x and Case,

     I believe it was you in a discussion with Case, I'm not really sure
though, some posts ago that stated that green tea is a diuretic so you
drink white tea. 
All tea has caffeine and caffeine is the diuretic part.  The only
difference I have found, since tea has become more and more a hobby of
mine, between white and green tea is not the oxidation process, but the
kinds of leaves picked and the shading of tea to rid the green color,
thus, instead of green it is white tea.  The kinds of leaves picked in
white are the youngest whereas green tea is picking of the usual age.
     As to the oxidation process not being different, this refers to
white and green teas [all tea (of the green, oolong, black oxidation
range) is of the same species] not being oxidized, thus, avoiding the
increase in caffeine that accompanies oxidation of tea leaves.  With
this in mind, on the usual oxidation range, green is unoxidized, oolong
(apparently pronounced and more correctly spelled wu-long) medium
oxidation, and black tea is very high oxidation (thus, higher than green
and oolong in caffeine amount). 
Since green tea doesn't increase in caffeine due to increase oxidation,
then the amount of a calming chemical (can't remember the name) and the
amount of caffeine is equal, thus, green tea is known for its'
meditative qualities.  Green tea awakens and calms at the same time,
unlike coffee that has large amounts of caffeine and no calming
chemical.  (I still drink coffee, though not as much as I used to.  I'm
just pointing something out, not advocating against
coffee.)  
     I'm interested in how white is less diuretic than green tea
according to what somebody said for I could not find this to be true in
my research.

thanks.


again the night is dipping below zero degrees F, SA

P.S.  For those living where Eastern Hemlock (also known as Canadian
Hemlock) grows, it has 5 times the amount of Vitamin C than lemons.
White pine has Vitamin C, too, as well as Vitamin A.  This had me think
about how Amerindians in this region during the winter (I'm not an
expert on food sources in this region, but I'm making an educated guess
that during the summer more plants would be growing for the potential of
eating more Vitamin C) would have supplemented their diet with this tea
to avoid what many Europeans died of when they first walked around
here:  scurvy.  By the way, other Vitamin C deficiencies include slow
wound healing, and immune system rundowns.



 
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