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Rooibos tea for babies: A nature’s boon for your infant and child

Posted in Babies and Children, Green rooibos, Pregnancy and breastfeeding, Red rooibos, Rooibos tea health on 02/01/2009 07:58 pm by ElvinConnor

Have you heard that rooibos tea is great for your baby? The health benefits of a balanced Rooibos Tea Diet are countless. It will not only provide your baby with a vital source of essential minerals, but also relieve a host of allergic symptoms such as colic, insomnia, stomach cramps, abnormal stools, chronic diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and cradle-cap. During pregnancy or breastfeeding, Rooibos offers harmless, soothing refreshment to mother’s nerves, but it doesn’t end there.

Not only is Rooibos good for pregnant and breast-feeding mothers, Rooibos tea has many anti-allergic properties and has become a tried-and-tested cure for crying infants. If your little one is suffering from allergic symptoms like colic, insomnia or stomach cramps, this will surely come as great news. Rooibos also offers precious relief from nappy rash. Due to natural soothing and calming powers of Rooibos,  your baby will benefit from better digestion and untroubled sleep.

Rooibos gift set

The fact that Rooibos is very low in tannin is very important. Because of this, it doesn’t deplete your baby’s iron reserves during pregnancy or breastfeeding, and ensures unaffected absorption of protein. But there’s more: its calcium traces help strengthen the youngsters teeth and bones, while its zinc and magnesium contents promote a healthy skin and a well-developed nervous system. So for many reasons Rooibos Tea is a real boon for your baby.

 

Rooibos tea

Posted in Green rooibos, Red rooibos, Rooibos tea health on 12/12/2008 06:58 pm by admin

Red, black and green tea

Rooibos tea

In latter years rooibos tea health benefits have propelled the tea beyond the tea.

Full of antioxidants and flavonoids the plant’s extracts are used in shampoos, rejuvinating products and a host of other cosmetics products.

Calming and refreshing it is indicated for all kinds of health problems. Nausea, constipation, stomach cramps, insomnia to name just a few. Highly commanded in situations where caffeine and or tannine intake are not recommended. With its strong taste and aroma it is particularly indicated in pregnancy to women who find it difficult to give up tea or coffee.

Only in recent year has rooibos achieved its deserved fame. With inventions like red espresso a healthy alternative to coffe

a healthy cup of rooibos

e which expresses the full body and aroma of coffee without the ill effects of caffeine and with a very high amount of antioxidants.

History

Rooibos tea. A delicious concoction, a golden-red beverage consumed for centuries by the

Southafrican Khoi tribe. It has been discovered by the westerners only in the seventeenth century.

A swedish botanist Carl Thunberg observed the natives of the Cape area making tea from a plant harvested in the surrounding Caderberg mountains. The plant was called red bush and later rooibos.

The plant’s fine leaves were cut, rolled into bags and transported into the valley with the help of donkies. The leaves were than chopped and bruised on rocks and left to dry in the sun. The dried leaves were then brewed much like tea or coffee in hot water to obtain sweet red drink with a strong aroma. It would then be used as a casual drink and to aleviate many ailments.

The tea was quickly adopted by the Dutch colonists as a replacement for black tea which was already an expensive as it relied on trade from Europe.

In the early twentieth century a russian settler Benjamin Ginsberg exploring the Cape mountains rediscovered the red beverage and the many uses the natives had for it. Being fascinated with the tea he ran a host of experiments perfecting the harvesting and fermentation of rooibos. When he discovered the potential market for the tea he gave locals incentives to cultivate the plant on their farms. His bet payed off.

The rooibos market became one of the most lucrative spice businesses of the time. Since then rooibos tea grew in popularity. It is also mentioned in Alexander Mccall Smith’s detective novels The No.1 ladies Agency as Mma Ramotswe’s favourite drink - the red bush tea.