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This cocktail is rich with vitamins, is very thick and dark and some-what bitter. Health food followers describe all sorts of benefits to a diet rich in blackstrap molasses.

Organic Molasses

Tisanes are infusions of boiling water and herbs - better known as tsai, chai, char or even tea.

Most tisanes are made from a variety of bushes, herbs, shrubs and grasses, such as sage, mint, lucerne, comfrey, alfalfa and stinging nettles.

Herbal teas, simply put is the liquid yield from soaking part of a plant in hot water for a few minutes. It is also called herbal infusion. In some herbal medicine practices, herbs are put in a pot with water and "stewed" for an hour or so to yield a potent soup to achieve a certain effect.

Through the ages herbs have been used in cooking for their flavor, in medicine for their healing properties and for their fragrance and cosmetic properties. However little has been written about their value to the organic grower.

Specific herbs may have one or many uses to the organic gardener. They can act as insect repellants, compost activators, DIY organic liquid fertilizers and good companion plants which strengthen those grown near them. They can also impart valuable nutrients into compost and enrich soil.

His first gods were flowers and dieties of fertility. Herbs gave food, fibres, ropes, dyes, colourings, perfumes and magic.

They healed his illnesses and wounds. They have been used from the beginning in John Gerard's words, "for meate and medicine". We have available today all the herbs and flowers of other ages.