Aged Mengku Rich Valley Raw Puer Tea
Location: Wuling Mountain, Yunnan, China
Taste: Sweet wood with a cranberry fragrance
Hand-picked at a staggering height of over 7,200 feet from ancient tea trees on Wuling Mountain in Yunnan, these are from scarce big-leaf tea trees. The youngest trees are over 150 years old. Tribal people believe the ancient tea trees that grow at high elevations hold special powers. This area of Yunnan gets an extremely high amount of sun all year long infusing this tea with loads of “Sun Qi” or Sun energy. This tea leaves you with very good, sunny, but light energy. This is a raw or “sheng” Pu-Erh.
Organs: Stomach
Qi: Sun Qi energy which is energizing and elevating.
Medicinal Benefits: Settles the stomach, leaves a protective coating on the stomach lining, beneficial bacteria in puer aids digestion and relaxes the stomach, contains double the vitamin C, reduces clogging of the arteries due to ingestion of fatty foods.
Ancient Artisan Baked Heart Green Tea
Location: Dali, Yunnan, China
Taste: Toasted rice with a wildflower aroma
Over 200 years ago, Tea Master Kai Wei’s ancestors planted these very special, now ancient tea trees that produce his high-quality Bi Luo Chun green tea. His family secret of making artisan, handmade green tea has been passed down since then for generations.
Our Ancient Baked Heart tea grows around 5000-6000+ feet high on Wu Liang Mountain, where it receives tremendous sunlight year-round. It is then dried and stored loosely to not break the short to medium-sized dark and twisted leaves. This wood-element tea has a light liquor, golden green with a medium body, and notes of toasted rice and wildflowers. His family takes pride in the fact that their farm is considered an “ecological” tea farm, i.e., only growing organic teas in a sustainable way that preserves the environment.
Organ Benefits: Heart & Small Intestine
Benefits: Anti-cancer, and anti-aging, lowers blood pressure, and clears bad breath. Cools the body when diet heats the body, and cools the body in the summer heat.
Emotion Benefits: Focused & Relaxed
Ancient Artisan Bi Luo Chun Green Tea
Location: Dali, Yunnan, China.
Taste: A heartier toasted pine nut taste with a lightly sweet finish.
Over 200 years ago, Tea Master Kai Wei’s ancestors planted these very special, now ancient tea trees that produce his high-quality Bi Luo Chun green tea. His family secret of making artisan, handmade green tea has been passed down since then for generations. Growing at elevations between 6,000-7,200+ feet on Wu Liang Mountain, this tea is hand-picked, sun-dried, and then hand-rolled using their family secret, resulting in a Bi Luo Chun unlike any other we’ve ever tasted. His family takes pride in the fact that their farm is considered an “ecological” tea farm, i.e., only growing organic teas in a sustainable way that preserves the environment. This is a very rare tea and in very limited supply.
Organ Benefits: Heart & Small Intestine
Medicinal Benefits: Anti-cancer, anti-aging, lowers blood pressure, and clears bad breath. This cooling tea clears the body from heat and cools the body in summer.
Emotion Benefits: Focused & Relaxed
Ancient Artisan Yunnan Black Tea
Location: Puer, Yunnan China
Taste: Sweet Chocolate Coconut Flavors
This truly artisanal black tea comes from ancient trees anywhere from 500 to 800 years old. Its aroma begins fruity and ends floral, while its taste maintains both with increasing sweetness. This rare small-vintage fire-element tea is in limited supply, and it’s a perfect tea that can be aged indefinitely if stored in an environment at a stable temperature, dry, with no direct sunlight. Over time the value can increase significantly creating a wonderful investment. The flavors will change and health benefits increase exponentially.
Organ: Stomach & Spleen
Medicinal Benefits: Positive effects on weight loss, nausea, high cholesterol, cardiovascular diseases, digestion, inflammation, and certain forms of cancer. Most of the health benefits come from the high antioxidant concentrations, which prevent stress and reduce chronic disease while suppressing appetite and balancing the bacterial environment in the gut.
Emotional: Playful & Happy
Wild Schizandra
Location: Wild Forest in Changbai, Northern China
Taste: A strong sweet and sour, lightly salty, bitter and pungent
Schizandra(shuh-zan-druh) or Omija berry is a deciduous woody vine found in NE China and the Russian Far East. “The five-flavor berry” gets its name because it contains all five flavors of Chinese medicine which are sour, sweet, salty, bitter, and pungent. Our wild Schizandra is carefully sun-dried and is only harvested from the wild forest in the Changbai mountain in northern China. It has been used throughout China and Russia for millennia for its outstanding health benefits, and has been used by athletes such as martial artists and Qigong practitioners as a “Qi Tonic”.
Medicinal Benefits: Increases energy, fights fatigue, reduces stress, protective antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, adaptogenic, enhances physical performance, increases endurance, improves concentration, improves coordination, liver protection, and skin beautifier
Traditional Chinese Medicine Benefits: Acts as an astringent for the Qi of the lungs and kidneys, restrains the essence to treat diarrhea, stops excessive sweating from the deficiency of Yin or Yang, calms the spirit by refreshing the heart and kidneys, generates body fluid, and reduces thirst
