Medicinal Jungle Tea Alchemy - Part 2 - Communi-Tea

Warm greetings all. 🙏 💚

Almost a week ago I made a post about some of the work that I do with medicinal plants, and the teas I make from them.

👉Medicinal Jungle Tea Alchemy👈

In that post I mentioned that I make a very large batch of medicinal teas for the entire (intentional) community where I live. In this post I will go a bit more deeply into that process. The community version of the tea has many more plants in it (all collected from the land here, both cultivated and wild), it's fermented with local, raw honey, and I produce it in far greater amounts than my personal batches of tea (as described in my last post on this topic).

The community batch of tea takes three days to complete the process. My friend Leslie (she's from Germany) helped me collect and chop this round. That's her choppin' in the photos below.

The first day is collecting the plants (this is an all day process, with multiple breaks).

The second day is washing, chopping, putting the chopped leaves and stems in jars, and then three rounds of putting hot water in the jars and allowing them to steep for about two or so hours each round.

The third day is pouring out the third round (allowed to steep overnight), combining the three rounds of new tea with the old/reserve tea (to maintain strength, consistency, and fermentation - jars on lower shelf are reserve), and a new round of honey.

Once the old and new tea are mixed, and the honey is added, the new batch of Communi-Tea is ready to pour back into the jars, and ready for people to drink! The jars on the upper shelf are what the community has to drink, and the reserve goes back on the lower shelf, which nobody touches. I use half-gallon and quart jars, as needed.

After pouring out a few cups for people when I was adding it back into the jars, this is what I had left over once all the jars were refilled. Not bad at all! Nice color too! Over the next few days it will get a nice bite from the fermentation.

Most of the plants in it act globally, or on multiple systems, of the body, in a beneficial manner. Several act as tonics. The list of plants is long, so I'm not going to try to post that right now. I do hope, however, that I've elucidated this long process in a way that is coherent and understandable.

Thank you all who took the time to share this bit of my world with me! 🙏💚