eastern medicine is degenerate but what herbal teas do you guys drink

I think the title is too niche a reference but regardless, it's that time of year again at last so recommend teas that I can pretend have health benefits but are really just dirt water.

I have a cup of ginger turmeric in the morning and two cups of chamomile before sleep and I think the morning could be moved to early evening and so I specifically want something herbal for first thing in the morning but I'm open to others :star:

The pumpkin spice finally ran out and it would be weird to reup on that in December.

NOTHING CAFFEINATED


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I only drink Ito En Jasmine Green tea, actual jap sencha, gook hwangcha or expensive chink pu-erh.

Only the finest tea leaves picked by monks, virgins and/or maidens.

:tay#tea:

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expensive chink pu-erh.

:#marseylickinglips:

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I have a pancake sized puck of pu-erh from one of the Yiwu mountains of the Six Great Tea Mountains.

I'm saving it for a special occassion.

Like Xi Jinping dying. Or the Three Gorges Dam collapsing. Or Chinese Civil War. Or China becoming bankrupt. Or Shanghai falling into the giant sinkhole that is Shanghai.

:marseychingc#hongsupremacy:

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posting a pic of the typical expensive pu-erh packaging so mayos don't get confused over "pancake sized"

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How expensive r we talking

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prices i cant pay :marseypoor:

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https://www.cbc.ca/documentarychannel/features/the-ultimate-in-luxury-tea-puerh-sells-for-up-to-10000-kg

Last December, Sotheby's Hong Kong announced the launch of its inaugural Puer tea online auction with 20-plus lots, spanning from century-old antiques to modern day tipples. The highest bid of US$71,600 (HK$562,500) went to a 1950 Blue Label tea cake weighing around 330 grams – a lot celebrated not just for its antiquity, but because it is from a rare batch made during the municipalisation of tea production in China.

https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/news-trends/article/3177579/why-old-chinese-tea-can-be-worth-more-wine-or-whisky

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I heard about cha gao/tea resin for the first time in a youtube video a few days ago, I'm considering buying some but there's only three listings of it on (US) amazon so I'm worried that there's a reason it's not more popular. You ever had this stuff/is it worth buying?

One of the three listings: https://www.amazon.com/FullChea-Menghai-Pu-erh-Yunnan-Digestion/dp/B08FDDTC8M

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i'll be honest and tell you that i've never heard of or seen this before but it doesn't look too expensive to give it a try

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I was too afraid to order from a weird chinese listing but I found a Canadian company selling it and I'm pretty sure that theirs won't be made of fentanyl or gutter oil, so I'll buy some and report back :marseysalutearmy:

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If you're importing, a cake of high end puerh runs $50-100. Some places will sell them in smaller pieces.

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Xi Jinping dies during his visit to Shanghai as the city collapses into a sinkhole, this sparks a Chinese civil war during which the Three Gorges Dam is destroyed by terrorists. Hundreds of millions are killed within hours due to catastrophic flooding, with a full 500 million dying by the end of the month. The Chinese economy is left in shambles due to all major industrial centers being destroyed by flooding/civil war/depopulation.

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:#marseyagree:

baijiu gives the worst hangovers tho lol

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Carp btw before you say caffeine green tea has less caffeine than hot chocolate does

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