Latest healing tea variation

For the past while I’ve been adding a special herb to my favorite healing tea mixture. To repeat, the mixture that I love to drink daily, especially in the afternoon or evening but often in the morning as well, contains:

Lemon verbana leaf
Hibiscus (roselle) dried flowers
Stevia leaf

Previously I had been adding chamomile flower to the mixture, but lately I’ve been enjoying another herb: Ginkgo leaf.

I feel like Ginkgo does not get enough credit. It is such a profoundly amazing plant and as an herb it adds something very special and unique. I cannot describe it exactly but for some reason I crave it. Its flavor blends really well with the healing mixture.

While I’ve known that Ginkgo is the only remaining member of an entire division in the plant kingdom, it struck me to read today that it actually predates angiosperms, the flowering plants.

And, regarding the organism’s remarkable tenacity, Wikipedia states:

Extreme examples of the ginkgo’s tenacity may be seen in Hiroshima, Japan, where six trees growing between 1–2 km from the 1945 atom bomb explosion were among the few living things in the area to survive the blast. Although almost all other plants (and animals) in the area were killed, the ginkgos, though charred, survived and were soon healthy again. The six trees are still alive…

I remember this very beautiful ginkgo tree not far from where I lived some years ago that I would visit nearly every day. And when I would visit her I often enjoyed spending time beneath her glorious branches filtering the golden rays of sunlight. I always felt such a special, magical feeling just abiding near her and feeling the deep sense of peace and wellness. Some of my experiences with her were like epiphanies. Its amazing how deeply our fellow creatures of Earth the plants can touch our hearts.