Guest guest Posted April 1, 2011 Report Share Posted April 1, 2011 In message you wrote: > HI,I don't know when this thread started, ....only JUST, Terry! :-) The Bavarian-English minstrel mentioned yesterday that Yerba Mate was good for calming the breathing, amongst other things. I brew the odd brew with Mate plus green tea for some friends who suffer from Asthma. I thought combining the Mate with camellia sinensis and Kombucha, might turn out extra efficacious. BTW, I do keep the Mate culture separate from the camellia sinensis only culture. Your family history sounds amazing! :-) Blessings, Margret :-) UK > but yerba mate is good for you. My > father was a yerba mate drinking Scot and my mother an Argentinian. My > Argentinian side of the family has an estancia (ranch) where yerba mate is > grown. They also grow tea ( camellia sinensis) pretty good stuff, but it's > practically all sold for export, so they never send me any. The ranch is in the > north of the country, and I live in the south, pretty far away. Yerba mate I can > get in any store in my city. > Terry (short for ) from Argentina. -- +------------------ Minstrel@... --------------------+ http://www.therpc.f9.co.uk/family/scobygrow/home.html http://bavarianminstrel.wordpress.com http://www.hebrew4christians.com/index.html The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. (Lily Tomlin) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 1, 2011 Report Share Posted April 1, 2011 In message you wrote: > HI,I don't know when this thread started, ....only JUST, Terry! :-) The Bavarian-English minstrel mentioned yesterday that Yerba Mate was good for calming the breathing, amongst other things. I brew the odd brew with Mate plus green tea for some friends who suffer from Asthma. I thought combining the Mate with camellia sinensis and Kombucha, might turn out extra efficacious. BTW, I do keep the Mate culture separate from the camellia sinensis only culture. Your family history sounds amazing! :-) Blessings, Margret :-) UK > but yerba mate is good for you. My > father was a yerba mate drinking Scot and my mother an Argentinian. My > Argentinian side of the family has an estancia (ranch) where yerba mate is > grown. They also grow tea ( camellia sinensis) pretty good stuff, but it's > practically all sold for export, so they never send me any. The ranch is in the > north of the country, and I live in the south, pretty far away. Yerba mate I can > get in any store in my city. > Terry (short for ) from Argentina. -- +------------------ Minstrel@... --------------------+ http://www.therpc.f9.co.uk/family/scobygrow/home.html http://bavarianminstrel.wordpress.com http://www.hebrew4christians.com/index.html The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. (Lily Tomlin) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 1, 2011 Report Share Posted April 1, 2011 Hi Margret, thanks for answering so quickly. Here in Argentina everybody drinks yerba mate, brewed in a special gourd and drunk through a metal straw called " bombilla " Mate is drunk from the richest to the poorest and no matter where you go, you are likely to be offered a mate.(Not always) I personally don't think the way it`s done here is very healthy, as everybody shares the same gourd and bombilla and more water is added after each round. Then a new brew is prepared..I also keep my tea and yerba mate away from each other. Funnily enough, I'm not a big mate fan, As for my family history, I have just learned the ranch produce of mate may have to be sold due to the financial depression the country is undergoing. A very big enterprise has offered to buy it. I don`t know what my cousins intend to do. The sale would be a big pity. If you are ever interested, I'll send you some pics of the estancia. Terry from Argentina. ________________________________ De: Margret Pegg Para: original_kombucha Enviado: viernes, 1 de abril, 2011 4:55:09 Asunto: Re: Yerba Mate In message you wrote: > HI,I don't know when this thread started, ....only JUST, Terry! :-) The Bavarian-English minstrel mentioned yesterday that Yerba Mate was good for calming the breathing, amongst other things. I brew the odd brew with Mate plus green tea for some friends who suffer from Asthma. I thought combining the Mate with camellia sinensis and Kombucha, might turn out extra efficacious. BTW, I do keep the Mate culture separate from the camellia sinensis only culture. Your family history sounds amazing! :-) Blessings, Margret :-) UK > but yerba mate is good for you. My > father was a yerba mate drinking Scot and my mother an Argentinian. My > Argentinian side of the family has an estancia (ranch) where yerba mate is > grown. They also grow tea ( camellia sinensis) pretty good stuff, but it's > practically all sold for export, so they never send me any. The ranch is in the > > north of the country, and I live in the south, pretty far away. Yerba mate I >can > > get in any store in my city. > Terry (short for ) from Argentina. -- +------------------ Minstrel@... --------------------+ http://www.therpc.f9.co.uk/family/scobygrow/home.html http://bavarianminstrel.wordpress.com http://www.hebrew4christians.com/index.html The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. (Lily Tomlin) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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