To close the section on caffeine-containing herbal stimulants, we’ll look at the powerhouses of caffeination best used on a very occasional basis. These are the herbs that you take out when life offers you no choice but to pull an all-nighter or a fifteen hour day behind the wheel. These are the legal solution when…
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Herbal Stimulants Part 2: Other Caffeine-Containing Herbs – Tea, Maté & Cacao
Although coffee is the best known and doubtless one of the most popular of the caffeine-containing botanicals, it isn’t the only contributor. Many other plants have caffeine in their compositions, most of which are consumed for both medicinal and recreational reasons in the regions from which they hail. Nowadays in the global village, most are…
Herbal Stimulants Part 1: Coffee and Coffee Alternatives
When a client comes to consult for the first time and I ask for a dietary profile, more often than not the first thing I hear is, ‘’I’m not giving up my coffee.’’ People are personal about their coffee and there’s an assumption that the first thing an herbalist is going to do is ban…
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