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I was doing the search on persimmon leaf tea, as it was one of several boxes of tea that Forestfen gifted us with. That tea tasted all right, and I was curious as to any medicinal properties of the tea.
One of the other teas she gave us was cerasee tea from Jamaica - cerasee being another name for bitter melon. Now, Qiao can normally stomach just about anything. He drinks extra spicy V-8 juice, and likes super hot sauce on his meals. There are only a couple of food/drink items which he actively dislikes. This tea is now one of them. It is very bitter. Amusingly, the box states "Not only taste Good, it's Good for you". Taste good? When I looked up information on it, every source of information I came across said that cerasee was one of the foulest-tasting concoctions available! The tea made from fresh leaves is supposed to be even more bitter than the packaged dry tea. Myself, I'm able to drink it (having been exposed to other supposedly healthful bitter-tasting teas in my youth), but I agree with Qiao that it doesn't taste good at all.
Cerasee tea is claimed to be good for a lot of conditions including diabetes - but diabetics need to watch out as this tea can also mask blood sugars. I was intrigued by claims of it being used for birth control. It may have been coincidence, but on the couple of times I've drunk the tea now, I've had menstrual spotting soon afterwards.
One of the other teas she gave us was cerasee tea from Jamaica - cerasee being another name for bitter melon. Now, Qiao can normally stomach just about anything. He drinks extra spicy V-8 juice, and likes super hot sauce on his meals. There are only a couple of food/drink items which he actively dislikes. This tea is now one of them. It is very bitter. Amusingly, the box states "Not only taste Good, it's Good for you". Taste good? When I looked up information on it, every source of information I came across said that cerasee was one of the foulest-tasting concoctions available! The tea made from fresh leaves is supposed to be even more bitter than the packaged dry tea. Myself, I'm able to drink it (having been exposed to other supposedly healthful bitter-tasting teas in my youth), but I agree with Qiao that it doesn't taste good at all.
Cerasee tea is claimed to be good for a lot of conditions including diabetes - but diabetics need to watch out as this tea can also mask blood sugars. I was intrigued by claims of it being used for birth control. It may have been coincidence, but on the couple of times I've drunk the tea now, I've had menstrual spotting soon afterwards.