Insula

20 Tea Bags £ 1.99

Birt&Tang’s Insula herbal tea contains an array of herbs that the West is only just rediscovering. Consumed by the Aztecs, featured on the Mexican flag and widely used throughout Asia as both a food and a medicine, the revered Balsam pear is not the most attractive fruit but modern research is now supporting its status as an important fruit to enhance your lifestyle.

In Ayurvedic medicine, the Balsam pear or Bitter melon, is referred to as ‘plant insulin’ and studies now show that it helps to balance blood sugar levels. The shoots from the Aralia tree, classed as one of the fundamental herbs in Chinese herbalism are also popped into our bag of goodness as they are bursting with vitamins and minerals and preliminary studies in China shows Aralia contains numerous bioactive compounds useful to those at risk of diabetes.

A further weird and wonderful ingredient in Birt&Tang’s Insula herbal tea is the Kudzu vine root. This rapidly growing vine has wide range of the naturally-derived benefits, no longer exclusive to Chinese medicine as it’s now used increasingly as a supplement in the West as studies suggest it helps to lower blood sugar levels. The infamous Goji berry is also added as it’s hard to ignore the possible therapeutic benefits of this wonder berry, from lowering cholesterol to improving eye health.

Ingredients: Gojiberry · Aralia, Raspberry · Balsam Pear · Kudzu vine root · Schisander · Buckwheat · Milk thistle · Green tea · Black plum