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Designing your own “My Cup of Tee®”
There are 5 easy steps in designing a perfect “my cup of tea.” These steps are just guidelines. You can stay with a
simple base as your tea or you can go all out and pick multiple choices in each step – or somewhere in between.
Hey, this is YOUR tea, you decide how basic or complex it should be.

1 Pick the base(s) — 33 options 3 Pick the avor(s) and garnish(es) — 38 options
Use fresh fruits or any of our freeze-dried fruits. Our
In this section there are 24 botanicals

identi ed as “base,” B meaning they can be extensive line of freeze-dried fruits have a long shelf life
used as the base in a tea. For example, all without refrigeration and spring back to life beautifully
B forms of the traditional tea, Camellia sinensis, when rehydrated in the teas.
serve as a great base. There are also exotic and If you are in the Los Angeles area, our stores stock seasonal
wonderful botanicals such as Bamboo Leaves edible owers and micro-greens. Teas - My Cup of Tee®

and Snow Chrysanthemum. Our house tea,

Spring Dragon Longevity Tea, has served as We also o er a Sweet Collection of 6 di erent kinds of
the base to many elixirs in our retail elixir bars natural, healthy sweeteners called Sweetfruit Drops that are
for the past two decades with great success. low in calories, low in glycemic index, and high in health-
supporting value. Some of them contain exquisite herbal
essential oils (super critical CO2 extraction). See Sweetfruit
2 Pick the function(s) — 73 options Drops on page 22 for more details.
Every botanical in this section is “functional,”
the tonic herbs being more potent than 4 Pick your extraction method
typical botanical ingredients - a total of 23 and The proper way of extracting the botanicals depends on
counting. We are always adding more tonic what you have picked for your cup of tea. Flowers, fruits

herbs to this line. You will nd the iconic wild and leaves can usually be brewed by adding them to boiled
Tibetan Cordyceps (“Winter-Worm Summer- or hot water while the stems, barks and roots may require
Grass”) in our o erings soon. decocting (boiling over a ame).

You can also use our tonic herbal extracts Regardless of the method, our Glass Tea Elixir Maker is
(Dragon Drops™, eeTee® cold brew instant the one pot that can do it all: boil, brew, decoct and serve –
granules and Elixir Pouches™) to give your tea and put on a beautiful show.
a functional boost. They are convenient, super
potent and professionally extracted using Serve hot or cold
methodologies that cannot be replicated in a 5
home setting. Our eeTee® line has 10 products, Teas can be kept warm on our Candle Warmer. They
the Dragon Drops line has 36, and the Elixir actually continue to extract slowly on the warmer,
Pouches line has 4. becoming darker and more potent as minutes and hours
Have your herbalist make a recommendation, pass. Each tea light candle lasts up to 5 hours.

after a consultation, for “your cup of tea” based If you are interested in serving up some extra are, we
on your speci c constitution, health status, have an extensive collection of tea ware. See pages 92-93

health needs, and health goals. and more choices on our website for details.
Your cup of Explore
Between 33 bases, 73 functional add-ons, tea is out

38 avors and garnishes, there are almost there. You Experi-
90,000 My Cup of Tee® possibilities! just have to ment
nd it.
Mix &
Match
Here is an example of customizing a “pretty good” tea into an extraordinary “My Cup of Tee.®”
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Healthier Iced Tea Lemonade @dragonherbs
The popular iced tea lemonade recipe 16 oz. water
Half and Half is 50% black tea and 50% 1 tbsp Snow Chrysanthemum
lemonade. It is a combination 5 squirts Sweetfruit Drops
popularized by iconic golfer Arnold (sweetener low in calories and
Palmer and is still sold under his glycemic index)
trademark. Garnish: lemon wheel, mint sprig
Typical lemonade contains a lot of sugar.
Our heathier interpretation is cleansing, Alteration: You can also replace
cooling, protective and tastes amazingly 50% of the Snow Chrysanthemum
refreshing. with ½ to 1 tbsp of Pu Erh tea for a
ca einated version while retaining
Snow Chrysanthemum ower buds are the functionality of the drink.
extremely bene cial for supporting Scan to
healthy blood pressure, blood sugar Interesting factoid: download the
level, and blood lipid level. Arnold Palmer loved Ron’s Ginseng Sublime Drops. recipe book or
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