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<pre>Tastes like medicine then! Can all species of olive leaves be consumed in
this manner or only certain species?

Where did this practice of drinking olive tea leaves originate? And when?




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From: Mengyuan country guesthouse, B&B <fod@ozemail.com.au>
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Sent: Saturday, July 24, 1999 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: [OliveOil] olive leaf tea


>From: "Mengyuan country guesthouse, B&B" <fod@ozemail.com.au>
>
>Hanna,
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Hanna Meier <hannameier@socialinsight.ch>
>To: <OliveOil@onelist.com>
>Sent: Saturday, 24 July 1999 00:24
>Subject: [OliveOil] olive leaf tea
>
>
>> I wonder how you prepare the tea, do you boil the leaves together with
the
>> water, for how long, and how many leaves do you take for one cup? What
>does
>> the tea taste like? Does it have a good taste or is it mainly healthy?
>
>We simmer 250 grams of fresh olive leaves in 4 litres of water for 2 hours.
>We then keep this in the refrigerator as a stock. We prepare a drink by
>diluting the stock 50:50. It tastes very bitter, but if you have the flu or
>some other virus etc., you wont be too concerned about taste. We drink a
cup
>every day as a preventive. For a single cup as an experiment, I would guess
>5 or so leaves steeped for quite some time would give a reasonable
>approximation.
>
> regards,
> Kim
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