FAQ about Kombucha Tea & Probiotics
The earliest recorded consumption of Kombucha tea dates back to the
Chinese Qin Dynasty of 221BC. Ancient records from the period refer
to the unique tea infusion as ‘The elixir of life’, while the spiritual
Zen Masters regarded Kombucha as a source of chi – a revitalizing life
energy that aligns and harmonizes the body and mind with the soul. The
Japanese Samurai warriors often carried Kombucha tea in their hip flasks
to replenish their energy levels during battle.
As trade routes expanded beyond the Far East, Kombucha spread via travelers and traders to India, Russia and Eastern Europe, arriving
in Germany around the turn of the 20th Century. Kombucha tea was
soon being enjoyed throughout Europe until World War II broke out
and, with it, the rationing of the two essential ingredients for metabolizing Kombucha: tea and sugar. By the early 1960s, Kombucha's
popularity started to take off again.
Q: What are Probiotics?
A: Probiotics are Functional Foods.
These foods, aid the Stomach to better digest food and assists the Spleen to deliver nutrition. aids the Liver to
remove toxins and accumulations from the body. When your digestion and
elimination are good your health is good.
Probiotics aid the Heart and Calm the Spirit, so one may rest easily and think clearly. Probiotics open the Lungs
so one breathes freely and regain lost energy. Diet (probiotics) and
lifestyle is the simplest, easiest most economical way of restoring and
maintaining your health.
Probiotics: Pro meaning in favor of and biotic means life.
Pro biotic means in favor of life.Antibiotic,
means anti-life. the familiar western medicinal means just the opposite
as probiotic. The entire rationale of allopathic medicine: allo means opposite. Poison, burn or cut out the disease; Homeopathic means Homeo = same. To heal the same as the body would heal.
Kombucha = SCOBY: Serendipitous Culture OF Bacteria and Yeast
Known around the world as a health drink
A few of the more common names for KOMBUCHA; Kombuchal, Gerbstoffe,
Combucha, Kum-Cha, Fungus japonicas, Fungojapon, Indo-Japanese tea
fungus, Pichia fermentans, Cembuya orientalis, Combuchu, Tschambucco,
cembuya, Volga spring, Mo-Gu, Champignon de longue vie, Tea Kvas,
Teakwass, Kwassan, Kargasok, Kocha kinoko, anywhere you go this
Manchurian Mushroom tea gives a long and merry life. Kombucha Tea is a
simply made with water, sugar, tea and the kombucha probiotic. The
ancient Chinese referred to kombucha mushroom tea as the Elixir of
Life.
Today it is known more as a pre probiotic.
We
believe when intervention is necessary that your first choice of
medical attention should be what will benefit the body most.
Herbs and
homeopathics offer a short-term intervention that very often work and
work well.
We do believe that western allopathic medicine is vital to
have available in many instances and may be absolutely necessary and should not be avoided if needed.
One
must make informed choices.
Our
probiotic Kombucha is alive and healthy. It will continue to grow, reproduce
and prosper in a true symbiotic relationship with our bodies as we then will continue
to grow, reproduce and prosper. You will not only achieve good health
yourself but be able to pass along these blessings to your family and
friends.
Specifically
Kombucha mushroom tea is a pre probiotic in that the tea
contains numerous beneficial bacteria, acids and yeasts that aid our
bodies on a great many levels.
Children Love it's "Fizzy Apple-Cidery" Taste and it has been known to
cut cravings for alchohol and/or Soda pop!
Kefir
and kombucha are both known as the Tibetan Mushroom. probably due to
the legendary health benefits that both these fermented foods produce.
Kombucha also spelled as Kombu-cha or translated to the Japanese as
Kombu (seaweed) and Cha (tea) is commonly confused with the Japanese
Water Crystals (Tibi) which itself is very similar to Kefir Grains.
Japanese Water Grains are normally fermented in water (or juice) and
sugar and kefir Grains in Milk. Kombucha is fermented in water, tea and
sugar.
Each offer a unique presentation to health and a tasty beverage,
yet are distinct. Western science does not agree on how these
probiotics work, or even that they do work at all. It may be that they
are each loaded with a host of beneficial nutrients or their particular
acid / alkaline balancing abilities as espoused by western medical
doctors like Dr Rudolph Sklenar or Dr Robert Barefoot. Or a deeper
often misunderstood theories of homeopathy (Homotoxicology) and Traditional Chinese Medicine, yin yang theory that predates western Acid Alkaline theory by thousands of years.
As
a pro biotic: Acidic kombucha, pH 2-3.5 aids the Stomach (both in the
TCM and western sense) in the breakdown and digestion of food
ingested. Beneficial bacteria and yeasts, that comprise the Live K-T
or Pressed Extract (as opposed to pasteurized, neutralized, alcoholic
or dead kombucha) compete with and help remove (suppress) harmful
bacteria, yeast, and parasites. (Probably why Candia sufferers can
drink K-T). Then due to the synergism of the stomach acids and
kombucha, the transformed alkaline kombucha pH 7+, aids the Spleen
(function in TCM), intestines, gall bladder and pancreas (function in
western speak) in metabolizing and distributing that digest throughout
the body. Thus kombucha truly holistically balances and harmonizes the
body.
In
China Kombucha has been referred to as the "Elixir of Life" in the west
it is commonly called a SCOBY: Symbiotic Culture OF Bacteria and Yeast.
IMO, the symbiosis is not between the bacteria and yeasts but between
the kombucha ferment and me. This is one explanation why kombucha
works for some and not for others. Kombucha simply makes your body
healthier by enabling better assimilation of food, drink and thoughts.
According
to scientist and author Robert Barefoot, Heart Disease, Diabetes,
Arthritis, Cancer and 200 degenerative diseases have been linked to
acidic body fluids. Robert Barefoot has recommended Coral Calcium with
Kombucha Tea. Coral Calcium Ultra helps prefect the alkaline pH
balance and strengthen bone mass. Derived from the Okinawa Coral Reef,
it is fortified with vitamin C, vitamin D, and Magnesium to bring you
the most complete calcium mineral blend available today.
If you have any questions or concerns,