Miyosino Mugwort Tea Leaves 250g (Pesticide-Free Cultivation)

Miyosino Mugwort Tea Leaves (Pesticide-Free Cultivation)

Surrounded by deep mountains and blessed with the climate of Higashiyoshino, which has a clear river, it is an organic and pesticide-free mugwort that has been carefully cultivated with all our hearts.

The Story of Miyosino Mugwort

Mugwort has strong vitality and is highly effective in supporting people's lives just by drinking, eating, bathing, and enjoying its scent. You can also make kusa mochi from the mugwort’s young leave, or moxa for moxibustion which can lower the incidence of breech presentations at birth.

Miyosino mugwort has been incorporated into people's lives since a long time ago. It has been written on a legend of Kobo Daishi, the most famous monk in Japanese history that a long time ago, Kobo Dashi consumed Miyosino mugwort even without removing the lye.

"Because the mugwort in Higashiyoshino was delicious, Kobo Daishi made it possible to eat it without removing the lye. Delicious mugwort can now be eaten from Higashiyoshino without removing the lye."

Non-caffeine Mugwort, Safe with many Health Benefits

Mugwort is also known as an analgesic herbal medicine called gaiyo. The letter 艾 in Mugwort Japanese name, Yomogi has a meaning of "to disappear”, it means that mugwort is a leaf that can eliminate disorders.

As the name implies, Mugwort is a medicinal herb with a lot of health benefits. Since it is also non-caffeine, Mugwort is kind to your body and can be safely consumed by pregnant women and children.

Warming Your Body

Mugwort is called a warm plant. We recommend mugwort for those who have cold sensitivity, who feel functional loss, and who are suffering from physical disease peculiar to women to enhances the barrier power the body originally has.

As it warms from the core of the body, it relieves tension in the body and mind. Improves your body’s barrier power with the warmth effect of mugwort.

Antioxidant Power

The antioxidant power of mugwort is about 100 times of broccoli, which is the highest in the reactive oxygen species (ROS) removal ability test that examined 200 kinds of vegetables and wild plants.

Polyphenols in Mugwort is comparable to high-quality and powerful chlorophyll in commercially available healthy tea, or beta-carotene in pumpkin.

If you use mugwort as a tea for bathing, you can easily absorb abundant nutrients through the skin.

Not only has a nice effect on skin-related problems, but it also helps to improve the condition of the body from the inside.

Nutritional Value of Mugwort

Since a long time ago, mugwort has been used as a culinary herb & traditional medicine. Mugwort has been ascribed many health-promoting and other beneficial properties. If you take it as a powder, you will gain rich nutritional components, such as:

• Chlorophyll
• Vitamin C
• Dietary Fiber
• Calcium
• Potassium
  
  

In addition, you can take the active ingredient of mugwort more efficiently by ingesting it in powder form.

Comparing the Dietary Fiber of Mugwort with Other Ingredients

Mugwort contains dietary fiber higher than burdock, millet, and vegetable salad. It helps to eliminate the sickness of the stomach.

You can see the dietary fiber content comparison between mugwort and other vegetables or wild plants per 100g below:

What does Mugwort Taste Like?

With a fragrant scent like kusa mochi, there is a little bitterness and sweetness in the clear flavor. Mugwort has a refreshing taste like herbal tea.

Commitment to Manufacturing Method

Higashi Yoshino is known as a place that is blessed with clear air and water in Nara Prefecture. The manufacturer commits to use 100% raw ingredients from Miyosino.

The mugwort is carefully grown organically, without pesticide, without chemical fertilizer, so it generates a refreshing scent.

Only soft mugwort with vitality is harvested from April to early May and dried after careful treatment without any additives. A pack of dried leaves that captures the refreshing scent of mugwort.

Here is how our Miyosino mugwort has been made:

Message from Manufacturer

"We are happy to grow mugwort and stay healthy. We would like to increase the number of mugwort producers and the number of people who grow mugwort in Japan to keep maintaining our health."

In 1998, the Miyosino Mugwort Processing Association, which consists of 10 people from the region, was established under the concept of "For healthy Muranaka" to cultivate mugwort by making the best use of the fallow fields.

How to Use Mugwort Tea Leaves

Lightly Decocted and Used as a Regular Beverage

1. Put 2 tablespoons of mugwort tea leaves and 500cc of water in a small pan and heat to a boil.
2. Turn off the heat and let it steam for a while. * Avoid using iron pots as the ingredients of mugwort may change in quality.

Deeply Decoct to Enhance the Efficacy

1. Put 2 tablespoons of mugwort tea leaves and 500cc of water in a small pan and heat to a boil.
2. Boil the tea in half over low heat for another 10 minutes. It is recommended to take a small amount in several divided doses, or if you are concerned about the bitterness, dilute it with milk or soy milk.

Enjoy it With Some Ice Cube

Cool the lightly brewed mugwort tea in the refrigerator for a while, or pour the deeply brewed mugwort tea into a heat-resistant glass filled with ice while it is still warm.

Delicious Recipes with Mugwort Tea Leaves

Takikomi Gohan with Mugwort

Servings 2Servings

Cooking Time 1Hour

Ingredients

・Dried mugwort tea leaves

1 bite

・Carrots

1/2 slice

・Fried tofu

1/2 sheet

・Rice

0.36 liters

・Water

A little less than 2 cups

・Soy sauce

1 tablespoon

・Liquor

1/2 tablespoon

Preparation

・

Wash the rice and soak it in water for 30 minutes.

・

Soak the mugwort in hot water and put it back. Save the hot water when you return it.

・

Peel the carrots.

・

For fried tofu, pour boiling water over it to drain the oil.

Step by Step

1

Finely chop the carrots, mugwort, and fried tofu.

2

Put rice and seasonings in a rice cooker, add water with reconstituted mugwort tea leaves to the 2nd scale, mix, add chopped carrots, mugwort, and fried tofu, and cook rice as usual.

3

Once cooked, it's done. Mix the whole well before setting it aside.

You can also drain the mugwort tea leaves that have been rehydrated with hot water, chop them into small pieces and put them in a soup roll, or roast them in a frying pan with white sesame seeds and dried bonito flakes to make a sprinkle.

It is known that 70% of the nutrients remain in the "degarashi (tea husks)" after boiling the tea. It is also recommended decocting the mugwort tea leaves as a drink, chop the remaining sagebrush and use it for cooking, without waste.

If powdered, it can be used for making Japanese sweets and bread.
You can also enjoy fragrant mugwort sweets by finely grinding with a mill or food processor.

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