Tea & Incense, Friends Since Ancient Times

The drinking of what we call ‘tea’ or as Chinese call it - chá, was discovered as early as 5000 years ago. Legend has it that Chinese Emperor Shennong, also founder of Chinese medicine, was resting under the shade of a camellia sinensis tree when a few leaves fatefully dropped off the branches into his pot of boiling water. The unrecognised brew then gave the Emperor incredible energy and a sense of peace, which sparked a life long journey - and lifetime upon lifetime of continuous exploration of the leaf by a movement of enthusiasts who would become known as chajin - literally meaning tea folk or tea people

This type of encounter with nature is how a huge body of collected knowledge has been collated by our ancestors, who were observant enough to notice these often subtle but profound shifts in our states of being. Indeed cha was classified as a medicine back then, as was incense

Aromatic Healers

Writers of ancient texts (materia medica) - now often dubbed 'folk medicine’ began to document therapeutic properties of natural substances in astonishing details. In the Orient - but actually all over the World - this included the gathering of substances from aromatic plants to burn as incense. The deep healing experienced from smouldering these pure traditional incense substances, would be called upon as a healing ally to transmute various disturbance in, what is known as the 'shen' or emotional / spiritual body, in traditional Chinese medicine. Transferring the plants innate medicinal power to our bodily systems by way of the airways, the plant compounds could harmonise any imbalance. Thus also supporting the bodies inbuilt capacity to heal itself; tending to the body with loving care, giving it time and creating a healing space - which is all we really need to do to help ourselves 

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