...favorite tea dealer, but if any source knows it would be this group! It's a dried rhizome, cut in round slices.  Brownish outside, near- white inside.  It resembles ginseng or ginger.  ...used in Chinese medicine. They are usually more effective in formulas Food is medicine in China and this rhizome is used in usually herb and chicken based soups. Herbs used as you are using them are ...

... <charles.daw...@gmail.com> wrote: I've hit  dead ends trying to identify a root sold to us by a favorite tea dealer, but if any source knows it would be this group! It's a dried rhizome, cut in round slices.  Brownish outside, near- white inside.  It resembles ginseng or ginger.  We've been told that when it is uncut it is one straight root about one foot long. When brewed...

... for kidney yang deficiency and for qi deficiency. It is a medicinal tea. It contains: rehmannia, diocorea, cornus fruit, moutan bark, poria ( which is a fungus and smells like mushrooms), alisma rhizome, cinnamon and aconite bark. I have seen this tea in Chinese herb stores in both our Chinatowns and packaged in a yellow, orange, red and blue box (mostly bright orangey- yellow) with a...

..., for kidney yang deficiency and for qi deficiency. It is a medicinal tea. It contains: rehmannia, diocorea, cornus fruit, moutan bark, poria ( which is a fungus and smells like mushrooms), alisma rhizome, cinnamon and aconite bark. I have seen this tea in Chinese herb stores in both our Chinatowns and packaged in a yellow, orange, red and blue box (mostly bright orangey- yellow) with a ...

..., etc. More trouble than it's worth, malt is so cheap. Hops aren't as cheap, and they're easy to grow, so you could look into that. For a start on buying hop rhizomes and growing them, look here and here: http://www.beer-wine.com/product.asp?sectionID=1&CategoryID=188&productID=1158 http://pw1.netcom.com/~dluzanp/backyard.htm Hope this helps. -- Dave "Fill your cup with ...