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Memory & Clarity Tea
Nootropic · Circulatory · Aromatic
Every sense you have is routed through the thalamus first and sorted before it reaches you — every one but smell.
Olfaction is the exception. Scent travels from the nose to the olfactory bulb and from there straight into the limbic system, arriving at the amygdala and the hippocampus without being processed by anything in between. The hippocampus is where memories are consolidated. The amygdala is where they are given weight. Smell is the only sense that opens directly onto both.
This is why a scent can return an entire year of your life in under a second, and why the returned memory arrives whole, with its feeling already attached, rather than assembled piece by piece the way a deliberately recalled one is.
Every tradition that works with memory has known this without the anatomy. Incense, smudge, anointing, the herb crushed between the fingers before study. This tea is aromatic by design. Some of it works through the gut and the blood over weeks. Some of it works the moment the steam reaches you.
Ayurveda keeps a category for this: medhya rasayana. Medhya means that which nourishes the intellect. Rasayana is the class of restoratives taken over long periods to rebuild rather than to stimulate — the medicines of longevity, not of effect.
Both bacopa and gotu kola sit in this category, and both carry the name brahmi in one region or another — a name that traces to Brahman, the expanding principle, the thing consciousness does when it is not constricted. That two different plants, growing in two different parts of India, were each given that name tells you what practitioners noticed in them.
The word to hold onto is rasayana. These are not stimulants and this tea is not a nootropic in the sense the word is now used. The clinical trials on bacopa show its effects on memory acquisition and recall emerging over eight to twelve weeks, not in an afternoon. What you feel on the first day is the peppermint and the rosemary. What you are actually taking it for arrives slowly, and only if you keep drinking it.
Drink it for a season. That is the whole instruction.
The European line runs just as long. Greek students are said to have worn rosemary in their hair while studying. It was carried at funerals and at weddings — the herb of not forgetting, in both directions. There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance, Ophelia says, handing it out, and Shakespeare expected the audience to already know why.
Modern work has been unusually kind to the old association. Rosemary’s aroma alone — 1,8-cineole, absorbed through the lungs and detectable in blood — has been linked in controlled studies to improved performance on memory tasks, with the effect scaling to how much of the compound is measured in the bloodstream. The garland was not superstition. It was a delivery method.
The sages belong to the same family and carry much of the same chemistry, and the Salvias have their own respectable record in trials of cognition and recall.
Bacopa (Bacopa monnieri) — The most studied plant here by a wide margin. A creeping marsh herb of India, used as medhya rasayana for two millennia and now supported by repeated controlled trials in healthy adults and in the elderly, showing improvement in memory acquisition, delayed recall, and speed of information processing. Its bacosides appear to work on synaptic signalling and on the antioxidant status of hippocampal tissue. It is slow, it is cumulative, and it rewards patience.
Gotu kola (Centella asiatica) — The plant of long life in Sinhalese and Ayurvedic tradition, and the one in this blend that works on tissue rather than on signal. Its triterpenes — asiaticoside, madecassoside — support microcirculation and connective tissue integrity, which is the least glamorous and most literal way to feed a brain: by improving what reaches it. It is also quietly anxiolytic, and a mind under less pressure remembers more.
Rosemary (Salvia rosmarinus) — Aromatic, circulatory, and warming to the head. Rosmarinic acid and 1,8-cineole, arriving both through the cup and through the steam.
White sage (Salvia apiana) — Resinous and strongly aromatic, from the chaparral of southern California, where it is a sacred plant to the Cahuilla, Chumash, Tongva, Kumeyaay and neighbouring peoples. Clearing, drying, and unmistakable.
Peppermint (Mentha × piperita) — Cooling and immediately alerting. Peppermint aroma has its own small literature on attention and alertness, and it does in minutes what the rest of the formula does in months. It is also what makes the cup pleasant enough to keep drinking for a season.
One teaspoon per cup. Water just off the boil, covered, steeped ten minutes. Breathe the steam before you drink.
Once or twice daily, with food. Bacopa is easier on the stomach taken alongside a meal, and some traditions pair it with a little fat for the same reason.
Take it as a course — eight to twelve weeks at minimum. It is not a cup you reach for on the morning of an exam.
Not for use during pregnancy or while nursing.
Consult your healthcare provider before use if you take any medication, particularly thyroid medication, sedatives, or medication affecting the liver. Not for use with existing liver conditions without practitioner guidance. May aggravate reflux in those prone to it. Discontinue two weeks before surgery.
May cause digestive upset if taken on an empty stomach.
This tea is a traditional botanical preparation intended to support clarity and cognitive resilience. It is not a treatment for any disease and is not a substitute for medical care.
Blended in small batches in Taos, New Mexico.
| Weight | .25 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 6 × 10 × 4 in |
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Bio:
Morgaine Witriol is founder of the Native Roots School of Ancestral, Folk & Herbal Medicine in Taos, NM, a collective of 10 different teachers that teach each about their own ancestral healing modalities. Morgaine is a clinical herbalist, wild crafter, gardener, medicine maker and intuitive being in service to the plant and fungal folk. At her private practice in Taos, NM people can recieve a combination of clinical, spiritual and medical intuitive treatments including bodywork, herbal consults, somatic trauma release, repatterning and reconditioning intergenerational and ancestral wounds, lymphatic drainage, abdominal massage, and sound healing. Morgaine’s focus in her practice aside from trauma work is focused working with people that were diagnosed with cancer, diabetes, arthritis, depression or hard to treat chronic disease that western medicine is stumped by. At Native Roots, Morgaine teaches about reclaiming one’s own ancestral traditions as a displaced person, Jewish Folk Medicine, SW Materia Medica, Herbal Allies for Trauma & Grief, Ethics, Cultural Appropriation, Plant Energetics, Energywork, Clinical Herbalism, Flower Essences, Medicine Making and leads several multi-day field trips doing medicinal plant walks. Really she feels she teaches how to come into relationship with elemental, plant and fungal medicine, and then the indigenous science from all cultures of listening to the body and its layers of epigenetic, ancestral, childhood, organ, and energy center imbalances. Morgaine developed and ran educational programs accredited through the University of NM, has taught at the American Herbalist guild conference twice, UNM Albuquerque and is now teaching at Northern University on herbalism for the nursing department. Her favorite people to teach are doctors, nurses, children and teachers. She has led plant and mushroom walks for the New Mexico Association of Osteopathic Medicine, Flower Hill Institute, presented for Native Plant Society, and taught wellness through plant and mushroom medicine for Taos Municipal Schools Employees.
In 2010 Morgaine lived in Belize and had the opportunity to apprentice tropical medicine with one of the most revered medicine men in the country the late Don Heriberto Cocom for 1.5 years and with his good friend Don Reginaldo Chayeux in Guatemala. She brought groups down to study Mayan medicine, herbalism and abdominal massage with him for 7 years until creator called him home. She collaborated for 10 years with his Nonprofit Association to support the protection of the fully Mayan run rainforest Reserve Bio Itza and brings groups of students to study with him. Morgaine has recognized the importance of honoring healing modalities of all cultures and especially the ones of our own tradition even if they have been forgotten by a few generations.
Morgaine studied at the Northwest School for Botanical Studies, The Dandelion Center, California School for Herbal Studies, The Dhyanna Center, Blue Otter School, Acutonics Institute for Integrative Medicine, Ethnic Studies and Anthropology at the University of Colorado. She often attends herbal and mushroom conferences.
She grew up with an immigrant community and found herself easily honoring the elders that still remembered their own language, their own healing modalities and traditions from that community. It was a journey of many years before she started to look deeper into reclaiming the healing practices of the ancestral traditions that she came from and hopes to share with all people of European descent to remember to honor their own ancestors, to connect to the land and the people that are currently practicing and keeping the context of European tribal healing traditions alive today. She hopes to create a safe space to bridge the intergenerational gap of knowledge, cultural similarities and healing tools to encourage self healing and community healing.
Morgaine worked for Teambuilders counseling Services in 2008 in Taos, New Mexico as a Comprehensive Community Support Specialist teaching “life skills” including communication, stress and anger management, and parenting skills and offering social work opportunities for children and their parents. Later she worked at nonprofit Rocky Mountain Youth Corps with “at risk youth” doing hands-on experiential learning in nature focusing on useful life skills and training once a week for teens. Afterwards she ventured to Guatemala to volunteer at an orphanage and was responsible for 30 girls ages 10-17 as their live in caretaker and teacher for 5 months. in 2011 Morgaine found herself homebound and endured hurricane Sandy’s destruction leaving 13 million people on the East coast without electricity. She coordinated one thousand volunteers a day in Staten Island, New York and spent months doing grass roots disaster recovery with Feeding Family including immediate needs donations and distribution of water, food, respiratory masks, clothing, tho food, medications and animal rehoming, demolition, and later therapeutic urban gardening in elevated community garden beds, fundraising, and more demolition, raw sewage clean up and mold control.
Rates:
$225-375 sling scale for 1.5 hours, $300-500 for 2 hours
Miram’s sessions are intuitive. Her body and words are a vessel for divine healing and often she channels intuitively the heart medicine that supports one to create and develop their own healing. Miriam awakens the self worth, self value and realignment with ones higher self.
A combination of these services is provided in one session. Distance sessions and in person.
$150 deposit is quired in advance
Rates:
$225-375 sling scale for 1.5 hours, $300-500 for 2 hours
By-donation for all New Mexican heritage peoples
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