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Post by lousette on Mar 17, 2013 12:51:06 GMT
I am supposed to be doing some touch up painting on our new cloak room, but as I really really don't feel like doing that I have been surfing the net instead. I was on samwiseg's blog and followed a link to a page about giving budgies herbal tea when they are ill. Very interesting indeed. I am originally from South Africa and Redbush tea there is a favourite. When we came over to the UK 14 years ago you couldn't find redbush tea here, but now it is everywhere (so happy for that as it is my favourite!). Anyway, redbush is used in South Africa for all sorts of medicinal reasons - I even used to bath my daughter in very weak redbush when she was a baby as it calmed her eczema (she only had as a baby thank goodness). It used to always be advertised in SA to assist in digestive problems too and many people swear by it for all sorts of ailments. Here is a link about some medicinal properties www.phytochemicals.info/plants/rooibos.phpSo I did a bit of googling and found this www.birdchannel.com/bird-magazines/bird-talk/2011-march/tea-time.aspx See right at the bottom. I was wondering if this could be good for budgies as well. .... interesting.
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Post by birdguhl on Mar 17, 2013 13:25:24 GMT
Extemely interesting - thanks!
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Post by Hezz on Mar 18, 2013 1:01:38 GMT
I had not heard of redbush tea, so there is another one. Which in particular of the teas were you referring to, Lousette? Black tea and chamomile are certainly perfectly safe for budgies. As an aside, while my dog was freaking out over lightning a few weeks ago, I made up a big bucket of chamomile tea for him and replaced his water with this. As he got more nervy, he drank more ....... don't know if it did him any good, but it certainly did him no harm! I was telling a friend this - he nearly choked on his beer! Humph! He obviously isn't into herbal remedies.
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Post by lousette on Mar 18, 2013 10:57:08 GMT
I was talking specifically about redbush tea Hezz. Like I said people in South Africa swear by it for curing all sorts of ailments. It only grows in the Cape in South Africa and for a long time you couldn't get it here, but with so many South Africans immigrating to the UK it is now readily available. I know Australia is full of South Africans too, and where they are their tea must follow so I am thinking you might find it there too if you look around a bit. I haven't tried it with Hob, just thought it was interesting as I know it is really good for humans. It is traditionally called Rooibos (which is Afrikaans) but that is translated as redbush in English.
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Post by stace on Mar 18, 2013 11:00:37 GMT
I was talking specifically about redbush tea Hezz. Like I said people in South Africa swear by it for curing all sorts of ailments. It only grows in the Cape in South Africa and for a long time you couldn't get it here, but with so many South Africans immigrating to the UK it is now readily available. I know Australia is full of South Africans too, and where they are their tea must follow so I am thinking you might find it there too if you look around a bit. I haven't tried it with Hob, just thought it was interesting as I know it is really good for humans. It is traditionally called Rooibos (which is Afrikaans) but that is translated as redbush in English. It's called Rooibos in Australia too. I haven't heard it called Redbush here.
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Post by lousette on Mar 18, 2013 22:54:37 GMT
To me it will always be Rooibos with a great big rolling "R" as you say it, but this is how they package it here ...
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Post by lousette on Mar 18, 2013 22:57:12 GMT
Gosh, that turned out to be a big picture, I just copied and pasted from an arbitrary site.
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