 Welcome back to the tea of the day! Today I have one from Totem Teas called the Zesty Flamingo. Now it has green tea, lemon peel, lemongrass, marigold, and spearmint in this along with some natural flavoring. Hmm, smells good. Let's see what we got. I see why it's called the Zesty Flamingo. I think it's the lemon peel in particular that right off the top gives you a nice kind of effect where it gives you that little spark that I really like off the top of it. But then the lemongrass and the others just give it a nice mellow aftertaste which is good because sometimes some teas can give you a rough aftertaste and it's like you get the initial flavor. It's like that's not too bad but then afterwards it's like it's not sitting well with me but this one good in the front good on the back. You can't ask for much more than that. Ah, now when I've been doing a couple teas recently I've actually had a couple with marigold in it so I figured this is a good chance to talk about the benefits of marigold. So this one is part of the calendula family and there's lots of different benefits that marigold in particular it has. There's a couple different breeds of it which I think have some slightly different benefits depending on the type breed but we're not going to go into those specific screen. Let's just talk generally what the benefits of marigold are and first and foremost they are supposed to be good for wound healing and burn healing. There's actually been a few studies about this that actually do say that in fact is very good for those things. Now beyond that it's good for other very more specific things like vaginal infections and jock itch various little things like that but apparently there were some studies done also on vaginal wounds like after birth even caesarean sections that said if they when they used it on that after that along with St. John's word and some other things that it actually was beneficial for that as well. Now for good for skin health it's an antimicrobial anti-inflammatory. There's some research that says it might be good for menstrual cramps as well. It's also supposedly good for liver and stomach problems of various kinds like gastritis and ulcers, diabetes, depression and then general the general things that you most herbs will say heart health cancer. Those are pretty much a given for almost actually any herb that you're having in the tea. I think most people don't realize that that cancer herbs yeah do it. Other one than that one of the really interesting ones is not so much as far as the tea is concerned I think but as far as having marigold and some other formats that it's really good as an insect repellent and there's actually been some research done on this that it is good for mosquitoes and actually other forms of bugs as well and they say it doesn't last as long as deep or some of the chemical ones but hey you know if you have a couple glasses of tea it probably will last as long but yeah an insect repellent that's really cool. There are some studies and stuff that say that it could be bad for you for pregnant women. They say this with a lot of teas I think it's mainly if you take it easy you don't want to have too much of it for sure and you definitely don't want to have it in other formats when you're pregnant especially like in the creams and different things like that when the oils well with marigold with pregnancy because they say that it can cause problems with pregnancy and induced labor things like that it's also supposed to be possibly allergic especially anybody who's allergic to sunflowers and things like that but I mean other than that nothing too severe as far as the side effects as far as marigold's concerned so good stuff and a really good tea yeah these guys are doing some massively good blends I'm really liking them so uh I'm gonna finish off there you guys have a great tea day