Jiaogulan tea organic

Jiaogulan, or A small plant that promises nothing less than immortality. Leaving aside the philosophical question of whether immortality can actually be a goal for mankind to strive for, ensuring quality of life into old age is unquestionably a desire of our society – and the cause of one of the most notable expenses in our economy. We certainly don’t want to pay for homeopathy according to Samuel Hahnemann or any other quackery with our health insurance premiums. The active ingredients of plants, however, are not part of alternative medicine, but of conventional medicine: even today, pharmaceutical research sends its scouts into the mountains of the Himalayas and the jungles of South America to find new plant-based active ingredients that can be developed into medicines.

The plant Gynostemma pentaphyllum (Jiaogulan) is used in the Chinese province of Guizhou, for example, and the above-average proportion of centenarians there is attributed to the regular consumption of tea made from this plant. Jiaogulan is an inconspicuous climbing plant from the gourd family th