Labrador Tea Essential Oil shops - Ledum Groenlandicum - 5 ml - 100% Pure

BOTANICAL NAME: Ledum groenlandicum

SCENT: Labrador Tea essential oil has a refreshing, sharp, piercing, aroma.

STRENGTH OF AROMA: Medium

PLANT PART USED: The entire plant

EXTRACTION METHOD: Steam Distilled

ORIGIN: Canada

COLOUR: Labrador Tea Essential Oil is pale green in hue

CONSISTENCY: Thin

NOTE: Top/Middle

Labrador Tea Essential Oil is a name commonly applied to three closely related species or rhododendron: They include:-

Rhododendron tomentosum (Northern Labrador Tea, previously Ledum palustre)

Rhododendron groenlandicum (Bog Labrador Tea, previously Ledum groenlandicum or Ledum latifolium) which is this product

Rhododendron neoglandulosum (Western Labrador Tea, or Trapper's Tea, previously Ledum glandulosum)

It is also sometimes called Greenland Tea, Greenland Moss or Ledum Essential Oil

History Of Labrador Tea:-

In Labrador itself, Labrador Tea is also frequently called Indian Tea. All three species are primarily wetland plants in the Heather family (Ericaceae) with strongly aromatic leaves that can be used to make a very palatable herbal tea or this essential oil. Labrador tea has been a favourite beverage among Athabaskan and Inuit peoples for years and years.

The Athabaskans brew the leaves as a beverage and some people chew the raw leaves because they enjoy the flavour. Others use Labrador tea to spice meat by boiling the leaves and branches in water and then soaking the meat in the tea.

The Pomo, Kashaya, Tolowa and Yurok of Northern California boiled the leaves of shops Western Labrador Tea similarly, to make a medicinal tea. In Greenland, this is still the case. Here it is also used in facial steam bath.

In medieval Northern Europe ,it was often brewed in “gruit” ales, prior to the adoption of hops.