Sip To Live Herbal Tea Company

Sip to Live was founded on the principle of giving life as a way of making a living. In a comparative religion class that I took in high school I was exposed to the buddhist principle ahimsa, which means non-harmfulness. One of the principles of Buddhism is to make right livelihood, meaning that it is spiritually beneficial to make a living without causing harm to yourself, others or our larger environment. 
The goal of right livelihood is especially relevant today; a number of us find ourselves in situations where we devote most of our energy to companies and/or organizations that we don’t necessarily believe in just to make ends meet. It seems that industries of destruction are much more profitable in today's world than industries that are actually of benefit to people. If you want to learn how to kill people, they will teach you for free and give you bonuses; if you want to become a doctor, you have to go thousands of dollars into debt. Companies often find it more profitable to create needs than to fill them. In many cases, unhealthy food is cheaper and easier to find than healthy food. The FDA has allowed cloned food to enter supermarkets without labeling, so it is nearly impossible to know if your food has been genetically modified or not. Meanwhile, diet-based diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, cancer, and obesity are reaching epidemic proportions.

Bill Cosby once called on young people to find a need in the community and make a living by filling it. RIght now, people are afflicted by the lack of knowledge of how to eat to live. At the same time that the nutritional value of food is decreasing, health care systems increasingly value profit over patients' health. The medical system over-prescribes pills, and seeks to kill diseases rather than strengthen the body to fight its own battles. Sip to Live seeks to inspire people to learn more about the healing potential of herbs, and take a new look at the herbal knowledge of previous generations and other cultures.

No matter what country you are from, your grandparents probably know much more about herbal medicine than you do. Everyday herbs and spices have the power to heal if you know how to use them.

Good food can do as much for you if not more than herbs, and when good food is combined with good herbs good health follows.  Chinese and Indian cultures have very highly developed systems of herbalism, which are respectively known as Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Ayurveda.  Healing herbs such as green tea, ginger, thyme, cardamon, and cloves are incorporated into their foods, or taken after meals, and are active components of their lifestyles. These spices also happen to taste good to us. Eating healthy does not mean sacrificing good food. I hope you would agree that my teas are evidence of this fact.

If you make a conscious effort to eat more fresh vegetables and fruits you might just find yourself enjoying them, too. It is true that you are what you eat, and you are what you drink as well.  So why not sip to live?