Increase Your Patience with Rose

Do you wish you had more patience? Wish you weren’t so annoyed by THAT person at work? By your partner or kids? By your cat getting into your fireplace?

Recently, I’ve noticed that I’ve been a little on edge and easily annoyed.  I don’t know about you, but I would rather have a smile on my face, than be sighing and rolling my eyes.

And guess what? Herbs can help us do that!  

Smelling & Drinking Roses

Rose is an amazing flower. Not only does it smell great, but it is also powerful natural medicine. The aromatics, or the smell of the rose, is a big part of it’s magic. What we are smelling are volatile oils. Just by breathing them in, you are receiving some of their benefits!

You can also capture the volatile oils in a mug and drink them! By making rose tea, we are extracting all of rose’s phytochemicals. In layman’s terms, plant medicine.  

Rose Tea for when You are Annoyed by Something (or Someone)

When you start drinking different herbal teas, you might notice that you start to crave the herbal medicine you need most. I like rose, but I hadn’t drunk it in about eight months. And all of a sudden, bam! I had the biggest craving for rose tea.

Rose Tea Increases Patience

After taking a few sips I thought to myself, “Why have I been withholding this great drink from myself for all this time?” After drinking it for a few days I began to realize a pattern.

If something irritating happened, I would make myself a cup of rose tea. Low and behold, when I drank the cup of rose tea, I had more patience. I was suddenly in a better mood. My heart felt a little lighter, and at the same time I felt calm and grounded.

But don’t take my word for it. Try it out yourself and see how it makes you feel!

Rose for Stressful Situations

I am in the middle of moving, which for all of you that have moved before, know is stressful with a capital S. With my new secret weapon of rose, I feel confident going into the next two weeks. I will make some nice green tea lattes in the morning infused with rose.

Learn how to make a green tea latte with rose here.

Green tea gives you energy from the caffeine, but it also contains L theanine. L theanine relaxes us and makes us calm. This means that green tea is a drink that will give you energy while also relaxing you. What a great combination is that?

I will infuse my green tea with some patience, thanks to the rose! It will be my ally and support me through the next two weeks.

Rose Tea for Bedtime

Rose is also making an appearance in my nighttime blends. I blend it with some of my favorite herbal teas before bed. My nighttime tea helps me wind down at the end of the day, and the rose in there is a great addition.

Which Roses to Use for Herbal Teas

Many people ask me if they can use roses from the florist at the grocery store in their herbal teas. Those roses can cheer up a room which is some pretty powerful medicine on its own. However, those roses have most likely been sprayed with pesticides. We want to make sure that our herbal medicine is clean.

I prefer to use 5 petaled roses in my herbal teas. Roses with 5 petals are wild roses. All varieties of wild roses have well-known medicinal benefits.

You can buy wild rose at health food stores in the tea section, local herb shops, teashops, and from bulk herb suppliers. If you want to get something today, try a health food store or order something online. If the season is right, you can go outside and find some of your own in nature while you are on a walk!

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Some people have told me that they use garden variety roses with more than five petals for tea. They just make sure the rose they use has not been sprayed. Oftentimes, they grow then in their backyard. Like I said, this is not my preference and not what I was taught as medicinal roses, but everyone has their own way of doing things.

How Much Rose to Use

You may be thinking, more patience… yes please! But, where do I start? When it comes to rose, a little goes a long way. If you buy rose buds you can start out with two or three rosebuds for one cup of tea. In a quart / liter, start with three to six. These are only starting points. See what tastes best to you!

I don’t usually drink rose by itself. Rather, I blend it with other herbs. You can do this with other loose-leaf herbs or tea bags.

Have you ever tried rose before? I’d love to hear your experiences below!