Spring Energetics and Spring Tea

Spring element is wood (like sprouting, shooting and budding)
Spring is the season for lifting your spirit, positive outlooks, new birth and growth
Our core energy will naturally start moving upwards
Drink jasmine tea, other flower teas or quality early picked green tea during the spring months

Spring will have longer days due to the sun rising from being positioned underneath the earth over winter. The core energy of the body will become more contracted and begin to rise towards the sun as a result of more daylight.

Spring festival (Chinese New Year) signifies germination (wood- shoots and spring tea buds) and officially marks the change in the position of the suns angle and the quality of energy. It is a time to make strategies for the forthcoming year.

Drink jasmine and early picked quality green tea in spring

Preventative outlook

Jasmine tea boosts the reviving function of our energies for the spring period. The fragrant jasmine flower stimulates the opening of the sense organs to the sights, sounds and smells of the coming spring (or the new day). Jasmine tea will dispel the cold, damp sluggish feeling that has accumulated in the body over the winter (or over night) uplifting ones spirit and producing positive outlooks. It also protects the body from the rising winds of spring while furthering the upward and outward energy.

The consumption of early picked quality Green teas (spring- Ching Ming to Gu Yu period) can preserve the Yin and prevent us from being over-stimulated by the excitement of the season. This tea will disperse ‘wind’ and ‘heat’ and soothe the liver, removing dense energy that may have accumulated during the winter. It also regulates the rising energy of spring to help prevent an overabundance of this energy.

Curative outlook

Jasmine tea can help alleviate the condition of anxiety and depression or when the spirit is at a low point. It helps boost positive energy and relaxes the mind because of its uplifting scent.

Spring is associated with the liver and the emotion the liver harbours is anger. Jasmine has an effect to mitigate anger and calm ones inner and outer frustrations.

Some people will start their day with jasmine tea to activate their positive emotions.