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Where did you read it doesn't matter if its seeds or leaves, it absolutely does. That's one of the biggest issues in getting people to understand herbal medicine. Roots, bark, leaves, flowers and seeds for 1 given plant have very very different physiological effects!! Often times when people aren't getting results it cause they are taking the wrong thing!! For example, Papaya. If you looking for papain digestive enzymes. Leaves have none. Papaya root none. Mature ripe fruit.. Very little. Green immature fruit tonnes. However, papaya leaves are great for increasing appetite and the latex is a known cancer fighter.

And when it comes to commercial teas, often times the material is artifically flavored enhanced - you might not even be having real herbal tea but cheap black tea that's been radiated and flavored artifically. For morning tea, works well, for medicinal benefit, useless.

As for teas being a miracle.. If properly formulated, prepared as a tea or decotion pending plants and drinken in sufficient qty. Yes. Problem is.. We in west take way way to little and can't stomach the astringent taste of a proper medical tea. I've seem TCM formulas weighing a pound of herbs per day to make a liter of tea made each day fresh! A pound, not a little tea bag. Then again.. There a some teas where a tea bag would suffice.. like fennel or red clover.