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So on Thursday I got pretty sick. I am not sure what was wrong with me but I had a killer stomach ache pretty much all day long. After I got done teaching my English class I called it a day and went home early to lie down and hopefully go to sleep. On the way home, one of my colleagues drove me up to my apartment, I was told to go upstairs and in a little bit he would come by with some tea that would make me feel better. I am from Houston and as much as I want to claim that I am a rugged mountain man and love Whole Foods and do the whole natural organic good for me thing, when I hear the word tea I generally think of Twinings or those nifty overly expensive teas I would buy at HEB in college and then never use. As you might have already guessed my friend shows up with four different white envelopes packed with dried plants, these plants to be exact. He shows me how to make the tea by placing the plants into a pot of boiling water and letting them sit for some time. I know you are thinking "Of course! What on earth did you think was in those little packets you buy from the store" but it is funny how until you actually see a thing you don't really think to put two and two together. So I made tea, real tea, from plants, real plants, and it was amazing. And now I feel better.