Three Teas to Bring About Calm and Soften Stress for College Students
College life demands a ton of go-go-go. Students literally stay up all night, cramming for papers, tests and labs. They pivot from class to class, and sneak in lunch and dinner where they can. For serious students, studying is a constant.
Meanwhile, pressure—and desire—to forge a social life, to engage with new friends and develop long-lasting relationships taxes time-crunched students even more.
Every day requires energy—that’s the nature of go-go-go. But constant pushing forward is not healthy, and unsustainable. Eventually students burn out.
We are here to help students dial-in serenity and calm as they navigate their busy lives. And to avoid burn out!
How? With tea. Unlike drinks such as coffee and yerba mate, which revolve around a single ingredient (which always contains caffeine, unless it’s been decaffeinate), tea covers an extremely broad botanical canvas. Traditional tea, Camillia sinensis, does indeed count caffeine as one of its many botanical foundations. But most of the vast universe of herbal tea hinges on plants that do not contain the buzz-famous plant compound.
In fact, many indigenous and select Western medical traditions revolve entirely around plants—many of which find their way into herbal tea. Lavender and chamomile for sleep. St. John’s Wort for mood. Ginseng for vitality. Ginger and licorice root for digestion. The list goes on and on.
At Ku Cha House of Tea, we carry a huge assortment of custom herbal teas, formulas aimed at nailing both flavor and wellness simultaneously. And achieving calm dwells at the heart of some of our herbal assortment.
Students, we understand you’ll sip plenty of beverages—including delicious tea—to enhance energy and stoke stamina. We recently wrote an entire blog about it, in fact. But you’ll also want to leverage tea to help bring about peace of mind and the softening of stress. Tea offers many botanical avenues toward chilling out!
College Relaxation Tea: CHA Relax
When it comes to delivering peace of mind to hard-working college students, our CHA Relax has it all. In fact, the elixir was crafted in partnership with the University of Colorado’s Center for Humanities and the Arts, or CHA (incidentally, cha means tea in Chinese). Rooibos, the caffeine-free shrub from South Africa serves as the foundation for this blend. Among its many benefits, rooibos offers sippers a wealth of vitamins and electrolytes, and is extremely effective at quenching thirst. It also contains ginkgo biloba, a plant that people around the world take to bolster mental vitality; elderflower, a balm for immunity and blood circulation; chamomile, which ripens relaxation and calm; and soothing spearmint.
College Relaxation Tea: Tired Bone Blend
Sometimes the just-right tea doesn’t bring about serenity as much as it manages chronic fatigue—a common college student ailment. We crafted our Tired Bone Blend specifically for scholars struggling with the many effects of too little sleep. Ginkgo and rosehip team up to bolster the circulatory system, which provides clarity and energy. Nettle leaf mitigates inflammation in weary joints. Rosehip and lavender help the body ease into a state of calm. Together, it’s a slam dunk blend for college students.
College Relaxation Tea: Vanilla Rooibos
It’s not just botanicals that help foster relaxation—flavors can bring on the zen, too. That’s one reason we adore this caffeine-free treat. To a base of healthy rooibos we add almond slivers, vanilla and calendula. All of these flavors are comforting—when paired, almond and vanilla are classic for soothing states of mind. Meanwhile, natural health practitioners across the globe turn to calendula to help people manage stress and sink into peace. We thrill to this tea as a healthy dessert—just a touch of honey and a dollop of a dairy or plant-based cream, and you’ll be ready to sink into a serene evening.
