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Hippocrateas
Organic Herbs and Tea
Est 1991
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HippocraTeas
Our Story
Your organic herbalist, tea shop, and holistic nutritionist since 1991.
As of 2021, we've earned the badge of certified functional nutrition counselor.
A Magical Awakening
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Hippocrateas began way back in 1991. Our founder, Joanna, was still in college when her life had been turned upside down with the loss of both parents to cancer. She was taking time off school and trying to figure out how her parents got cancer, as well as how to heal some minor health troubles she was struggling with. While reading "Sugar Blues," she was inspired to find a shop nearby that carried organic food.
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With the help of the yellow pages, she located an organic health food shop in Evanston called the Green Earth. Suddenly she discovered the magical world of organically grown food, macrobiotics, seaweed, and medicinal herbs.
Hippocrates', the Father of medicine, famous words were emblazoned on the store's wall:
"Let Food be thy medicine, and Medicine be thy food." Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine.
Joanna rehabbed her diet, which meant going full organic, sugar free, and vegetarian at the time. She felt renewed and fell in love with this holistic lifestyle. She also started connecting the dots between cancer and toxins in the environment. She worked at the shop for a couple months before going back to school. She also worked as an assistant to Dr. John Honey, an acupuncturist and expert in Chinese medicine. Her passion grew to help raise public awareness, to write in effort to prevent disease in others as much as may be possible.
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While environmental epidemiology wasn't a major offered yet at colleges, she went on to graduate with a bachelors in Ecology from Maine's College of the Atlantic and later with a masters degree in Education from DePaul University in Chicago.
Let Food be thy medicine,
and medicine be thy Food.
Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine
In addition to making the best organic herbal teas, Joanna is also an Author. Her books provide guidance on protecting yourself and your family from disease-causing substances in the environment. Learn more at www.adoreyourplanet.com
MY FIRST BOOK​​
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The vision for my first book came to me that summer I was working at the Green Earth. As I was discovering holistic nutrition and the incredible ways the right food, nutrients, and avoiding certain things can turn people's health around, I had an incredible dream like none I'd ever had before or since. I didn't just have a dream, though,
I had the same dream 7 nights in a row.
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It was powerful and intense. Essentially I was just sitting with my mom having a discussion. I was excitedly explaining to her everything I was learning about food and healing, and the things in our food and environment that cause cancer. I was creating a plan for her so her body could heal.
She was so excited, and we were both so happy knowing she was going to get well and beat the cancer and thrive once again. We were both smiling and laughing and feeling so happy. Then I awoke. It was morning, I was barely awake and still feeling that happiness knowing everything was going to be alright with my mom. Then, within a few moments it dawned on me, it was actually too late. My mom had passed away 6 months earlier. I felt dreadful. It was excruciating to realize the dream wasn't real. But I had to go about my day. Then, that night and the rest of the week, I had the same exact dream, and each morning I woke up feeling the same excitement followed by the surreal realization.
I wondered what kind of joke was this! That seventh morning, though, something shifted, and it occurred to me that this was a message telling me to take action and write. It may have been too late for my mom or dad, but it wasn't too late for others. I needed to share this information with others, I was going to write a booklet, a short book about food and healing, and be a writer like my parents had been. Ever since that summer of 1991, I've been dedicated to expanding my knowledge and learning as much as I can about holistic healing, nutrition, herbs, environmental causes of disease, and the Solutions to making our
environment healthy again.
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. I have a great love for people, animals, and health. If I can help someone be well that brings great joy. I am very grateful to have grown this company and to write books that may help someone somewhere. Through my books and products I strive to help provide guidance and effective products that help instill healing. Maybe my efforts to raise awareness will prevent someone from suffering or losing someone they love to disease or cancer that could possibly be prevented.
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God Bless everyone everywhere.
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WHY CHOOSE US?
Exclusive Recipes
our recipes are designed in house-- unique, original, and not available anywhere else.
100% Organic
All our teas are made with only organic ingredients, no sugar and nothing artificial added.
PASSION
We are passionate about wholistic organic nutrition and herbal medicine. We've been committed to organic farming since 1990.
All Natural
We care about your health. Protecting your health equates with protecting the earth as well. Our teas contain no additives and nothing artificial, no sugar, no artificial flavors.
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You and Nature
Nature can change your life. Hippocrateas brings nature to you in a most nourishing way, through herbal tea infusions.
10% to Save the Bees
10% of our profits go to helping save the bees and pollinators. To proect people, this is crucial. Saving pollinators will save the natural food supply. Bees and pollinators are dying primarily from exposure to toxins found in farming & gardening: chemical pesticides, synthetic harmful fertilizers, and fungicides.
With You and the Earth in Mind
Our teas are created with your health and the wellness of our planet in mind.
TOGETHER
We collaborate with like-minded people and organizations who have your's, your family and the earth's best interest at heart.
Help us reach our goal to get our first tea truck so we can provide free hot tea to the homeless in Chicago.
MOST SUSTAINABLE
We are the most sustainable tea company anywhere.
All our teas, wrapping and packaging is biodegradable, compostable, and nontoxic.
Small Business with a Purpose
We are a small business with a purpose to help humanity and the planet as a whole. Every cup you drink helps us help everyone. Thank you.
HAND CRAFTED RECIPES
Hippocrateas creates small batch, hand crafted
organic herbal infusions designed to restore,
nourish, and protect. All of our herbal recipes are unique and designed in house, and not found anywhere else.
We also now provide organic fair trade certified
traditional teas, many with special herbal notes added.
Our teas are 100% organic, free of GMOs and never with any sugar added or anything artificial, just 100% goodness.
PACKAGING
Packaging matters. That's why our teas are provided in glass mason jars that are reusable and collectible. We don't use any toxic materials in any step of our processing. Our labels are designed with recycled kraft paper and nontoxic glue. We've actually moved away from labeling the jars to save even more paper,
so just the lids will have the label.
And if you wish to have your tea in tea bags we only use unbleached biodegradable tea bags free of glue, adhesives and plastic! Our teabags may not be fancy like some of the nylon ones you'll find by other commercial tea brands, but we care more about doing right by the environment than looking fancy. We keep it simple and natural, good for you good for bees! To us, if it doesn't biodegrade and isn't compostable we won't use it. To us, every step matters; we don't overlook even the basics. We are committed to your health as well as the health of all creatures on this planet.
SOURCING
Hippocrateas will always only be made with plants grown as nature intended. Our teas will never contain hazardous synthetic chemicals found in fertilizer or pesticides, nor anything artificial, no added sugar, and definitely no GMOs.
We're dedicated to providing you and your family with teas and herbal infusions created from the best ingredients available. The best cannot be compromised, and the farming methods and entire process must be sustainable, organic and free of pesticides. Until we have our own organic farm,
we will continue to use plants from farms
and growers we trust.
Say NO to Pesticides means saying no to GMOs.
Learn more about Mountain
GIVING BACK
Hippocrateas donates 5% of our profits to protect the Bees and pollinators that make healthy food possible.
Our health depends on their survival.
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Through protecting the planet, we protect ourselves.
Organizations we support include:
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Gilda's Club of Chicago, The Rachel Carson Council
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The Pesticide Action Network, The V Foundation,
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the Walter Payton Foundation,
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Organic Consumers Association,
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Natural Resources Defense Council, The Sierra Club,
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OUTSIDE IN
Because we all encounter toxins in this modern world and are at risk of various health challenges, everything we can do to help nourish and strengthen our immune system is valid.
Through Hippocrateas we offer the gifts from nature to you safely and soundly.
WHO WAS HIPPOCRATES?
"Let food by thy medicine and medicine be thy food." Known throughout the world as the Father of Medicine, Hippocrates is perhaps best known for believing in the power of nutrition to heal disease and illness.
The Hippocratic Oath of 'thou shall do no harm,' is named after him for a reason.
"It was Hippocrates who finally freed medicine from the shackles of magic, superstition, and the supernatural. Hippocrates collected data and conducted experiments to show that disease was a natural process; that the signs and symptoms of a disease were caused by the natural reactions of the body to the disease process; and that the chief role of the physician was to aid the natural resistance of the body to overcome the metabolic imbalance and restore health and harmony to the organism. Hippocrates was born on the island of Cos, off the southwest coast of Asia Minor, or present-day Turkey, around 460 B.C.
Painting located in Paris, Bibliothèque nationale