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    Heather Mourer’s gateway into herbalism was honey. “I had an upper respiratory infection in high school that lasted for months,” she says. “My mom gave me over-the-counter cough medicine — it sent me to the emergency room with a seizure and hallucinations.” Mourer quickly searched for alternative ways to treat her symptoms, and learned honey…

    Technically, “herbal teas” aren’t teas at all. Tea is a specific type of plant—the Camellia sinensis species, to be exact—and true tea comes from the leaves of the tea plant, which is more like a shrub than a tree. But “herbal tea” is shorthand for what we’ve all come to know as plant-based teas not…