Keeping yourself and your family healthy and happy is a full-time job. And it’s one that changes all the time as medical understanding, the season, and your bodies change. But there are some things that don’t change. Drinking tea, the right kind of tea, is really good for your body. And the tea known as matcha definitely falls under the heading of the right kind of tea.

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has a very different and holistic way of looking at the body and at health. This system uses five natural elements to metaphorically describe the relationship between nature and the body’s life force.