I've heard that scenting things with a combination of lavender and lemon oils provides a nice, non-jarring pick-me-up. Plus it smells nice. :D
Not that it'll do anything for your energy problem, but I've recently started drinking linden tea (mostly because I managed to score a box of 20 teabags for 99 cents and I wanted herbal tea for drinking late in the evening -- no caffeine), and it's allegedly an antispasmodic, a mild remedy for anxiety, tension headaches, and migraine, plus it raises your core temperature slightly and boosts your immune system (apparently wonderful for when you have a cold and just want to go to bed and sweat it out). So far, I think I am slightly less stressed out than I was, which is nice. Plus it tastes good. It's all sort of jasmine-like and sweet. :) You could look into other kinds of herbal teas as well, if you were interested.
One thing I always found woke me up was to drink a cup of broth of some sort (I always had beef or chicken, but you could use vegetable), doctored up with hot sauce, mustard, and various other spices and stuff -- the hotter the better. I used to have that with my breakfast quite frequently when I was in high school, or sometimes as my breakfast. Nobody in my house drank coffee, I wasn't allowed to have tea with breakfast, and I most certainly wasn't allowed to have Coke, but 6:15AM came really early. (As you have probably guessed, I am not now, nor have I ever been a member of the Communist Party, er, no, I mean, a morning person. ;) )
Lavender is a sedative/depressant, so its role in this blend is prob. to help with the 'non-jaring' bit.
How about ginger? Or ginsing? Hot peppery broth (as above) sounds good too, for a D'G sort of palate anyhow.
Me, I still miss my Cokes. But my e-bay Mrs. Tea will be here soon, assuring a steady caffeine stream.
The linden sounds lovely, might mix well with vanilla in a black tea as well as on its own as an herbal- do you have any recomendations for links to reliable info on it? I'm on enough meds I don't want to accidently duplicate effects.
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Not that it'll do anything for your energy problem, but I've recently started drinking linden tea (mostly because I managed to score a box of 20 teabags for 99 cents and I wanted herbal tea for drinking late in the evening -- no caffeine), and it's allegedly an antispasmodic, a mild remedy for anxiety, tension headaches, and migraine, plus it raises your core temperature slightly and boosts your immune system (apparently wonderful for when you have a cold and just want to go to bed and sweat it out). So far, I think I am slightly less stressed out than I was, which is nice. Plus it tastes good. It's all sort of jasmine-like and sweet. :) You could look into other kinds of herbal teas as well, if you were interested.
One thing I always found woke me up was to drink a cup of broth of some sort (I always had beef or chicken, but you could use vegetable), doctored up with hot sauce, mustard, and various other spices and stuff -- the hotter the better. I used to have that with my breakfast quite frequently when I was in high school, or sometimes as my breakfast. Nobody in my house drank coffee, I wasn't allowed to have tea with breakfast, and I most certainly wasn't allowed to have Coke, but 6:15AM came really early. (As you have probably guessed, I am not now, nor have I ever been a member of the Communist Party, er, no, I mean, a morning person. ;) )
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How about ginger? Or ginsing? Hot peppery broth (as above) sounds good too, for a D'G sort of palate anyhow.
Me, I still miss my Cokes. But my e-bay Mrs. Tea will be here soon, assuring a steady caffeine stream.
The linden sounds lovely, might mix well with vanilla in a black tea as well as on its own as an herbal- do you have any recomendations for links to reliable info on it? I'm on enough meds I don't want to accidently duplicate effects.