Saffron is known to be one of the most expensive ingredients in the world and adds that wonderful yellow colour to rice dishes but unfortunately the majority of us can't afford it and, if you're like me, you end up using turmeric instead. However, we can now look forward, for a while at least, to the price of saffron reaching even headier heights!

For millennia, ginseng was used in ancient Eastern medicine to restore vitality and energy. The curative properties of this unique plant helped heal from serious illnesses, to return youth and nerve weakened people. And it is right that it is called the “root of life.”

On the composition of mineral components of ginseng can not compare no plant on earth. In natural ginseng root contains vital hair trace elements, vitamins C and Group B, amino acids and peptides.

Tenerife and the other Canary Islands have very many species of wild herbs. Many of these herbs have medicinal and/or culinary properties and have been utilised in traditional herbalism and folk medicine.
There is an endemic St John's Wort found on Tenerife in the Canary Islands in Spain. Milk Thistle and Fennel are two more important herbs found on the island. Other important herbs include the Orobal that is related to the Ashvaganda and is thought of as the Canary Islands answer to Ginseng.

Many of the herbs found growing wild can be used by making them into herbal tea.