sloe-leaf

Updated: May 6, 2025

And therefore you may as well not give it. This is called extravagant. But these women are "extravagant" in nothing else. And they are right in this. Real tea-leaf tea alone contains the restorative they want; which is not to be found in sloe-leaf tea. The mistresses of houses, who cannot even go over their own house once a day, are incapable of judging for these women.

Florence Nightingale - Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not