Our Story

Magick Medicine is a small tea house in London. We blend herbal teas by hand, in batches small enough to taste as we go, and we sell them to people who want something better than a teabag at the end of a long day.

That's the whole of it, really. But here's the longer version.

How it started

It started with not being able to find it. Tea that felt like someone had actually thought about it - what was in it, why those things were together, whether it was any good to drink rather than merely good for you. Most of what was on the shelf was either a supplement pretending to be a beverage, or a beverage with nothing much in it.

So the blending started at a kitchen table. It still happens at one.

How we blend

Every blend is formulated for a feeling rather than a function - rest, clarity, warmth, calm. We start from what a cup should be like to drink at a particular hour, and work backwards to the plants.

Which means we blend in small quantities, by hand, and we taste every batch. Herbs aren't consistent - a chamomile harvest differs from the one before it, and blending small enough to notice is the only way to respond to what's actually in the bowl rather than what a recipe says should be.

The consequence is that our teas vary slightly, batch to batch. The colour of InnerGlow moves with the hibiscus. Tummy Tea can be a shade more floral one month than the next. We'd rather that than flatten it out.

What we won't tell you

We won't tell you what our tea will do to your body. We're not doctors, our blends are food rather than medicine, and the herbal world is full of confident claims that don't survive contact with evidence.

What we will tell you is what's in the pouch, where it came from, what it tastes like, and when we think it's best to drink it. Then it's yours.

On ritual

The one thing we do believe: tea is worth slowing down for. Not because of what's in it, but because of the five minutes it takes.

You can't rush a steep. For those few minutes there's genuinely nothing to do but wait - and that enforced pause, in a day with very few of them, turns out to be the useful part. The tea is almost an excuse.

That's what we mean by ritual. Not incense and incantation. Just a reason to stop, once a day, with something good in your hands.

Where we are

London. Blended by hand, in small batches, and posted out in packaging we've tried to keep as unfussy as the tea.

Pregnant or breastfeeding, taking medication, or managing a health condition? Speak to your GP or a qualified herbalist before drinking herbal teas.