Apgar always believed that being a woman didn’t impact her career – at least, that’s what her National Institutes of Health profile claims.

Privately, though, she was known to express her frustrations with gender inequality.

The facts verify her private opinion – Virginia became an anesthesiologist because no one would allow her to become a surgeon.

⚗️ Anesthesiology was a brand new science at the time, so women were allowed – Virginia was one of the first trained anesthesiologists.

Despite the obstacles her gender posed, she made a permanent mark on the health and welfare of birthing mothers and newborn babies - the Apgar Scale for newborn health is the worldwide standard to this day.

Virginia is an excellent role model for strumpets, and we made a tea in her honor – we call it Five-Points, an ooh-la-la refreshing raspberry green tea.

🍵 Five Points Tea – a premium green tea

▶︎Brews to a lovely golden color, and has 2 or 3 infusions available from a single batch of tea.

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👩🏻‍⚕️ 💉Florence followed her calling to nursing and quickly identified cleanliness as a missing component in medical care.

In 1854, she was called upon to take a troop of nurses to Scutari, the British base hospital in Constantinople to help care for the wounded soldiers of the Crimean War.

They were warned of the terrible conditions they would find.

Scutari was built upon a cesspool that contaminated both building and water supply. Patients lay upon stretchers set on the filthy floors, with rats and insects scurrying amongst them. Bandages and soap were in short supply, and despite their terrible war wounds, patients were dying from infectious diseases like cholera and typhus.

Florence put the healthiest patients to work scrubbing every inch of the hospital – floor to ceiling.

Florence dedicated every waking moment to care for the sick and injured - they called her both the Angel of the Crimea, and the Lady with the Lamp.

Nightingale made it her mission to improve hygiene practices, significantly lowering the death rate at the hospital in the process.

🍵 Feel Better Blend – a premium green tea

▶︎Brews to a lovely golden color, and has 2 or 3 infusions available from a single batch of tea.

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This tea tells a story, and we love stories of women who pushed. Junko Tabei fell in love with climbing mountains when she was a girl.

She grew up to be the first woman to climb Mt Everest, as well as the first woman to reach all Seven Summits, which are the highest mountains of each of the seven continents.

She spent much of her adult life working to protect high mountain environments by leading “clean up climbs” in Japan and the Himalayas as well as being the director of the Himalayan Adventure Trust of Japan.

As the first woman to climb the Everest and the Seven Summit, she did it in the 60’s – when mountaineering was not a woman’s world.

Being female wasn’t her only obstacle to those summits, either.

She was petite – a frail child who only grew to be four feet, nine inches tall. Still, she blazed trails!

Junko met her husband on a mountain, and he worked and looked out for their children so she could climb.

⛰ She founded the Ladies Climbing Club, and led an expedition of fifteen women, including herself, up Mount Everest. They had to struggle to fund the trip, and then, twelve days from the summit, an avalanche wiped out their camp.

⭐️ Still, they made the summit, gaining fame for the club, whose slogan was “Let’s go on an overseas expedition by ourselves.”

🍵 Seven Summits Genmaicha Tea – a premium Japanese style tea

▶︎Often consumed during fasts, this tea has more body than green tea alone. Brews to a lovely golden color, and has 2 or 3 infusions available from a single batch of tea.

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