Blackberries are well known for their culinary uses, often baked into tart pies and made into sweet tasting jams. Blackberry root tea made by boiling the roots can help in dysentery and cholera. Crushed blackberry fruits are used to make blackberry hibiscus tea. Blackberry leaf tea has been used as a natural remedy in some parts of the world. However, it is little known that the leaves of the blackberry bush have a hidden use of their own, and can be brewed into a medicinal tea. For thousands of years, this tea … At first, people only consume the fruit, but the legends say that the soldiers chew the leaves to help them getting energy for the battle. Blackberry nettle tea made by using one and a half ounce blackberry leaves with an ounce of nettle leaves, horsetail leaves, and white willow bark is useful for rheumatism. It can help to generate a positive mood and influence as one might feel much better after drinking the tea… Blackberry leaves can be used as a gentle astringent tonic in herbal teas and have a pleasant, fruity flavor.