Enjoying Yerba Mate is an experience. These Complete Yerba Mate Sets are all you need to enjoy this ritual of friendship, connection, love, family and intimacy.  Drinking Yerba Mate means taking time out of your hectic day to pause and connect with yourself or another human. It is the ultimate in Self-Care.

These are the perfect gift sets we offer. Remember that all of our mates and bombillas are handmade by artisans in Argentina.

We offer four kinds of yerba mate gift sets.

-Gourd Yerba Mate Gift Set (The gourd is the most traditional way to enjoy yerba mate, but not the ONLY way!)

-Wood Gourd Yerba Mate Gift Set

-Glass Gourd Yerba Mate Gift Set

-Thermal Gourd Yerba Mate Gift Set 

YERBA MATE MAKING 101

If you bought the Gourd Yerba Mate Set start here! If you bought the glass, thermal or wood gourd set, you can skip this step.

Curing the mate gourd –

If you have a mate with a wooden or glass interior, please go to the next step.

Curing the mate just means that you seal the inside of the gourd.  There are many ways to do this.  The easiest is to fill the gourd with yerba mate or ground coffee, fill with water and let sit for 24 hours.  Empty grounds, rinse and you are ready to go! 

Heating and sweetening water –

Use filtered water.  Heat until water steams, but does not boil.  Any water that is too hot will “wash” the tea leaves and make for a very weak tea after a few servings.  Pour water into a pitcher or thermos that allows for a “narrow stream” to pour out.

If you have decided to sweeten the water, add stevia, honey or another product to the thermos.

First time EVER drinking mate –

Fill the gourd with 2 tbsp. of tea. Dampen the tea with room temperature water.  Give the leaves a few seconds to swell a bit and then add the bombilla (metal diffusor straw) in the mate.  Add a few drops of stevia or another sweetener (if it has not already been added to the water in a thermos), and then hot - but not boiling, water.  Fill to “just below” the ridge.  Drink this first cup pretty quickly because it is strong.  As the water sits in the tea, it gets stronger and can turn bitter if left too long.

Every cup thereafter is made with the same tea leaves. Just keep adding water and sometimes, stevia, and then sip through a straw.  Do this until the tea doesn’t have much taste.  Then, just empty and refill with fresh leaves.

The first few times using the painted gourds in your Gourd Yerba Mate Set, the stain on the gourd, will bleed.  This is a hand-painted cup and the paint needs to “set” with use.  Please put a paper towel or napkin under the gourd to avoid anything getting stained.

Filling the mate

You will want to start slowly.  Yerba is quite strong.  Put all of the elements of your yerba mate set out in front of you. Fill the mate with yerba about 2 tbsp. of tea.  Put your palm over the opening and shake so that the leaves mix with powder.  Turn the mate right-side up.  (After you have had mate a few times, you may want to increase the amount of yerba in the mate.  Try about 1/3 of the gourd full.  Most will settle at around 2/3 full)

Adding water to the yerba mate in your yerba mate set

Add a little room temperature water, to one side of the mate cup.  Once that is done, push the bombilla through.  The bottom of the bombilla should touch, or come close to the bottom, of the mate cup.

Add the hot water to the top of the mate until it reaches just under the lip.  Sip the water through the straw, and enjoy.  If it needs a bit of sweetener, add more.  Refill and slip until the water has washed away the flavor.  You can then empty the yerba and refill as many times as you want.

To Clean

With a small spoon or your finger, scoop out all the tea.  Rinse well and set to dry. Now your yerba mate set is ready for the next time you want to use it.

Yerba Mate Health Benefits

Since yerba mate has such a high concentration of Chlorogenic Acid, it’s able to be highly effective with the following:

• Promote weight loss, Anti-obesity; Enhances fat metabolism
• Reduce and attack cancer cells
• High concentration of chlorogenic Acid – reduces and attacks cancer cells, destroys bacteria, promotes heart health, helps lower blood pressure, lowers cholesterol, helps with blood sugar regulation
• Contains saponins and caffeoylquinic Acids – help with weight loss and inflammation
• Mineral-rich
• Has amino acids and anti-oxidants
• Increases wellbeing and Happiness - Natural Energizer (Good source of natural energy 
• Powerful adaptogen – An adaptogen is an herb that grows in an extreme conditions and adapts to its environment and still thrives, the strong power of “adapting” is also good for the human body. Using an adaptogenic herb helps a body adapt to stressors such as physiological, chemical, work, toxins…. Adaptogens have high levels of antioxidants and saponins, which defended the plant against disease and made them resistant to insects.
• Relaxes the Muscles, Decreases Stress
• Improves Sleep
• Fights Colon Cancers
• Helps with Type II Diabetes
• Boosts Creativity
• Tone and repair organs
• Anti-inflammatory
• Antifungal
• Antimicrobial
• Capillary-strengthening
• Diuretic
• Expectorant (removes mucus from the body; good for cold, flu, bronchitis, etc.)
• Improve liver functioning
• Antiulcerogenic (helps prevent and relieve ulcers)
• Anthelmintic (expel parasites from the body)
• Hormone-modulating
• Immunomodulating (improves immune system functioning; may help HIV patients.)
• High antioxidant capacity; reduce oxidative stress
• High amounts of minerals and vitamins (potassium, manganese, phosphorus, sodium, nitrogen, etc. Vitamins A, C, E etc.)
• Promote healthy Gastrointestinal Tract (GI), Improve digestion
• Promote healthy heart, Lower LDL cholesterol, lower blood pressure, Cholesterol-lowering

Increase cognition and mental clarity

• Help regulate glucose levels for Type 2 Diabetes
• Fight and prevent osteoporosis by increasing bone density