I was watching a youtube video about buying tea in New York and there was a guy from somewhere in the Pakistan, Afghanistan area who went to tea shops serving their ethnic choices of tea. In one of the shops they prepared I think it was called Kashmiri tea, I watched them put the ingredients in and they used this box of tea. I liked the final product. I tweeked the ratio of ingredients to my liking. Long story short, this tea is potent and I think only best for hot tea.