Native Americans brewed tea from silver birch (Betula pendula) to treat gout and rheumatism, and to dissolve kidney stones. They also used the sap to treat eczema and other skin problems, ...

They’re actually made of birch twigs, but do the trick. Birch Tea Light Holders, $21 and $28, Paper Trail, 6423 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, N.Y., 845-876-8050, papertrailrhinebeck.com.

On Saturday, January 28, the Museum presents a Birch Tea Lecture and Ceremony, held in conjunction with the exhibition Tree of Life: Birch Through the Ages. ...

Birch trees are easy to identify in winter thanks to their distinctive bark, and they offer a hot drink, aromatic flour and sweet syrup to cold weather foragers.