In 1989 somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean flying in route to Australia. Ms. Resina Koroi and Dr. Ted Anders (Company Founders) began conversing. Resina, native Fijian, invited Ted, as her guest, to discover the natural pharmacopeias of Fiji for possible solutions for his daughter’s reoccurring sinus and ear infections.

Beginning with Resina’s expert herbologist mother, they began going village-to-village conducting research inquiring from shaman, experts, mothers and grandmothers, what remedies were effective for various health issues.  Having been used generation after generation, the Fijian Red Mangrove (Fiji Titi – as they call it in Fiji) came up time-and-time again for nasal-bronchial and sinus related symptoms.

After considerable friend and relationship building, the Tribal Chiefs (Resina’s grandfather was a Chief) of the Fijian Community granted Resina and Ted (Nature’s Nurse, Inc.) the gift of sharing this ancient remedy with western and other cultures of the world. Now Nature’s Nurse, Inc. has renewable world-wide exclusive rights to harvest and sell the special Fijian Red Mangrove™. A Funny Story - The ceremony was concluded with Ted having to push, while on his hands and knees, a whale-bone across the floor in front of the Tribal Elders. This is a custom that, once upon a time, if the elders did not accept the proposal (the bone-pushing), Ted would have become dinner.

Originally, the Fijian Red Mangrove was brought in the US as dried and pounded raw-root to make tea. Purests’ loved the tradition of making their own tea with it, and it quickly evolved into our current product – a powerful, all-natural, preservative and alcohol-free, sweet-tasting, non-refrigerated, multi-year shelf-life, liquid that kids and adults like and respond exceptionally fast to.