Worker: Tej is a mead or honey wine that uses a flavoring agent that is similar to what flower that is used in herbal medicine?
Tej Tej (Amharic: , pronounced ] ; Tigrinya: ሜሰ , Oromo: "daadhi" ) is a mead or honey wine that is brewed and consumed in Ethiopia and Eritrea. It is flavored with the powdered leaves and twigs of "gesho" ("Rhamnus prinoides"), a hops-like bittering agent that is a species of buckthorn. Tej is usually homemade, but throughout Ethiopia it is available in "tej houses" ("tej betoch", singular "tej bet" (Tigrinya: ጠጅ ቤት )).
Valeriana californica Valeriana californica is a species of flowering plant in the honeysuckle family known by the common name California valerian. It is native to Oregon, northeastern California, and Nevada, where it occurs in moist, forested mountain habitat. It is an erect herb up to half a meter tall with whorls or opposite pairs of deeply lobed leaves at intervals along stem. The inflorescence is a cyme of many funnel-shaped white or pink-tinged flowers each about half a centimeter long with three long, protruding stamens. The fruit is a ribbed achene about half a centimeter long which may be tipped with the featherlike remains of the flower sepals.