On-StJohn TV: The Bush Tea Man
Before there were mansions, Peter Bay was home to The Kite, a popular bar run by Victor Hall. The Kite burnt down years ago, but the guy who ran the place is still around and well.
Meet Victor Hall, businessman, musician, raconteur…and the guy known as the Bush Tea Man.
These days you can find Victor selling T-shirts, CDs of his music, and a variety of bush teas at a roadside stand in Coral Bay. Stop long enough to pick up a bag for whatever ails you, or sit a spell and let Victor tell you a story or two.
Hear a bit about The Kite and about bush tea, with Victor Hall, below!
August 25th, 2008 08:35
That was very interesting. If he has something that works for mosquito bites, I would definitely try it! Right now I could use a bush tea (or anything!) for hayfever.
August 25th, 2008 08:41
Very interesting. Good interview.
August 25th, 2008 09:08
Hello Victor!! We have a signed CD of Victor’s from 2005 titled “It Must be Christmas Time Again” that we purchased from him at the gas station in Coral Bay. What a jolly man he was then and we sing his catchy tune every year at Christmas now!! We’ll have to try his bush tea in December! See you then! Nice interview, thanks guys!
Happy Monday!
August 25th, 2008 12:20
We purchased the same Christmas CD from Victor
last October…at Dominos….
played it twice and it stopped working…
boo~hoo it was really a very good CD!!!!
Hes a very nice…hum….
bush tea sounds great!!!
Linda
August 25th, 2008 13:57
Victor Hall is the MAN!! His herbal knowledge cured me of toe fungus after 6 years of trying Lamsil, Vick’s Vapor Rub, and everything under the sun…and to no avail!
Thank goodness the Kite has reopened. The world is a better place!!
August 25th, 2008 16:00
Hi you guys at ON ST JOHN! Thanks for a good job! I just wanted to clear up a couple of mispokes I made… namely that these herbs help healing… I really didn’t want to say “cured”…. and that I meant to say :”congresswoman Shirley Chisholm” instead of ‘senator’. Also persons interested in obtaining herbs can contact me for info at bushtea@excite.com or tel 340 715 4713. Again, thanks for the interest everyone! Victor
August 26th, 2008 16:05
wonderful interview with a wonderful man.
August 27th, 2008 15:15
hi again. I just wanted to give you some info..Anyway here is some info you might like. By the way, I ship my cds, teas and t-shirts. Generally, my tea is $50.00 plus $7.00 shipping and cover a variety of ailments. T-shirts are $20.00 plus $7.00 shipping too, unless you order both at the same time. Just let me know the size. Yes, they are the original t-shirts designed in 1985. I also have about 12 cds of different styles of my various music too. Cds are $10.00 I have rock, jazz, country, calypso, techno, christmas , blues and reggae original songs. Some cds are a bit mixed. I can also direct you to my music website where you can listen to them online
and make a special cd just for you. 
MY HISTORY OF HERBS
First let me say that I was the biggest skeptic about herbs. I had never come across in my readings in high school or even college about the healing powers of herbs. In fact,I equated herbs to mean the same as spices. Really.
It took a personal experience of having a common cold and later 2nd and 3rddegree burns to realize herbs amazing powers to speed up healing.
Eventually this led to shipping herbs to Aids victims in San Francisco, London,New York City, Miami, Key West, Costa Rica, and supplying locally to a St Thomian Aids victim. I sent the data of clinical blood tests to The National Institutes of Health in Bethesda Maryland USA, and immediately I received an important phone call from Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institutes of Health. When he called, he asked to speak to Dr. Victor Hall. I told him I was not a doctor, to which he replied”you are kidding me!”, and “you are pulling my leg!” I told him I was not, so he said “Mr Hall, you have single-handedly shamed the United States of America!” I asked him “why” he said that, and he replied,”well, let me ask you some questions…”
I said “ok, go ahead”.
“Mr Hall, have you ever studied medicine formally?”
I replied “no”.
“Have you ever worked in the medical field?”
Again I said “no”.
“Have you ever been funded for medical research?”, he asked.
Again I said “no”.
“Mr Hall, one more question, “how much money did it take to produce these results of aids patients data you have submitted?
I told him ” three or four thousand dollars”.
The director then went on to say, “these are the reasons why you have shamed America!”
“We are spending millions of dollars in aids research and we are unable to produce the results you have submitted.”,he said.
He continued with: “you are now in history for producing the most t-cells ever in human beings, and the fact that you have done this with aids victims, is astounding!.”
He then went on to secure grants from the Office of Aids and the Office of Alternative Medicine to fund invitro testing at the University of Puerto Rico.
Sadly invitro testing showed no activity of the tea on white blood cells , but since no blood cells were harmed, the tea was deemed to be non toxic, and deemed safe for clinical trials.
However, to this day, no clinical trials have been performed.
The invitro testing was completed in Apr 1998 , by Mikhail Antoun RCMACA…..
In the following years I found that the tea I formulated helped many people in a number of areas, and speeding up healing at a fantastic rate:
raising t-cell counts in aids victims
cancer
measles
chicken pox
asthma
hepatitis,
arthritis
flus,
fungal infections such as finger nail and toe nail
yeast infections
skin afflictions
sores
pneumonia
bronchitis
laryngitis
colds
toothaches and abcess
conjunctivitis
stomach flus
fish poisoning ,
toxic plants
lower extremity major swelling
brown recluse spider bites
bee stings
mosquito ‘itch’
dengue fever
genital and facial herpes outbreaks
food poisoning
worms and parasites
major burns
scarring
allergies
THE KITE is now a small stand that I open with a portable canopy across from the old “PICKLES’ BAR” in Coral Bay from 10am to 2pm , Monday thru Friday.
Here are some extracts from an article on my herbal research published in the St John Tradewinds Newspaper in December 2005:
Local Bush Tea Man Cures Ills with Plants
Written by Jaime Elliott
Monday, 19 December 2005
Bush Tea Man Victor Hall cures everything from colds to arthritis, with the power of local plants.
St. Johnian Victor Hall has held numerous positions throughout his life—but his most impressive work revolves around curing ailments with local plants. Hall is now known as the “bush tea man,” but there was a time when even he didn’t believe in the healing power of local plants.
When North Shore Road was being paved in the early 1980s, a number of the paving company’s workers and executives ate barracuda at a party, and all contracted fish poisoning, the bush tea man explained.
“My friend, Anthony ‘Snoopy’ Toussaint, and I went to the Backyard one day, and all the men from the paving company stood up and cheered him— they told the bartender to give us whatever we wanted,” said Hall. “This went on all afternoon, and when were strolling out, Snoopy told me that he had cured them of fish poisoning.”
Curing a toothache is what finally got the young Hall to become a believer in the healing power of plants.
“I had an abscessed tooth with my jaw swollen up, and it was a three-day holiday weekend, so my dentist was off-island, and none of my friends had any pain pills,” said Hall. “So I said, ‘What the heck,’ and I drank a cup of bush tea. Within an hour I was eating a steak with the same tooth.”
Hall owned The Kite, a well known establishment, The Kite, at Peter Bay, before the area was developed. The bar and local hangout burned down in the late 1980s.
“I got second- and third-degree burns on my arms,” said Hall. “I drank a bush tea and had new skin and hair in 13 days. I started thinking that maybe this tea would even be good for people with AIDS.”
After an article about Hall and his herbal teas was printed in the St. John Tradewinds in the early 1990s, he was contacted by people who had AIDS.
“A resident had friends with AIDS in the states, so we sent them the tea, and in one month their T-cell counts doubled,” said the bush tea man.
All T-cell counts increased, particularly CD4, which is an indicator of healthy cells that doctors look for, Hall added. However, the treatment stopped working after about a month.
“Because of the Tradewinds article, I started getting letters from doctors, patients, hospices and magazines, and one important paper that I got had a theory that if you could cure the flu, you could cure AIDS,” said Hall.
The local bush tea man then dedicated himself to researching cures for the flu.
“So I set about learning flu cures, and 12 years later, with a combination of flu cures and close to 80 clinical blood tests, I submitted all of the data to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and they were impressed,” Hall said.
The NIH funded a research program on Hall’s teas at the University of Puerto Rico’s medical center.
“Although the results from the research showed that the tea didn’t stimulate the production of T cells in vitro, it was deemed safe for clinical trial based on the data that I submitted,” said Hall.
“The teas to work for everything, really,” he said. “I even treated someone who had hepatitis C and was given only a year to live. After the treatment, he is doing much better.”
Hall is now trying to revive interest in his bush teas and start nonclinical trial research.
“I am appealing to clinics, hospices and doctors to contact the University of Puerto Rico’s medical center,” said Hall. “After seven years, I am ready to get back to work.”
Hall has improved his herbal cures since the last studies were conducted.
“I’ve found more-effective plants since the last studies,” he said. “The teas have no side effects and work really quickly.”
August 28th, 2008 15:04
hi again!
It occurred to me that some people might want to check out my music website.. well here it is:
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=108838&content=music
also, persons interested in mailing me about the herbs, cds or t-shirts, my addres is:
Victor Hall box 15619 Lower Carolina Coral Bay,
St John US Virgin Islands 00830