Its So Easy To Make Your Own Refreshing Herbal Tea! Healthier, More Cost Effective And Yummier.
Over-packaged herbal teas you find on the supermarket shelf have a lot to answer for! They taste like card board, dry grass or lolly water and have put many people off even wanting to try them again.
Back in the days when the only medicine available was mainly sourced from plants, fresh herbal teas were the main method of adminstering healing.
Now here’s how you can be a natural healer of old. I’ll bet you have something in your garden or larder right now that could be used to make a refreshing herb tea.
Its really easy to make your own fresh tasting, herbal tea that hasn’t been packaged in a factory. Just select some fresh herbs ( eg I have these growing in my garden: rosemary, lemon thyme, lemon verbena, lemon grass mint, crush or chp them into a small teapot. Or jug. Add a few fragrant, aromatic seeds ( eg cardomom, carraway, fenugreek) and pour over 1-2 cups of boiling water. Leave for 5 minutes.
On a cold day, I grate fresh root ginger because I find it comforting and warming. I like to drink herbal tea weak without leaving it too long, otherwise the herbs will make your tea bitter. Another important point is to use only a small amount of herb - say a tablespoon of chopped leaf. This also saves it from getting bitter.
Here is a list of common household herbs and how they help your body to maintain health and wellbeing:
Mint - calms the digestion, cools the body, refreshing drink on rising
Thyme - anti-microbial properties good for gargles, reduces hot sweats - take before bed
Parsley - high in iron, excellent fibre, liver cleansing properties
Dill seeds or leaf - calm irritable digestion - called gripe water - used for baby colic
Carraway seed - reduce gas in the gut, great flavouring for cakes
Celery seed - diuretic, aids arthritic joints
Lemons - alkaliniser, aids liver cleansing, good with barley water for urinary tract infections
Ginger - root or powder - stimulates the circulation, warms the body, calms nausea and travel sickness, settles stomach
Do you have any favourites?
Hapy drinking more healthily!
Carol 
