Good digestive health is important for well-being in so many ways not how well you fit in your jeans, but by supporting your immune system, the ability to absorb nutrients, a healthy glowing skin and even, it is being laid more and more, your mood!
As always, herbs can help, so be here My Three Favorite Tea Melanges To help your hard -working digestive system greet this new year in top form.
After dinner tea
I like to serve this tea at any time of the day, but it is very good after rich and delicious food. Fennel reduces a bloated feeling, peppermint relieves every indigestion and licorice soothes and restores your digestive system. If you drink this in the evening, you feel free to add a teaspoon of chamomile -flowers that will not only illuminate digestive discomfort, but can sleep well all night.
Ingredients:
- 2 teaspoon of dried fennel seeds
- 2 teaspoon of dried peppermint (or a small handful of fresh leaves if they are still growing where you are)
- 1 teaspoon of chopped dried licorice root
Instructions:
- Place all herbs in a teapot
- Pour more than 2.5 cups almost boiling water.
- Steeper for 10 minutes
- Garnish with a coin leaf if you have one
This tea does not require sugar or honey because the licorice and fennel add their unique sweetness to the brew.
Makes 2 cups
Digesti-Tea
This wonderfully light blend contains fragrant pasture To calmly and effectively calm heartburn and indigestion. Linden Flower relaxes the body and the mind, while chamomile and peppermint reduce all gasiness.
Ingredients:
- 2 teaspoon of dried pasture
- 1 teaspoon of dried linden flowers
- 1 teaspoon of dried chamomile flowers
- ½ teaspoon of dried peppermint leaves
Instructions:
- Place all herbs in a teapot
- Pour more than 2.5 cups almost boiling water.
- Steeper for 10 minutes
Makes 2 cups
Move the tea
You can sometimes leave the inconvenience of constipation about food and travel. A cup of this tea before bed can help you wake up to illuminate, because yellow dock and rhubarb root gently stimulate the intestine, while Krampbark, Chamomile and Aromatic herbs reduce cramps.
Ingredients:
- 2 teaspoons of dried chopped rhubarb root
- 1 teaspoon of dried chopped yellow dock root
- 1 teaspoon of chopped Krampbark
- ¼ teaspoon of coriander seeds
- ¼ teaspoon of anise seeds
- ¼ teaspoon of finely chopped dried orange peel
- 1 teaspoon of dried chamomile flowers
Instructions:
- Place all herbs in a small pan with 2 cups of water.
- Heat slowly until the water just bubbles.
- Turn off the heat, cover and simmer gently for 5 minutes.
- Remove the pan from the stove, sieve and serve.
Rhubarber root and yellow dock have a bitter taste that stimulates the entire digestive system to get things moving naturally, but if you find the tea too bitter for your taste, you feel free to add some honey or stevia to live up to the brew.
Makes 1 fiddling.
These recipes and more can be found in my book, Infuse: Herbal tea for cleaning, feeding and healing.
Writer Paula Grainger is a highly regarded British medical herbalist. After graduating with first -class awards from the University of Westminster, she created Lemon Balm, a popular herb pharmacy and clinic in the city of Camden in London. She has worked with people of all ages who use herbs to improve their health and well -being and has a wealth of experience in communicating the power of plants through her workshops and writing. In 2011 she moved with her husband (the novelist Michael Marshall Smith) and their young son to Santa Cruz, California, where, when she does not grow herbs or hits herbal preparations, her love and expertise of plant medicine continues to share with people on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Her first book Penetrate (co -written with Karen Sullivan) was published in the spring of 2016.
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