Every kind of herbal tea contains natural health care effects. Only by choosing the right herbal tea for you can you truly nourish and strengthen your body.
Herbal tea to prevent and treat colds
Purple Lavender - Reduces headaches and sore throats in the early stages of colds. It has the effects of relieving fatigue, promoting metabolism and moisturizing the skin.
Chrysanthemum - has the effect of detoxifying, clearing away heat and improving eye pain.
Calendula - has the effect of relieving pain, promoting wound healing, and helps treat stomach pain and gastric ulcers. Pregnant women should not drink it.
Violet - can relieve drunkenness and has the effect of treating colds and colds.
Purple-winged Geranium - can relieve colds, sore throats and coughs.
Lemon Verbena - detoxification, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, relieves varicose veins and leg edema.
German Chamomile - drink when your throat is uncomfortable and your voice is hoarse. It also stimulates appetite and aids digestion.
Herbal tea that helps digestion
Rosemary - can help digestion and improve flatulence, abdominal pain and headaches.
Mint - appetizer, digestion, can relieve stomachache and headache, and promote metabolism.
Lemongrass - can help digestion, diuresis, moisturize the skin and prevent anemia. It can also treat diarrhea and migraines. Not suitable for pregnant women.
Cornflower - helps digestion, relieves rheumatic pain, and helps treat stomachache and bronchitis.
Herbal tea for beauty and skin care
Peony flower - can relieve menstrual pain, lower blood pressure, and is helpful for improving anemia and beautifying the skin.
Pink rose - has the effect of promoting blood circulation and beautifying the skin.
Rose hip - also known as rose hip, is rich in vitamin C and has the effect of beautifying and beautifying the skin.
Bodhi flower - rich in vitamin C, calms the mind and prevents wrinkles and dark spots.
Blue mallow flower - eliminates eye fatigue and is effective in maintaining the respiratory tract.
Chamomile - has the effect of helping sleep, moisturizing the skin, and can also improve women's premenstrual discomfort.
Herbal tea that promotes sleep
Chamomile - has the effect of helping sleep, moisturizing the skin, and can also improve women's premenstrual discomfort.
Jasmine - can improve drowsiness and anxiety, and is also effective in treating chronic gastric diseases and menstrual disorders.
Lavender - helps calm nerves and aid sleep.
Tangerine flower bud - suitable for insomniacs, infants, and the elderly when they have difficulty sleeping.
Bodhi flower is a good medicine for treating colds, colds and nasal catarrh. It can also relax nerves and can also treat overly restless children. Bodhi seed flowers are rich in vitamin C. Applying the water soaked in the flowers on your face can prevent skin aging and eliminate dark spots. Dry skin is especially suitable for using the lotion extracted from Bodhi seed flowers.
The best effect is to boil Bodhi flower for about 3 minutes and drink it.
Ponceau flowers are dark blue flowers. When brewing, you don’t need too much to form a beautiful color of tea soup. It tastes light and fragrant. It is a kind of flower material that is good for the skin and can moisturize the skin. It nourishes the skin and prevents wrinkles. It is of great benefit to dry and sensitive skin. Regular drinking can also treat coughs and tracheitis.
Add some lemon juice appropriately when brewing, the taste will become slightly sour, and the color of the tea will be purple-red, giving it a different style.
Peony flowers are the most suitable drinks for girls who love beauty. Put 5 or 6 peony petals into the pot and soak them in hot water. After about 1 or 2 minutes, the petals will relax and the color of the tea will become darker and you can drink it. Drinking peony flowers regularly can also relieve labor pains, relieve coughs, stop diarrhea, promote blood circulation, prevent and treat high blood pressure, etc.
Verbena is of high value among spice plants. Like mint and orange blossom, it is a commonly used herbal tea in traditional French families, especially after meals and bedtime. before because it has digestive and calming properties.
In medicine, it is also used very frequently because of its aromatic taste. Therefore, when certain herbs are difficult to eat, pharmacists will use verbena to mix them.
Thyme It has a strong grassy flavor and is generally called "thyme".
Thyme can eliminate gastrointestinal bloating, soothe the digestive system, prevent virus invasion, and also has the effect of rejuvenating your appearance. Thyme oil is often used as a poultice or massage oil. It should be noted that although there are no safety concerns about medicinal thyme, its pure volatile oil is highly toxic at any concentration. Do not take it orally without a professional formula, and pregnant women should avoid using it. When drinking thyme, if you are not used to its strong grassy taste, you can add rock sugar or honey to taste.
Compound herbal tea
Compound herbal tea is a blend of several different flavors of flowers and herbs. It is usually selected based on the health-care properties of each flower or herb, or the complementary taste. . Therefore, some people call this type of herbal tea herbal tea.
Slimming tea is prepared from sage, rosemary, heather, etc. It is helpful to maintain body shape.
Digestive tea contains mint, lemongrass, dill seeds, etc. Drinking a cup after meals will help digestion.
Sleep tea is made from a mixture of orange buds, bodhi seeds, jasmine, etc. Drink it at night to ensure a relaxing sleep.
Herbal tea contains mint, verbena, rosemary, etc. After a sip, the whole person seems to calm down.
Beauty tea is made of more than 8 kinds of flowers and is a good friend of women who love beauty.
How to brew herbal tea
"Making tea" is a very elegant thing. Some flowers and plants are made from the stems or roots of the plants, and they need to be boiled to make the tea taste better. Some flowers taken from plants can be soaked; of course, some plants themselves have a strong taste, and the taste comes out as soon as hot water is brewed, so it is suitable to drink it immediately. Otherwise, if soaked for a long time, the tea soup will become bitter, which may be very serious. It's hard to swallow.
When making herbal tea, water quality and water temperature are the most important. Mountain spring water is the best choice for brewing tea. In this way, the tea soup brewed will not have a color cast, has fewer impurities, and has the best taste. As for the water temperature, it must be high enough. Even for making tea, boiling water at 100 degrees is appropriate.
*Is it good to drink it with tea? Currently, there is no evidence that herbal tea cannot be mixed with scented tea, green tea, etc., but since herbal tea itself is a healthy drink that rejects caffeine, if it is added Tea leaves, isn’t it a waste of its efficacy? Furthermore, there is no such custom in tradition, so mixing flowers and herbs with ordinary tea leaves seems a bit nondescript.
*No problem whether it can be consumed for a long time! As long as you adapt.
* Is herbal tea seasonal? You can drink herbal tea in any season, but there are slight differences in how you drink it. For example, you can drink ice tea in summer, and you can drink it with milk in winter.
*Do not prepare compound herbal tea at will. Different types of herbal tea are not allowed to be mixed and matched without expert instructions, so as to avoid conflicting medicinal properties. Because each type of herbal tea has different health effects, you need to know more about it when drinking it to avoid drinking it at the wrong time, causing the opposite effect of falling asleep while working vigorously.
In addition, if you drink too much on a regular basis, it will also cause physical discomfort. Don't treat herbal tea as medicine, it is just a drink with health care effects.
Common flower properties
Rose
Rose tea has pure and mild quality, beautiful flower shape, pink color, and sweet and not greasy taste.
It is mild in nature, can reduce fire energy, regulate blood energy, promote blood circulation, and beautify the skin.
It can also eliminate fatigue, heal wounds, protect liver and gastrointestinal function, and long-term drinking can also help promote metabolism.
Lavender
Also known as the tranquil perfume plant, it originates in the Mediterranean region. It likes dryness and blooms every June. It can purify your mind, relieve tension and anxiety, relieve stress, relax your nerves and help you fall asleep.
In addition, it can also treat early stage colds and coughs and stabilize the digestive system. It is an ideal scented tea for treating migraines.
However, high doses of lavender should be avoided, especially by pregnant women.
Rosemary
Also known as the dew of the sea, it has a wide range of uses and can be used in cooking, baking pastries, refining essential oils or brewing into tea.
It helps restore brain fatigue and enhances memory. It is also effective in treating hangovers, dizziness and tension headaches.
It also has beautifying effects, can reduce the occurrence of wrinkles and remove spots. However, pregnant women should avoid taking it.
Jasmine
Jasmine has a refreshing effect, can calm the mood and relieve depression.
People with weak stomach, chronic bronchitis and other respiratory diseases should drink more.
It is also helpful for constipation, abdominal pain and headaches.
Mentha Speues
Eliminates bloating or indigestion and swelling of the throat.
It can also calm down, reduce fever, eliminate headaches, and strengthen blood circulation.
It is worth noting that peppermint is not suitable for pregnant women and infants and should be avoided as much as possible.
Calendula
It has excellent curative effect in treating digestive system ulcers and lymphadenitis.
Protect the digestive system, enhance liver function, and treat hemorrhoids.
In addition, it can help relieve menstrual pain. It is recommended that women drink more.
Violet
It can sooth the throat and help treat respiratory diseases, such as colds, colds and coughs.
It can also solve hangover problems and bad oral odor caused by tooth decay.
Lemongrass
Also known as "lemongrass", it is a natural preservative.
It has the effects of strengthening the stomach, diuresis, preventing anemia and moisturizing the skin, and can be used for beauty care.
Chamomile
Known as the "apple of the earth", it has a slightly bitter taste and a sweet aroma.
It can eliminate muscle soreness and migraines caused by colds. It is also helpful for insomnia, neuralgia, menstrual pain, and gastroenteritis.
But please be careful not to overeat.
Roselle
It has a sour taste and has the functions of promoting blood circulation and nourishing the skin.
It can produce fluid and relieve cough, help digestion and enhance gastric function.
Osmanthus
Also known as "Guri incense", it has a fresh and charming fragrance. Regular drinking can balance the nervous system.
Especially it can expel moisture from the body, soothe the mind and calm the mind.