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5 Health Benefits Of Lemon Tea:
Lemons are rich in nutrients such as vitamin C, vitamin B6, as well as potassium, and magnesium. Immunity Booster – Vitamins and minerals help to strengthen your immune system and protecting you from allergies and infections. As you know tea leaves also contain flavonoids and antioxidants that help in making your immune system stronger. 2. Skin Health…
Too Much Caffeine?
Keeping an eye on your caffeine intake Do you know how much caffeine you have had in a typical day? It’s a good idea to keep track of how much caffeine you’re consuming, especially if you need to limit your intake, but reading labels won’t always give the full picture. But limiting or ending your…
Dandelion Tea Benefits
A weed? Dandelion (taraxacum officinale)? Not at all, this humble plant on your lawn or growing in cracks and crevices has many health benefits with dandelion tea. Loaded with vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, this yellow flowering perennial has been used for centuries in herbal medicine to help treat stomach and liver issues. While the entire…
8 Ways to Use Tea Bags Apart from Drinking the Brew
1. Infuse Simple Syrups Give your cakes and patisserie a whole new taste dimension with tea infused simple syrups. To make the syrup – equal parts of water and sugar, gently heat until the sugar dissolves. Add your tea bag of choice, depending on the flavour you are after, and leave to infuse until the…
5 Mind-Body Benefits of Drinking Tea
The science of tea Benefit 1: Fights Viruses and Boosts Immunity Black and green tea are known to have antiviral properties that can help your immune system combat viruses like the common cold. Supporting our immune system now is so important. Herbal teas are also really good. Benefit 2: Powerful Antioxidants Fight DNA Damage and…
Is Black Tea Healthy?
The best black teas come from Sri Lanka. As one of the world’s oldest drink, tea has been enjoye around the world for centuries. Did you know that this drink is a pick-me-up is also good for you, too? With abundant nutrients, drinking black tea provides a less-caffeinated alternative to coffee. Whether you drink…
Benefits of Rooibos
Red Tea 1. Its caffeine-free Rooibos tea is an herbal tea and its entirely free of caffeine. You can drink it anytime of the day or night and you will have no trouble falling asleep. 2. Rooibos tea is full of antioxidants Like traditional teas, rooibos tea is full of antioxidants, which are directly linked to…
What to Grow in Your Own Herbal Tea Garden
1. Elderberry (Sambucus nigra) Elderberry is one of the easiest and most versatile shrubs to grow in your herb garden. For the best fruit production, try to plant at least two different varieties together. They grow well in either full or part sunny locations and make a perfect backdrop for your shorter tea garden plants.…
1 Tea Made Into 8 Drinks
drink made in 7 totally different ways for 1 day: Morning Buzz – if you are anything like me, that first cup of tea is so important and needed. So, let’s not mess with this; Ceylon Black loose leaf tea, brewed dark and strong for 4 minutes, no sugar or milk. Aaahhhh….now, the day can…
11 Fantastic Herbal Teas to Fight Allergies This Spring
Herbal teas that could help alleviate common allergy symptoms: nettle tea ginger tea lemon peel tea peppermint tea liquorice root tea green tea (Benifuuki Japanese) turmeric tea yerba mate tulsi tea rooibos tea Nettle tea Stinging nettle is a perennial flowering plant that used in herbal and traditional folk medicine. Nettles’ effect on the receptors…