How to Make Herbal Tea at Home

herbal tea at homeHerbal Tea and How You Can Make Your Own Herbal Tea at Home!

This New Year’s, my resolution has been to switch over to healthy drinks. Considering the therapeutic and medicinal benefits of herbal tea, it is of small wonder that many tea lovers like me are switching to this refreshing natural treat.
The tea that we commonly drink is black tea, which is obtained by dried camellia leaves. It has more caffeine and definitely not good for our health on the other hand, Herbal teas can be prepared with fresh or dried flowers, leaves, seeds or roots of many plants like ginger, lemon etc.
Though available in tea packets, one can prepare herbal tea easily at home.

Being rich in Vitamins and minerals, herbal tea can be a source of relief during PMS, stomach ailments, nausea, heart burn, conjunctivitis, acne, tooth ache bad breath and the list goes on and on.
One can reap many benefits from herbal tea, on the basis of following properties:
1. Immunity boost: Our immune system helps us fight infections. It gives us the strength to survive attacks on our cells. Herbal Tea helps in the generation of white blood cells which are also called as the fighter cells of our body.

2. Anti-oxidant Properties: Anti oxidants are substances which inhibit oxidation and thereby protect our cells from the damage caused by free radicals formed during the process of oxidation. Free radicals are generally responsible for cancer, coronary heart diseases and even altitude sickness. Also anti oxidants prevent ageing, so  welcome herbal tea and bye –bye wrinkles.

3. Relaxation of body: Chamomile, which is a natural sedative, is present in herbal tea. Consumption of herbal tea relaxes your mind. They are perfect to perk you up on a dull day.

4. General well being: A cuppa of herbal tea could help you concentrate, digest, calm you and sooth your headache. It also has cleansing effect on skin.

5. Detoxification: Herbal tea helps us flush out toxins with leads to natural weight loss. As a clean system, helps in proper metabolism. This tea is therefore also referred as slimming tea.

Taking in consideration, so many benefits and types of herbal tea, it gets confusing to take your pick. I suggest you to choose your beverage, keeping in mind not just your taste but also herbal remedy to ailment whose cure you are looking for. And, why just beverage? Herbal tea could also be used as face pack, moisturiser and lip balm.
Due to the anti-oxidant property, green tea extract also finds it’s application as sunscreen.

herbal tea at homeFace Pack for Acne

Boil basil leaves in water for 15 min. Let it cool. Apply the connation on face with the help of cotton. Apply twice, it not just helps get rid of acne and blackheads but also makes the skin soft and smooth.

Here are few types of herbal tea which are found commonly in kitchen tops at home:

Dandelion Tea

This would help you cleanse your system as well as help you fight PMS blues.
You need
1. 1 teaspoon dried dandelion  leaves
2. 1 cup water.
Bring the water to a boil, toss in your leaves and let it steep for 5 minutes. Strain and serve with your choice of lemon, mint, honey or orange juice.

Fennel Tea

This can be really helpful to people who complain of bloating or suffering fom IBS.
You need
3. 1 tablespoon of fennel seeds.
4. 1 cup water.

Boil the seeds in one cup water. Remove from flame. Strain and serve.
If you wish, you can also add aniseeds.

Peppermint Tea

You need
1. 1.5 inch ginger root(fresh)
2. 2 tablespoon fresh peppermint leaves
3. 1 cup water.
Boil water along with ginger root and peppermint leaves. Remove from heat. Let it steep for 5 minutes. Strain and serve.

Lemon Tea

You need
4. 10 lemon leaves
5. 1 cup water.
Bring the water to a boil, toss in your leaves and let it steep for 5 minutes. Let it cool for some time. Strain and serve.

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38 thoughts on “How to Make Herbal Tea at Home

  1. Nice article Puneeta :waytogo: :waytogo: :waytogo: :waytogo: :waytogo: :waytogo: :waytogo: Can u also tell how to make green tea with the tea leaves we get frm market…not the tea bags kind..but normal green tea leaves…hav got a packet ages ago..but i thnk i m goin wrong in preparing it 😐 😐 😐 😐 😐 😐 😐 …

      1. Errr..i make it like normal tea 😐 😐 😐 😐 😐 😐 😐 😐 😐 😐 It tastes yuck… 😐 😐 😐 😐 😐 😐 Tell me na how to prepare????????????? Me wanna be healthy drinker :beer: :drunk:

            1. green tea is mostly tasteless farha. depends which variety u are using. i have this chinese green tea which was gifted ( as all the good things in life always are 😛 ). it smells of fresh leaves all the time so much so that i will i am sitting in a jungle while drinking it :toothygrin: :toothygrin: :toothygrin: my dADgot a set of chinese green tea, beauty tea, jasmine tea from some chinese ambassador to india. me luuuub tea from china and taiwan :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo:

          1. ya true .don’t add milk to brewed tea.it only goes well with few variants of green tea like some people like it in kahva

            1. Farha put some lemon drops..the J Doo…she loves green tea :green: :green: :green: :green: , she only told me this . It works , doesnt even taste that yuk :victory2: :victory2:

        1. hi farha… if green tea tatses yuck then ur preparing it wrong and overrr processing it…
          u dont even need to bring the water in ur pateli to boil.. whne it just about to boil u stop heating the water and then put ur tea leaves , let them sit 2 or three ins and have… idealy u should not put sugar , but it is oky if u do.. honey is more preferable.. and oh … it should just tase like slightly flavoured water and not shouldnt taste yuck :))

    1. hi Farha,
      thanks :))
      you can brew the green tea leaves in a similar manner as we brew black tea( boil one cup of water, to that add 1 tbsp of your leaves. leave for 3-5 min to steep). the amount of tea leaves and steeping time can be varied according to ur taste n d kind of leaves you have.
      Since it’s winters, u can prepare Kashmiri tea(kahva) by brewing Sugar, tea leaves (1tsp), pinch of cinnamon powder, few strands of saffron, 1 crushed green cardamon and 1 tbsp of powdered almonds(this is for 1 cup). u can serve with or without milk.
      i hope u find this useful.(in case u were looking for something else do let me know)
      let me know if u like 🙂

      1. Thanks a ton Puneeta :rose: :rose: :rose: :rose: !!!!! One more thing..u shudnt add sugar/honey to green tea ?:) ????R u a Kahimiri…my inlaws are kashimiri pandits…my MIL prepares kehwa but she uses speacial tea leaves for it…I like it a lot :toothygrin: :toothygrin: :toothygrin: :toothygrin: :toothygrin: :toothygrin: !!!!

        1. u r most welcome Farha. :))
          since u want to a healthier beverage, opt for honey.but dont add honey while u brew ur tea leaves.
          no m not a kashmiri(though i wish i was, i just love their beautiful features
          ). m a sindhi
          ya they make kahva from special leaves.
          also the preparations vary.
          my mom makes it be normal green tea leaves available.

          1. ya lime juice brings nice flavor.n plus a cuppa of green tea in morning with lime n honey is the best detoxification beverage

  2. puneeta, u know i love herabl teas. i have them in so many flavors! i drink them several times a day these days in the Delhi winter season :yahoo: thanks for this informative article :))

  3. thanks Ayedee.
    Dandelion leaves are easily available in ayurvedic shops and many health counters. the indian name for the same is Kukraundha or Kanphool.

  4. farha … infuse green tea in water thats super hot but not boiling .. it will make your tea bitter …. so its like if boiling point is hundred degrees.. the water shud be 99 degrees in temp … then put the tea leaves in the water… watch it till the water turns light green in color .. if its turning yellow or brown your teal will be too strong and not taste very nice …. this sometimes takes 2 minutes but sometimes even a minute is enough … and no suagr in green tea … add a lil honey if you want but if you make green tea like i told u .. i promise u … u wont need it 😛

    Puneeta this is a super useful article 😀 😀 😀 all the best with your new years resolution 😀

    1. Thanku…Jdooo :rose: :rose: :rose: :rose: Ab pata chala in gulabi galon :shame: :rose: :rose: :rose: :rose: :rose: ka raaz..hehe Herbal tea :toothygrin: :toothygrin: :toothygrin: :toothygrin: :toothygrin:

  5. Very nice article Puneeta! This is a nice tip for these winters, because my intake for our regular chai has increased , I can replace it with the herbal tea! :waytogo:

  6. nice one Puneeta- This year ive decided to eat and apply more of ghar ka things . so this is helpful 🙂
    i still have to acquire a taste for green tea- tried a whole lot of brands but its still kadwaa.. yuckkkkkkkkkkkk :headbang: :headbang: :headbang: :headbang: :headbang: :headbang:

    1. wow lucky u.m back to hostel so no ghar ka khana 😥 . i envy u.
      but i still try to stick to a healthy diet and fitness regime,till now i hv sticked to my resolution to eat healthy.

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