Herbal Healing Teas

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Chamomile Tea has soothing, calming and relaxing properties.

It helps digestion, coughs, colds, poor skin, and is used as a liver

tonic.

The entire chamomile plant can be used for tea.

However, the flowers are the most flavorful.

To 2 teaspoons dried flowers or 1 tablespoon of fresh flowers add 1

cup boiling water. Steep to taste.

Dill Tea helps an upset stomach, indigestion, coughs, colds, and

bronchitis, fever, sore throat, and tendency to infection, urinary

tract infections and sleep disorders.

It stimulates the appetite, acts as a nerve sedative, and is a blood

and liver tonic.

Dill seeds have been proven the most effective.

Crush the seeds or use a grinder. To 1 teaspoonful of crushed seeds

add 1 cup of boiling water. Steep to taste.

Fennel Tea helps bronchitis, digestive problems, coughs, stimulates

movement of food through the stomach and intestines, dries

respiratory phlegm and destroys germs.

It makes a good after dinner tea.

Use crushed or ground seeds. To 1 - 1 1/2 teaspoons of ground seeds

add 1 cup of boiling water. Steep to taste.

Lemon Balm Tea will perk you up in the morning, help bloating, gas,

mood disorders, bronchial inflammation, high blood pressure, mild

vomiting, toothache, earache and headaches. Lemon Balm has anti-

bacterial and anti-viral properties.

Use the plants leaves. A good combination is lemon balm and fennel.

To 1 teaspoon of crushed lemon balm add 1 cup boiling water. Steep 10

minutes. Take only twice a day.

Peppermint Tea helps indigestion, head colds, headaches, appetite

loss, bronchitis, and fever and gal bladder problems. It can be used

as a blood and liver tonic.

To 1 teaspoon of peppermint add 1/2 cup of boiling water. Steep 10

minutes.

Thyme Tea helps bronchitis, coughs, sinuses, nose and throat, larynx

and whooping cough. It can be used as an anti-bacterial. Thyme tea

aids digestion.

To 1 1/2 teaspoons thyme add 1 cup boiling water. Steep 10 minutes.

Do not exceed 3 cups per day.

Ginger Tea helps appetite loss, motion sickness, up-set stomach,

relieves gas, loosens phlegm, and soothes earaches.

To 1 teaspoon of ginger add 1 cup boiling water. Steep 5 minutes.