Herbal Tea – The Abundant Health Rewards and A Few Disadvantages
Some Herbal Teas can be Dangerous to Your Health
The herbal tea is unlike normal tea in that it is an extract of herbs and is not distinguished of leaves of the tea bush. Herbal tea can be cooked out of unfermented or dried out leaves, roots or seeds, most frequently by pouring out simmering water above the portions of the plant and allowing them to soak up for a couple of minutes.
In the instance of seeds and roots, it is additionally possible to
boil them on a stove subsequently which they can be filtered and sugared, in agreement with your own personal taste. There also are herbal tea bags being sold by numerous companies for infusion, if you choose.
There are very numerous dissimilar kinds of herbal tea and these include that of:
- Catnip
- Citrus
- Echinacea
- Chrysanthemum
- Essiac
- Fennel
- Chamomile
- Ginger
- Hibiscus
- Gentian
- Kava
- Labrador
- Honeybush
- Lapacho
- Lemon
- Horehound
- Lime blossom
- Mate
- Valerian
- Bissap
- Licorice
- Nettle,
- red Raspberry
- Rooibos
- Rose hip
- Mint
- Anise tea
- Sage
- Sassafras
- Thyme
- Tulsi
- Vetiver
- Skullcap
- Wong
- Woodruff
- Yarrow
- Logat
- Yuen Kut Lam Kam Wo Tea (from Hong Kong)
- Tan Ngan Lo Medicated Tea
Herbal tea is often drunk for both physical and medical effects and their stimulant, relaxing and sedative properties are highly appreciated by tea drinkers all over the world. However, in spite of the fact that most herbal teas are safe to drink, some do have toxic or allergenic effects and the most worrying are: Comfrey, which contains alkaloids which may permanently damage the liver; Lobelia, which contains toxins that are considered to have the same effect as nicotine; and Pineapple Weed, which can cause violent allergies causing anaphylactic shock and even death.
Even Hercule Poirot, the famous detective from Agatha Christie’s novels was known to be an avid herbal tea and hot chocolate drinker and in many stories drank herbal tea to soothe his nerves as well as to recover from the ill effects of weather.
The use of herbal tea is as old as the hills and has been imbibed somewhat since writing first evolved and has been in use for centuries, at first primarily for medicinal purposes and later to enjoy and relish. There are many health benefits that can be derived from drinking herbal tea, even though not all herbal teas are healthy.
Consuming herbal tea is one manner to head off the ominous results of drinking particularly caffeine loaded drinks and sometimes spices might be increased to acquire that additional zing, or even for a specific medicinal gain. From the numerous fields of study conveyed on the results of consuming herbal tea it has been determined that this tea’s polyphenols may in reality bring down the danger of gastric, esophageal and skin cancer, merely by drinking four to six glasses every day.
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My 9 year old daughter is doing her science fair project on “What herbal tea best neutralizes stomach acid the best?”. We are going to use lemon juice as an equivalent for stomach acid and she is going to test chamomile, licorice root, meadowsweet herb, marshmallow root, fennel seed and anise. This is a personal study as well as she suffers from GERD and acid reflux and would like to know what natural remedy would help her with this. Would you mind answering the following questions for us?
1. What herbal teas do you think would neutralize stomach acid the best?
2. What properties make this good for acid reflux or GERD?
3. From the following list of herbal teas that I am testing, which do you fell will do the best?
• Chamomile
• Anise Tea
• Fennel Seeds
• Marshmallow Root
• Licorice Root
• Slippery Elm
• Meadowsweet
4. What advice could you give me for testing my hypothesis?
Thank you in advance for your help.
Adrienne Conde
adrienneconde@hotmail.com