Beat the Heat with These Easy to Make Herbal Teas
As summer moves on and the warmer days continue, you will find yourself seeking ways to beat the heat. Herbal teas are a great way to cool both the body and mind.
Cooling herbal teas can alleviate symptoms of excess heat and have you feeling your absolute best during these heat-intensive summer days. They can be served warm, room temperature, with the addition of mineral water (for a pop of fizz) or over a few cubes of ice. Summer is the only season that iced beverages are “ok” in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). It is the time when digestion is, seasonally, at it’s peak and the internal temperature is a bit higher due to higher temps outside.
Be sure to ask your practitioner for more info about seasonal eating, drinking and appropriate activities.
Easy To Make Summer Herbal Teas
1. Mint, Elderflower & Rosehips Tea
The combination of mint, elderflower and rosehips makes for a soothing herbal tea. Rose hips provide a much-needed boost of vitamin C, the elderflower lends immune-cleansing benefits and the mint clears stagnation and fosters feelings of ease.
2. Lemon Hibiscus Tea
This is an herbal blend just as good cold as it is hot. Regardless of the way this tea is poured, it provides specific cooling benefits to the body. Hibiscus is high in vitamin C and combats against high blood pressure, liver disease and other ailments. Lemon has a kick of vitamin C too, but more importantly it is cleansing and a natural diuretic. This tea combination is both cleansing and cooling.
3. Iced Green Tea with Lemon and Mint
The perfect summer refresher. The combination of these three ingredients work together in perfect harmony in order to cool the body down. Packed with vitamin C, menthol and antioxidants this tea will get your constitution headed in the right direction.
The ingredients in these teas are easy to find and can be sourced at your local grocery store, farmer’s market or you may already have them in your fridge. However, Chinese Medicine does recommend other very specific blends whose ingredients are not always easy to find.
This is where our apothecary comes in! We can quickly customize blends for you to help regulate digestion, soothe frazzled nerves and help with sleep. In addition, we offer an “in house seasonal blend” that is appropriate to keep you healthy in each season. Be sure to ask about it when you are in the clinic next!