Chapter 5
Natural Concentration Tea
Helps you to become more creative in designing a more natural environment in your home.
1 part Celendula
1 part mint,
1 part sage (flowers only)
1 part yarrow leaves
Place all herbs in a tea ball or bag, put in your nicest or most favorite cup or mug, and cover with boiling water. Steep for 10 minutes.
Remove tea ball or bag, and add sugar, honey, sweetener, milk, cream or whatever, to taste.
Nausea Tea
½ tsp dried Ginger root
½ tsp Clove blossoms
1 tsp Chamomile flowers
Pour 1 cup boiling water over herbs. Steep 10 minutes, strain & let cool.
Nervous Stomach Tea
2 tsp Angelica root
2 tsp Lemon Balm leaves
½ tsp Fennel seed
Bring Angelica root to a simmer in 4 cups water. Turn off heat, add lemon balm & lemon; steep 10 minutes & strain.
Nervous Tension Tea
1 1/3 oz. St. John's Wort
1 oz. Lemon Balm Leaves
1 oz. Valerian
Use 1 tsp of the herb mixture per cup of boiling water. Steep for 10 min., strain, sweeten if necessary. Drink a cup before going to bed each night for several weeks to calm nerves, lift depression, and help you fall asleep more easily.
"No-Sweat" Tea
4 cups boiling water
1 tsp. dried hops
1 tsp. stinging nettle
1 tsp. fresh cut rose petals
1 tsp. dried strawberry leaves
1 tsp. fresh walnut leaves
3 tbsp of dried sage leaves
Reduces perspiration within 2 hours of use with its effects lasting several days:
Combine all ingredients, cover and steep for an hour. Strain and sweeten with honey if desired.
Nursing Mother's Tea
1 teaspoon crushed Fennel seeds
1 cup boiling water
Mix the seeds with the boiling water. Cover and steep for 10 minutes.
Strain, and sip the infusion. Drinking a tea made with fennel helps to promote the secretion of breast milk in nursing mothers.
Pinkeye tea recipe
Fill a tea ball with equal parts chamomile(antiseptic),borag (alleviated inflamation and redness),eyebright(excellent for conguntivitis any other eyecomplaints) and elderflowers(benificail for tired eyes).
Pour on 2 1/2 cups boiling hot(fresh from the kettle)water allow to steep until cooled. add 5 drops witchhazel extract(coolant and antiseptic) and stir.
Wash eye(outside) gently with infusion and put one drop of infusion in eye as needed or desired.
Also can be used by soaking a cloth in the infusion and putting over the eye until you eye feels better. if your using this for a child leave out the witchhazel.
This is good for anything where your eyes are painful inflamed and red.
Pleasant Dreams
1 cup mugwort
1/2 cup rose petals
1/2 cup chamomile
1/3 cup lavender flowers
1/3 cup catnip
2 tbsp mint
Quiet Child Tea
Good for anytime of the day or right before bedtime.
1 part raspberry leaves
1 part catnip
1 part each spearmint & skullcap leaves
1 part calendula flowers
a pinch of stevia
Place all herbs in a tea ball or bag, put in your nicest or most favorite cup or mug, and cover with boiling water. Steep for 10 minutes.
Remove tea ball or bag, and add sugar, honey, sweetener, milk, cream or whatever, to taste.
Quiet Time Tea
1 part oregano
2 parts Chamomile
1 part lemon balm
1 part lemon thyme
Place all herbs in a tea ball or bag, put in your nicest or most favorite cup or mug, and cover with boiling water. Steep for 10 minutes.
Remove tea ball or bag, and add sugar, honey, sweetener, milk, cream or whatever, to taste.
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