Mint is my go to herbal tea. Aside from being a great late night tea, it grows like a weed in many places and so you can make your own rather easily!
specifically peppermint
I planted two small, ugly plants in June. By the beginning of August we had so much freaking peppermint we didn’t know what to do with it. Would recommend, such an easy herb to get to grow lol
we didn’t know what to do with it
Make tea! Lol
Yeah, we did herbal tea. And we used it in desserts. And in salads. My wife was drinking like 3 virgin mojitos a day at one point lol. Yet there was pretty much just as much left as we could consume without getting tired of mint - and I’m obsessed with mint. We ended up having to give a bunch out haha.
Hahaha thanks for sharing your minty escapades!
Hang some of that to dry so you have mint all through winter
Rooibos, mint, and chamomile for sure.
I’m surprised I had to scroll down this far for chamomile
Bengal Spice!
I fucking love Bengali spice tea. Mix with honey and it’s the best.
I got into this in a biiiig way when I was recuperating from Covid and Long Covid and had to cut right back on caffeine. I’ve got quite a few of my friends addicted as well. I drink it with oat milk and it’s nearly like Indian chai.
- Mint
- Ginger
- Lemon
- Chamomile
Pine needle tea. It’s just pine needles. Maybe it’s the placebo effect, but it always seems to give me a boost when I feel a cold coming on.
High in Vitamin C. Pretty sure I’ve heard it linked to sailors using it to avoid scurvy
In addition to that others have recommended, Labrador tea and American Wintergreen.
Valerian root tea is one I’m familiar with but not sure I’ve seen in regular stores
I love valerian root with some skullcap to help me sleep! When I first opened a box with valerian root, I was put off because it smelled like feet. Now it smells like any other plant to me, but I get a kick out of sharing the smell with someone who has never experienced it before. The recoil and look of disgust is always funny.
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Catnip is wonderful.
I like to mix some catnip and mint to brew my own tea.
Found the cat.
Nice try, cat
- Ivan Chai
- Peppermint
- Valerian
- Tieguanyin
- Sencha
I love tulsi / holy basil, but there seems to only be a couple of brands that do it here (UK) and they’re usually a bit pricey.
I have a hard time picking one, but Senna has some practical medicinal uses so it should probably be in there.
Chamomile, catnip, pine, a powdered antacid (like calcium carbonate or baking soda), and something with turmeric.
Im…not sure putting baking soda into a glass of water is really, in spirit, a tea. Kind of like saying Kool-Aid and Alka-Seltzer is tea?
I meant the salt-of-carbonate might be effective at mixing with painfully sour teas to make them more palatable for people sensitive to sour food like me.
Oh right thats actually interesting… whats an example of a tea you’d find painfully sour? I typically think of the bitter realm when it comes to tea
usually it’s orange and lemon flavored teas, like half-and-half with lemonade. I also tried a very sour cherry-rose tea about a year ago.
Hibiscus
Top-shelf dog name as well 🐩
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Agreed, it pairs well with lots of things in addition to being pleasant by itself.
Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.
