Pre-make this immune tea blend, with decongestant herbs before you get a winter cold. This tea is warming, comforting, and made from some of your favorite tea herbs. Tea also helps you stay warm and hydrated when feeling unwell.
Make your own natural tea blend to soothe aches, pains, congestion, and feelings of unwellness while supporting your immune system and staying hydrated.
This tea blend is one of my family’s go-to blends for maintaining winter wellness. We normally blend up a batch after harvesting and drying our local fall rose hips, so we can have it on hand all winter. One batch makes 180 cups of tea, and can last one person for the entire winter season, even if drinking it daily.
This immune tea combines the sweet tone of peppermint, with the lemony hints of hibiscus and immune boosting action of nettle, rose hips, and green tea. This tea goes well with local, un-pasturized honey for a bit of extra sweetness, and the natural honey boost.
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Immune Tea
- Total Time: 10 min
- Yield: 60 pots of tea 1x
Description
A gentle immune tea with the sweetness of peppermint, lemon tang of hibiscus, and immune boosting benefits of rose hips, calendula, and stinging nettle
Ingredients
- 1 cup of peppermint leaves
- 1 cup of green tea
- ½ cup of calendula flowers
- ½ cup of stinging nettle leaves
- ½ cup of hibiscus flowers
- ½ cup of rosehips
Instructions
Add all herbs to a 2 quart bowl. Stir well to fully blend. Using a funnel, pour the blended herbs into a 1 quart, wide mouth Mason jar.
Optional: Place 1 teaspoon of blended tea in a sealable tea-bag and seal to have ready-to-go tea bags. Store in an airtight container.
To Use:
Add 1 teaspoon of tea blend to a tea ball and place in a tea cup. Pour just boiled, water over tea. Cover to retain aromatic oils. Steep for 15 minutes, sweeten with honey if desired. Drink freely. Contains caffeine.
Immune Tea:
Yield: 4 cups tea blend or 60 pots of tea
Time: Hands On: 10 min. Ready to use immediately.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup of peppermint leaves
- 1 cup of green tea
- ½ cup of calendula flowers
- ½ cup of stinging nettle leaves
- ½ cup of hibiscus flowers
- ½ cup of rosehips
Directions:
Add all herbs to a 2 quart bowl. Stir well to fully blend. Using a funnel, pour the blended herbs into a 1 quart, wide mouth Mason jar.
To Use:
Add 1 teaspoon of tea blend to a tea ball and place in a tea cup. Pour just boiled, water over tea. Cover to retain aromatic oils. Steep for 15 minutes. Drink freely. Contains caffeine.
To make a pot of tea, use 1 tablespoon of herb tea blend in the basket of a tea pot. Steep for 15 minutes. Drink freely.
Note: To retain the as much vitamin C as possible, from the rose hips, the water used to make tea, should be cooled slightly after boiling.
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