Brewing your own herbal tea

Making your own herbal tea can be fun and keep you healthy too. Here is Herbal Tea-HOWTO. Herbal teas boosts your immunity, maintain general good health and can be useful in curing common cold, cough, allergies and indigestion. For best results drink early in the morning.

Ingredients

5 Lemon Grass – Good for Digestion and cold.
Slice of Ginger root – Generates heat in the body, good for digestion, cold and throat, heart and prevents arthritis.
10 mint leaves (pudhina) – good for digestion.
5 tulsi leaves (holy basil) – good for immunity and memory.
5 whole pepper corns – good for throat and cold.
Ajwain (thyme) – induces hair growth and provides relief from stomach problems.
Honey for sweetness – good for throat.
1/2 Lemon – rich source of vitamin C. Provides cooling since we are using many hot herbs.
1 1/2 cup water.

Optional Ingredients

Black Cardamom – it is very hot, useful in fighting cold, congestion.

Procedure:

Wash the lemon grass and mint leaves thoroughly. Cut the lemon grass into smaller pieces for easy handling.
Mix all the ingredients except the lemon and honey, which will be used later.
Cover with a lid, Bring to a boil, reduce the flame.
Boil on low flame for 30 min till it gets reduced to 1 cup.
Strain, add honey, lemon and serve hot.
Drink and Enjoy!