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!