Make Your Own Herbal Tea Bags!

Do you buy boxed herbal tea bags?

Yes, it is true, prepackaged herbal teas can be a convenient way to drink your tea, but are they really worth it? I mean you really get very little tea and medicine for your money.

Being an herbalist by nature, I know how fun and easy it can be to create your own blends.

The best part about making your own herbal tea bags is choosing what to put in them! You can also recreate ones that you like from your favorite commercial brands.

You can make big batches to have on stock, ready to use or give them as gifts to your friends. It just takes a little bit of time to gather your materials and prepare your teas ready to be used in a rush.

Making Tea Bags!

• cloth tea bags
• herbal tea mix
• high speed blender (Vitamix or Blendtec)

Most herbs can be found in bulk at your local health food store. They may not have all the varieties you are looking for, but you can make up some pretty nice blends that are much more fresh and much less in price than boxed tea bags.

Play around with the different herbs and spices listed on our site. Plus all the other herbs that are good for quick preparation like:

cleansing herbs

It is good to use herbs that do not require decocting (see herbal tea preparation), but you can actually get some medicinal value out of, for example, roots by grinding them up.

You can take any of our herbal tea recipes, throw them in a blender until they are ground down small and fine.

This is how they concentrate the tea in tea bags to make it more readily available when infused with hot water.

However, packaged tea is a lot of paper but hardly any tea. When I use to use tea bags on occasion I would literally use about 4 to get close to what I use in my own herbal tea recipes.

I actually did an experiment and broke down a box of herbal tea. This is the result. (See pic) Lots of wasted paper and hardly any herbal tea! The total amount I measured was 5T of tea, which was divided up into 16 bags. You do the math. Another good reason to make your own herbal tea bags.

Herbal Tea Bag Recipe

• 3T Jasmine
• 2T Peppermint
• 1T Cardamom
• 4T Pao de'arco
• 4T Gotu kola
• 6 Jujubee dates
• 1t Stevia leaf

To make:

• Grind down tea in a blender.
• Divide 1T or more into each of your cotton tea bags.
• Place in a mason jar and store for later use when you want a cup of tea.
• Simply place your tea bag into a cup and pour hot water on.
• Let steep for 10 minutes.

Tea Bags and Strainers

• Ball strainer
• Ball strainer with handle
• Paper tea bags

Enjoy your homemade tea bags, expand on herbal themes and have a tea party with family and friends!

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