Herbal Tea Recipes,
Super Nutrition with Herbal Teas!

Try our herbal tea recipes that blend some of the top Chinese herbs, nutritive herbs, cleansing herbs, roots and barks into a tasty blend of goodness that will nourish and rebuild your cells and tissues.

Learning how to make your own herbal tea recipes is key if you are committed to using them as a base liquid in a smoothie, shake, raw soup or raw vegan recipe.

For us it is just a way of living and preparing food. It takes a bit to get use to, making teas everyday that is. But, it is well worth the daily "tea making ritual" because you will be getting superhealthy, concentrated liquid to drink or add to foods. This is the essential concept behind herbal tea alchemy!

Making herbal teas is a great way to get vitamins, minerals and super herbs into the body in a gentle and efficient way.

There are a few guide lines for herbal tea preparation that will help you when making your own nutritive tea infusions, Chinese tonics and Ayurvedic herb decoctions.

One hint in tea preparation is to make your herbal tea recipe well before you may need it. You can make a big batch and keep it in the fridge until you are ready to use it.

Here is one of my favorite recipes that goes wonderful as a base in our shake recipe!

Energy Spirit Tea:

• 2T dandelion
• 3T fo-ti
• 1/2T goji berries
• 2T reishi mushroom (powdered)
• 2T pao de' arco
• 1T orange peel

(You can also make the following recipe blend powdered, so you have a big jar ready to go. Also, when the herbs are ground up they take less time to decoct. *see Alternative Method below*)

Turn off heat and add these herbs:

• 2T nettle
• 1T horsetail
• 1/2T oatstraw

Let sit in pot for at least 20 minutes or more with the lid on. Strain in a quart jar. Store in fridge for later use or drink immediately.

Alternative Method: Bulk Powdered Herbs

• 2 parts dandelion
• 3 parts fo-ti
• 1/2 part goji berry
• 2 parts reishi mushroom
• 2 parts pao de' arco
• 1 part orange peel

Combined all ingredients in a Vitamix blender. Blend until powdered. Store in an air tight jar in a cool, convenient place. Use 2T per Energy Spirit Tea recipe.

We buy our reishi mushrooms in bulk. They have a cork like texture that you can cut and break off into pieces. The rest of the herbs, although hard, blend up great in any high speed blender.

Vita-a-Mineral Tea:

This is a great nutritive tea packed with vitamins and minerals, particularly high in calcium and silica.

• 1 quart spring water
• 3T nettle
• 1T oatstraw
• 1T alfalfa
• 2T horsetail
• 1T lemon verbena
• 1T fennel seed

Steep or infuse the above herbs for 20 minutes or more in hot water, in a glass jar with with a lid.

Cleansing Herbal Tea:

• 1 quart spring water
• 2T pao de'arco
• 2T red clover
• 1T mint
• 1T milk thistle seeds (ground)
• 1t licorice root
• 2T oregon grape root
• 2T nettle
• 2T lemon balm

Decoct oregon grape root and pao de'arco for 20 minutes.

Turn off heat.

Add the rest of the herbs to pot.

Allow to steep or infuse for 20 minutes or more.

Strain and enjoy!

Rootbeer Liver Tonic:

• 1 quart spring water
• 3T sassasfras
• 2T sarsaparilla
• 1T dandelion
• 1T burdock
• 3 pieces sliced licorice root
• 1/2t cinnamon
• 1T ginger root
• 1T orange peel

Herbal Tea Recipe TIPS:

To get the most out of your herbal tea recipes it is best to consume them for many days, if not months, in a row. Taking a few days off here and there is fine, but some of these herbs are designed to tone and nourish on deep levels and need repeated use to do so.

See our herbal tea preparation guide for more info on decoctions and infusions when making your own herbal brews!

Most of these herbs, if not all of them, you can find in the bulk herb section of your local health food store. Or you can order them in bulk at better prices with our affiliate companies.

(See our page on Tulsi tea for another great herbal tea recipe.)

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