Herbal Tea Recipes for Maximum Nutrition!
Try our herbal tea recipes that blend the #1 Chinese herbs, Ayurvedic herbs along with 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 shake and smoothie or in raw soups and beverages. 
For us it is just a way of living and preparing food. It takes a bit of getting use to but the results will be felt immediately. Making herbal teas is a great way to getting vitamins, minerals and super herbs into the body in a gentle and efficient way.
There are a few guide lines in herbal tea preparation that will take you to the next level of making your own nutritive, cleansing and Chinese tonics and Ayurvedic herb blends. One is to make your tea 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 favorites that goes wonderful as a base in our shake recipe! Energy Spirit Tea:
Decoct the following (low simmer for 20-40 min in a glass/ceramic pot w/lid on)in 1and 1/8 quarts of spring water
(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 below*) Turn off heat and add these herbs: 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.
Bulk Herb Tea Alternative:
Combined all ingredients in a Vitamix blender or other high speed blender. We buy our reishi mushrooms in bulk, so you just need to chop it up as best you can. Has a cork like texture.Store in an air tight jar in a cool place.Use 2T per Energy Spirit Tea recipe. Vita-a-Mineral Tea:
This is a great nutritive tea packed with vitamins and minerals, high in calcium and silica to mention a few! 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:
This is great tea a subtle but effective cleanse. Drink for a few weeks in a row in the spring time, to do some gentle spring cleaning. Try with different herbs and spices.Decoct oregon grape root and pao de'arco for 20 minutes. Rootbeer Liver Tonic:
A wonderful herbal stimulant and delicious tonic brew... that is the way rootbeer was meant to be! 
Decoct sassafras,sarsaparilla, dandelion, burdock, orange peel and ginger for 20 minutes.Turn off heat. Add the cinnamon to pot. Allow to steep or infuse for 20 minutes or more. Strain, sweeten with raw honey and enjoy! 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.
See our herbal tea preparation guide for more info decoctions and infusions when making your own home brews! Most of these herbs, if not all of them, you can find in the bulk herb section of your local health food store.
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Taking a few days off here and there is ok but some of these herbs are design to tonic and nourish on deep levels and take repeated use to do so. 
