Everyone loves good tea. But if everything is simple with green and black teas, then herbal teas must be able to compose.
For many, the knowledge of how to make a good collection is limited to trying to throw various herbs into one teapot.
Often the tea is not as tasty as expected, and people are disappointed in herbal mixtures, but in fact, only lack of experience stands between them and a delicious result for the whole family.
I want to share a few schemes, focusing on which, you can create delicious and balanced tea at home.
These methods are not a panacea and do not have to be followed for the rest of your life, but they can be a good start in your tender love with herbal teas.
Pyramid Formulas
If you take a pyramid and divide it into three parts, then you will get a wide base, a medium-sized middle and a small top. By this principle, you can create herbal mixtures.
Base – Middle – Top
Nutritious – Saturated – Catalyst
Nutritious herbs – those that have a not too rich taste and smell and which can be drunk in unlimited quantities, for example: chamomile, nettle or lemon balm.
Saturated herbs – those that are rich in smell or taste: rose, lemon or orange peel, hibiscus, etc.
The catalyst is added in order to improve the formula, help it disperse the blood and deliver nutrients faster to their destinations. Catalysts can be ginger, lavender, pepper, rosemary, or a little cloves.
If you are preparing medicinal tea, then it is worth approaching the issue based on the properties of herbs.
Base – Middle – Top
Nutrient – Medicinal – Catalyst
Base: nutritious herbs, tea base herbs. Raspberry leaves, Ivan tea, chamomile or lemon balm.
Middle: active herbs aimed at healing or repairing our body. Elder, echinacea, marshmallow roots, plantain or calendula will go here.
Top: catalysts, as in the first case.
Base – Middle – Top
Medicinal – Supportive – Catalyst
Supporting herbs are those that do not change something in our body, but feed it with vitamins.
For example:
Black elderberries + astragalus root + ginger
Echinacea + lemon balm + lavender
Proportions:
Take the quantity and proportions at your discretion.
The most versatile is 3 to 2 to 1 (3 parts lemon balm + 2 parts willowherb + 1 part ginger) or 2:1.5:1 (2 parts chamomile + 1.5 parts willowherb + 1.5 parts lavender).
Have a delicious tea!
I drink a lot of herbal teas.
I liked this witchy science a lot. It’s something I’d like to explore sometime. For now, I just keep getting tea bags… however, I believe it must add a much deeper meaning to the whole tea-drinking experience. Thank you for sharing, I will bookmark it!