Chrysanthemum Mint
Key Benefits:
Relieves bloating, stress and anxiety. It also helps to keep the body warm.
Ingredients:
Peppermint
Chrysanthemum
Liquorice Root
Content: 8g x 6s
This tea is excellent for promoting relaxation, reducing stress, improving digestion, and addressing mild heat-related symptoms like headaches or sore throats.
The tea's cooling and soothing properties help address conditions related to heat, emotional tension, or digestive stagnation. It also promotes mental relaxation and eases mild anxiety.
More information about the herbs & flowers in the tea:
1. Peppermint
To Clear heat, relieve wind-heat, and promote the free flow of liver qi. Treating headaches, fever, sore throat, and other symptoms related to wind-heat (early stages of colds or flu with heat signs). Ease Liver qi stagnation, which can manifest as stress, irritability, or emotional tension—relieves digestive issues like indigestion, bloating, or nausea.
Common Symptoms include stress, irritability, headaches, a sore throat, and digestive discomfort (bloating and gas).
2. Chrysanthemum
Clear heat, calm the liver, and improve eye health. Treat red, irritated, or dry eyes, often related to liver heat or wind heat. Alleviate headaches, dizziness, or irritability caused by liver yang rising or heat.
Common Symptoms: Eye discomfort (redness, dryness), headaches, dizziness, or mild cold symptoms.
Symptoms of wind-heat, such as mild fever, colds, or sore throat.
3. Liquorice Root
To harmonize the effects of other herbs, tonify the spleen and qi, and soothe coughs. Treating respiratory issues, such as coughs or sore throats, especially when combined with cooling herbs. Improve digestive weakness. Relief bloating or stomach pain. Relief stress as it helps harmonize the formula and balance the body’s energy.
Common Symptoms: Sore throat, fatigue, mild coughing, or digestive issues.
General Precautions:
1. Cold Constitution or Digestive Weakness: Since peppermint and chrysanthemum are cooling in nature, this tea may not be suitable for individuals with cold constitutions or weak digestion (e.g., those who often feel cold, have cold limbs, or suffer from loose stools and bloating). Overconsumption could further cool the digestive system and worsen these symptoms.
2. Low Blood Pressure: Chrysanthemum and peppermint can have a mild blood pressure-lowering effect, so people with low blood pressure should be cautious.
3. Hypertension (High Blood Pressure): While the amount of liquorice in tea formulas is usually small, individuals with high blood pressure or those prone to water retention should be cautious about excessive consumption, as liquorice can elevate blood pressure in large amounts.
4. Heartburn or GERD: Peppermint can sometimes relax the esophageal sphincter, which may cause or exacerbate heartburn in people with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).
Making Your Own Instant Health Tea
1. Steep one tea bag in freshly boiled water for 10–15 minutes. Extend the steeping time as needed for herbs in the form of seeds or roots.
2. The same tea bag can typically be used for 2–3 steeps.
3. No sugar is needed—enjoy the natural aroma of herbal tea.
Store in a dry & cool place. Refrigeration is recommended for prolonged storage.
