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Sip Your Way to Wellness: How Organic Teas Can Boost Your Immune System
by Ketan Patel Our Better PlannetAre you interested in increasing your immunity but balk at the thought of eating fruits? Taste not to your liking perhaps? Well, while nothing can completely replace the nutrients given to you by fruits, organic herbal teas can help boost your immunity.
Tea was first discovered in China as we well know. Over the centuries it has been used by many as herbal infusions to treat a variety of health ailments. While in the modern world, it has been largely reduced to a form of caffeine, herbal teas or tissanes- which do not contain caffeine- can have several health benefits. While you can’t literally sip your way to wellness with just teas, adding a cup once in a while can be a good addition to your routine.
Let’s see a few examples.
Have trouble sleeping? Or are you unnaturally anxious but not so much that you require medicine? Yet breathing exercises alone aren’t enough either. Well, whether it be insomnia or anxiety, chamomile tea can help you relax and get a good night’s sleep. If you have a uterus and are suffering from menstrual pains, it can help there too!
Peppermint tea, on the other hand, contains menthol which can help you with constipation, IBS, and motion sickness as well as an upset stomach. From migraines to tension headaches, it too acts as a great pain relief.
And what peppermint can’t help ginger can. Ginger herbal tea can help with morning sickness and other forms of nausea and helps treat chronic indigestion and joint pain of some varieties.
Last, but not least, hibiscus rose tea is your friend if you want to kick an unhealthy craving for sweets. It can also help lower blood pressure and fat levels and improve your liver health.
Cool isn’t it? How much some boiled leaf and water can do? Other forms of tea have a different set of benefits and methods of preparation, all of which can be beneficial to your health. While too much tea or tea on an empty stomach is harmful to your well-being, informed consumption of tea can have lots of benefits, especially for organs like the heart and the liver.
But should these benefits for our health come at the cost of our future? Many tea companies underpay their workers who work in difficult conditions and the only way to prevent supporting such practices is by buying from trusted stories or from labels that are Fair Wage certified. Another way tea production can harm our future is by being unsustainable. If we buy non-organic tea or teas grown in a monoculture or use plastic-infused tea bags, we might be contributing to the distraction of our planet, which in turn leads to human life becoming difficult in the near future. While there is of course no completely ethical or sustainable consumption under our current systems, we can buy sustainable herbal teas online or from, as previously mentioned, trusted stores. Each time we manage to make a sustainable purchase, we help our future selves, so why not start in out kitchens?AUTHOR : ANJALI ROONGTA
An author with over a decade of experience, Anjali Roongta has published over eight books with NotionPress and Muses_Saga, her own eco-friendly publishing house. She was an Author of the Year Awardee for Ne8x in 2019. You can find her blog at roongtaanjali.wordpress.com where she shares writing tips and helps promote realistic sustainable lifestyles. As a writer and freelancer, she is passionate about writing, sustainable living, reading, mental health advocacy and publishing.Sponsor Ads
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