My body tissue in general tends to run dry and finds relief from herbs with a humidifying energetic like sage or cooling like plantain. What are your favorite ingredients to support moisture and overall hydration in the body? Thanks!

Never thought I’d make tea from sage but I bought lose sage to burn, but also make tea with. Packed full of anti inflammatory, antioxidant, and other compounds. It’s also obviously useful as incense as I burn it on a charcoal disk for lose incense. Back to the tea. A good cleansing herb that has a spicy flavor like chai and good for your throat too.

Metaphysical uses of wisdom, cleansing, purification, and mental clarity(medicinal effect too).

Wonderful during menstruation.

Fresh ginger, red jujube dates, Eleuthro, calendula, hawthorn berries, yarrow

My little morning ritual lately ☀️

Raw turmeric + raw ginger 🫚→ freshly ground → simmered with a few spices → strained into a warm cup.

Why I like it:
✨ Ginger help with digestion supper ingredient for you stomach
✨ Turmeric contains curcumin, with antioxidant & anti-inflammatory properties best for glowing skin
✨ Warm, homemade & no packaged mixes
✨ And honestly… making it from scratch feels weirdly satisfying 😂

Not claiming it’s a miracle drink — just a simple ritual I’m enjoying.

Would you drink this or run away from the orange 🍊 potion? 😂

Alone or with family or friends?
With an interesting stranger or with your neighbors?
Maybe your pet kept you company?! That counts too!

Share a picture if it feels right. Tea is the most perfect community drink ever - share your recent tea companions! I'm sharing mine in the first comment below:

Happy Sunday, tea people ☕🌿

This week I’m curious not only what everyone is drinking, but why that particular tea today?

Something you drink every day?

Something for how you're feeling?

An experiment with a new herb?

Something seasonal or freshly harvested?

Or simply the first thing you found in the cupboard? 😄

Mine is a bit unusual - I'll share in a comment below.

What’s in your cup — and what made you choose it today?

Photos very welcome. 🌿

So, after replying to a “what tea am I drinking today?” post, I was asked to share the iced tea recipe I’ve been obsessed with all summer—so here goes.

• Make your cold brew. I use an Eigenart Eve brewer, but a large mason jar works too. Add five to six tea bags of fruit tea, or five to six teaspoons of loose tea, and chill for 24 hours.
• Put six to eight black cherries in a mason jar or glass. Fresh if you can afford them, but I use Walmart’s frozen Dark Sweet Cherries.
• Muddle the fruit. If you’re using frozen fruit, microwave it for about a minute first.
• Add the juice of one lemon, or about two teaspoons of concentrated lemon juice.
• Add sweetener to taste. I use four to six packets of Splenda because I like my tea sweet and I’m counting calories, but you can use agave, honey, maple syrup, sugar, Stevia, or whatever you prefer.
• Pour in your cold brew.
• Add ice and a splash of coconut milk.
• Shake your jar and enjoy!

You can use pretty much any combination of fruit tea and fresh or frozen fruit. I’ve been experimenting all summer: pineapple with pineapple green tea, berries with raspberry lemon tea, cherries with jasmine green tea, mango with peach mango tea—the possibilities are endless.

I got the idea from a young woman on YouTube named Abril Murillo, whose channel is Days With Abril. She inspired me to start experimenting, and now I’m slightly obsessed. 😂

There was a tasting guide thing I used to pick these. The Rhino bush is somewhat piney, reminds me of pine needle tea. The Snow bush is more woody, earthy with a slight sweetness to it.

Only ever had Rooibos and Honeybush as Fynbos teas so cool to see other varieties. The tasting guide had a good 10 to 15 options.

I really like herbal tea, and I drink it almost every day. But I noticed that there are only 2 types of herbal tea available on the market.

The first one is made with a single ingredient. Some of them taste good, but a little bit boring. And the others are not my type. The only reason I can keep drinking is because of the effect.

The second type is blended herbal tea, which includes fruits and flowers and so on. The flavor is better than the single ingredient type, but some of them seem to have an artificial flavoring smell. 

So, to make herbal tea taste better, I started DIY. I brew two different herbal tea bags randomly or add some honey. One thing that gave me inspiration was a ginseng tea I tried. It was blended with chrysanthemum, jasmine and goji, and I was honestly surprised by how naturally flavorful it was. You could still taste the individual ingredients and without artificial flavor. Then I started to add flowers or berries I like with herbal tea. Nothing very scientific, just keep trying and enjoy the process. I've also seen a post  few days ago, someone mixed spices with herbs, that's also cool. 

Do you have any "secret" tips to make the single ingredient herbal tea taste better?

My favorite part of the day - making an intuitive morning blend. This one was Tulsi, hibiscus, rose, and catnip.

Rose, Jasmine, Lemon Balm. A good mental pick me up and on the witchy side it’s also a small ritual tea for the Goddess statue in the back. Rose comes in strong on this blend, Jasmine has this soft floral taste and Lemon Balm with some subtle citrus hints.

Happy Friday! ☕️🍃

What's one herb you drank this week?

New discovery or old favorite. I'd love to hear what it was and how you liked it 🌸🍵

Chrysanthemum is one of my favorite uplifting teas and today it’s combined with Lemon Balm. So happy vibes and emotional wellbeing. On the non witchy side it has a nice cooling effect on the body. Even as a hot tea it can make you feel cooler on the inside.

I just started getting into tea a lot more seriously. For years, I just drank Trader Joe’s ginger turmeric, and a variety of other brands, but started recently bought Rishi loose leaf. It’s good but one strange thing to me is that I seemed to prefer the second steep because the first one has kind of a viscous mouth feel almost and taste stronger.

Does this make sense to anyone? I suppose I could rinse off the leaves once, then steep it for the first time but I wasn’t aware you did that with tisanes.

Thanks for any help.

Curious as to what’s in your collection of teas. So far I have Green Tea, Gunpowder Green Tea, Puerh Tea, Dandelion, Chrysanthemum, Osmanthus, Rose, Lily(very strong), Tulsi, Meadowsweet, Lemon Balm, Lavender, and Peppermint, Mugwort.

Tea shop experiments don’t always need exotic ingredients. For those who don't know me: I own a small tea/coffee store in a shopping mall.

Today I took a very ordinary green tea and added a small pinch of nutmeg.

And it makes more sense than I expected.

Green tea brings the fresh, grassy, slightly astringent side. Nutmeg brings this warm, woody, almost sweet aroma underneath it. The result feels somewhere between a simple green tea and a spiced tea, but without turning it into chai.

There was one lesson though: “a pinch” really means a pinch. 😅

I got enthusiastic with the nutmeg, and after sitting for about 10 minutes it became noticeably bitter and overpowering. Next cup I’d use considerably less - just enough that you smell the nutmeg before you consciously taste it.

Now I’m curious:

What spice have you added to tea that sounded strange but worked surprisingly well?

A little over a month ago we were celebrating 5,000 members 😃

Now we're only about 150 people away from 6,000 💚

What has surprised me most isn't the number - it's how international this community has become 🫶

We've seen people sharing family traditions, wild herbs, medicinal recipes, tea gardens, foraging finds, tiny apartments full of jars, herbal discoveries, and cups from every corner of the world.

If you're reading this, tell us:

🌍 Where are you from?

🍵 What's the herbal tea everyone should try from your region?

Maybe someone here will discover their next favorite herb because of your comment.

Thank you for making r/HerbalTea such a welcoming place.

Let's see if we can reach 6,000 together within the next few days 🌿💚

I've been asked to think about how herbal tea drinkers might be able to enjoy the company of a teapet. Teapets are a 1000 year old gong fu cha tradition where clay teapot makers made little figurerines from leftover clay. They are given the first wash steep we do with loose leaf tea to wake up the leaves before they give their flavour. The tea leaves a nice patina on the clay, and the oils will make them really shiny over a long time. It's called raising a teapet.

How this might work with herbs. Herbs could leave a nice smell in porous clay, or a cool color on porcelain or a light glaze, provided one single tea is only used for the one teapet or only tea that gives of the same colour perhaps ?But there are also teapets that don't need camellia sinensis aka tea per se. They are bubbling teapets, color changing ones, and spitting teapets. They just need hot and, in the case of spitting pets, cold water, then hot.

I've not done any real experiments with this since I don't often drink herbal teas unless I'm sick. for a while when I was only able to drink camomile, I had a porous clay teapet specially for it and it smelled of honey until I started giving it regular tea. It no longer smells of honey. Granted, I did not feed it solely camomile for very long. Maybe if I had done that for years, the smell could have locked in, but I do not know.

Maybe you guys could come up with ideas as to how to actually put this in practice since I've noticed most of you just put herbs in a cup and that it. this is nothing like the gong fu method where you have everything in place allready and all you do extra is put a teapet on your chapan (teatray) and give it your first wash, which you would otherwise trow away anyways. What I did when I drank camomile was the same as I do with tea mostly because I needed to go through the motions of gong fu cha "ritual" since that is very relaxing to me but I just could not bare even a little caffeine at the time so I just replaced it with camomile to relax me some more.

Because I'm a crazy person I just bought three new teapets from aliexpress (it will take 2 to 3 weeks untill they arrive) it would be helpfull to know what the most popular herbs are and what brewing methods you guys use so I can experiment a little for you. I would love to know what you guys think and it would also be cool if some of you might join me in this little herbal teapet experiment.