Benefits of Herbal Teas

 
Herbs have been used for many centuries in all cultures as medicine and as food as well. Plants are rich in phytonutrients, and healing substances which are sourced from the Mother Earth. Herbs can be an alternative to coffee and they make delicious and healthy teas. Drinking Herbal tea can make an excellent addition to one’s everyday living.

However, some people prefer to take herbs in capsules or in tablets form as they don’t feel the taste of the herbs or they say it is easier and handy.

Are you aware that capsules and tablets have active ingredients and excipients? Excipients are ingredients that provide form and add bulk to tablets and capsules.

Taking herbs prepared with water-based extract as in a herbal tea you are having the whole plant without the hidden ingredients found in capsules and or tablets.

In addition, taking dried herbs in tablets or in capsules form in general are not readily absorbed into the system, as they will need to go to the gastrointestinal tract to be breakdown and absorbed.

In a tea infusion the heat and the water, which is a non toxic and an easy extraction solvent help to breakdown the membrane of the plant and dissolve the nutrients and chemical substances of the herbs. Water which is a non toxic and an easy extraction solvent  makes herbal teas easy to be absorbed into the system.

It is why herbal preparations in a liquid form such as in herbal teas offer unique benefits. They are readily absorbed into the body than if they are in capsule or tablet form. A tea infusion allows the natural interactions of the herbs.

The closer to nature you take the herbs more you receive their health benefits. Ancient herbalists state that herbs have tastes such as sweet, sour, bitter, pungent (spicy) and salty. Tastes trigger certain physiological responses in the body stimulating the organs. Per example:

• Sweet taste herbs stimulate the stomach and spleen.
• Sour taste herbs stimulate the liver and gallbladder.
• Bitter taste herbs stimulate the pancreas and small intestines
• Pungent (spicy) taste herbs stimulate the lungs and circulation.

When drinking herbal tea, the brain receives signals from the subtle qualities of the plants and the body is soothed and nourished by the physiological responses through the sensory messages received in the mouth by the tongue and by the aroma inhaled through the nose.

If you take herbs in capsules or tablets form you will not have any immediate physiological trigger, the capsules and tablets will need to go to the gastrointestinal to be broken down and be absorbed (you will need a good gastrointestinal tract).
Drinking herbal teas is the most easy, effective and natural way to receive the health benefits of the plants.
Think before take herbal capsules and have a cup of herbal tea!!!

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