Make your Own Herbal Sage Tea Good for the cold and flu season!
My mom grows sage in her backyard. So I have my own free sage supply. It makes great dressing as well.
It has been said American people would do well if they would use sage instead of tea and coffee. The Chinese make fun of the American people because they buy the expensive tea for their drink and pay a big price for it, while the Chinese buy sage from America for a small price and drink that for their tea, which is a most wonderful remedy.
The Chinese know that the sage tea will keep them well, while the tea that we buy from the Chinese makes us sick, is a cause of great nervousness and one of the causes of insanity. Sage tea is very soothing to the nerves, good for stomach troubles, gas, makes an excellent gargle for the throat, will expel worms, stop bleeding of wounds, good for liver and kidney troubles, a good wash for wounds, good hair tonic, fever reducer, and good for circulation.
This tea should not be boiled, just steeped. Information came from Back To Eden by Jethro Kloss. GREAT READ! THIS IS ON MY BOOK CLUB LIST.
Sage Tea Ingredients
1 tablespoon fresh sage leaf or 1 teaspoon dried sage
1 cup water
1 wedge lemon (optional)
honey, to sweeten (optional)
Sage Tea Directions
1. Bring water to a boil. Remove from heat and put sage in the water. Let steep for about 3-5 minutes.
2. Strain, pour in cup, add lemon and honey, if desired, and drink. You may drink this hot or cold. Enjoy!
Used carefully and properly over time, it has many wonderful benefits, unimaginable to most non-Native people in the Far West. Over-used, or used improperly (if boiled for example), it is poisonous and causes toxic build-up in the liver that can lead to serious damage and painful, frightening symptoms such as muscular spasms that if ignored can lead to death.
Properly used, sage heals the problems that it causes if used without proper understanding of this herb. Anyway, this recipe is a good one, DO NOT recommend that you steep it for longer, as after five minutes the toxic chemicals in ANY HERB always begin to steep out. That is why black or green tea, coffee (and anything else really) all have nasty effects when over-steeped.
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