Cold and Flu Tea Recipe

Are you looking for an herbal tea to beat those dreaded winter colds and flu? When people around you start getting sick, drink this cold and flu tea. You can drink up to 3 cups a day for several days.

When people around you start getting sick, drink this cold and flu tea.

Herbs for Cold and Flu

This cold and flu tea contains three powerful herbs: echinacea, red root, and calendula.

Echinacea

Echinacea (Echinacea purpurea, E. angustifolia) root will activate your immune system. Be sure to use cultivated, not wild-harvested, echinacea because this herb is at risk of being over-harvested in its native environment.
 

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Red Root

Red root (Ceanothus americanus) is also known as Jersey tea or New Jersey tea. This herb will tonify and support your lymph. This is important because lymph fluid brings nutrition to the cells. It cleans up waste and dead cells. It also delivers part of the immune system to areas of the body.
 

Calendula

Calendula (Calendula officinalis) will do the job of stimulating circulation and helping to deliver the other two herbs. Calendula is also a very antiviral and antibacterial herbal remedy, so it is the perfect herbal tea for preventing a cold or flu.

All of these herbs can be purchased from Mountain Rose Herbs.
 

Cold and Flu Tea Recipe

Ingredients

• 4 cups water
• 1 tablespoon dried echinacea root
• 1 tablespoon dried red root
• 1 tablespoon dried calendula flowers
• Honey (optional)

Instructions

1. In a stainless steel pot with the lid on, simmer the water, echinacea and red root on the lowest heat for 15 minutes.
2. Turn off the heat and add the calendula.
3. Put lid back on the pot and let everything steep for another 30 minutes after the calendula has been added.
4. Strain the herbs from tea and drink 1 cup.
5. This tea is a little bitter, so you can add a teaspoon of honey to taste.

Notes

• Store the remaining tea in the refrigerator in a container with the lid on.
• This tea will last 2 days if refrigerated.
• You can warm up 1 cup at a time.