If you love the taste of tangy lemonade on a hot summer’s day, then you will love having lemongrass on hand for hot or iced herbal tea all year long! This giant native of the Asian tropics has beautiful leaves and a wonderful lemon scent that permeates the warm air where it grows. It’s an essential addition to just a bout any summer iced herbal tea blend since it adds a cooling effect to the body and a sweetness to the tea itself. During warm months, it can be a soothing addition to mood enhancing and sedative teas, and it can deliver a much needed dose of sunshine and vitamin C when the skies are dark.
The Healing Properties Of Lemongrass Herbal Tea
While lemongrass is famed as a synergistic herb that enhances the flavor of any herbal tea, it also carries some pretty sweet healing benefits as well.
Vitamin C
Lemongrass is packed with vitamin C making it a great choice for any cold, cough, flu, or winter teas. The lemony taste goes great with more tart healing teas like rose hips and citrus peels.
Antioxidant
Lemongrass herbal tea may be a great way to nourish your entire body with powerful antioxidants that fight free radicals and help keep illness at bay.
Mood Lifter
The sweet, tangy scent of lemongrass tends to bring an instant smile to anyone’s face. This tea has a lightly sedative and stimulant effect which makes it a great mood and emotion stabilizer. Adding lemongrass to joyful blends that include lemon balm, st. john’s wort, skullcap, passionflower, or citrus can help bring on the smiles a lot faster.
Soda Replacement
The sweet, light nature of lemongrass can help people come off of fizzy drink addictions. Combine it with spicy herbs for colas or citrus peels for citrus sodas. Adding powdered orange peel will create a light fizzy effect that can be very comforting to those who are cutting soda from their life.
Coolant
When the heat gets you down, lemongrass herbal tea comes to the rescue! Iced or hot this tea cools and calms the body. You’ll start to feel a sense of relief after just a few sips, and you’ll know why the people of Southeast Asia prize this herb so much in their hot, tropical climate. Combine with hibiscus to bring a serious chill to your body no matter how warm it is outside!
Antibacterial, Antifungal, Antispetic, and Antiviral
That’s a lot of anti! Lemongrass offers a delicate type of protection to the body making it a great sipping tea for a variety of illnesses. It even makes a wonderful cooling soak for the skin wherever an antifungal or antiseptic might be needed. To use it in this way, just make tea like normal, cool it, then soak a clean cloth in the tea. Apply the cloth to the area of your skin where it is needed for 5-10 minutes.
Lemongrass herbal tea goes great with hibiscus, citrus peel, fresh fruit, berries, floral herbs, and spicy herbs.
This is a real must try herb this season! Alone or in cahoots with your favorite blend, find out why lemongrass is a staple with many herbal tea enthusiasts!
Enjoy!
