Did you know these health benefits of lemongrass tea?
How to make tea from lemongrass?
Tea is a common drink for most of us and we have it in our daily routine, for relieving stress, anxiety, addiction, headaches, supplement, aperitifs, and more. Coming to tea, there are various types of teas, that include a combination of various herbs. Various teas have various health benefits and uses.
There is one such tea, with more health benefits have come into the light in the past two decades and is called Lemongrass tea. It is famous for its medicinal properties and it is absolutely delicious. So, let’s look at this healthy and tasty tea recipe.
Lemon grass leaves or stalks, water, honey, and ice cubes.
Chop the grass into small pieces to ½ cm each piece. And if you are using leaves make sure that it doesn’t have stains or bruises.
Now boil 900ml of water over high heat until it boils.
Now add the chopped lemongrass to the boiling water, let it heat for 5 minutes, give it a stir, and let the heat be still high.
Now add the solution to a cup using a mesh strainer, the lemongrass is edible but that makes the tea unpleasant.
Let it cool for a bit, and you can add honey if you want it sweet.
You can also add ice cubes, or refrigerate them if you want iced tea.
What is lemongrass tea good for?
Lemongrass tea has a wide range of health benefits, due to its bioactive compounds such as geraniol, myrcene, and citral. A few benefits include increased digestion, boosted immunity, decreases anxiety, and stress, improves skin texture, and skin health, regulated blood sugar, and many more. Lemongrass has certain reactions to certain medications, and if you are on any medication, talk to your doctor before consuming it.
Benefit of lemongrass tea
There are numerous health benefits of lemongrass tea, let us have a look at a few of them now:
1. Relieves stress and anxiety
Many people found that drinking lemongrass after a stressful day, have shown to relieve their stress. Apart from that it has also been shown to relieve anxiety issues too, due to its anxiety-reducing properties.
2. Regulated cholesterol levels
According to a study, it appears that lemongrass is also effective in reducing bad cholesterol level thereby regulating blood pressure and keeping cardiovascular diseases at bay.
Lemongrass is often used in some toothpaste for its antibacterial properties. So drinking lemongrass tea can help boost your oral health and also keeps your breath fresh and good.