Benefits of  Making a Healthier Cup of Tea/Coffee.

Sometimes, there are small things in life you do, which benefit you immensely. This is one of those small things. If you have read Black Tea–Health Benefits, you will appreciate the diverse benefits that tea gives you. It is just a casual tea cup that we drink, without even realizing that the healthy benefits of tea range from helping you prevent a heart attack, reducing your cholesterol, helping in digestion, protecting you against cancer, boosting your immunity and more. However, you can make your tea a powerful health beverage and tastier too, by adding four things to your tea. Start your day with a healthier and tastier cup of tea in the morning.

Make Your Tea a Healthier and Tastier Drink.

Four things  which you must add to your tea,  be it black tea or green tea or white tea:

1. Cinnamon.
2. Cardamom.
3. Ginger.
4. Lemon Grass.

1) Cinnamon Health Benefits. Do read Cinnamon-Health Benefits, where the benefits of cinnamon are explained in detail. However, to mention a few cinnamon benefits:

1. • Lowers cholesterol.
   • Helps to reduce blood sugar in Type 2 diabetes.
   • Helps to lose weight.
   • Helps to fight infections.
   • Helps to build your immunity.
   • Helps in digestion.
   • Helps to reduce arthritis pain.

and more.

2) Cardamom Health Benefits. The article, Cardamom-Health Benefits explains in detail the health benefits you will receive on taking cardamom daily. However in brief:

• Good appetizer, carminative and gives relief from heartburn.
• Detoxifies body of impurities.
• Improves blood circulation.
• Is a general tonic.
• Used in treating halitosis (bad breadth).
• Used to treat allergy.

and more.

3)  Ginger. Here again, do read Ginger-Health Benefits, for a detailed explanation of the health benefits of ginger. To explain a few benefits:

• Useful for indigestion, flatulence, diarrhea and is a good appetizer.
• Helps to reduce cholesterol.
• Prevents clotting of blood – therefore helps to prevent heart strokes.
• Good expectorant – therefore helps to remove mucus from throat and lungs.
• Helps to reduce pain and inflammation of arthritis.
• Helps to lower blood pressure.

and more.

4) Lemon Grass. A detailed explanation of the health benefits of lemon grass is given inLemon Grass – Health Benefits. In brief a few benefits:

• Is a powerful anti oxidant.
• Helps prevent cancer.
• Detoxifies body of impurities.
• Improves blood circulation.
• Reduces blood pressure.
• Anti bacterial and anti fungal.
• Helps to reduce pain and inflammation of arthritis.

and more.

How to Make This Healthy Tea or Coffee:

• If you are using tea bags, add these four ingredients to the water and then boil. Do mix well. You could then add the tea bag to this mix.
• If you are using tea powder, you could add the cinnamon and cardamom to the tea in the jar itself and keep it mixed well. These spices do not spoil. The ginger is to be crushed in the water to be boiled so that its juice mixes with  the water. Lemon grass leaves are to be cut in small pieces and put in the water kept for boiling. Tips of the lemon grass leaves may be cut and not used.
• Cinnamon is available in form of sticks. These sticks are to be broken and crushed into small pieces before adding to the tea powder. Alternatively, cinnamon is available in the form of ground powder and can be so added.
• Similarly, cardamom seeds are to be crushed before adding to the tea powder. Alternatively, cardamom seeds are available in ground powder form.
• Lastly, how much of these ingredients you add, will depend on you.  Adjust the quantities to suit your taste. It is necessary that you also enjoy the tea or coffee in order to make it a habit.

If you read these five articles on the benefits of black tea, cinnamon, cardamom, ginger and lemon grass, you will gather enough motivation to make your tea in the way explained above. Make it a habit. And spread the word. It will be one good way to start your day with this health drink!

A word of caution: Rarely, ginger and cinnamon cause heartburn.  Such cases are advised to refrain from adding ginger and cinnamon to tea or coffee.

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