Tea Geek Speak
October 6, 2022
“If you’re looking for a way to restore your body and achieve greater balance, alkaline teas can be the perfect addition to your balance and restorative rituals. We are made up of complex systems that must work in harmony together to help us achieve a greater quality of life. All of these systems can largely be impacted by one or two critical areas of well-being, namely, the health of our gut and the PH balance of our bodies. While specific teas can help with the health of our gut, alkaline teas can help our PH levels by restoring balance to our bodies.
Over time our bodies can become overly acidic. As you might have guessed, this is no good for our health. This increase in acidity may negatively impact our body’s ability to productively use insulin, metabolize glucose, and repair muscle. It can also affect other biochemical functions of the body.
The PH scale is used to classify the level of acidity. The higher the PH level the more alkaline, the lower the PH level the more acidic. It ranges between 0 and 14 with the balance found in the middle which is 7. This is where water can be found on the scale. It makes sense that this is where our bodies would like to reside considering more than 50% of our body is made up of water.
Black tea, the one most people drink and love to have (high caffeine), is acidic so we don’t drink it as part of an alkaline diet. Most herbal infusions, green tea, rooibos mate have an alkalizing effect which can work to neutralize acidity in the body. Once they are digested and assimilated, these alkaline teas work to raise the pH level in the body.”
“Tend to overlook the power of herbs: herbs teas and tisanes were our original juices and were everyday medicine in the Middle Ages. Just try a cup of lemon balm or chamomile tea before goin to sleep to experience their calming properties.
Herbs are often overlooked in the diet, thought of only as flavoring, rather than as a nutritious ingredient in their own rights. Herbs were an important part of medicine for centuries until modern drugs took over and we can still enjoy their benefits. You van make a simple herb tea or tisane to be sipped at any time of the day. Essentially, TEA is just a herbals or leaf juice.
Making herb tea is no different from making tea with anything else: you just need a cup, hot water, a few minutes to let the leaves impart their goodness, and a tea strainer. You need about one teaspoon to make tea for one person. We use herb teas as a base for juices and smoothies too, and you can use them when a recipe call for water. It is a good way of getting the benefits of the herbs into your diet.
Tea teas here have been organized so that those best to drink in the morning come first, and those perfect for an evening cup are toward the end of the section.”
Reference:
The High Alkaline Smoothie Cleanse by Dr. Stephan Domeing
https://blog.fusionteas.com/alkaline-teas-to-restore-and-balance-the-body/
