WHAT HERBS ARE GOOD FOR TEA

1. Lavender

Botanical Name: Lavandula

The brewed purple buds of lavender in hot water calm the mind, help you sleep better, and improve skin texture.

2. Lemon Verbena

Botanical Name: Aloysia citrodora Put 3 lemon verbena leaves in 4 cups of water and boil for 15 minutes. Serve hot or iced. This tea heals joint pain, insomnia, cold, fever, and digestive issues. Growing Tips: Use well-draining, fertile soil and a container with drainage holes to grow lemon verbena indoors.

3. Mint

Botanical Name: Mentha Mint is a favorite tea herb and is popular among herbal tea lovers. It’s also one of the easiest plants to grow. Mint tea fights digestive disorders, abdominal pain, and stomach cramps.

4. Lemon Balm

Botanical Name: Melissa officinalis This herb has a distinct lemon flavor and goes well in herbal teas. It helps treat headaches, relieving tension and digestive disorders.

Growing Tips: Lemon balm grows well in dry soil and partial shade. It spreads vigorously if planted in garden beds, so grow it in a container.

5. Ginger

Botanical Name: Zingiber officinale Ginger roots and leaves are used to make tea. It has antioxidant and antibacterial properties that cure diseases like cold, flu, nausea, improves digestion and appetite.

6. Thyme

Botanical Name: Thymus vulgaris Thyme is an effective herbal tea ingredient that relieves stomach problems and sore throat. The leaves are used in making tea; you can add flowers as well.

7. Chamomile

Botanical Name: Matricaria chamomilla This medicinal tea herb is traditionally used to induce calm and sleep. The tea is made up of small white and yellow flowers rather than leaves. Roman chamomile offers strong flavored tea.

8. Jasmine

Botanical Name: Jasminum

Jasmine flowers are brewed in hot water for a calming aromatic tea. You can dry and mix them with green tea as well, or steep the flowers alone. It has antiseptic properties and is helpful in muscle spasms.

9. Stevia

Botanical Name: Stevia rebaudiana

The sweet Stevia leaves can be steeped to make tea. This natural sweetener is used in place of sugar, and it is good for diabetics. Growing Tips: Stevia grows best in USDA Zones 9 to 11. Still, you can grow it in colder zones in a pot so that it can be brought inside when winter comes.

10. Marjoram

Botanical Name: Origanum majorana

This culinary herb has a fruity and sour flavor with a hint of mint. Marjoram tea cures various digestion and stomach problems, including poor appetite, liver disease, gallstones, intestinal gas, and stomach cramps.