How To Make A Warm Honey, Lemon And Ginger Tea For Coughs, Colds And Weight Loss!

Talk about a hug in a mug! This warming, delicious herbal tea is what you call a super healer! My Warm Honey, Lemon and ginger tea works wonders on Coughs, Colds, Congestion and Nausea but can also help to increase immunity, help you lose weight, and even clear up acne! So whether you want to shed a few pounds for summer or protect your family during Winter, this Tea is must! Here’s how I make it…

Why this warm Honey, lemon and Ginger tea works!

Nature provides! Honey, Lemon and Ginger are powerhouses in the healing world. Collectively, they pack quite the punch! Providing aid for a wide range of ailments , this tea is packed with all the good stuff! Vitamins, Nutrients, antioxidants…Oh my! Let’s break it down…

Honey

First let’s look at the nutritional value of Honey…Honey is basically a sugar. It’s sweeter and higher in calories than typical granulated sugar and has a warm sunny flavour that’s hard to resist! It also contains, Iron, Zinc and Potassium.

One tablespoon of honey contains:

• Calories: 64
• Sugar: 17 grams
• Carbohydrates: 17 grams
• Protein: 0 grams
• Fat: 0 grams
• Fiber: 0 grams

What Are the Health Benefits of Honey?

1. Anti-inflammatory Benefits

Honey contains antioxidants, which help to protect the body from inflammation. Inflammation can lead to autoimmune disorders, heart disease and even cancer.

2. Ideal Cough medicine alternative for children

Instead of over-the-counter medications to treat children’s coughs and colds. Studies have showed 2 tsps of Honey before bed or Honey mixed in warm water relieved nighttime coughing and congestion.

3. Packed with Minerals

Honey contains about 31 different minerals including magnesium, phosphorus and potassium. These 3 minerals help us in a few ways…

• Support bone strength.
• Can help alleviate depression and anxiety.
• Supports cardiovascular health.
• Helpful for migraines and headaches.
• May help improve sleep.
• May help improve (PMS) symptoms
• May regulate blood sugar.
• Helps to ensure proper function of the muscles and nerves
• Helps synthesize protein and metabolizing carbohydrates.

Lemon

Lemons are packed with vitamin C, fibre, and beneficial plant compounds. All of which can help with Kidney, cardiovascular and digestive issues

Here are a few health benefits of Lemons…

• Support Heart Health
• Helps to Control Weight (the plant compounds in lemons helps aid weight loss.)
• Prevent Kidney Stones
• protects against kidney Stones (Lemons contain iron, and can prevent anemia by improving your absorption of iron from plant foods)
• Reduce Cancer Risk
• Improves Digestive Health.

The Health Benefits Of Ginger

Ginger contains lots of beneficial nutrients, antioxidants and bioactive compounds (Bioactive compounds have actions in the body that help promote good health)

Combined, they are helpful in managing Nausea, reducing cancer risk, preventing infection, easing Bloating and constipation. Also useful for easing Arthritis Symptoms and lowering blood sugar.

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what’s Warm Honey, Lemon And Ginger Tea good for ?

As you can see from the information above, this Tea can do much more than sooth a cough! Below is a list of Ailments and issues this tea can help heal!…

• Helps with weight loss (Ginger has been shown to reduce hunger and the plant compounds in lemons help to boost weight loss)
• May provide relief from motion sickness
• May help manage blood pressure and support heart health
• Can help relieve pain and inflammation.
• Helpful diuretic.
• Helps detoxify the body
• Can help increase immunity.
• A useful remedy for throat infections.
• Helps to relieve a cough and chest congestion
• Helps with Digestion issues
• Helps clear the skin of acne
• Relieves constipation.
• May alleviate nausea due to morning sickness or chemotherapy
• May help to manage weight and blood sugar levels
• May have cancer-fighting properties.

How To make Warm Honey, Lemon And Ginger Tea

What you’ll need for this recipe

• Jug
• Spoon
• Kettle or pan to boil the water
• Tea strainer or cheese cloth

Ingredients

*Enough for 4 mugs

• 4 tbsp honey
• 2 tbsp Lemon juice
• 1/4 tsp Ground Ginger
• 1/4 tsp Ground cinnamon
• 800ml boiling water

Instructions

• Place the honey, lemon juice, ginger, and cinnamon in a glass jug and mix together.
• Pour Boiling water over the mix and stir gently until the honey has dissolved.

• Cover the jug with a tea towel and allow to steep for 5 minutes

• Pour into mugs through a tea strainer. Enjoy!

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