Herbal tea not only works wonders in alleviating symptoms of sore throats, colds, and coughs, but also boosts the general immune support system. If you can, it always works best to create your own herbal tea using the useful herbs available in your garden such as yarrow, ginger, tulsi leaves, black elder, peppermint, thyme and linden to name a few.
Fortunately, medicinal tea for colds is widely available these days. We don’t even need to live near a health food store—many supermarkets and drugstores now sell herbal blends formulated to treat a variety of conditions, including tea for colds, sore throats, coughs, and general immune support.
However, while these pre-blended teas, generally sold in tea bags, often contain at least a couple of herbs with known medicinal properties, the medicinal herbs are not always in high enough quantities to have much impact. Furthermore, when medicinal tea ingredients are blended together in tea bags, they can’t be properly infused or decocted to optimally extract the active constituents.
Kathleen Jade wrote a interesting article about Herbal teas on: http://www.motherearthnews.com/
