11 Healthy Teas To Drink & Their Benefits

11 Healthy Teas To Drink & Their Benefits

11 Best Healthy Herbal Teas To Drink & Benefits

I have always enjoyed tea, but nothing like I do now. Now that I know how healing and beneficial certain teas are, I have turned into a bit of a tea junkie. Just like I try to get in a lot of water each day, I also try to drink herbal teas most days as well.

However, they can’t be just any herbal teas. So many teas are filled with added ingredients and “natural flavors” that are doing more harm to us than good. A lot of mainstream companies’ tea bags are bleached or contain plastic too. It’s really crappy if you don’t even enjoy tea and you are just drinking it because of the health benefits! To help avoid a lot of this, read the ingredients on your teas. Organic loose leaf tea or fresh organic herbs is an extra safe way to go, but I know pre-bagged tea is really convenient. I will link some tea brands I buy below.

11 Healthy Teas To Drink & Their Benefits They Have On Your Health:

1. Dandelion Tea

This list is in no particular order, it just depends on what benefits you are looking for in a tea. However, I have to list dandelion tea first as it is one I enjoy and really notice when I am or am not drinking it. When I am consistently drinking it, I notice that my stomach is flatter and I feel lighter overall. This is because dandelion is a natural diuretic. It helps reduce water weight, bloat, and helps with digestive issues. This detoxifying herb is also known to help with urinary tract infections.

I usually drink this roasted dandelion Traditional Medicinals tea, but I just placed an order for this Gut Health Tea Blend. Dandelion leaf is the first ingredient, but it also contains hibiscus flower, cumin seeds, parsley, and peppermint. It’s one of the best blends I have seen. I am no stranger to mixing my own loose leaf teas, but I would never think of adding cumin seeds and parsley. I am super excited to try it out!

2. Thyme Tea

Thyme tea is another favorite of mine. It is a highly antiviral herb and has a very calming effect on the nervous system. It helps with colds, flus, coughs, headaches, tension, and even helps stimulate the memory. Just steep a few fresh thyme sprigs in hot water for around 20 minutes (or more) and either drink it by itself or add in some honey or a squeeze of lemon. You can find organic thyme sprigs in the produce section of many grocery stores. However, if you are lucky enough to have a garden, you might want to grow your own! Otherwise, you can buy these thyme tea bags for on the go too.

3. Lemon Balm Tea

Lemon Balm is an amazing herb that helps calm the nervous system. If you are feeling tense, anxious, or stressed, check this one out for sure. It also supports digestion, detoxification of the liver, helps fight all types of bugs, helps with UTIs, inflammation from pathogens and more. It’s kind of a wonder herb. I take it in tincture form directly in my mouth most days, but you can also drink lemon balm tea. If you have a garden, you can grow it yourself, otherwise, there is this bagged herbal tea.

4. Hibiscus Tea

Hibiscus is great for rejuvenating the liver, boosting the immune system, fighting off infections, helping with weight loss, depression, sleep disorders, high blood pressure, mood swings, preventing bladder infections and relieving constipation. It’s a tangier fruity tea which I don’t prefer drinking hot, but if I steep it, let it cool, and then store it in the fridge, it’s a great one to drink cold or room temperature for summer. The red color is extra pretty too! You can also sweeten it with some raw honey. I buy these Traditional Medicinals tea bags as well as loose dried hibiscus flowers when I see them.

5. Rose Hips Tea

This is another fruiter, tangier beneficial tea that I want to mention. Rose Hips are packed with Vitamin C, E, & K and are great at strengthening the circulatory, respiratory, and digestive system. If you can’t decide between hibiscus and rose hips, you don’t have to. You can buy a blend of both hibiscus and rose hips in this tea bag.

6. Raspberry Leaf Tea

Raspberry leaf is a huge support for women’s reproductive health. It helps balance hormones, helps with a women’s cycle/cramps, helps with infertility, postpartum, iron deficiencies and more. Raspberry leaf is also a good source of vitamin C, calcium, iron, and magnesium. It’s not just for women either, Men can also drink this tea as a blood cleanser and detoxifier.

Traditional Medicinals has a bag tea, otherwise I buy this large bag of loose leaf tea for a crazy good deal.

Nettle Tea is another one to look at. It helps with the adrenals & regulating hormones (great for us women), a natural diuretic, good for the urinary tract, great for bones & joints, and gives our immune system a boost. Forewarning, nettle tea tastes grassy, earthy, and hay-like. I enjoy the taste, but I just want to warn you before you buy the biggest bag that you never end up using. The FGO bags are HUGE, so unless you drink a lot of tea, I would skip it and grab some tea bags to start.

7. Chamomile Tea

Known as a super calming tea, chamomile is great for stress, anxiety, racing minds, and to help calm you before bedtime. However, it’s also great for so much more! It is great for digestion, cramping, sinus congestion, swelling, purging of toxins, fighting colds, flus, Candida, and even dark under eye circles. You just want to avoid it if you are really allergic to ragweed pollen or are pregnant as it may act as a uterine stimulant. This is one of my all-time favorite teas with a little honey added in. I buy the Traditional Medicinals bagged tea.

8. Peppermint Tea

Peppermint tea is a great immune boosting tea. It’s great for nausea, the flu, congestion, headaches, digestion issues, soothing the nerves and improving hydrochloric acid levels in the stomach. Anytime I’m looking for a pick-me-up tea, I reach for this invigorating tea. Shop the peppermint tea bags here.

9. Ginger Tea

Ginger tea is a great immune boosting, digestive aid tea. It helps with nausea, easing tension, headaches, cramps, vertigo, heart burn, and food poisoning. You can buy fresh ginger and slice it up fairly fine and then pour hot water over it to steep, but there are also the convenient tea bags that I enjoy as well. I like the spice!

10. Pau d’ Arco

Pau d’ Arco is a great anti-viral, anti-bacterial herb that helps fight and protect against viruses and is extremely helpful with Candida. I started drinking it solely for candida overgrowth when I was dealing with that a few years back, but I ended up keeping it in my cabinet for its overall anti-viral protection (especially during winters). I have bought these tea bags, but I think this powder I have is much stronger.

11. Red Clover & Burdock Tea

These two herbs are amazing blood cleansers that help support the lymphatic system. They are also said to be helpful with cancer, amongst so much more. You can read more about Red Clover here and Burdock Root here. I occasionally use this burdock root to brew with this coffee. Red Clover Teabags, Red Clover Alcohol-Free Tincture.

Well, those are my 11 herbal teas I wanted to mention today! I could have also included turmeric tea, fennel tea, my mushroom teas, and more, but I think there is plenty of food for thought above.

Putting this list together was such a good refresher for me too. It motivates me to continually drink more healing teas and I truly hope it does the same for you! Comment below if you are inspired to drink more tea! 🤍

Grateful you are following along,

Xx Riane

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