Gut-Healing Tea Blend: A Natural Way to Soothe Your Digestive System | AHealth Tricks

If you're looking for a natural way to improve gut health, a gut-healing tea blend might just be the answer. At AHealth Tricks, we understand the importance of good gut health and have curated a special blend of tea that can help soothe and heal your digestive system.

When it comes to supporting digestion and your gastrointestinal (GI) tract, consider teas. As you sip, the healing properties of your herbs come into direct contact with the digestive system from the moment you inhale their aromas and let the tea touch your tongue.

Our gut-healing tea blend is made with a combination of herbs and spices that have been traditionally used for their digestive benefits. The blend includes ingredients such as ginger, turmeric, peppermint, and licorice root, which are known for their anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties.

Herbs for Gastrointestinal Well-Being

Most digestive herbs taste pleasant (excluding strong bitters) and extract well in hot water. The simple ritual of brewing and sipping a gut-healing tea invokes good, healing, self-care vibes, too.

Mucilaginous and Demulcent Herbs

These herbs soothe, reduce inflammation, and promote healing of the GI lining from top to bottom. They extract best in water and have a slippery feel. This soothes the GI tract when it’s dry, inflamed, irritated, or damaged, and helps create a temporary mucus-like lining. Strongly mucilaginous (mucus-like) herbs include marshmallow root, slippery elm bark, and aloe inner gel. Demulcent yet only slightly mucilaginous herbs include licorice root, plantain leaf, and meadowsweet flower.

Marshmallow (Althaea officinalis)

Hands down, marshmallow is my favorite mucilaginous herb. The root powder provides the most mucilaginous slime, but the snot-like consistency can be off-putting and may also trigger gas and bloating in some people with dysbiosis (including SIBO and FODMAP sensitivities). I prefer the cut/sifted root, which forms a more velvety, almost creamy mouthfeel. Also enjoy or opt for marshmallow leaf and flower, which are even better tolerated by people with dysbiosis and easier to harvest in abundance from the garden.

Mucilage extracts best as a long infusion (several hours or overnight), but the leaves release the goods in less time. Some herbalists prefer a cold infusion for a purer mucilage extraction, but hot infusions do just fine and will extract more from other herbs in your gut-healing tea blend.

Vulnerary Herbs

The term “vulnerary” means wound-healing, promoting the speed and quality of tissue repair. Many of the herbs we classically consider topical wound healers, including Calendula, plantain, gotu kola, and licorice, are also excellent GI vulneraries in a gut-supportive tea blend.

Plantain Leaf (Plantago spp.)

Almost any gut-healing tea blend I whip up contains at least 5 to 20 percent plantain leaf. Though plantain is best known as a fresh poultice for stings and bites, in the GI tract it provides vulnerary, gently astringent, demulcent, and even antimicrobial (perhaps biofilm busting!¹) activities with a bland flavor that lends itself well to tea blends.

Gentle Astringent Herbs

Gentle astringents help tighten and tone the lining of the digestive tract when it’s boggy or leaky. These herbs often have modest antimicrobial activity as well, but they may irritate the GI lining and aggravate constipation if used in excessive amounts. They include rose petals, cinnamon, raspberry leaf, and plantain leaf.

Rose Petals (Rosa spp.)

A sprinkle of rose petals brightens any tea blend and puts a smile on your face as you brew it, and it also offers gentle astringency. Interestingly, roses have mild antimicrobial action against pathogens yet encourage beneficial gut flora.

Aromatic Herbs

First and foremost, aromatic herbs lend flavor to your gut-healing tea blend, but they also have additional benefits. Most aromatic herbs are also carminative, which encourages digestive function and eases gas, bloating, and spasms. Many have some level of antimicrobial activity ranging from mild (for the Agastache genus and mints) to more potent (for bee balm, oregano, cinnamon, cloves, and other spices).

Korean Licorice Mint (Agastache rugosa) & Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare)

I have no idea why Korean licorice mint and its nearly identical and interchangeable cousin anise hyssop (Agastache foeniculum) aren’t more popular and widely available in commerce. They’re so wonderfully delicious, beautiful, and easy to grow and harvest in abundance. Seek out seeds or seedlings from specialty herb growers such as Strictly Medicinal Seeds, or find dried anise hyssop from United States herb farms including Zack Woods Herb Farm and iFarm. The Agastache species gently stimulate digestive function, ease bloat and spasms, and support the immune system while providing sweet anise-fennel-honey-minty flavor.

Fennel seeds are more widely available and can also be used, acting more prominently on gas and spasms with similar flavor. If you don’t like licorice-y flavors, try mint, holy basil, cinnamon, ginger, or cardamom instead.

Now, let’s put together a delicious gut-healing tea with these herbs and actions using plants you could easily grow in your garden!

Gut-Healing Tummy Tea

To make the gut-healing tea blend, follow these simple steps:

Ingredients :

• 1 ginger root, sliced
• 1 tsp turmeric powder
• 1 tbsp peppermint leaves
• 1 tbsp licorice root
• 4 cups of water

Instructions :

Bring the water to a boil in a pot.

Add the ginger slices, turmeric powder, peppermint leaves, and licorice root to the water.

Reduce the heat and let the mixture simmer for 10-15 minutes.

Strain the tea and serve hot.

Alternatively, you can use a tea bag filled with the gut-healing blend and steep it in hot water for 5-10 minutes.

Enjoy your gut-healing tea blend as part of a healthy diet and lifestyle to improve your digestive health naturally.