Fresh Ginger Mint Tea

Fresh Ginger Mint Tea: 
Benefits and How to make it

Home remedy for cold and cough: 

Fresh ginger mint tea can be used as home remedy for treating cold, cough and flu-like symptoms. Ginger in the tea can help you to reduce cold and flu like symptoms. Besides the fresh mint leaves help to overcome the cough and relief of respiratory congestion by opening up the nose, throat, and lung.

Support digestion: 
In Asia ginger has been used as digestion aid for thousand years. This function of ginger has been proved in many clinic researches. 

Besides mint leaves and honey in this tea can check tummy aches and stomach ulcers.

Reduce the nausea and vomiting. 

Ginger and mint leaves can reduce the nausea and vomiting.

Reduce the pain and refresh your mind: Fresh ginger has been proved to reduce the pain in exercise if you use it daily in 11 continuous days.

De-toxic your body and improve skin condition:
If you want to use this drink as a natural de-toxic drink, you can put more the mint leaves to enhance this benefits. Mint leaves can reduce irritated bowel syndromes and cleanses the stomach. 
Moreover, mint leaves contain high amount of antiseptic qualities and menthol which can make your skin brighter.

How to make fresh ginger mint tea?

Ingredient for one cup

2 gram of ginger 
2 tsp. honey
Fresh mint leaves (If you do not have fresh mint leaves you can also use the dried mint leaves too.)

And now here we go:

Step 1: You should prepare 2 gram of ginger first. You can cut or chop ginger into small pieces or press it. But with me I always press ginger because we can exploit or take more ginger's water and nutrient than cut it.

Step 2: Put ginger, mint leaves and 2 tsp. of honey into a cup or a glass like this.I used my home grown winter mint leaves to make this drink so the leaves look a little bit small. However it is not easy to find fresh mint leaves in Finland in winter time and they look very nice.

Step 3: Pour 150-200 ml boiling water into a cup and wait for 6 minutes. But why do I need to wait 6 minutes for brewing this tea? Because the best time for brewing fresh mint leaves is 6 minutes and ginger is 5 minutes. So 6 minutes is the ideal time for both mint leaves and ginger to totally brewed.

This is fresh brewing ginger mint tea. You can see a light yellow color from pressed ginger and green color of mint leaves. Fresh ginger mint tea has a slight smell of mint leaves and sweet and warm taste of ginger and honey. You can have 2 cup of fresh ginger mint tea in a day for reduce the cold symptoms or de-toxic. 

But do not drink more than 2 cups a day because our body can only consume maximum 5 gram of ginger a day.