Cleanse Your Lungs with This Tea Blend

Studies have shown that even ex-smokers that have renounced smoking for several years can still have difficulty breathing due to persistent pulmonary lesions. And even if you don’t smoke and never will, you are still exposed every day to a polluted air that can negatively affect the health of your respiratory system: second-hand smoke, industrial smog, exhaust gases or toxic vapors from household chemicals. That’s why it is always a good idea to take care of your lungs, and this tea blend is one of the best natural ways to do it.

Coltsfoot tea

Ingredients and preparation

• Pine buds
• Plantain
• Thyme
• Coltsfoot
• Mullen
• Licorice
• Eucalyptus
• Cowslip
• Elderflowers
• Wild pansy
• Angelica
• Ginger
• Oregano

Mix the herbs in equal quantities (it’s not a big problem if you don’t have them all, just use what you got) and keep the mixture in a closed jar. Add 3 teaspoons of the mixture in 300 ml of hot boiled water and let steep for 2 hours in a thermos bottle. Sift and drink before bedtime, for at least 2 months.

You can also try…

• A tea blend from wild rose, ginger and mint, to eliminate the excessive mucus.
• Fresh grapes juice, 1 glass a day, to detoxify and tonify the lungs.
• Fresh carrot juice, 2 glasses a day, before breakfast and lunch, to help alkalize the body.
• Fresh blueberry juice, 1 glass before bedtime, to combat the germs responsible for chronic subclinical pulmonary infections.
• Fresh lemonade, 1 glass before breakfast.
• Water, at least 1.5-2 l a day.