Chickweed Tea: Powerful Homeopathic Healing
Author: Linda Woodland
If you're a gardener, you probably think of chickweed as just that - a weed. Chickweed is an
extremely common, hardy plant that grows rapidly all over the world. Chickweed gets its
common name from its attractiveness to birds - they love to eat the seeds and leaves alike,
and chickweed seed is often used as chicken feed. While it is considered a nuisance to
some, chickweed is actually an edible herb with many homeopathic healing properties.
Made into a tea, chickweed can provide health benefits and cure minor ailments. It even
tastes good! Here's how to make and use chickweed tea at home.
Chickweed tea can be made from either dry or fresh chickweed. There are several brands
of dry chickweed tea commercially available, but you can easily make your own. To dry
chickweed, simply bundle it with string and hang it in a cool, airy location to dry as you
would any herb. Once it is completely dry, it can be stored just like any other dried herb. To
brew chickweed tea from dry leaves or tea bags, simply place the tea bag or a tea ball filled
with dried chickweed leaves in a mug, then add boiling water and allow the chickweed to
steep for 3 minutes (or more, depending on your strength preference). Fresh chickweed
leaves can be used to make tea in the same way, but use double the quantity and make
sure to muddle or bruise the leaves before the water is added, to better extract their flavor
and healing properties.
Chickweed tea is delicious to drink and has many uses as an internal medicine. It is a
natural diuretic, and due to its ability to stimulate digestion and metabolism, is often used as
a weight loss tool. It can help alleviate symptoms of rheumatism, fatigue and constipation.
As a singer, I have used chickweed tea as a remedy for minor coughs and other respiratory
illnesses - it's better than any cough syrup I've tried, and it doesn't have the unfortunate
drying side effects, either.
Author: Linda Woodland
If you're a gardener, you probably think of chickweed as just that - a weed. Chickweed is an
extremely common, hardy plant that grows rapidly all over the world. Chickweed gets its
common name from its attractiveness to birds - they love to eat the seeds and leaves alike,
and chickweed seed is often used as chicken feed. While it is considered a nuisance to
some, chickweed is actually an edible herb with many homeopathic healing properties.
Made into a tea, chickweed can provide health benefits and cure minor ailments. It even
tastes good! Here's how to make and use chickweed tea at home.
Chickweed tea can be made from either dry or fresh chickweed. There are several brands
of dry chickweed tea commercially available, but you can easily make your own. To dry
chickweed, simply bundle it with string and hang it in a cool, airy location to dry as you
would any herb. Once it is completely dry, it can be stored just like any other dried herb. To
brew chickweed tea from dry leaves or tea bags, simply place the tea bag or a tea ball filled
with dried chickweed leaves in a mug, then add boiling water and allow the chickweed to
steep for 3 minutes (or more, depending on your strength preference). Fresh chickweed
leaves can be used to make tea in the same way, but use double the quantity and make
sure to muddle or bruise the leaves before the water is added, to better extract their flavor
and healing properties.
Chickweed tea is delicious to drink and has many uses as an internal medicine. It is a
natural diuretic, and due to its ability to stimulate digestion and metabolism, is often used as
a weight loss tool. It can help alleviate symptoms of rheumatism, fatigue and constipation.
As a singer, I have used chickweed tea as a remedy for minor coughs and other respiratory
illnesses - it's better than any cough syrup I've tried, and it doesn't have the unfortunate
drying side effects, either.