Improve your digestive health 

Most of these teas can be bought from local supermarkets or health shops. However, you can make them yourself.

Action: Carminative, anti-spasmodic, parasiticide. This helps ease intestinal colic; flatulence, indigestion and bloating.

Dosage: Infusion. Pour a cup of boiling water onto 1 tsp of the freshly crushed seeds and leave to infuse for 20 minutes. Drink 3 times a day. Take ½ hr before meal to treat flatulence or abdominal pain.

Action: Helps stimulate digestion, relieves slow and painful digestion, bloating, constipation

Dosage: To be taken as a tablet.

Action: Helps stimulate digestion, warms the stomach, eases nausea, vomiting and sour belching, gurgling abdomen, flatulence, distension of the abdomen and appetite loss.

Dosage: Infusion. Pour a cup of boiling water onto 1 tsp of freshly crushed seeds and leave to infuse for 10 -15 mins. Drink 3 times a day. Drink ½ hr before your meal to treat flatulence or loss of appetite.

Action: Anti-spasmodic, carminative, anti-inflammatory, analgesic. An excellent sedative used to treat insomnia, indigestion and inflammation such as gastritis.

Dosage: Infusion. Pour a cup of boiling water onto 2 tsp of dried flowers and allow to infuse for 10 minutes. If you suffer from digestive problems this tea should be had after meal.

Action: Helps detox and bile flow, reduces liver congestion, jaundice and constipation. Eases indigestion, liverish and headache.

Dosage: Decoction. Put 2-3 tsp of the root into one cup of water, bring to boil and gently simmer for 10 -15 mins. Drink 3 times a day.

Actions: An excellent stomach and intestinal remedy, which relieves flatus and colic, also stimulates digestion and appetite.  

Dosage: Infusion. Pour a cup of boiling water onto 1 – 2 tsps of slightly crushed seeds and leave to infuse for 10 minutes. Drink 3 times a day. To ease flatulence, take a cup ½ and hr before meal.

Actions: Excellent warming circulatory stimulant, useful when dealing with cold extremities. Helps ease travel and morning sickness and menstrual pain.

Dosage: Infusion. Pour a cup of boiling water onto 1 tsp of crushed fresh root and let it infuse for 5 minutes.

Actions: Anti-emetic, anti-spasmodic, anti-inflammatory. Peppermint is one of the best carminative agents available. It has a relaxing effect on the muscles. It helps relieve intestinal colic and flatus.

Dosage: Can be taken as a peppermint oil capsule. Infusion. Pour a cup of boiling water onto a heaped tsp of the dried herb and leave to infuse for 10 minutes.