Health Benefits of Essiac Tea

People who have been drinking Essiac tea have been reporting health benefits from this practice for years.

Essiac tea's "claim to fame" is it's reported ability to help fight cancer. However, Essiac tea is not a one punch fighter and offers several health benefits for those who are seeking health improvement using all natural methods like herbal tea.

Essiac tea has been reported to offer some of the following benefits.

1. Helping cleanse the blood.
2. Normalize the body’s enzymes.
3. Assist the liver in producing lecithin which helps protect nerve fibers.
4. Increase red blood cell production.
5. Nourish and stimulates the brain along with the nervous system.
6. Help increase bone and joint strength.

Essiac tea offers a variety of benefits for those who are seeking a healthier lifestyle or help with one of those areas mentioned above.

Ideally Essiac tea should be drank on an empty stomach at night about two hours or so after eating.

Proper preparation is a key when drinking Essiac tea because if you prepare it using the wrong herbs or get pre-filled bags containing the wrong herbs the tea is said to be of
little to no use.

Essiac tea comes in a variety of forms. You can buy it in bulk, in a bottle, in a packet, or you can buy it pre-packaged in tea bags.

You want to avoid air, heat, and light when storing your tea. These elements will effect the teas effectiveness making it less effective and hurting the power of the herbs used in the tea formula.

Storing the tea, in whatever form you decide to buy, in a cool, dark, and dry area will help you achieve the best results.

To sum up what we've covered so far, Essiac tea offers a wide range of health benefits and comes in a variety of packages from large bulk bags to average tea bags making essiac tea a nice option for those people looking to increase their health through herbal teas.

The Benefits of Essiac Tea

How Do We Describe Essiac?
The basis of Essiac is a collection of herbs which are integrated together to make the drink that we all commonly known as tea. Traditionally, this would consist of the root from Indian rhubarb, burdock root, elm inner bark (slippery) and also sheep sorrel. Further to this, later recipes also included the addition of red clover, blessed thistle and even watercress; the end product being Flor Essence.

So What Can Do Get From Essiac Tea?
Essiac tea is said to be beneficial in a variety of ways and is even claimed to help with the treatment of cancer. I understand there is actually research being carried to try and substantiate these claims. A nurse from Canada named Rene Caisse discovered Essiac tea and named the tea after her own surname. If you read it backwards you will find that it spells 'Essiac'.

How Do I Make The Tea?
The process for making and preparing the tea is not so difficult and only requires that you follow some simple instructions. It doesn't take long to put together and the ingredients used are minimal. Commonly, Essiac tea is used from time to time for not just the claims about it being able to treat cancer but for general wellbeing and also to help heal additional ailments.

The method of preparing the tea is firstly finding a couple of steel pots which will need to be stainless steel and should measure four gallons and three gallons with a lid. You will need a spatula, a funnel, a fine-mesh double strainer which should all be stainless steel; a minimum of twelve, sixteen ounce glass bottles which can be sealed with air tight caps and additionally you will need to have two gallons of distilled water that is free from sodium.

Ingredients
Take four ounces of powdered slippery elm bark, one ounce of powdered turkey rhubarb, six and a half cups of finely cut burdock root and also sixteen ounces of powdered wild sheep sorrel. Now you need to fully mix up these ingredients and then take the distilled water that is sodium free, put it in the four gallon pot with the lid added and bring to the boil.

Now, take 1 cup of the Essiac mix and stir this in to your pot, remember to put the lid back onto your pot after you've done this and carry on boiling the pot for approximately another ten minutes. You then turn off your hob and take a scraping instrument to scrape the sides of the pot. Give the formula a good stir, replace the lid back on to the pot and leave it that way for half a day or so. Then switch your hob back on and fully heat for twenty minutes.

The preparation is almost finished and all that needs doing is to turn your hob off and strain the mixture into the other three gallon pot. You will need to give the five gallon pot a good clean now as you will be yet again running the mixture through the strainer and back into the larger pot. After this you can now use your funnel to empty the hot mix into your bottles. Do this right away and remember to secure the caps tightly. Finally Leave the bottles to drop in temperature, ensure the caps are still tight and then refrigerate your newly created Essiac Tea.

Caution
You should always consult your Doctor or other qualified health professional before embarking on any homemade tea venture. Pregnant women in particular should be cautious of such activities.