I’m currently drinking tea. Chinese white tea. I may or may not have butchered it with some cinnamon, but it’s too hot to tell right now. I’ve also bought a cool looking Chinese (I think) teapot, so I want to step up my tea game.
Are there any tea lovers here? And if so, what do you recommend?
One tea I drink a lot of is licorice root heavy tea, usually advertised as throat soother tea. I talk/rap/sing/scream a lot and it helps a lot and it has a really weird taste that I love bunches. I don’t know if one should or shouldn’t drink it just for hoo-ha’s though.
Licorice root can raise your blood pressure so exercise caution and use a sphygmomanometer if you’ve got one lying around.
Oh wow, that’s weird because I definitely have a higher blood pressure the last few years…around the same time I started drinking it. I thought it was my salt intake! I used to have very low blood pressure so it’s just normal now, but wow, thank you for the tip, it certainly doesn’t say that anywhere on the box.
You also shouldn’t take it with certain diuretics. Herbs and supplements are things you should use caution with in general. I know I read on my own licorice root tea box that it shouldn’t be taken for more than maybe four weeks at a time, too. So give it a break for a week every so often, but if your blood pressure is just normal it’s probably not a problem.