Honeysuckle, monk fruit and chrysanthemum tea is ideal for autumn and winter. This herbal tea benefits the throat and lung according to Traditional Chinese Medicine. Naturally sweetened by monk fruit, it is completely keto and vegan compliant.
My son has been sick with a sore throat and a cough. I made this honeysuckle, monk fruit and chrysanthemum tea for him to drink. If you have children, you know how important it is to have herbal remedies that actually taste good. Monk fruit is naturally sweeter than sugar, but without the carbs and calories. This honeysuckle, monk fruit and chrysanthemum throat tea is sweet and delicious.
You will like these other natural food remedies for the winter season that also taste amazing.
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Honeysuckle, Monk Fruit and Chrysanthemum Tea Ingredients
This herbal tea uses only 3 ingredients and is extremely easy to make. For this recipe, I used all 3 herbs in dehydrated form.
Honeysuckle (金银花)
In Chinese medicine, honeysuckle flowers are used to clear heat and remove toxins. This means honeysuckle flowers have antibacterial and antiviral properties to clear inflammatory and infectious conditions. It benefits the respiratory and digestive systems.
Monk Fruit (罗汉果)
Monk fruit is sweet and fragrant and has high nutritional and medicinal value. It’s commonly used in Chinese medicine to stimulate mucus secretion to moisten the throat and lung, and to stimulate insulin secretion to regulate blood glucose. Being low calorie and 200 times sweeter than sugar, it is an ideal for diabetic patients.
Chrysanthemum (菊花)
Chrysanthemum is well-known for its cooling properties that help to decrease heat in the lung according to traditional Chinese medicine, to treat common cold and upper respiratory infection. It can also treat cloudy vision and ease eye stress.
Tips for Making Herbal Tea
- When making herbal tea, there is no need to wash the herbs.
- In order to fully extract the compounds from the monk fruit, crush the monk fruit in to small pieces.
- To get the most flavour and benefits from a batch of herbs, boil it for the second time.
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Honeysuckle, monk fruit and chrysanthemum tea is ideal for autumn and winter. This herbal tea benefits the throat and lung according to Traditional Chinese Medicine. Naturally sweetened by monk fruit, it is completely keto and vegan compliant.
- 1/2 dried monk fruit
- 1/4 cup honeysuckle flower
- 15 chrysanthemum flower
- 4 cup water
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Crush half of monk fruit into small pieces.
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Add monk fruit pieces, honeysuckle flowers, chrysanthemum flowers, and water into a sauce pan.
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Bring the sauce pan to a boil. Keep the lid on and simmer for 30 mins.
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Strain the tea through a sieve. Serve hot.
- Boiled herbs can be used to make a second batch of tea. Add 2 cups of water to the cooked herbs, bring to a boil and simmer for 15 minutes.
Such a wonderful combination of flavors! I can’t wait to share this.
In order to cure a blood infection, I recently underwent an intravenous antiobiotic treatment over a period of three weeks. My infection is now cured but I must now recover from the damage caused by prolonged injection of antibiotics. Are there any foods that you would recommend to replace the good bacteria which was also killed off along with the bad bacteria?
Where do you find fresh monk fruit? I’ve only seen the dried monk fruit in Chinese stores. Can you use the monk fruit sweetener that is available in some grocery stores now?
You would use dried monk fruit in this recipe, as you can see in the ingredients section. So the dried ones you see in Chinese stores are exactly what you need. No, I definitely would not use monk fruit sweetener. Monk fruit is an important herb for healing respiratory illness and a key ingredient in this tea, not only for its sweetness. Hope this helps!