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I've been trying to drink more tea recently. Green tea, chamomile, etc mostly to help with stress and to sleep better. I see a lot of people praising tea and many seem to swear to by it. I was just wondering from your personal experiences if you actually saw the benefits you wanted with tea. If you drink tea for anything other than just taste or enjoyment, what do you drink it for and how successful has it been for you?
Chamomile tea is known for helping with sleep. Valerian root tea is known as a de-stresser, if you can get past the stress of enduring the taste of it (it's rather unpleasant).
However, neither are useful for sleep if you're drinking it too close to bedtime, because you end up waking up in the middle of the night needing to go to the bathroom
I drink black tea often, but I always usually add cinnamon, cloves, and/or star anise with milk and sugar or honey. It's probably not making me feel any better, but I just like the taste. I would like to start drinking straight tea more seriously over coffee eventually, I just find it harder to enjoy although I'm coming around more all the time.
I drink a lot of tea. I find its one of the best things to soothe me when I'm having an anxiety attack. Black or green tea usually, no milk or sugar. Chamomile in the evenings sometimes. But just tea, any kind, at any point in the day, relaxes you, soothes you, it makes you sit down and take some time. Its like getting a warm hug from the inside
However, neither are useful for sleep if you're drinking it too close to bedtime, because you end up waking up in the middle of the night needing to go to the bathroom
Tea is a diuretic naturally, and will do this to you. Also check out how much caffiene is in the tea you drink; black teas often have more caffiene that coffee does. Not good for sleep!
To the OP: I once ate something that had gone bad, and got violently ill from it. This was some 20 years ago. I literally could not hold a thing on my stomach. For two days I ate and drank nothing. On the third day, my wife was brewing some black tea (she's a heavy tea drinker). She handed me a cup, black. Surprise! By drinking it slowly, I was able to get the whole cup down. I couldn't even drink plain water!
Like a lot of people I went to tea when I gave up coffee. Now, several years later, I drink one cup of tea in the morning just to have something hot, and that's it. Don't even finish it most of the time. I'm not a big fan of tea in general. Not enough flavor to be interesting.
Tea doesn't sit right in my stomach, and also makes me thirsty. Certain teas I do like, once in a blue moon:
1. Whatever is the "standard" tea they serve you at Chinese restaurants. Yes I know it's Chinese tea :O but I have no idea which variety. When I'm dining in at a Chinese restaurant, I always have one of their little teacups with tea, black, 1 sugar.
2. Earl Grey. In a normal sized teacup, black, 1 or 2 sugars depending on my mood.
3. Cardomom tea. This is actually normal orange pekoe, with a tiny pinch of powdered cardamom mixed into it. Black, no sugar. It's the only hot beverage I will drink unsweetened.
Tea is a diuretic naturally, and will do this to you. Also check out how much caffiene is in the tea you drink; black teas often have more caffiene that coffee does. Not good for sleep!
To the OP: I once ate something that had gone bad, and got violently ill from it. This was some 20 years ago. I literally could not hold a thing on my stomach. For two days I ate and drank nothing. On the third day, my wife was brewing some black tea (she's a heavy tea drinker). She handed me a cup, black. Surprise! By drinking it slowly, I was able to get the whole cup down. I couldn't even drink plain water!
My mom was a big believer in hot plain tea and dry toast for tummy upsets.
I love my Osmanthus Oolong tea, oolong, jasmine, white, and green tea.. all cold brewed. Just stick in refrig with tea bag or loose tea, and you get 10 folds the amount of antioxidents.
Rooibos is delish too!
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