In life, a good sleep is one of the most naturally refreshing phenomena humans can boast of. The sad reality is that millions across the globe struggle to get good sleep. At night, they stare painfully at the ceiling, awake begging vehemently to drift into sleep. Such difficulty in sleep could be from accumulated stress, worry or even hormonally inspired. Reports have revealed that more than 40% percent of Americans, for example, struggle to sleep well.
This is unfortunate as lack of good sleep further leads to a myriad of other problems like depression, uncontrolled weight gain, and mood swings. However, it is more relieving to hear that tea can help you improve your sleeping habits. There are some wondrous combinations of tea that are very effective in helping you sleep better. Let us, therefore, look at some of them! Also if you haven’t read our last article about how to improve sleeping quality by drinking tea, please click here.
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NO.1 Sweet Sleep Tea Combo
As ridiculous as the name may sound, this is one immaculate blend of tea for you to improve your sleep. Taken preferably at bedtime, this tea recipe will help you enjoy a nourishing sleep. You can choose to take this tea recipe with some shortbread if possible. Get your ingredients here!
✎Food Material☘️: You will need peppermint leaves, rooibos tea, Chamomile, and possibly some vanilla essence if possible.
☞Follow these steps ٩(ˊᗜˋ*)
- Step 1: Add one and half teaspoon of your tea to boiling water.
- Step 2: Add your other ingredients like your chamomile, as well as your vanilla essence.
- Step 3: After this, you can steep for about 4 minutes.
- Step 4: Serve and enjoy possibly with shortbread.
NO.2 Natural Banana Tea
This doesn’t sound any better than the previous tea combination, right? Well, it is equally amusing that this tea combo is astonishingly effective in giving you that good sleep you have been aching for. The natural banana tea is just perfect for those who face an intense struggle falling asleep.
The nutritional composition of the natural banana tea recipe enables it to stand out of the crowd for distinction. First, the banana peels in this tea recipe wealthily contribute magnesium and potassium to the mixture. Thus we see that the natural banana tea presents a very affordable way to fortify our body with potassium. More than this, the natural banana tea is very relaxing, especially for your blood vessels. Calmed and soothed, you can fall asleep more easily. Get your ingredients here!
✎Food Material☘️: Here to make the natural banana tea, we will certainly need one raw banana, a sprinkle of cinnamon if you choose to, and then say a pot of water.
☞Follow these steps ٩(ˊᗜˋ*)
- Step 1: You start by boiling your water.
- Step 2: Cut both ends of your raw banana off and introduce the banana into the boiling water.
- Step 3: Serve and enjoy.
You can drink this tea recipe say 50 minutes before going to bed to improve sleep.
NO.3 Herbal Bedtime Tea
The herbal bedtime tea is another worthy solution for insomnia that we will be considering in this list. Here, it is the beauty of tea fusing with herbs to get the job done.
Thus this recipe is made from the masterful combination of herbs like valerian, chamomile, passionflower as well as oatstraw. Such herbal union (making this tea recipe) makes it massively effective in getting you to sleep healthily. More than this, the sleep induced by the tea recipes tend to be deeper and more relieving. Get your ingredients here!
✎Food Material☘️: To make this herbal tea potion, you will need 3 parts chamomile flowers, 1 part oatstraw, a quarter part valerian root, a part passionflower, a part catnip as well as 2 parts lemon balm. If you deem it necessary, you can add hop flowers.
☞Follow these steps ٩(ˊᗜˋ*)
- Step 1: Get a large bowl and mix all your ingredients together adequately.
- Step 2: Brew a cup from it using your teapot and tea infusers.
- Step 3: After brewing, store the cup in a relatively dark place to cool for about 6 months.
- Step 4: After that, it is ready to serve for sleep. You can take a cup of this mixture 30 minutes before you to go to bed to enjoy an amazing sleep.
NO.4 Genmaicha Tea for Sleep
This wholesomely Japanese genmaicha tea is a very potent herbal tea solution to sleeping irregularities. Genmaicha has a history of being taken to cure sleeping disorders.
This capacity stems from the composition of very powerful neurotransmitters like GABA which help to calm you down getting you well relaxed. When GAGA neurotransmitters are released just before bedtime, your brain goes into a relaxation state toning down your level of alertness. This way, you definitely find it easier to let off all the pent up stress and energy drifting peacefully into a healthy sleep. Get your ingredients here!
NO.5 Lemon Balm Tea
This is definitely one tea recipe you should be gulping amicably if you are having sleeping issues. For sure insomniacs will attest to the amazing potency of this tea combo. More than been very helpful in curing wrong sleeping patterns, the lemon balm tea is very effective as well in curing anxiety, cold sores as well as indigestion.
The Lemon Balm Tea gains more efficacy when you further bring in more herbs like valerian into the scenery to buttress the sleep-inducing capacity. Get your ingredients here!
✎Food Material☘️: You will need some fresh leaves of lemon balm. Alternatively, you can equally make do with 1 tsp of dried lemon balm. Of course, water is essential to, say 4 cups will do.
☞Follow these steps ٩(ˊᗜˋ*)
- Step 1: Get your water in a pot and boil for some time.
- Step2: After 6 minutes, add your fresh leaves to the pot.
- Step 3: Next you will have to steep for about 35 minutes. You can otherwise choose to even steep overnight if that is more befitting for you.
- Step 4: It is all done and you can now serve and enjoy.
NO.6 Chamomile Mixed with Turmeric Tea
Of course, you would expect that by the time you conjoin chamomile with turmeric tea, you are unleashing an awesome combination with an immense capacity to induce calm. Naturally, chamomile on its own is esteemed for its soothing capacities. The way you feel calm after a cup is definitely worth pointing.
A perfect beverage to wind down after a hefty day at work. When mixed with turmeric, this tea portion will not only help you sleep better, it would even go on to cure you of inflammation as well as drop your cholesterol. Therefore if in addition to insomnia, you are also waging war against diabetes, then the tea combination of chamomile and turmeric tea is one very virile remedy you can try out. Get your ingredients here!
✎Food Material☘️: To begin, you will need drinking water, 1/4 teaspoon of ground cinnamon, 2 teaspoons of cold-pressed coconut oil, 1 1/2 cup of unsweetened plant milk (the choice is yours to make).
If you choose to you can add say a pinch of black pepper, 1/2 teaspoon of ground turmeric, 2 teaspoons of cold-pressed coconut oil, as well as 2 tablespoons of dried chamomile in a tea bag (alternatively you can sufficiently do with 2 chamomile tea sachets).
To improve the taste, you can add a tablespoon of raw honey – you can also use manuka honey if that is fine with you.
☞Follow these steps ٩(ˊᗜˋ*)
- Step 1: Get your water in a saucepan and boil for say 4 minutes.
- Step 2: Alright, now take the heat off your saucepan and add your chamomile.
- Step 3: Next you will have to steep for about 5 minutes.
- Step 4: Take off your chamomile and stir in milk.
- Step 5: You can further add your ginger, turmeric, cinnamon, honey, and your black pepper if you have got it.
- Step 6: To enhance the taste, you can add more honey and coconut oil.
- Step 7: Heat the mixture a bit for 4 minutes.
Now it is all set. Serve and enjoy!
NO.7 Lavender Tea
You may not easily know but the Lavender tea recipe is one strong combination to healthily send you off to sleep. Well, we will agree here that not everyone adores the smell of lavender. It is definitely not as nice smelling as rose right? But if you look at the medicinal properties of lavender, you certainly will have no choice but to fall in love with it.
A cup of lavender has astonishing soothing abilities and will help you calm down. A cup of lavender tea has this stunning way of introducing peace to your mind. But lavender tea does more than just inhibiting insomnia.
Lavender tea is also potent for treating asthma, cold and even bronchitis. It is also known that lavender is popularly resorted to in need of combating cough and a host of respiratory problems. Lavender tea goes further to ramp up your pace of healing when you have wounds and sores while still helping you recover from fever. In face of all this plethora of heartwarming benefits of lavender tea, let us primarily look at how we can prepare the lavender tea as a sleep-inducing concoction. Get your ingredients here!
✎Food Material☘️: You will need about 3 tbsp of fresh Lavender flowers. In the case where you choose to go with dried lavender flower, then you will need about 1 1/2 Tablespoons. You will also need honey and a bit of lemon if desired.
☞Follow these steps ٩(ˊᗜˋ*)
- Step 1: To start with, you will have to get your flowers into a teapot. By now, we also believe you have already procured your boiling water.
- Step 2: Now add your hot water.
- Step 3: Next you will have to steep for about 5 minutes.
- Step 4: You will have to remove the flower buds so you would need to first pour into cup strainings.
It is all done now and you can serve with sliced lemon or honey for your relish.
So here we are. We have emphatically learned some amazing tea combinations that can help us sleep better. So when you want to enjoy a nice time on the bed, gulp a cup of these tea recipes and you are good to go!
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