Tea Blends for Anxiety & Stress | Teas you can grow at home

/ Chelsea, The Cottage Vegetable

These herbs discussed below can help your cortisol levels, help your nervous system, relax your mood, and can even help with some of the other side effects of stress such as low appetite.

Here I go into three easy tea blends to try and how these teas helps.

Disclaimer Page This post is not for diagnosis purposes; please only use this for educational purposes to kick start your own path towards good health. Please seek advice from your physician before starting any homeopathic treatment to see if you would have any interactions with current medications, allergies or if it needs to be avoided during pregnancy.

Tea Blends for Anxiety and Stress

Most of these herbs can be grown in your garden at home.

Three, easy tea blends to try include:

  • Lemon Balm & Chamomile
  • Ashwagandha & Mint
  • Lavender & Lemon Verbena

Lemon Balm and Chamomile

Lemon Balm

Grows similar to mint, although I would say not as invasive. Lemon balm is also said to help improve mental performances, even in children.

Chamomile

Usually gets confused with feverfew. Chamomile flowers are tiny little white, daisy looking flowers that smell like apple. Chamomile is the one that will help you sleep.

Ashwagandha and Mint

Ashwagandha

The heavy hitter here and worth looking into. Taken in as tea, this herb can directly control the body’s response to stress, cortisol levels, and your fight or flight performance. It is also stated to help with adrenal fatigue. Leaves or roots can be used.

Mint

Added to this blend to help with gastrointestinal aspects of stress. So, although mint won’t directly help your anxiety it will help with appetite or gastric distress from it. Poor diet is another factor to the wear and tear of stress and should be acknowledged. Mint can help you gain an appetite back if stress has suppressed it. Mint is also here to help with smell and taste of the tea.

Lavender and Lemon Verbena

If you appreciate aromatherapy, then this blend is for you.

Lavender

Known to help calm and relax you through smell alone. Lavender will specifically help lower blood pressure and help reduce excess fluid buildup. Both side effects of stress and anxiety and important to fight the wear and tear of stress.

Lemon Verbena

Bright and lemony this herb will help balance the lavender in the tea blend while helping with anxiety and gastric distress.

How Tea Helps with Stress or Anxiety

Stress and anxiety seem to be a common fallacy we all deal with.

Let me first point out that stress and anxiety is truly eased through approaching it on multiple fronts.

I am not one to want to sell the ‘one pill cure all’ ideology that our society has latched onto.

This method of approaching your own health simply does not work.

Not even tea can ‘cure’ stress; however, it’s going to help quite a bit if practiced regularly.

Stress that is out of control for long periods of time can effects all body systems; it can damage your heart, effect your endocrine system, and have poor results on your memory and fight or flight responses.

As a mom, I can also say long term stress has poor effects on our kids also.

Taking care of stress on a daily basis is essential if you want any sort of quality of life.

Small acts such as drinking quality herbal teas can help and can help tremendously.

In this list, some herbs are considered to be a nervine that directly work with the nervous system and others offers calming aromatherapy.

Some herbs for stress and anxiety actually help with sleep which in turn helps with your body’s response to stress more long term.

Some herbs will actually help indirectly with some of the side effects of stress.

Be willing to research these herbs and understand if they are right for you.

Everyone is different and some have allergies.

But this is your responsibility, not mine.

That’s It!

All these herbs can be grown in your kitchen garden in most climates.

Enjoy!

Happy Gardening!

Chelsea, The Cottage Vegetable

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