I love flax tea, and it is so nice to drink, as long as you don’t make it too gunky! But to be honest it is that mucousy part which is what is so good about it. It does have its draw back, which is that it can make the cooker into a wreck if you let it boil over. But saying that it does chip off!
I make flax tea when I am feeling my body is tired, needs a bit of loving, and to feel a level of comfort. It is a really nice change from other drinks, I don’t drink tea and coffee, mainly water and my own picked herbal teas, and this is a drink which is truly beneficial to the body, I often make a huge pan, and put it in a thermos flask to drink for the rest of the day.
The great thing about flax tea is that it holds the water through your body, gives your body a water message, and your body probably needs it. We really don’t drink enough water, drinking caffeine laden drinks instead which dehydrate our bodies, but this is truly hydrating, and can be a god send on days when you are feeling stressed. The other great things about flax tea is that it holds onto the EFAs in the flax and so unlike most drinks is truly helping your body, flax tea is hugely beneficial for soothing and cleansing the kidneys and the bladder.
I make my flax tea by soaking 2 tablespoons of flax seeds overnight, then bringing them in a large saucepan in the morning to a simmer for 30 minutes, turn it off, and put it into my flask. I used to drink gallons of tea at one stage, and even R is giving up his tea to drink this, with a bit of vanilla pod put into it, it really is lovely.
July 17, 2008 at 4:37 pm |
Thanks for the informative blog post on flax tea. I used a combination of flax seed oil and cottage cheese to help treat my dog (who had lymphoma). Though he finally did succumb to the cancer, he led a much longer and more vital life than expected.
July 17, 2008 at 7:11 pm |
Thanks for the comment, flax oil and cottage cheese is Johanna Budwigs work, and her book Flax Oil a true aid to healing is worth a read. It is important with EFA’s to have them with protein, which is why she says to have it with cottage cheese. I don’t eat cheese, so I have it with bee pollen, another superb natural food. We have flax oil every day, R has fish oils, and our dog FD1 has a mixture of the 2. She recently became injured and the addition of oils we believe helped the inflammation in her leg to go down. D