How to Quit Smoking Using Herbal Tea
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Stop smoking naturally
In April 2000, my husband made the decision to stop smoking.
He chose to use branded micro-tabs, but wanted something more natural to help take away the cravings. What I found for him was an herbal blend to help ease the feelings of nervousness and anxiety that come when one stops smoking.
This particular blend also helps to clear the lungs of impurities from smoking and it helps to rebuild trace vitamins and minerals in your body that you may be missing due to years of smoking.
Are you a smoker? Are you wanting to quit?
This tea could help by reducing the anxiety and irritability associated with quitting.
So, what's stopping you from stopping now?
We have finally started to notice that there is real curative value in local herbs and remedies. In fact, we are also becoming aware that there are little or no side effects to most natural remedies, and that they are often more effective than Western medicine.
-- Anne Wilson Schaef
Herbal Tea ingredients
* 3 parts lemongrass
* 3 parts dandelion leaf
* 2 parts raspberry leaf
* 2 parts red clover
* 2 parts alfalfa
* 2 parts peppermint
* 2 parts mullein leaf
* 1 part skullcap
* 1 part catmint
Making the Herbal Tea
Mix all ingredients thoroughly. Store in a tightly covered jar.
Brew:
2 teaspoons mixture per cup. Let steep 10 - 15 minutes. Drink 1 - 4 cups per day for cravings. Sweeten with sugar or honey if desired.
“It didn't stop the cravings, I just didn't get the urge so much to kill someone.”
My husband after asking him if the herbal stop smoking tea was helping
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Lemongrass - calms your nerves
Cymbopogen citratus
Other namesGuatemala , West Indian , or Madagascar lemongrass
Medicinal Uses
Lemongrass is used as a fragrance and flavoring, and in folk medicine, as an antispasmodic, hypotensive, anticonvulsant, analgesic, antiemetic, antitussive, antirheumatic, antiseptic and as treatment for nervous and GI disorders and fevers.
It can clears confusion, lessen stress and reduce mental fatigue.
Dandelion leaf - liver and kidney detox
Taraxacum officinale
Other namesPiss-a-bed, blowball, lion's tooth, pissenlit
Medicinal uses
Dandelion stimulates liver cell metabolism and is a gentle liver and digestive tonic. It is also a mild diuretic and is high in potassium salts and iron as well as Vitamins A,B,C, and D.
"The Dandelion's pallid tube
Astonishes the Grass,
And Winter instantly becomes
An infinite Alas-
The tube uplifts a signal Bud
And then a shouting Flower,-
The Proclamation of the Suns
That sepulture is o'er."
-Emily Dickinson
Raspberry Leaf - cleansing tonic
Rubus idaeus
Other namesBramble, gauriphal, reapberry, and hindberry
Medicinal uses
Raspberry leaf is best known for it's use as a uterine tonic and for aiding labour when taken in the last few weeks of pregnancy.
It is a digestive stimulant and tonic and has uses as a cleansing diuretic.
Drinking raspberry leaf tea has been shown to alleviate cramps, bronchitis, and sore throats. It is also a blood purifier.
The tannins in raspberry leaf tea have an astringent affect which give the tea it's anti-diarrhea and anti-inflammatory capabilities. It is rich in potassium, calcium and phosphorus.
Learn more about herbalism
Herbal preparations have been used for thousands of years. These were among the original medicines. These books will give you basic remedies that can be used in the home as well as information about individual herbs.
I strongly encourage anyone who wants to use herbal remedies and preparations to educate themselves about any herbs they may use.
Always see a doctor about any health problem. And let your doctor know about any herbal preparations you may be using. Herbs are natural but that does not mean that they are always safe and there can be interactions between any herbal remedy and manufactured drugs.
Buying dried herbs
Always buy any fresh or dried herbs from a reputable seller.
Red Clover - blood purifier
Trifolium pratense
Other namesMeadow trefoil, red clover, cow clover, meadow clover, wild clover
Medicinal uses
Red clover helps to purify the blood by acting as a diuretic and expectorant, improving circulation, and helping cleanse the liver.
It is a source of many nutrients including calcium, chromium, magnesium, niacin, phosphorus, potassium, thiamine, and vitamin C. Red clover is also a rich source of isoflavones.
Alfalfa - eases tension associated with curbing addictions, replaces trace minerals
Medicago sativa
Other names:Spanish Clover, California Clover, and Lucerne
Medicinal uses:
It is rich in vitamins, particularly A, B and C and also Vitamin K. It is believed to contain a higher protein and mineral content than most grains and is a natural source of calcium, potassium, magnesium and phosphorus.
Alfalfa eliminates retained water, relieves urinary and bowel problems, and helps in treating those recovering from narcotic and alcohol addiction.
Alfalfa can help to support the liver and alleviate anaemia.
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Peppermint - helps clear the lungs, makes it taste better
Mentha piperita
Other names:Mint
There are at least 30 different specimens of mint. Peppermint is preferred medically in the West. Garden mint is generally spearmint. It is not as strong as peppermint and is good for children.
Medicinal uses:
Peppermint and its main active agent, menthol, are effective decongestants. Because menthol thins mucus, it is also a good expectorant, meaning that it helps loosen and breaks up coughs with phlegm. It is soothing and calming for sore throats (pharyngitis) and dry coughs as well.
Mullein Leaf - expectorant, good for respiratory problems
Verbascum thapsus
Other names:Adam's Flannel, Beggar's Blanket, Candlewick Plant, Common Mullein, Flannel Mullein, Flannel Plant, Hag's Taper, Jupiter's Staff, Molene, Velvet Dock, Velvet Plant, Woolly Mullin
Medicinal uses:
Mullein is best known for its uses with respiratory disorders. It is a relaxing expectorant used for whooping cough, tuberculosis, asthma, and bronchitis.
It is useful for clearing the lungs of accumulated wastes after years of smoking.
Folklore
An old superstition existed that witches used lamps and candles provided with wicks of Mullein in their incantations, and another of the plant's many names, 'Hag's Taper', refers to this. Both in Europe and Asia the power of driving away evil spirits was ascribed to the Mullein. Being a sure safeguard against evil spirits and magic, and from the ancient classics, it was this plant which Ulysses took to protect himself against the wiles of Circe.
Skullcap - eases nervous tension, helps you relax
Scutellaria lateriflora
Other names:Scullcap, Hoodwort, Quaker Bonnet, Helmet Flower, European Skullcap, Greater Skullcap, American skullcap, blue skullcap, blue pimpernel, hoodwart, hooded willow herb, side-flowering skullcap, mad dogweed, mad weed, helmet flower
Medicinal uses:
Skullcap is used in the treatment of a wide range of nervous conditions including epilepsy, insomnia, hysteria, anxiety, delerium tremens, withdrawal from barbiturates and tranquilisers. It relaxes states of nervous tension whilst at the same time renewing and revivifying the central nervous system.
Catmint - eases nervous tension, relieves airway congestion
Nepeta cataria
Other names:Catnip, catnep, catrup, catswort, field balm
Medicinal uses:
Catmint reduces fever, induces sleep and perspiration and relieves headache. It is useful for easing nervous tension.
A powerful diaphoretic in any feverish condition, it is particularly useful where there is a feeling of congestion in the airways, sinuses or middle ear.
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LisaAuch
Jun 15, 2010 @ 2:00 am | delete
- "It didn't stop the cravings, I just didn't get the urge so much to kill someone"..yes i know exactly where your husband was coming from. Great lens and really interesting . I will follow you and look forward to your lens!
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Pan_narrans
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- Hi Nan,
I'm writing some lenses about Herbalism. My background is as a Biologist and historical re-enactor, so I've got interests in herbs as medicine, food, magic and anything else that people have been using them for over the last few hundred years.
This range of topics is obviously too much to get into one lens, so I've made a set of related ones.
The central one is at Herbalist Lens. Or http://www.squidoo.com/the-herbalist if you don't allow HTML on your guestbook.
Since you have a lens that includes herbs as medicine I've included a link to it. I hope you will take the time to have a look at my work and perhaps join the group (with a small g) or give a backlink for mutual benefit.
Comments are welcome, either at the Herbalist Forum, someone has to be first, or direct to me.
Best wishes,
Ian. aka Pan_narrans
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tcinvestor
Jun 26, 2009 @ 11:49 am | delete
- Fantastic lens...definately a 5 star..I use herbal remedies as well as homeopathic remedies and highly suggest them to other to improve wellbeing..Not sure where I would be without my Gunpowder Green Tea..(loose leaf pearls of course). Thanks for the great lens promoting necessary information.
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GreenEcoBean
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- this lens is awesome and I will be back again!
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kab
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- I don't know much about herbs. This was very interesting!
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monarch13
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- Great info! 5 stars as usual.
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- Excellent.......Truly Excellent!
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- Thanks for joining G Rated Lense Factory!
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- It is really funny how things work. I am in the process of writing a lens about the same thing. I know for a fact that using herbal remedies help take the jitters away from people trying to stop smoking. Interesting..... Thanks for adding it to the Pagan Path Group.
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