Spring into a Slimmer You with Detoxifying Lemon Tea

By Cal Orey

Tomorrow is the first day of spring. It's time to start eating clean and fresh foods. What better way to jump-start your regime by sipping tea! Try a herbal tea and lemon potion.  It can help you to dump that unwanted winter weight, energize, and give you a rejuvenating boost!

Ginger Lemon Honey Tea

Ginger and lemon go together like salt and pepper—two of nature’s finest superfoods with an immunity boosting and detoxifying effect that can keep you healthy this spring and all year-long. Plus, drinking this potion can help fill you up not out to help curb your appetite and eat lighter for the new season.

2 cups water

10 thin slices ginger root, fresh

1 lemon sliced

3 tablespoons honey

1/3 cup lemon juice

Bring water, ginger root, and lemon slices to a boil for 1 or 2 minutes. Remove from heat, steep 10 minutes, strain. Stir in honey and lemon juice. You can also add apple peel, a piece of onion, and one or two tablespoons of chamomile.

(Courtesy: Gemma Sanita Sciabica)   

Excerpt from The Healing Powers of Tea 2018. All rights reserved. Reprinted with 

permission from Kensington www.kensingtonbooks.com .




More recipes and mini-fasts in the new books: The Healing Powers of Tea and The Healing Powers of Honey.