Milk thistle is great for flushing toxins out of your liver
Uuuuuugh! Even though you promise yourself that it wouldn’t happen again, you wake up after a late night out. Your head is screaming, your stomach is churning and the insides of your body generally feel like they’ve dried up like the Sahara or an even drier desert. Best case scenario, you wake up alone or with someone you know. Worst case scenario, you wake up on a planet without herbs. Your mouth tastes disgusting, your muscles and joints ache, and you’re feeling that stinging regret but you have no idea what for. It’s probably best not to think about it until your body can handle what your mind remembers.
The hangover. It’s an awful and fickle beast that seems to come out of nowhere when you’ve had six shots, three beers and that one glass of scotch at the end of the night. You probably should have had a few glasses of water before you fell asleep. You probably should have eaten something. You probably shouldn’t have gone to that last bar. You probably… wait… did you drink whiskey out of a beer bong last night? Yeah, that was you. Yuck.
Well, you can’t very well change the past. Might as well get your hind end out of bed and make some hangover cure tea. I’ve got just the ticket. I’ve been experimenting with this one this week as I’ve been living in a new city and doing the whole drinking/social gathering thing that you tend to do in a new place when you don’t know anyone. Yay for social lubricant! Nay for waking up feeling like you want to eat an entire pizza while you down six more beers to make the pain stop.
Anywho, here’s a tea blend that will have you feeling great in no time flat. I would suggest no more than two or three cups since there are some heavy hitting cleansing herbs in the mix that might leave you even more dehydrated. For this reason, you should drink at least one glass of water after every cup of this tea.
Hangover Tea Blend
- 1/2 t milk thistle
- 1/2 t dandelion root
- 1/2 t peppermint
- 1/2 t black tea
