Spicy Chaga-Reishi Tea Latte
Equipment
- 1 Tea kettle or pot to boil water
Ingredients
- 2 cups filtered or spring water
- 1 tsp chaga powder
- ¼ tsp reishi powder
- 2-3 Tbsp coconut milk (you can use a nut milk of your choice here too, or eliminate altogether if you want it fat-free)
- Raw honey to taste
- 1 pinch nutmeg powder (to taste)
- 1 pinch cinnamon powder (to taste)
- 1 pinch cardamom powder (to taste)
Instructions
- Warm water to just below boiling.
- Place powders and optional coconut milk in a blender, then add water.
- Wait until it’s cool enough to put your pinky in without burning.
- Then add in the raw honey.
- Blend until combined.
Spicy chaga-reishi tea latte is one of my favorite healing beverages. The flavor is incredible and the health benefits are innumerable.
The ingredients used to make this tea have some of the most powerful healing benefits on the planet.
Chaga
While many people classify Chaga as a mushroom, it is technically a pre-mushroom growth. Chaga is a wild food that has numerous health benefits.
There are countless benefits of Chaga.
Chaga is one of the most medicinal tools in the world today. The phytochemicals in Chaga are a cancer-fighting powerhouse! With strong immune system-enhancing nutrients, Chaga has the ability to revitalize your white blood cell count. Furthermore, it strengthens your red blood cells and bone marrow.
The benefits of Chaga are numerous: it boosts immunity, has anti-inflammatory properties, promotes healthy digestion, regulates blood sugar levels, and balances the body’s pH levels.
These all sound like good reasons to start drinking this great beverage!
Reishi
Reishi mushroom, also known as the “medicine of kings” and the “elixir of life,” is an incredible medicinal food. This powerful mushroom helps to significantly boost the immune system function as well as prevent cancer. It boasts significant compounds that have been shown to slow the growth of tumors, such as canthaxanthin, beta-1, and 3-D glucan.
Additionally, reishi is known for its ability to protect the body from radiation damage and ease the painful symptoms of chemotherapy.
Reishi is a powerful weight loss tool as it can help cleanse a fatty liver and reduce edema and bloating. It is also incredible for cardiovascular health as it helps to improve circulation and increase blood flow to the heart. By reducing plaque on the arterial walls and reducing blood cholesterol, reishi helps to prevent heart attacks, strokes, and preventing blood clots.
Furthermore, reishi helps to calm the nervous system and contains anti-inflammatory properties which help with all manner of chronic illnesses.
Raw Honey
Raw honey is very high in critical minerals such as calcium, potassium, zinc, selenium, phosphorus, chromium, molybdenum, and manganese. It is one of the most adaptogenic foods on the planet. In its raw form, honey is a powerful weapon against illness and infections.
Because bees collect from plant species all over, the fructose and glucose in raw honey contain over 200,000 undiscovered phytochemical compounds, including pathogen killers, phytochemicals that protect you from radiation damage, and anti-cancerous phytochemicals. Raw honey can actually stop cancer in its tracks. According to Medical Medium®, raw honey is one of the most powerful brain foods with its highly absorbable sugar and b12 coenzymes, and raw honey actually repairs DNA.
Honey is truly a medicinal gift to our planet.
With all of these health benefits and more, you will want to make this your daily afternoon pick-me-up…perfect for tea time. Add my mouth-watering scones, and you have an irresistible afternoon snack.
To your health & happiness,
Muneeza
