Herbal tea is an effective and complimentary treatment for different sicknesses which are commonly treated with synthetic medication.
Many physicians believe that prescriptions for herbal drugs should be as rational and justifiable as those for synthetic drugs.
Tea is an important way of preparing herbal drugs. The tea prescription should be written according to strict rules and must never be an arbitrary mixture of different herbs.
The components of tea recipes are as follows:
-A primary or basic ingredient (remedium cardinale)
-An adjuvant that enhances or complements the effect of the basic ingredient in a specific manner
-A filler (excipient)
-A corrigent to enhance the flavor or tolerance of the tea.
The excipients used in herbal teas are botanical substances with vivid colors or unusual shapes which are added to prescriptions to give it a more pleasant or striking appearance.
Strawflower (Helichrysum arenarium), flores stoechados citrinae, cornflower blossoms (Centaurea cyanus), florets of the capitulum (Cyanae flos), lavender blossoms are a number of excipients commonly used in the prescriptions.
