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ladieu:
Hi, I just made the immunity tea. I'm sure it works great, but it is a bit rough tasting. Tastes kind of like bark. I wonder if you have any suggestions to make it more palatable?
My wife suggested mixing it 50/50 with normal ice tea might take the edge off, or possibly lemonade, but i don't want the calories.
Let me know.
Nick
herbdoc:
It is interesting that we have come to expect our medicines to taste good. Remember Mary Poppins singing " a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down". Obviously back in those days the emphasis was on the medicine, not the taste. Today things are different - muffins are cake in the shape of a muffin - can you remember when muffins were more like breads than cakes.
But to answer your question - some teas (herbs) definitely taste better than others. I have found lemonade to be a good liquid to mix the teas with - also grape juice will hide nasty flavors pretty good. For those things that are really rough I will generally take a shot of the herb and then chase it with juice or something.
While some teas are healthy as well as flavorful (yummy), others are strong medicine. With the strong ones I admonish my patients to just get it down.
ladieu:
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My expectations were for tea not medicine. I just need to adjust my expectations in the future
Would a tablet have the same medicinal effects as this tea?
BrianSTL:
As a compounding pharmacist I have a bit of experience with masking lousy tasting medicine. If you can be a bit more specific I may be able to help you make it more palatable for you.
If it is a bitter taste, then try mixing it with flavors that have a natural bitter element inherent in them, such as coffee, grapefruit, chocolate, or wild cherry. If it is a true 'bark' taste then perhaps mixing it with merlot may help, or it may simply ruin a good merlot......
Hope that this helps.
ladieu:
I've been a good boy and haven't gotten sick this winter yet. Don't know if it is a result of the tea or not... but I'm sure that doesn't hurt.
I would say it tastes heavily of boiled bark. I'm kind of used to it. I have taken the advice of doing it like a shot, hold the nose and down the hatch.
-Nick
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