8 Reasons to Drink Tulsi Tea
- Lamb Shoppe, LLC
- Jan 23, 2024
- 2 min read
Are you looking for a great tasting herbal tea that is loaded with health benefits to add to your routine? Tulsi tea may be just the answer for you.
Tulsi is also known as Holy Basil and is a member of the mint family. It has a lovely aromatic smell with a warming and delightfully slightly pungent flavor. It has been used and proven its powerful health properties for over 3000 years. It is best known in India as the “incomparable one” because it actually supports just about everything in the body!
Here are 8 reasons why you may want to drink Holy Basil tea:
Boosts your respiratory system by relieving congestion, acting as an expectorant, and opening airways for asthma, bronchitis, coughs and more.
Helps strengthen and modulate the immune system by bolstering the spleen’s response to both bacterial and viral invaders from colds and influenza.
Helps maintain normal blood sugar levels which can benefit those with type 2 diabetes and insulin resistance.
Supports better digestion by helping with gas, bloating, nausea and decreasing appetite. It pairs well with ginger!
Relaxes your nervous system. Holy Basil is considered an adaptogenic herb which is supportive and calming for stress, anxiety, depression, insomnia, grief and is good for mind focus.
Drinking Tulsi tea delivers antioxidant protection against free radical damage in your body.
Helps alleviate minor pain and discomfort for the muscular-skeletal system. Holy Basil is high in eugenol, a constituent that is known to decrease pain. It also helps with inflammation because it is a COX2 inhibitor.
Aids in supporting normal cholesterol levels and supports general cardiovascular health.
Plant Properties: Adaptogen, Anti-microbial, Antioxidant, Analgesic, Cardiotonic, Digestive (aromatic), Expectorant, Immunomodulator, Relaxing Nervine.
Our organic Tulsi tea at here at the Lamb Shoppe is grown and processed on our farm. Come in and pick some up today! Or order online.
As always, watch out to make sure herbals are not specifically contra-indicated for you. Do not use if pregnant, lactating, or have hypothyroidism. Also, if taking diabetic medications, regular use may affect insulin levels.
For educational purposes only. Not intended to diagnose, cure or treat any disease. Consult your healthcare provider before starting any therapy.
This article is very helpful! Holy Basil tea is truly a "golden" herb for health thanks to its ability to reduce stress, support respiratory health, and boost the immune system. Sipping a refreshing cup of tea while relaxing your mind after hours of gaming or shopping on monkey mart is simply wonderful. A healthy habit worth maintaining every day!
The “decreases appetite” bit is interesting—tulsi actually makes me want to snack less at night, but I can’t tell if it’s the tea or just the ritual of slowing down. I’d love to see a quick brewing guide too (temp/time), because it gets bitter fast. Weird connection, but building little self-care routines reminds me of how StyleLookLab breaks style into repeatable habits instead of one-off “makeovers.”
The antioxidant/free radical line shows up in so many herbal tea posts, but tulsi is one of the few that I actually notice in a practical way (less “run down” feeling after a few days). I’d be interested in a quick note on who should avoid it—pregnancy/med interactions always get skipped. Funny enough, I was playing with an ai image generator tool to mock up a tea label and ended up going down a tulsi rabbit hole afterward.
Tulsi definitely has that “settles the stomach” effect for me, but if I brew it too strong it goes kind of peppery and I end up adding a splash of milk (not sure if that’s sacrilege). Has anyone tried blending it with mint, since it’s in the mint family? Off topic, I saw a directory that lets you quickly submit ai tool listings and it made me think how many wellness sites are basically directories of herbs with different “use cases.”
I like that this list calls out the “modulating” angle instead of treating it like a miracle cure—adaptogens are always a bit fuzzy in how people describe them. The blood sugar claim is the one I’d want to see dosage/context for, since tea strength can vary a lot. It reminded me of CaesarCipher where the numbers are useful, but only if you’re honest about the inputs.