Best Spring Teas For Digestion, Energy And Renewal
Much of Colorado has felt like the season of daffodils across the entirety of what should be the months of ice and snow. We lament this warm, largely snow-free winter.
But tomorrow we officially turn the chapter to spring. Time to move on. Time, too, for new tea.
With spring comes longer and longer days, green popping out of soil from all corners, blossoms spangling trees and plants, and rising temperatures. Even when winter flops, we still appreciate spring’s many pleasures.
One of them: the reawakening of urges to shed. Winter’s relative sloth, at least for many of us, encourages accumulation. Closed windows contain months-worth of our homes’ aromas and dust. Our waists can bulge by the time of spring’s arrival. Fallen leaves and twigs litter our yards, and our bodies just seem … slow.
Invite tea for seasonal invigoration
A cleanse? Not necessary. Most programmatic “cleanses” don’t accomplish much, other than making the participants extremely irritable. Instead, let’s think about things we’d like to shed, with winter’s conclusion. Let’s consider habits and practices that belong behind us—back in the disconcerting winter we just slogged across. And of course—let’s invigorate our tea practices!
We love how spring always rejuvenates our love of this magical plant. It’s fitting—many farmers harvest their most prized tea, from young buds and shoots, in spring. And we at Ku Cha work closely with suppliers to ensure we carry a wide range of spring-plucked tea.
Outside of the tea’s meaningful agricultural roots, we appreciate how some teas can help bodies shed some of biological ballast they have carried across winter. Invite tea to firm up your struggling gut. Welcome tea’s mental stimulation as the days grow longer and brighter. Let tea’s antioxidants fight those free radicals—the molecules in the body that damage cells.
Spring—welcome!
Spring Detox Teas: DeToxi Tea (Organic)
You asked, and we delivered. Interest in detox teas has ranked as popular since shortly after we opened Ku Cha House of Tea, more than 20 years ago. And desire for these healthy teas continues to spike. To help our customers, we came up with a blend custom-built to promote detox and body cleansing—without asking people to launch into a full cleanse program. This potent tea covers a lot of ground.
Dandelion root floods the blend, for sound reasons—herbal medical practitioners swear by dandelion root’s value as a detoxifying botanical. The blend also contains cinnamon, which can help support blood sugar health (and tastes grand) and lemon peel, which also contributes flavor and health properties.
Next up, lapacho. Naturopathic doctors tap this antiviral South American botanical, also known as Pau d’Arco, to treat conditions like colds, ulcers and infections. That’s serious detox power. Finally, the tea contains honeybush, a South African shrub that is similar to rooibos, but with sweeter notes and a fuller body.
Bring on the detox!
Spring Detox Teas: Ginger Pu-erh (Organic)
You’ll never find a blend like this anywhere else but Ku Cha House of Tea. It’s delicious, restorative and packed with detoxifying botanicals. We begin with ripe pu-erh, the only fermented style of traditional Camellia sinensis tea. People around the world sip pu-erh to help promote digestion and bring about improved health in general.
To this we add ginger—a true medicinal classic that also delivers wallops of bold flavor. Among other things, ginger bolsters digestion. And healthy digestion stands as an important foundation for ridding the body of toxins.
Finally, the blend contains lapacho (see above). This trio can support serious health benefits. As if our Ginger Pu-erh weren’t enough, it also contains orange peel, bringing bright citrus verve to this wonderful custom blend.
Spring Detox Teas: Genmaicha
We sip green tea year-round. But we probably brew it even more often in spring. For one thing, green tea’s grassy notes put us in a springtime frame of mind. Sipping good green tea once the season hits somehow aligns our physical, environmental state with inner atmospheres that come only when the year is young and winter is retreating.
Japanese sencha seems to conjure spring vibes with more oomph than most green teas. There’s something about that Japanese practice of shading tea bushes for about a month prior to harvest that makes them unique—and quite fitting for spring.
Green tea contains caffeine, too, but less than a strong black tea or coffee. We think the subtle jolts of vigor merge with spring’s gentle proddings to go out and do, and to actively shed winter’s accumulations.
But genmaicha also contains two kinds of rice—roasted and puffed. These additions transform the flavor into something downright mysterious. And they also ratchet back the already muted caffeine quotient. Altogether, we find genmaicha an ideal spring tea.
Spring Detox Teas: Dirty Dan (Organic)
Oh, the glories of the humble dandelion. It brightens lawns early in spring—and then turns to so many wispy, ethereal spheres of seed. Many American homeowners spread poison across their yards to rid them of dandelion—which is a shame. In other cultures, like Italy, the greens are revered for their bitter, liver-supporting botanical compounds as well as their lively flavor. Fortunately, people around the world cultivate dandelion for use in teas, tinctures and other artisanal products that can support detox and health.
Our Dirty Dan adds cinnamon to the blend, for flavor and blood-sugar moderating properties. Ginkgo adds it’s unique flavor, but perhaps more importantly it helps to dilate blood vessels and encourage sharper thinking and mental clarity. Finally, we added chamomile to the blend, for its almost sultry texture—it adds a certain silkiness, we think, to tea. But chamomile also calms the nervous system and softens nerves—important during the sneeze-fest known as spring allergy season!
