The Colon Tea: Homemade Remedy for Detoxification

The changing food habits are making people vulnerable to experience constipation more often. An irregular bowel movement is irritating and bad for the health. A lot of people nowadays are moving towards the natural remedies to cure the constipation. Natural constipation remedies are the best way to keep your bowel movement smooth and constipation at bay. One of the great ways to cure constipation is drinking tea. There are several tea brands available in the market who are providing tea for various health related issues. You can choose from losing weight to colon cleansing. But, what if you can make it at your home?

Here is a recipe that can ease your bowel movement. I have named it The Colon Tea, it is an all natural colon cleanser that helps you maintaining a healthy bowel. The Colon tea helps cleansing hazardous toxics from your colon. It has herbs like green tea, Senna leaves, Pepper mint, Licorice, Triphala, Chamomile, and Hibiscus. All the ingredients have the qualities to keep your colon healthy and clean.

The Colon tea is a perfect blend of herbs. All the earlier mentioned herbs in the tea benefit not only the colon but the overall health. Let’s take a look at the ingredients and their benefits:

Green tea: Starting your day with green tea is a wonderful way to detoxify your colon. Green tea is rich in antioxidant and do a lot good to your overall health. Green tea detoxes your colon, flushes out harmful toxics and improves immunity.

Senna leaves: Senna has the ability to treat constipation. It contains sennoside chemicals that stimulate laxatives and help cleaning out the intestine. Senna is FDA approved non-prescription laxative. Blending Senna leaves with green tea increases the ability of green tea detoxifying the toxics.

Peppermint: Peppermint has been used for hundreds of years for its health benefits and minty taste. Peppermint helps in problem related to digestion. It eases the digestive upsets, bloating, indigestion and gas. Additionally, peppermint helps in bad breath, bacterial infections, headache and improving sleep.

Licorice: The Egyptians and Chinese loved Licorice for its health benefits and used it as a medication. Licorice contains anti-inflammatory and immune-boosting properties of glycyrrhizic acid that can surpass the toxic bacteria H. Pylori which imbalances the digestion and harms stomach.

Triphala: Triphala is a Sanskrit word which means Three Fruits. It is a combination of haritaki, bibhitaki and amla. All the three herbs are rich with antioxidants and effective for digestion, immunity and detoxification.

Chamomile: Chamomile’s anti-inflammatory properties make it a good alternative detox. Chamomile comes from Asteraceae plant family and it contains flavone and apigenin antioxidants. People use Chamomile to soothe bloating, indigestion, nausea and gas.

Hibiscus: Hibiscus is caffeine free, anti-inflammatory and it is packed with polyphenols and antioxidants. It has quality to promote digestion, improve heart health, sleep and it keeps your liver healthy too.

You will find The colon tea is the best bowel detox tea available in your kitchen. After a lot of experiments I made this miraculous colon cleansing. It has some mind boggling benefits to the health, and they are mentioned below:

All natural ingredients: Since the ancient time people have been using herbs for various health reasons. The anti-inflammatory properties and richness of antioxidants make them good alternatives to choose for keeping a good health.

Colon cleansing: The Colon tea is a blend of herbs that detoxify the colon and soothe the bowel movement. Colon cleansing flushes out the toxins and keep your colon clean and healthy. It is a healthy practice to follow and start your day.

Benefits to overall health: The colon tea is not only focuses detoxifying your colon, but to improve the overall health. The included ingredients like Licorice and Triphala are effective for boosting immunity. Other ingredients help in good sleep, healthy heart and weight lose too.

Improves mental health: A good health is not only limited to physical body. A good mental health is as important as physical health. The colon tea contains herbs that also improves your mental health. Peppermint and Hibiscus have the properties to give your mind a relief from anxiety and stress.

Cleansing indeed is important, but in the other hand it has risks associated. Colon cleansing can do more harms than good if not taking the precautions. The risks of natural colon cleansing can be sometime severe. The products like green tea are the good alternatives to minimize the risks. But both natural ways of colon cleansing and products can harm you in many ways, like:

Dehydration: It is the half truth that colon cleansing removes toxins, it actually removes fluids too. Person can suffer from dehydration if the individual does not get enough fluids.

Electrolyte imbalance: Colon cleansing can imbalance the electrolyte level. It can change the level of potassium and sodium that can cause abnormal heart rates and leg cramps.

Seena leaves: The common side effects of seena leaves are: Abdominal pain,  cramps, diarrhea, nausea and electrolyte. The dosage of seena should be 15mg twice a day.

Green tea: People consider it a magic for health, but it can actually do bad too. Over consuming green tea can give you headaches, sleeping disorder, heartburn and irritability. It can cause dehydration and taking green tea empty stomach can make it upset.

Licorice: overdosing licorice can be life threatening. The long term consumption of licorice can increase blood pressure, lower the potassium level and damage the kidneys.

Peppermint: The side effects of peppermints can cause dry mouth, heartburn, nausea and vomiting.

Triphala: Triphala can upset your stomach and  cause diarrhea. It should not be given to babies and pregnant and breastfeeding women.

Hibiscus: Overdosing hibiscus can cause gas, bloating, nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain.

The colon tea is safe to drink and the best way to detox your colon, but overdosing of any products have side effects. As they say, “everything in excess is opposed to nature”.