One of my favorite herbs to use for creating a medicinal tea for healing digestive aliments is apple bark. Apple bark contains a healing agent in it known as phlorizin, which is a type of antioxidant that acts as a tonic, stimulant, pain reducer and anti-inflammatory. In fact, apple bark is one of the oldest folk remedies ever used to treat stomachaches, constipation and heartburn naturally. However, you have to know how to make the apple bark tea properly to get the medicinal benefits from it to help relieve digestive discomforts safely. How to Make a Potent Apple Bark Tea
The easiest way to make a potent batch of apple bark tea is by taking fresh apple tree bark from a common apple tree by carefully peeling or slicing the apple bark from the tree using a sharp knife. However, if you do not want to cut apple bark yourself you can always get it from your local herbal store instead, which is what I prefer to do.
Once I have the apple bark, I place it in a pot with a half gallon of water and turn the stove on high heat. Then I bring the bark and water to a roaring boil and turn the stove off and allow a medicinal tea to steep for a good 20 minutes with the lid over the pot. Sometimes if I want to make a stronger medicinal tea, I will remove the pot from the stove and allow the apple bark tea to steep and cool overnight.
When the medicinal tea is ready, it has a slight golden color to it and a sweet apple scent and flavor that is very mellow. Once I know the tea is ready to drink, I pour some into a mug or teacup with a teaspoon of honey and sip it down to ease my tummy troubles.
Other Health Ailments Apple Bark Tea can Help Treat
Now, I do not just use the tea for treating digestive ailments. The tea is also good for relieving a stomach bug and food poisoning as well. The way the apple bark tea helps relieve a stomach bug and food poisoning is by acting as a potent tonic that contains anti-bacterial, anti-viral and anti-inflammatory properties that help kill off the harmful germs in the stomach that are causing you to be sick. When you drink a few cups of apple bark tea when you have the stomach bug or flu poison it washes the digestive tract naturally from anything harmful and helps push it out of the body quickly, safely and gently.
In addition, the tea also helps reduce a high fever that sometimes comes along with the stomach bug and food poisoning while relieving diarrhea and vomiting by hydrating the body naturally. I personally drink this tea anytime I have the stomach bug. The reason why is because it is one of the only remedies that soothes the discomforting symptoms away that are associated with the stomach bug and helps me feel better within 24-hours.
However, my grandmother uses my apple bark medicinal tea to help relieve constipation. I always make a big batch of the tea up and she keeps it in her refrigerator to have on hand. Every night before bedtime, she drinks two to three cups of this tea with a squirt of lemon juice and honey and she swears up and down that it helps keep her constipation away naturally. I believe this is true because the apple bark tea does contain natural laxative properties in it.
Precautions When Using Apple Bark Tea
Apple bark tea has minimum side effects. In fact, you would have to drink a large amount of the tea to see any side effects at all. However, if you do drink too much of this medicinal tea you may experience vomiting, headaches, panic attacks, dizziness and slight confusion, but these symptoms are unlikely to occur if you use the apple tree bark medicinal tea the way your suppose to.
