Stew it and hope for the best! (Dr Stuart's Detox Tea)

Member Name: vanillawinegum

Product:	Dr Stuart's Detox Tea
Date:	18/07/09 (98 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Good quality brand, pure herbs used

Disadvantages: Quite bland flavour; not recommended for those not used to herbal teas

As a lover of quality green tea, chai and good ol' fashioned builder's tea, I am also an occasional dabbler in other herbal drinks. I cannot stomach fruit teas (they are highly acidic, and have more scent than flavour) but I am willing to give anything with liquorice in it a go.

This is not really a tea for those who are unaccustomed to very mild flavoured drinks, as it does not have much flavour at all. Besides liquorice, it contains various detoxifying herbs such as sage, dandelion, burdock, peppermint and spearmint.

The trick is to let it really stew in the hot water - give it at least five minutes, and don't remove the bag even as you drink it. This will maximise the moderate flavour, and also give the herbs a chance to draw out some of their goodness. The liquorice gives it a slight hint of sweetness, and the other minor, recognisable flavours come from the peppermint and spearmint, mild though they are.

Overall, this is one of the nicer-tasting teas of the (often quite scary) "detox" variety, but I would hasten to add, for all you peeps out there who like to try the occasional detox, that there really is no such thing as a quick fix. The body is a very complex organism that has its own clean-up processes that go on, in its own sweet time; it cannot be forced to do a "quick vacuum round the lounge", if you like. While this tea contains herbs that can stimulate the liver, it would take quite a few mugs of the stuff to get any real herbal strength out of it.

Having said that, simply drinking something other than normal tea/ coffee/ beer/ sugar-in-a-can is alone a plus to your health, generally speaking and over time. (Sorry folks, but it would have been better not to get that hang-over in the first place!)

Summary: Okay for a change, if you like this sort of thing...