Chai to Live More (Anti-Parasitic Recipe)

C'mon... Just give it a Chai...

Chai is a delicious beverage with a wonder medley of healing spices, including Cinnamon, Clove, Ginger, Cardamom, and Fennel. [Read more about their healing properties here...]

We highly recommend drinking more Chai and adding these spices into your meals as a way to prevent and eliminate parasites.

Chai puts the "Treat" in Treat-ment! ;)

And Chai enhances our other "Fall Sessions" Treat-ment recipes such as our Figgy Fudge Balls (recipe here)!

You have several options for getting more Chai Spice in your life.

Way 1: Buy Some Pre-Made Chai

We love Blue Lotus Chai brand Rooibos Chai Masala Chai. This is an instant chai tea mix with a base of rooibos powder. It’s naturally caffeine-free and dissolves instantly in hot water.

Ways 2 and 3: Make Your Own

We love making a homemade blend from fresh spices (Get your Spices here)!

Watch our Chai video and see the recipes below...

Way 2: Chai Spice Mix

Chai Spice Mix Ingredients:

• 1 tsp. nutmeg — fresh shavings, or powder
• 1 T. cinnamon
• 1 T. ginger powder
• 1 T cardamom powder
• 1/2-1 tsp. ground cloves (very strong!)
• 1/2 tsp. ground black pepper (*optional)
• 1 tsp. vanilla bean powder (ground pure vanilla beans)
• a few shakes of fennel powder
• We recommend spices from Spicely because all imported spices are required to go through a sterilization process before being sold in the United States. Most spice companies sterilize using synthetic chemicals or radiation. Spicely Organics uses a process called steam sterilization, which sterilizes food products without adding any chemicals or hazardous materials.

Chai Spice Mix Directions:

• Put all spices into a coffee grinder.
• Grind for about 30 seconds - 1 minute until the mixture is a really fine powder.

Once you make this Chai Spice Mix, you can use it in many ways:

• Enjoy as a tea with your favorite milk (see recipe below)
• Use in Pumpkin Pudding Pie recipe
• Use to make spiced apple cider and more




Easy Creamy Chai

Easy Creamy Chai Ingredients:

• 1 tsp Chai Spice Mix (from recipe above)
• 8 oz favorite tea -- Tulsi, Horsetail, black etc
• 1 T. Grass-fed butter or ghee
• 2 T. Favorite milk -- dairy, coconut, hemp or almond
• Stevia drops to sweeten to taste

Easy Creamy Chai Directions:

• Steep a strong cup of tea.
• Blend 1 tsp Chai spice, 1 T grass-fed butter or ghee, 2 T favorite milk and stevia to taste.
• Blend and enjoy.
• Note: There will be spices settled at the bottom. To avoid this... run tea mixture though a fine strainer before drinking.




Way 3: Whole Spice Chai

(This is a simple, one-cup recipe)

Whole Spice Chai Ingredients:

• 4 cardamom pods
• 6 peppercorns (optional)
• 2 cloves
• 1 star anise
• 1 inch cinnamon stick
• slice of fresh ginger (or more to taste)
• 1 tea bag (of your choice: Tulsi, Horsetail, Black, etc)
• 1 C. water
• 1 C. favorite milk-- coconut, hemp, almond or full fat organic grass-fed milk (if you can handle it--yum!)
• Stevia to sweeten

Whole Spice Chai Directions:

• Crush spices with a mortar and pestle or back of a knife.
• Put water and spices into a pot and boil for a few minutes until it smells deliciously fragrant.
• Lower heat to simmer.
• Open tea bag (or throw in the whole tea bag) and add milk.
• Simmer another 5-7 mins.
• Pour through a fine mesh strainer, add stevia and enjoy! Super yums!




What Is Chai Tea? (and healing properties)

Originating in India, Chai Tea is typically a spiced black tea mix. The spices can vary, but it usually contains a combination of cinnamon, cardamom, black pepper, cloves, fennel, ginger, nutmeg, and vanilla. The base is traditionally a black tea, but decaffeinated, or herbal teas can also be used.

Each spice contains potent health benefits:

Cinnamon - antifungal, antibacterial, it can also reduce the risk of diabetes — it blocks insulin from getting into cells, and can lower blood pressure and prevent cell damage for diabetics.

Cardamom - anti-inflammatory, it relives muscle spasms, and can treat asthma, and other respiratory ailments.

Black Pepper - antioxidant

Cloves - anti-parasitic, antibacterial, anti-fungal, analgesic, it is widely used to soothe gum and tooth pain.

Ginger - anti-inflammatory, it can soothe upset stomaches and diarrhea, it’s helpful for arthritis and heart disease, and reduces the risk of colon cancer.

Vanilla - vanilla is a powerful antioxidant.

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