VIDEO: Make hibiscus tea yourself

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Hibiscus tea is identical to marshmallow tea and is identical to mallow tea. This is where the confusion lies. Of the tea with the beautiful red color has many names.

Hibiscus tea - but which flowers?

  • The German name for hibiscus is generally marshmallow. Hibiscus tea is therefore identical to tea made from real marshmallow.
  • Marshmallow is known as a home remedy for coughs and other flu-like infections. The first indications that marshmallow tea was drunk against colds come from the Romans.
  • A marshmallow tea can also mean a tea that has been mixed from the leaves, the roots and the flowers of the real marshmallow.
  • While you can only buy marshmallow tea in pharmacies and special herbal stores, you can also get hibiscus tea in the supermarket.
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  • You can also buy hibiscus tea under the name Malventee. Hibiscus is a member of the mallow family.
  • Marshmallow is also called the real marshmallow, which is a traditional ingredient for marshmallow, for example. Nowadays, however, the real marshmallow is being replaced by substitutes. Mainly, however, the real marshmallow is used for flu-like infections, as it has an anti-inflammatory and immune stabilizing effect.

So you can make hibiscus tea yourself

  • If you are lucky, you will find real wild marshmallow in very warm, sunny places. To do this, however, you have to live in regions close to the coast. Common marshmallow prefers very wet, nutrient-rich clay soils.
  • Collect the flowers for your hibiscus tea and gently dry the hibiscus flowers in the blazing sun.
  • If you live in other regions of our beautiful republic, then you have to buy the flowers of the real marshmallow for your hibiscus tea from the pharmacy or a special herbalist.
  • It makes sense if you get the real marshmallow flowers for tea from the pharmacy. Here you have the guarantee that the flowers are collected in places that are not contaminated with environmental toxins or exhaust fumes from motor vehicles.

For dosage, add hot water to 200 milliliters water two teaspoons of hibiscus flowers from the pharmacy. Let the infusion steep for five minutes and then filter the tea.

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