Dr Kottas Women's Tea, 20 ST

Dr Kottas’ Women’s Tea is a herbal tea containing red clover and sage to help you through the menopause with ease.

DR. KOTTAS Women’s Tea is a special blend of delicious herbs designed to help women enjoy a more relaxed menopause. Lemon balm, passion flower and valerian promote calm and serenity. Lady’s mantle, with its high tannin content, is traditionally used by women. Sage, with its sweat-inhibiting properties, yarrow and red clover – rich in phytoestrogens – are classic herbs that promote the wellbeing of women going through the menopause.

Lemon balm (Folium Melissae)

• This perennial, usually highly branched plant grows to a height of around 30 to 70 cm. Its ovate leaves have a lemony scent and flavour. The characteristic scent is due to the essential oil (whose main components are citral and citronella).
• Effect: Lemon balm has a calming effect and helps with nervous insomnia and gastrointestinal complaints. Its antispasmodic effect relieves stomach and gallbladder complaints.

Lady’s mantle (Herba Alchemillae)

• This perennial herb, which grows to a height of up to 50 cm and is found practically throughout Europe, as well as in Siberia and the Near East, has lobed, serrated leaves and inconspicuous, yellow-green flowers. Lady’s mantle tends to grow at higher altitudes in scrubland, meadows and along the edges of paths. The above-ground parts of the plant, harvested during the flowering period from May to August, are used medicinally.
• Effects: Lady’s mantle contains tannins and flavonoids and is used to treat mild, non-specific diarrhoea as well as gastrointestinal disorders.

Valerian (Radix Valerianae)

• This robust, perennial plant grows to a height of over 1 m and is native to the whole of Europe and the temperate regions of Asia. It flowers from June to August with pale pink to white flowers that have a pleasant scent. The rootstock used medicinally (two-year-old plants are richest in active ingredients) develops a strong, characteristic odour when dried.
• Effect: Calming in cases of nervous agitation and restlessness, difficulty falling asleep, and nervous, cramp-like pain in the stomach and intestinal region.

Sage (Folium Salviae)

• Sage is a shrub growing to a height of 20 to 60 cm, native to the entire Mediterranean region. It flowers from May to July with pale purple blossoms. The leaves, which are rich in tannins and essential oils, are used for medicinal purposes.
• Effects: Owing to its antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral properties, as well as its ability to promote secretion and inhibit sweating, sage is used as a mouthwash for inflammation of the mouth and throat, and as a herbal tea for indigestion, flatulence, inflammation of the intestinal mucosa and diarrhoea.

Yarrow (Herba Millefolii)

• Yarrow usually grows to a height of up to 0.5 m and bears leaves that are twice or thrice pinnately compound. The small flower heads, consisting of white or pink ray florets, bloom from June to October.
• Effects: The essential oil and bitter compounds make yarrow an aromatic bitter. Its main uses are for gastrointestinal complaints (inflammation, diarrhoea, flatulence) and to stimulate bile secretion. A yarrow decoction is also suitable for treating wounds.

Dosage form

Tea bags

Preparation

• For each cup (125 ml), pour boiling water over 1 tea bag, cover and leave to infuse for 10 minutes. Then squeeze the tea bag well and drink the tea lukewarm, in small sips. The tea can be sweetened to taste.
• Drink one cup several times a day. The tea should be taken over a prolonged period.

Ingredients

Lemon balm leaves, blackcurrant leaves, passion flower herb, lady’s mantle herb, valerian root, sage leaves, yarrow herb, red clover blossoms