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    January 25, 2022 2 min read

    Mint Lemonade Recipe
    Today is the 5th day of temperatures above 40C. ☀️ ☀️☀️

    Definitely time to look at more options to cool and hydrate.  ❄️ 

    Have you got mint and lemon in your garden?

    Our favourite Mint lemonade - this will be loved by everyone today :) 

    Ingredients: 

      • Juice of 1 lemon 

      • 4 cups of filtered water 

      • 1 tablespoon of coconut sugar 

      • 2 tablespoon of mint leaves


    Combine all the ingredients in a large glass jug. Stir Stir Stir. 

    Serve room temperature or slightly chilled. 

    Garnish with a slice of lemon and a sprig of mint. 

    Enjoy

    Mint is called Pudina in Sanskrit. It is a hardy perennial famous for its fragrance. The aromatic menthol wakes up the senses and acts as a decongestant.

    It has a balancing effect on all the three doshas, it is a cooling herb, with a katu (heating) vipaka (post digestive taste).

    Mint and some of its great benefits:

    1. Aids digestion, reduces gas, indigestion and irritable bowel

    2. Improves oral health by reducing harmful bacterial growth in the mouth.

    3. decongestant, great to use for steam inhalation.

    4. Treatment for cough and cold, throat irritation

    5. Cooling effect for your skin, useful for insect bites anti inflammatory

     

    Some more ways how can you use Mint leaves

    1. Make a mint tea – add the leaves to boiling water and steep for 5-10 minutes.

    2. Add it to your room temperature drinking water (best to leave it overnight)

    3. use mint infused water as a mist for your skin (fill it in a spray bottle and keep in the fridge) - My personal favourite. 

    4. Use to gargle and rinse your mouth

    We would love to hear your favourite ways to use mint.

    With love from Karin and the Lakshmi Ayurveda team

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