Autumn is at door, and often, the change of season and transition to winter means dullness, lack vitality, making you prone to illness. If you feel a flu is on its way, we recommend increasing your vitamin C intake with this immune boosting infusion. Drink it all day! Ingredients: 

• 1 orange
• cloves
• cinnamon sticks
• raw honey
• Optional: Ginger, which has a warming effect and making it a perfect ingredient for the cooler days

How to make your infusion: 1-Boil water with 3 cloves and 1 big or 2 small cinnamon sticks 2- Cut half an orange in wedges and squeeze them in a tea pot

 3-Place all the orange wedges with their skin in the tea pot.

 4-Add 3 cloves (stick them in the orange so they dont come out when pouring tea) +1 cinnamon stick. 5-Pour the hot water on the mixture, blend, and wait until it cools down a bit before adding the honey. Refill: Add some cinnamon powder + the other half of orange + 1 tbsp honey

5-Pour the hot water on the mixture, blend, and wait until it cools down a bit before adding the honey. Refill: Add some cinnamon powder + the other half of orange + 1 tbsp honey

Warning: -If you don’t have cinnamon sticks, this can be replaced by a 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon powder. Cinnamon can make you sweat as it stimulates your blood flow! -Never boil honey or pour honey on boiling water! Wait until the tea has cool down a bit before adding honey. Heat can destroy the enzymes and thus, dilute a lot of the medicinal value of the honey.

-If you don’t have cinnamon sticks, this can be replaced by a 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon powder. Cinnamon can make you sweat as it stimulates your blood flow! -Never boil honey or pour honey on boiling water! Wait until the tea has cool down a bit before adding honey. Heat can destroy the enzymes and thus, dilute a lot of the medicinal value of the honey.

-Never boil honey or pour honey on boiling water! Wait until the tea has cool down a bit before adding honey. Heat can destroy the enzymes and thus, dilute a lot of the medicinal value of the honey.

Extra TCM Tip: Although many people associate honey with being ‘soothing’ for sore throats, it is actually highly astringent and has a ‘drying’ quality. So while it’s great to use honey when you are in the ‘congested’, mucousy phase of a cold for example, or when you have an inflamed throat (without it being ‘dry’), while you are in the ‘dry cough’ stage of a cold, you may want to avoid it temporarily.

Although many people associate honey with being ‘soothing’ for sore throats, it is actually highly astringent and has a ‘drying’ quality. So while it’s great to use honey when you are in the ‘congested’, mucousy phase of a cold for example, or when you have an inflamed throat (without it being ‘dry’), while you are in the ‘dry cough’ stage of a cold, you may want to avoid it temporarily.

Benefits of the Immune Boosting Infusion:

• Immune boosting
• Energizing, stimulates blood flow
• Sweat out your toxins!
• Kills germs, bacterias
• Relieve sore throat

Tip: "It may not be very TCM but if I am feeling sick, I will also drink it before bedtime by adding a little bit of whiskey or rum and butter. This will immediately put me in a deep slumber sleep, exactly what I need for a speedy recovery!" Maika. Co-Founder of Kocoon spa 

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健康诀窍

增强免疫力茶泡制方法： 秋天到了，通常季节的交替和到冬天的过度意味着沉闷，缺乏活力，使你容易生病。如果你感觉可能要感冒，我们建议你一天喝一杯我们的增强免疫力茶来增加维生素C的摄入。

需要准备：

• 1个橙子
• 丁香
• 肉桂枝
• 少量蜂蜜
• 选择: 姜，有保暖的效果，在寒冷的日子里是个完美的选择。

如何制作自己的茶:

1.将3个丁香和1个大的或者2个小的肉桂枝煮沸。

2.把半个橙子切成几瓣，挤压橙子汁至茶壶中。

3.将所有的橙子瓣连皮放至茶壶中。 4.添加：3个丁香（把丁香摁到橙子皮上，所以在水加热的过程中，丁香不至于掉到茶中），再放上1个肉桂枝。 5.把热水倒入茶壶中，混合直至冷却再加入蜂蜜。 加水：添加一些肉桂粉和另一半橙子，再放入一茶勺蜂蜜

4.添加：3个丁香（把丁香摁到橙子皮上，所以在水加热的过程中，丁香不至于掉到茶中），再放上1个肉桂枝。 5.把热水倒入茶壶中，混合直至冷却再加入蜂蜜。 加水：添加一些肉桂粉和另一半橙子，再放入一茶勺蜂蜜

5.把热水倒入茶壶中，混合直至冷却再加入蜂蜜。

加水：添加一些肉桂粉和另一半橙子，再放入一茶勺蜂蜜

注意:

如果没有肉桂枝，可以用半勺肉桂粉代替。肉桂可以排毒，刺激血液循环。

永远不要加热蜂蜜或者将蜂蜜放到水中加热。必须等到茶凉后加入少量蜂蜜。热量可以破坏酶，从而稀释蜂蜜的药用价值。

虽然很多人喉咙痛会联想到用蜂蜜（是它的抗发炎），它实际上是高度的收敛（这意味着它将水分从组织中吸取了。也就是说它有一个“干燥”的品质）

增强免疫力茶的益处:

• 增强免疫力
• 使人精力充沛，刺激血液流动
• 排毒
• 消灭细菌，病毒
• 缓解咽喉肿痛