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Cold Formula from Traditional Medicinals

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78/100

Cold Formula

Herbal Tea by Traditional Medicinals

Cold Formula is an herbal tea that temporarily relieves coughs due to colds.

Recommended Dose:
Drink one cup every 3 hours, not to exceed 8 cups in 24 hours.

Medicinal Ingredients:
Each tea bag (1.7g) contains: Organic peppermint leaf (Mentha x piperita) 460 mg, organic cinnamon bark (Cinnamomum spp.) 187 mg, safflower flower (Carthamus tinctorius) 153 mg, organic ginger rhizome (Zingiber officinale) 119 mg, organic hyssop herb (Hyssopus officinalis) 119 mg, coltsfoot leaf (Tussilago farfara) 119 mg, organic European elder flower (Sambucus nigra) 68 mg.

Non-medicinal Ingredients:
Organic sweet orange peel (Citrus sinensis), organic clove flower bud (Syzygium aromaticum), organic rose hip (Rosa canina).

3 Tasting Notes

Jillian
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Jillian 3 tasting notes

I have a queasy stomach and sore throat right now, so I brewed up a mug of this tea. It’s very minty but there’s also a vegetal/herbal taste to it. Nothing else in particular stands out – it’s much better tasting than a lot of medicinals teas and a lot of medicines in general (anyone else ever consumed Buckley’s Cough Syrup? Urgh!).

I do notice a marked improvement, even half an hour after drinking it my throat doesn’t feel as irritated and I no longer feel like I’m about to toss my cookies any second. So this tea gets major pointage for its effectiveness.

Yep, I’ve definitely got a sore throat which is usually the first warning sign I have if I’m about to come down with a cold or fly virus. This tea, if nothing else feels nice on my throat – I added a teaspoon of wildflower honey for extra ‘lubrication’. ;)

Its taste isn’t really remarkable in any way; it’s pepperminty, but it’s a mild peppermint, not the full-on cold, mouth numbing sensation I usually get with straight peppermint tea. Its also got a slightly herb-y sort of quality to it, though nothing near so obnoxiously ‘good for you’-tasting as RoT’s Get Clean tea.

Backlogging from earlier today. I drank another dose of this when I first woke up.

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