Egyptian Licorice

I tend to get a bit of a dry cough at night time and this helps soothe my itchy throat sometimes. I was somewhat surprised to find only two tea bags left when I went rooting through the tea cupboard looking for this. Not bad for a tea I initially didn’t care for. ;)

The air is so dry right now I have an almost constant sore throat. This tea always feels so nice and soothing going down.

You know, I’ve found that since I’ve started drinking this tea that I’ve disliked the licorice flavour less as time goes on. It seems to only be the natural licorice root that this phenomena applies to, though; black licorice and licorice-flavoured jellybeans still garner a “Yurgh!” reaction from me.

*looks into the box * Huh, this tea’s been vanishing faster than I realized – there’s only three bags left. It feels so unbelievably good on my sore throat though, so I might get another box just to add to my herbal medicine collection.

My throat was feeling scratchy again today so I dug out this tea. I wonder if I might be slightly allergic to something in the air right now, or maybe I just need to catch up on my dusting and house cleaning (urgh).

This seems to be turning into my go-to tea for sore throats when I don’t want the sleep-inducing effect of the cherry bark that’s in Traditional Medicinal’s Throat Coat tea (which is awesome BTW and also has licorice root in it).

Another tea that feels good on a scratchy throat.

Argh, Yogi’s teabags always tear on me for some reason – I hate having floaty bits in my tea!

Steeped for 3.5 minutes. No matter how much or how little I steep it it tastes like I’ve added 3 or 4 teaspoons of sugar due to the licorice root in the tea.

Managed to keep the bag from spliting open this time. In my opinion this tea tastes better with more steeping as opposed to less.

Steeped it for 5.5 minutes in boiling water and it seemed to bring out the flavour of some of the other spices a bit more.