Linden leaf infusion, your new wellness asset

Appreciated by Marcel Proust, linden tea is renowned for its calming and sedative properties. The bracts and flowers of this tree are also purifying, soothing, hypotensive and diuretic.

Daily, this herbal tea helps you maintain health. For a cold, gastric pain or cellulite, the natural effect of linden leaf decoction quickly relieves you. Its use in weight loss is also recommended.

Linden tea is easily made with hot water and dried bracts. While the inflorescences require a short infusion, bark extract reveals its properties in recipes that need to be infused longer.

What are the medicinal virtues of linden infusion?

Phytotherapy recognizes the qualities of organic linden-based infusions. Friend of sleep, this plant has medicinal uses for kidneys, pain, (over)weight and certain winter ailments.

What is linden?

Linden trees are common garden trees in France. The organic products found in herbal shops are mainly made from the flowers and leaves of tilia sylvestris.

How is linden used in herbal teas?

Depending on the use and desired virtue, several parts of the tree are used in phytotherapy:

• the inflorescence (the flower and linden bracts),
• linden sapwood (inner bark of the wood),
• the buds, with closed bract.

What are the health benefits of tilia infusion?

Organic linden tea sold in bulk or in sachets in herbal shops consists of dried leaves. Its recipes treat many health issues.

• Linden flower facilitates quality sleep.
• Linden sap drains the body.
• The decoction made from linden leaves soothes the throat.
• Teas made from the soft part of the wood reduce joint pain.
• Linden infusions relieve gastritis.

How to use tilia tea?

Depending on the desired effect, linden tea can be drunk before or after meals, hot or cold. The flower taste is mild while the harder part of the plants produces a slight bitterness. Product preparation advice.

How to properly prepare linden tea?

Linden tea is as simple to use as chamomile. You let the dried leaf sachet infuse in hot water. According to your taste, you can drink the product alone or with linden honey to enhance its soothing properties.

How to benefit from tilia infusion?

According to French phytotherapists, linden infusion like honey can be consumed by the whole family. Whether in bulk or in sachets, the effects of linden leaf decoctions depend on their quality. The use of organic plants, like herbal products, is recommended.

As with bulk chamomile, you use the flowers and bracts to improve your sleep. Linden sapwood, which is purifying, goes well with a remineralizing plant like horsetail, also found in gardens.