AVOCADO LEAVES for tea

Comes in a 6x9" large pouch of leaves.

Brew to make a powerful tea! Has a slight licorice flavor. Tastes so good, even if you HATE licorice (like us)!

This is enough to make about 30 cups of tea.

Rinse your leaves, then rip & crumble leaves into smaller pieces to release more flavor and nutrients into your tea.

Organically harvested, and naturally air dried.

How to Make Avocado Tea:

Avocado leaves are usually consumed as a tea.

1. Rinse, then crumble 3 avocado leaves.
2. Boil them in a pot with 1½-2 cups of water for 10 minutes or steep in a french press for 15 minutes.
3. Allow the tea to steep until it gets warm.
4. Add your sweetener to taste. Honey is great.
5. Strain.
6. Drink it 1-2 cups per day regularly.
7. Besides making them into a tea, you can use the avocado leaves to add the flavor to your soup and stew.

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20 Health Benefits of Avocado Leaves

Usually, we consume the fruit of avocado only, however, the avocado leaves have huge health benefits also. They contain many substances that useful for our body, such as flavonol, quercetin, glycoside, polyphenol, estragole, alpha and beta pinene, cineol, limonene, serotonin, flavonoids, etc.

Here are 20 health benefits of avocado leaves for our body:

Protects the body from degenerative disease

The flavonol compound in avocado leaves has the mechanism to protect the body from degenerative diseases, such as osteoarthritis. This brings the avocado leaves benefits to prevent the early aging as well.

Acts as a diuretic

Avocado leaves contain quercetin which acts as diuretic agent. It helps you to urinate well to remove out your waste product of metabolism.

Inhibits the growth of bacteria

Avocado leaves contain polyphenol and pinene, substances that can inhibit the growth of bacteria. You can get its benefits to prevent the infection through their mechanism of action.

Helps to treat the kidney stones

The alkaloid, flavonoids, and saponins are substances that can break down the kidney stone and improve the kidney function. You can get these substances from avocado leaves. To get these kind of effects, just follow these simple steps:

1. Wash 5-8 pieces of old avocado leaves.
2. Boil them with 1 cup of water.
3. Wait until the water remain ½ cup.
4. Filter the water from its residue.
5. Drink it every morning and evening for 10 days or until the gravel or froth come out via urinating.

Stabilizes the blood pressure

The limonene contained in avocado leaves can act as the natural remedy to stabilize the blood pressure and prevent from hypertension condition.

Reduces asthma attacks

Avocado leaves contain pinene which acts to reduce asthma attack through its several mechanism. This substance has a bronchodilator effect, reduce the inflammation, and increase the airflow to the lung. These mechanisms bring the this leaves to treat asthma attack well.

Helps to relieve headaches

The quercetin and pinene compound of avocado leaves can help to cure a headache. They inhibit the pain transmitter into the brain so a headache or any other pain symptoms can be reduced.

Helps to prevent cancer

Avocado leaves to prevent cancer come from the pinene and limonene content. These substances can inhibit the cancer cell growth and act as chemoprotective agents.

Keeps the skin healthy

Avocado leaves contain the antioxidant which can help to clean the skin and pore. This is one the great health benefits for your healthy skin. To get this benefit you have to mash the avocado young leaves and apply them to your skin 5-10 minutes, then wash it.

Reduce back pain

The pinene content in avocado leaves can reduce the pain in all part of the body, especially for the back pain.

Reduces swelling

Quercetin effect in avocado leaves can reduce the swelling of the body through its mechanism in minimizing the inflammatory substance. You can get these health benefits of avocado leaves by applying the mashed avocado leaves to the swelling area for 4-5 hours and then wash it.

Eliminates thrush

Thrush can come from the bacteria or damage in oral cavity area. It can be eliminated by polyphenol content in avocado leaves. Just chew the avocado leaves then put them on the thrush lesion for 5-10 minutes to get these benefits.

Can cut sugar cravings

The avocado leaves contain glycoside. Glycoside can replace the sugar that the body needs and give the full feeling so it will stop you from consuming the excessive calories of your ordinary sugar. It’s very useful to treat diabetes.

Reduces the cholesterol level

This holy leaves for reducing the cholesterol level have been proven through its limonene compound. Limonene can reduce the triglyceride and total cholesterol effectively.

Helps to treat arthritis

Quercetin compound in avocado leaves can act as the anti-inflammatory agent so it can help to treat arthritis disease.

Acts as detoxify agent

The flavonol compound in avocado leaves can purify the blood from any toxic substances and remove them via urine. This is one of the amazing health benefits of avocado leaves as the detoxifying agent.

Helps to treat diarrhea

The limonene contained in avocado leaves has also the mechanism to keep the digestive balance and improve the intestinal function. It will help to treat diarrhea and any other digestive problem.

Increases milk production during lactation

Avocado leaves can be useful for women during lactation. The estragole substance in avocado leaves can increase the breast milk production in women. (Read: Health benefits of avocado during pregnancy)

Decrease anxiety and prevent insomnia

It also can decrease the anxiety and prevent insomnia through its serotonin content. Serotonin plays the important role in regulating the mood, control the appetite, and sleep. In addition, the limonene content brings also the health benefits to reduce anxiety well.

Aids in weight loss

One of the wonderful benefits is helping in weight loss. Avocado leaves contain limonene which acts as the appetite suppressant so you can control your intake and prevent weight gain.

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Traditional Avocado Leaf Tea Uses

Traditionally Avocado leaf tea has been used as medicine to treat toothaches, and stomach aches.

They have also been used to treat hypertension, relieve asthma symptoms, remove kidney stones, and reduce the frequency of convulsions.

It is believed that the Aztecs and the Mayans applied Avocado leaf tea directly to the skin to relieve acne, dry skin, and eczema.

The leaves are used in many Latin American recipes. They are used to wrap meats, poultry and fish for grilling as well.

Placing a few leaves of avocado are also common in stews, soups and black bean recipes.