Do you like the taste of herbal tea, but not the price? If so you can make your own, saving a lot of money in the process. To make your own tea, all yea need is a few tea bags, easily acquired online, from a tea shop or at a grocery store.

Now, the flavor and potency of tea depends upon the quality of the tea leaves. You can get dirt cheap tea, but the flavor and nutritional value leaves a lot to be desired. More expensive tea gives you more health benefits and a much better flavor. If you can afford it, I suggest buying high quality tea leaves or tea bags (leaves are always better than bags).

The first thing to do is to find some empty tea bags. You can buy these at a tea shop or order them online for cheap. They usually come in bags of 50 to 100. It should only be a couple of bucks at the most. Fillable tea bags have a fold-over top which you can open to pour in your tea.

Now, here comes the fun part. Think about your favorite Chinese tea. Does it have a hint of spice or does it taste fruity? Does it have a roasted flavor?  Perhaps you want a hint of cinnamon. Taste varies from person to person, so how your herbal tea will taste is completely up to you.

Decide on what type of ingredients you want to mix. You can use green tea, black tea, or oolong tea as the tea base and mix it with something to add extra flavor.

For example, if you like the taste of apple and the taste of cinnamon simply take half a teaspoon of loose black tea; add in 1/4 of an inch of a cinnamon stick and a ¼ a teaspoon of dried apple to your tea bag. Now fold over your tea bag and you have a new, unique herbal tea ready to be tasted!

If you really want to maximize the health benifits of the tea, add in chinese herbs to the mix. Chinese herbs contain tons of antioxidants and other health benifits. Note that the flavour of the tea will be altered (maybe for the worse) if you add in chinese herbs.

You can apply this very same process to every chinese herbal tea you fancy. Green tea, oolong tea, white tea, earl grey tea, black tea. Experiment enough and soon you’ll be creating some amazingly tasty (and healthy) herbal teas! Even more, you can tell people who taste them that you created it!