Although the word “detox” is horrendously over-used in today’s fad-diet culture, it is also one of the most recognized in terms of “healing” the body through food.

It is believed that consuming natural, pesticide and hormone free whole foods can heal the body and re-balance systems. This treatment does not arise from a week of flash diets consisting of $300 juice cleanse regimes, it rather takes months of commitment to a new food approach and lifestyle.

This tea, made of fresh ginger, turmeric, mint and Manuka honey is a delicious, warming tea that when drunken regularly, can offer the body noticeable health benefits. In fact, I’m drinking it as we speak, inspired by a recent trip to Paris’s China town where I found fresh Curcumin(turmeric root from Thailand. Such herbal and root infusion drinks have replaced my multi-daily coffees and I feel the difference. It is especially good to drink when sick with everything from gastrointestinal sickness and colds and flus.  The proof is in the plants: