Thyme Tea | Baby Cold Recipe
Suitable Age
From 6 Months
Intended Purpose
Baby Respiratory Issues
Preparation Time
10 min Preparation
It is said that thyme is the “antibiotic for poor people”. And indeed, apart from being affordable and easily available, thyme is super effective too.
Thyme has anti-bacterial, anti-viral and anti-inflammatory properties. Therefore, it has been used throughout history for all kinds of respiratory issues.
Thyme works particularly well for coughs and has an antispasmodic effect on spasmodic coughs. Moreover, it helps clear phlegm and nasal congestion so that your child can breathe more easily.
Finally, thyme also helps prevent infections and clear inflammation of the respiratory tract. That’s why every parent should have it readily available, especially during the cold and flu season!
Ingredients
1 tbp of dried thyme
1 cup of hot (not boiling) sterile water (150ml)
If you don’t have sterile water, cook water first and then leave it to cool.
Step by Step Instructions
Step 1
Put the thyme into a tea infuser and then into a cup.
Step 2
Poor about 150ml of hot (not boiling water) over the thyme!
Step 3:
Cover the cup with a lid and let the tea infuse for about 8-10min!
Step 4:
Remove the tea infuser and let the tea cool down (you want it to be lukewarm).
Feeding Recommendation
Babies under 12 months of age:
25ml – 3 times a day
Toddlers from 1-3 years of age:
75ml – 3 times a day
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Nathalie Kaufmann
Nathalie is a pregnancy and birth Consultant and a TCM Therapist with almost 20 years of experience in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), acupuncture, reflexology, Shonishin baby massage techniques, Western and Eastern massage techniques (including TUINA), as well as herbal medicine and nutrition.
She has worked in hospitals across London and was Head of the Maternity Acupuncture Clinic at the Whittington hospital in London. Today, Nathalie runs her own practice in London and helps pregnant women with pregnancy- and birth-related issues. She also specializes in alternative treatments for babies and children.
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LEAVE A REPLY
Hi Natalie! How much for an 8 yo? Thank you!
Hi there!
Mathias here (partner of Nathalie). My sincere apologies for the late reply! Actually, we disabled the comment function on our website because we received so much spam. But after we migrated our site to another hosting provider, we unintentionally enabled the function again and only realized it now.
Anyways, regarding your question:
8 year old children can basically drink “as much as they like”. When our son has a cold (he is 4 now), we just prepare a big bottle of thyme tea in the morning and then let him drink it throughout the day.
By the way:
What we also do is prepare onion-thyme tea. Just roughly chop an onion, add water, bring the water to boil, reduce the heat, add some thyme and let it simmer for about 30 minutes.
It really works very well when they have a cold! The only downside is: not all children like it 😉
Again, apologies for the delay! I hope this helps for the next cold!
Hi , what about fresh organic thyme stems for tea , for toddlers?
Yes, fresh thyme works too, including stems.