Lemon Spice Wellness Tea

Ingredients

• 6 cups water, or as desired
• 1 (4 inch) piece fresh ginger, peeled and coarsely chopped
• 1 whole star anise pod
• 6 cardamom pods, bruised
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 4 lemons
• 3 tablespoons unpasteurized honey, or more to taste

Directions

Bring water to a boil in a saucepan; add ginger, star anise, cardamom pods, and cinnamon stick. Zest lemons over the saucepan. Slice lemons in half and squeeze juice into the water. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until desired flavor is reached, 5 to 15 minutes.

Stir honey into tea and strain tea through a fine-mesh strainer as you ladle into mugs. Add contents in strainer back into saucepan.