43 teas · 12 free in the app

Herbal Tea

Herbal tea — properly a tisane — contains no Camellia sinensis at all, only flowers, leaves, roots, bark or fruit, so all 43 blends here are naturally caffeine-free at 0 mg. They are brewed hard: a median 100 °C (212 °F) for 8 minutes, because there are no tea tannins to turn bitter.

Herbal Tea at a glance

Herbal Tea at a glance
	Leaf	Water	Temperature	Time	Re-steeps
Western	3 g	250 ml	100°C / 212°F	8 min	2
Gong Fu	4.5 g	100 ml	100°C / 212°F	25 s +	7

Caffeine: 0 mg per cup2 with a Gong Fu ladder 12 free in the app

Median values across all 43 teas on this page. Each tea's own page carries its exact numbers.

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Not tea, and that is the point

Nothing in this section comes from Camellia sinensis. Herbal infusions — tisanes, strictly — are made from flowers, leaves, roots, bark, seeds and fruit: chamomile, peppermint, rooibos, hibiscus, ginger, lemongrass, fennel. That single fact changes everything about how they behave in the pot, which is why they get their own hub rather than sitting inside a tea type.

All 43 blends here are caffeine-free at 0 mg, with one honest exception worth naming: yerba mate and guayusa are botanically caffeinated even though they are not tea. Where a blend contains them, the caffeine figure on its page says so.

How to brew herbal tea

Brew them hard. The median is 100 °C (212 °F) for 8 minutes at 3 g per 250 ml — water straight off the boil, and roughly three times the steeping time you would give a black tea. There are no tea tannins to over-extract, so the usual bitterness penalty does not exist; the failure mode of a herbal infusion is weakness, not harshness.

Different materials release at different speeds, which is why times on these pages range from four minutes to a quarter of an hour. Delicate flowers like chamomile and lavender give up their oils quickly. Roots, bark and dried berries — ginger, liquorice, rosehip, elderberry — need the long end, and traditionally get simmered rather than steeped. Keep the pot covered: the aromatic oils you want are volatile, and an open cup loses them into the room.

Choosing one

Because caffeine is not a constraint, herbal blends are usually chosen by what you want them to do: chamomile, valerian and lavender before bed; peppermint, fennel and ginger after a heavy meal; hibiscus and rosehip for a tart, cold-brewable summer cup; rooibos as the reliable all-day base that takes milk like a black tea. The best-time and health-benefit fields on each page below reflect the traditional use, not a medical claim.

Twelve of these blends are free in the app — the largest free selection of any type here — and the list below is ordered by what readers in this language actually open.