Tea experts: which of these herbs would taste good together?

Most of the ones I’m familiar with there do not taste particularly good. Rose and cinnamon (or cardamom) might make a good blend, though. (My husband, a homebrewer, makes a delicious rose petal mead with cinnamon.)

Licorice/anise (they have a similar flavor), chamomile, and peppermint would each taste pretty good by themselves, though, and are fairly common. Licorice has a naturally sweet-like flavor but needs to be steeped longer than a normal tea, maybe even simmered.

Jasmine is often added to black tea, and has a floral scent that many people find pleasant.

Cinnamon and nutmeg would be better as ingredients added to other teas, or would taste like pumpkin pie spice by themselves.

And some of those are downright dangerous to be drinking! Datura, for example, is poisonous. That might add something to your plot, though. ;)

yeah, I know, you probably shouldn’t drink datura tea. (though “poisonous” often means hallucinogenic.) salvia divinorium doesn’t belong on the list, either, though, for different reasons. but then I didn’t come up with the list.

anyway, thank you for your helpful reply.

kava kava is awful. Chamomile comes in a dried flower, maybe found in a garden. Ginger is common to help digestion. Nutmeg taken in quatity, two tablespoons, is an excellent hallacinogen but it makes the user throw up before any effects. Cloves are used in holiday teas. Peppermint & spearmint also for digestion and gentle stimulation. If she adds lemon, it’s a diuretic. Cinnamon is a mild stimulant, could stretch the truth and have it stimulate dreams. Violets and violas are edible and add color, also found in garden.

I don’t like to stretch the truth if at all possible. thank you for your response. and, yes, kava kava does taste foul.

by the way, I forgot to mention above and can’t edit my initial question to say, that I especially would like the names of herbs which have associations with the color blue. blue flowers, blue roots, etc.

I have no doubt that datura is hallucinogenic. But by “poisonous,” I mean that it can kill you.

right. you can die from the stuff.

let me clarify. often you find something like amanita muscaria called “poisonous” as if one bite will kill you, when in reality, you can eat it in moderation without danger. by “poisonous”, in that context, they really mean you can hallucinate.

Oh man, there are some potent things in that list…a lot of things I probably would not consume daily, some that I would not consume at all. But some of them are safer.

Of that list I’d pull out hops, catnip, peppermint, cardamom, chamomile…some combination of those, maybe not all at once, might go well together. Catnip and peppermint go well together, in my opinion. Hops and chamomile might make a really relaxing tea too.