Herbal tea is sometimes known as ptisane or tisane, in other words infusion of the leaves. The Chinese sometimes call herbal tea liang cha, which signifies cooling tea. The Chinese used to drink this to cool down the body when it was too hot because of weather or sickness. It is really easy to prepare. Just place the flowers or leaves inside a heated tea pot or jar then slowly pour boiling water. Leave it for a couple of minutes. Then you can enjoy your lovely hot healthy beverage made from herbs. Moreover flavored teas are prepared with the addition of other plants to an actual tea like black, oolong, green, yellow, white or flavors such as jasmine, Chinese, genmaicha and also the popular Earl Grey tea, which is black tea with bergamot (it is the orange oil, not the herb of the same name)