How to Use Chickweed Diet Agent

Chickweed, the small, delicate creeping vine that gardeners go to great lengths to eradicate, is purported to have great value as a diet agent, helping to dissolve fats so that they are then expelled in the urine. While chickweed is widely used by herbalists as a gentle diuretic, there is no scientific proof of its efficacy as a diet agent. Nonetheless, you'll find it quite widely available in pills--which should be taken as indicated on the product label, usually two to three pills or more daily--or more conveniently as tea.

Things You'll Need

• Tea diffuser
• Teapot or mug

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Instructions

• 1

  Scoop 2 to 3 tsp. of dried chickweed into a tea diffuser.

• 2

  Place the tea diffuser in a mug or tea pot, then fill that mug or pot with water just shy of boiling temperature.

• 3

  Let the chickweed herb, inside the diffuser, steep in the hot water for five minutes.

• 4

  Remove the diffuser from the hot water, dump the spent chickweed out and rinse the diffuser clean.

• 5

  Drink the chickweed tea, which should be cooled off to a drinkable temperature by now. Test it carefully on the first few sips to see if it's too hot; if so, let it sit for a few more minutes.

• 6

  Take chickweed tea two or three times daily, or more, to reap its benefits as a supposed diet agent.