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4 super juices so powerful they're basically magic potions

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Your pick of different superjuices and smoothies
Your pick of different superjuices and smoothies

Need to recover fast? Then down, down, down! These potent drinks will cure whatever ails you…

1. The second wind

Combine: 30ml each lemon, lime and grapefruit juices + 7ml each Thai-basil tea and Thai lime tea + honey to taste.

Garnish with lemon peel.

Toss it back: After a long flight. The natural sugars give a quick jolt of energy.

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2. The immunity booster

Combine: 15ml honey jalapeño syrup + 30ml lemon juice + 1 drop ginger tea + 7ml fresh ginger juice + 1 pinch turmeric + 60ml orange juice.

Garnish with jalapeño.

Toss it back: To ease a sniffle. The jalapeños help clear your sinuses and orange juice offers up immunity friends such as antioxidants and vitamin C.

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3. The hangover helper

Combine: 130ml kombucha + 1 tsp lemongrass tea + 1 tsp fresh ginger juice + 2 drops bitters.

Garnish with ginger.

Toss it back: After too many glasses of bubbly. Ginger helps soothe a queasy tummy.

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4. The rehydration station

Combine: 100ml coconut water + 1 tsp allspice tea.

Garnish with mint.

Toss it back: On a hot, air-ain’t-moving kinda day. Coconut water is refreshing, thirst-quenching and packed with potassium.

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This article was originally published on Women's Health.

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