How wonderful it is to indulge yourself with a cup of delicious aromatic tea on a cold cloudy day! Tea is a drink that can give a person much more energy than coffee, and also fill the body with useful substances. What should a healthy tea collection consist of and how to harvest herbs correctly?
The best time to stock up on herbs for tea is summer. Everything is blooming around, grandmothers dry herbs on the windowsills, after a hard day in the garden they brew them with boiling water and relax on the veranda, enjoying the silence and taste. But how much benefit are these herbs and the drink itself? Few people are doing this now, without thinking how painstaking and interesting the process itself, and then the result, is!
It has long become a habit, without bothering too much, to buy tea bags with a ton of flavors and "color" the water with them. Tasty, but is it healthy?
What ingredients can you collect and how to brew them correctly?
The easiest herbs to collect are chamomile flowers. It grows everywhere, but it is worth collecting it in your garden, planting it in advance. A decoction for headaches, bloating can help, calm the nerves, warm up the mountain for respiratory diseases. You can add lemon and mint - the taste immediately becomes much richer. Some also note that even without added sugar, chamomile tea gives a sweetish hue. Flower tea is useful for diabetes, gastritis, and improves digestion. You just need to remember that you cannot achieve a result with 1 cup of the result, you need to drink the broth systematically and last at least two weeks. It is also useful for small children, only it is recommended to reduce the strength and dosage. It is useful and tasty to add linden flowers to chamomile.
It is necessary to chop the flowers or buy ready-made packages at the pharmacy, brew in a thermos or a cup. It is better to leave it overnight, see the dosage for yourself, whoever you like. You need to drink before this, strain and 30 minutes before meals, 100 ml 3 times a day
Rosehip or wild rose berries
To prepare a drink you may need: roots, leaves, flowers and rose hips. More often they prepare a decoction of berries, which can be seen in many courtyards near residential buildings. Again, don't collect them there. You need to buy either in specialty stores, but it is better to collect in your own garden. Dried wild rose berries contain 2 times more vitamin C than currants. Tea cures colds, increases the immunity of the human body, strengthens the walls of blood vessels (useful for people with diabetes).
For cooking, you need to chop 1 tablespoon of fruits and place in a thermos, add half a liter of hot boiled water. You can also throw 10 of the fruits themselves and also brew, but before that pour boiling water over them. Many add sugar or honey. You can drink as with meals, but for best results, write 30 minutes before taking
Mint
Refreshes, while it has a beneficial effect on the nervous system. You can drink the broth at any time of the day, the drink gives a feeling of coolness, soothes and relaxes. As a rule, mint has long been considered a female herb, since the leaves contain plant estrogens close to female sex hormones. Men should not be addicted to this drink. Like the previous herbs, peppermint tea has a beneficial effect on digestion, relieves bloating, prevents allergies, and lowers blood pressure. To enhance the effect, it is recommended to mix mint with lemon balm.
The plant can also be safely grown in the garden or purchased from the pharmacy. 1 teaspoon of leaves is poured with 300 ml of boiling water and insisted for 15 minutes. Do not leave it in the refrigerator overnight, since the nutrients evaporate
Linden
One of the most enjoyable drinks you can make yourself. Slightly sweet in taste, but can also be tart. It has a good effect on metabolic processes, soothes, which means that it will be very good to drink a glass of this tea before going to bed. Linden grows everywhere, but you should not pick it near the road, it will be good to go to the forest. Tea is not replaceable for colds, is useful for pregnant women, relieves fever and headaches. To enhance the effect, you can add chamomile, sage. It is not recommended to drink the broth constantly, you need to take breaks.
Pour dried flowers with hot water, cover and leave for 20 minutes. For 300 ml, you need 1.5 tablespoons of flowers
How to properly prepare herbs for tea?
Berries for tea should be picked when they are fully ripe, because at that moment they contain the maximum amount of nutrients. The flowers are fully open. Leaves - when they are fully unfolded. You need to dry herbs in a darkened room (in the attic, under a canopy on the street). It must be stored in woven bags, paper bags, closed glass jars for up to 4 years.
