Without exaggeration, Russia can be called a "tea" country. Especially love for tea drinking among Russians increases with the onset of autumn and winter cold. Of course, the most favorite view of tea in Russia is black. At the same time, green tea ranks second in popularity among Russians. And recently, Japanese green tea has loved to everyone, put into powder, - the match. However, Womanhit wants to remind you of another useful form of tea - herbal. We tell how herbal tea is useful and how to choose it.
Does this tea?
Tea is a drink obtained as a result of welding of tea tree leaves. Such tea contains caffeine. Herbal tea is inherently not a tea - it is a decoction of fruits, flowers, stalks or roots of caffeine plants. But this does not mean that herbal tea will not be treated - many herbal fees containing dried ginger, ginseng, lemongrass and berries, cope with this task no worse than coffee or leaf tea.
Herbal fees will help with the prevention and treatment of colds
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How to choose herbal tea?
First you need to figure out why you need herbal tea: just for home tea drinking or do you want to get a wellness effect? In the latter case, it is necessary to approach the choice of collection, because the improved effect is directly dependent on the composition of herbal tea.
Collection with mother-in-law, Valerian, chamomile, juniper, lavender, Melissa and mint will have a calming effect: will relax the nervous system and help to fall asleep.
The leaves of the Senna, the root of the crash, fennel, the leaves of the plantain and the grass of the Cyprus of the narrow-mounted will put the laxative effect and improve the intestinal motorcy.
If you are interested in anti-inflammatory actions of tea, then look for picking with calendula flowers, echinacea, linden, chamomile, hormour, and the leaves of sage and licorice root.
Strengthen the heart and vessels, as well as normalize the blood pressure will help, as part of which will be the fruits of a rose and hawthorn, the grass of medusers of the medicinal, the grass of the mother-in-law, soul man, Melissa and Mint.
With a cold and emergency, it will help to raise immunity, which includes the following herbs: Eleutherococcus, Echinacea, ginger root and ginseng, black currant leaves, strawberries, blackberries, dogs, raspberries and Ivan tea.
Separately, it is worth saying about tea carcade. It is made of dried bracts of Sudanese roses from the genus of hibiscus. Carcade not only normalizes blood pressure and strengthens the vessels (due to the routine), but also reduces pain during menstruation and improves mood.
Any herbal tea has an antioxidant, toning effect and can be used as a natural source of vitamins, minerals and flavanoids.
If you want to choose herbal tea as an alternative to black or green, without certain therapeutic purposes, then you are great for the collection, containing borodnik berries, black currant, sea buckthorn, raspberries, rowan, berries, meat, mint, Melissa and Lemongrass. Such a collection will have a pleasant light taste and aroma. You can also add a spoon with lemon or lime to the kettle.
Keep in mind that herbal fees have a diuretic action, so such tea is better not to drink a lot if you are going on the road.
Choose Crimean and Altai herbal fees
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How to drink herbal tea?
Herbal tea should not be poured with boiling water - only with hot or warm water temperature up to 90 degrees, otherwise the structure of useful biologically active substances in the composition of plants is destroyed. Almost all herbal fees must be for 10-20 minutes, while brewing them can be reused - 2-4 times in a row.
Despite the numerous beneficial properties of herbal tea, we recommend consult with your doctor before purchase and exclude allergies to those or other herbs included in the tea collection.