Tea with Chinese lemongrass: cooking features, benefit and harm

The benefits of Chinese lemongrass have long been known.Drinking tea from this plant increases resistance to many diseases, and also reduces the impact of the negative effects of stress on the body. Healing properties of seeds and fruits of Chinese magnolia. They contain a large number of substances that cause a surge of vitality. The use of this healthy drink improves performance, improves mood.

This healing plant grows in the Far East, in the taiga. It is a liana, reaching a length of more than 10-12 meters. In the spring, Chinese lemongrass blooms with fragrant pink flowers, and in the fall red branches appear on its branches. The berries have a spicy taste with a slight sourness and bitterness. If you rub leaves or stem in your hands, you can immediately feel the rich smell of citruses.

Berries, leaves, plant stems are taken as food. From all parts prepare healing drinks. In the autumn there is a harvest of fruits of lemongrass. During cutting brushes use a sharp knife or scissors. This is necessary in order not to damage the main maternal plant. Such gentle pruning will ensure a good harvest next year. Although the plant has a great length, it is a vine, so getting to the branches is a snap.

While harvesting, cut berries are neatly placed in a large container or basket. After this, the brushes are laid out on a large clean sheet to dry. Then the berries are laid out on a baking sheet and dried at a temperature of 60 degrees in the oven. Fruits dried in this way do not lose their unique properties up to two years. If you dry them correctly, the fruit will remain firm. If the berries are dried incorrectly, they may lose some of their benefits.

The berries have a bitter taste with spicy notes. It is possible to extract oil from ripe fruits, but it is produced only by an industrial method (by steam distillation). Another way to harvest fruit is to freeze it. For this, berries are carefully poured into bags or containers and sent to the freezer.

This plant has a number of healing properties. Eastern doctors do not compare it in vain with eleutherococcus or ginseng. Medicinal qualities have not only fruits, but also leaves, as well as the bark of this shrub. Bark and leaves are usually harvested at different times, taking into account the purpose for which the raw materials will be intended, what properties should have.

The composition of Schisandra Chinese contains a large number of important and necessary vitamins and minerals, as well as fiber, ash, starch. The composition of useful berries has not yet been studied. However, the benefits of lemongrass for the human body is beyond doubt.

• Drinking tea from the leaves and fruits of the plant helps to improve metabolic processes.
• The fruits of the shrub improve the functioning of the digestive organs.
• Through the use of these berries can strengthen the immune system, strengthen the protective functions of the body.
• Lemongrass tea affects vision, contributes to its improvement, and the ability to see things well in the dark is increasing.
• This drink is recommended to use to increase male power, because it enhances the potency, sexual capabilities and desire.

• This tea is useful for diabetes, as it lowers blood sugar levels.
• Useful fruits and leaves of the plant and vitamin deficiency.
• Healing tea will help in the normalization of pressure, you should drink it with CFS, lethargy and drowsiness.
• Useful vitamin drink during seasonal colds. Its use increases resistance to viruses and bacteria, it will help in extreme situations, during the acclimatization period.
• Preparations of Schisandra Chinese help with depression, they are used during heavy loads.
• It should be noted that the berries of Schizandra are used as a preventive and therapeutic agent in oncology.
• Eating Chinese Schizandra reduces the likelihood of asthma attacks.
• Also, tea from the fruit contributes to the removal of hangover, drink it and to improve sleep.
• Apply drink and for skin diseases, use it to heal trophic ulcers.

Before using any drug, it is important to learn not only about its benefits, but also to find out if there are any contraindications to its use.

• The fruits of the plant have strong tonic properties, so the drink is not recommended for use by people with high blood pressure. Also, the plant will not be useful for stress, insomnia, arrhythmias.
• It should not be consumed by pregnant women and nursing mothers.
• Tonic tea should not be given to children under 12 years old.
• It is contraindicated in VSD in the acute phase.
• It is not necessary to use it in case of gastric ulcer.

To brew tea from Chinese Schizandra, take the berries of the shrub, leaves or stems. Dried fruits are sold in specialized stores or pharmacies. It is possible to order their delivery directly from China.

If leaves are used as tea leaves, then in order to preserve their astringency and flavor, it is better not to take a thermos. The tonic is loved by the hunters of the Far East. To create it, take 1 teaspoon of leaves and fall asleep in the teapot. In a container with brewing pour boiling water and set aside to insist for a few minutes. Thanks to this method of brewing tea turns out strong, fragrant and tasty. This drink will give vigor and strength for the whole day.

If fruits are taken for a drink, the tea is brewed in the traditional way. To do this, one tablespoon of berries is placed in a small container, poured into it a glass of purified water. Capacity hold on fire until boiling, then reduce the fire. Fruits boil over low heat for about ten minutes. Then the tea is removed from the plate and let it brew for 15 minutes. Some recommend infusing a drink for 10-12 hours. After that, the tea must be filtered.

Curative tonic broth is poured into cups, add sweetener if desired. The drink is recommended to drink 60-100 ml, but not more than 250 ml per day. Such tea is drunk both in a warm and cold form.

You can make a tonic drink from the vine. It will help maintain health in the cold season, during colds and epidemics. For its preparation, take the stems in fresh or dried form and cut them into pieces.

Green tea lovers should try to make this delicious drink, enriching it with lemongrass. This component improves the taste and aroma of the finished product, as well as increases the benefits of its use, as the components successfully complement each other.

Ingredients:

• 2 tsp of green Chinese tea;
• 1 tsp lemongrass berries;
• 5 g of ginger powder;
• honey.

The fruit is brewed with clean water. At this amount take 500 ml of water. After boiling the liquid, all the specified ingredients are added to it, except honey. Ready hot drink is poured into cups, honey is added as desired.

Especially valuable is fermented tea from lemongrass. During fermentation, the effect of healing properties is enhanced several times, while tea has a tartness on the palate and becomes an amber color.

For fermentation, take the leaves of the plant. They are washed and dried. They are then wilted for several hours. When the leaves lose their original elasticity, proceed to their further processing. To do this, each individual leaf is placed in the palm of your hand and, rubbing, rolled into a tube. This allows you to release essential oils and excess moisture. Twisted leaves are placed in a container and knead until the juice appears. Then the container is covered and left for several hours. The appearance of a sharp lemon smell with a hint of bitterness will indicate that the fermentation process has come to an end.

Completes the process of drying the raw materials. To do this, the leaves are cut into pieces of 0.5 cm and spread on a baking sheet, covered with foil, in a thin layer. The raw material is dried for 90 minutes at a temperature of about 100 degrees. Then the temperature is reduced to 50 degrees. Raw materials are kept in the oven until the leaves begin to crumble. Then the fermented leaves are taken out of the oven, cooled, poured into canvas bags and left for 2 or 3 days to dry in air.

It is made from Chinese magnolia and curative tincture. To independently prepare the drug, you need to take the fruit and pour them with alcohol. On 1 part of the berries take 5 parts of alcohol. Tincture should be infused in a dark room for ten days. After that, it is filtered.

40 ml of alcohol are added to the sediment and left for the same period. Then water is poured into the mixture in the same amount. The course of taking this tincture is two weeks. It is recommended to drink with nervous tension, dizziness, sleep disturbances.

How to grow Chinese lemongrass in the garden and in the country, see the following video.