How to brew willow tea at home: what cooking methods exist and how to drink it?

Ivan tea is a popular plant, also known as fireweed. It has a large number of useful properties. There are many species of this plant, but in folk medicine they use only narrow-leaved fireweed. Ivan-tea grows mainly in Siberia, but anyone can enjoy a drink from it. The main thing is to know how to prepare it, and who should use it.

Almost everyone wants to improve their health and recover from diseases without medication. Therefore, many people want to learn how to brew home healing herbs. There are many ways for this, it is only necessary to determine which one is more suitable. Ivan tea is brewed quite often, it is very useful, so you can drink it for almost everyone.

Let us consider in more detail the main advantages of a drink from this plant.

• In this tea there is absolutely no caffeine, as well as uric acid. This makes it possible, taking it, to suppress any aggression and overexcitement.
• In the leaves of willow-tea are tannins that help relieve inflammation in the stomach.
• Also in this tea there is a lot of ascorbic acid. Experts say that here it is even more than as part of a lemon. Therefore, the drink should be consumed for any colds.
• Herbal infusion cleanses the body of toxins and radioactive elements.
• Tannin helps relieve inflammation and heals any wounds faster.
• The presence of bioflavonoids helps to relieve pain and strengthen the walls of blood vessels.
• Copper does not develop anemia.
• In addition, the drink contains iron, which helps maintain hemoglobin in normal conditions.

Due to these abilities tea is often used in traditional medicine. For example, a therapeutic drink is prepared with:

• very high pressure;
• the presence of skin diseases;
• menopause or menstrual pain;
• thrush or cystitis;
• problems with adenoma;
• catarrhal diseases;
• stressful situations;
• anti-sterility

Healing tea has no particular contraindications. However, they should not be abused. This can lead to some stomach discomfort. In case of varicose diseases or thrombosis, it is better to consult your doctor before you start drinking such tea. This is especially true if there are problems with blood clotting.

You can make tea from any part of this plant. For example, young shoots pour boiled water and use instead of tea leaves. If the leaves are collected in the spring, the tea will be sour. When harvesting raw materials in the summer, tea will smell like honey and have a sweetish taste. Cease to collect wormwood when he throws seeds. The most valuable is the plant collected during its flowering.

Properly brew tea at home will not be easy. This can be done in different ways, for example, in a kettle made of glass or ceramics or even in a regular thermos. Healing decoction is made from freshly picked or dried leaves. Also add roots and flowers to it.

Take ivan-tea for recovery is necessary, observing the dosage. If you want to drink it just for fun, you can use fermented or granulated tea.

Consider the general rules of tea brewing.

• Water for him must be either spring or purified.
• The dishes in which the tea will be brewed must be rinsed with boiling water.This is necessary so that the drink does not give its heat to the kettle or thermos.
• Water temperature for brewing may vary. It all depends on the characteristics of the fermentation of leaves. For example, for black tea, the temperature should be not less than 95 degrees, for green tea - 85 degrees. If the leaves are only lightly processed, then a temperature of 75 degrees will do.
• For brewing any kind of tea, it is necessary to slightly hold the leaves. Only then they should be flooded with water. This will give the opportunity to save almost all the beneficial substances that are in them.
• The time used for the infusion should be approximately 35-40 minutes. This is sufficient for the complete extraction of useful substances in tea.
• If a person does not have time, then you can brew a plant several times. This option of making tea allows you to give healing properties gradually.

Now consider in detail how to brew tea in different containers.

The first step is to rinse the kettle with boiled water. Immediately after this, you need to fill it with the leaves of willow-tea. The proportions should be like this: for 200 milliliters of water, you will need 2 tsp. welding. If you need too cool or weak tea, then the proportions should choose the most.

After that, pour the tea leaves with boiled and slightly cooled water, as described above. Water is poured only on the third part of the kettle. Raw material infused 6 minutes. This is done so that the leaves quickly reveal their flavor. Then you need to add water to the top. After that, you need to insist drink another 20-25 minutes.

This method is no different from the previous version. The only thing that needs to be done is to cover the teapot with a warm towel or a woolen scarf. You can also use a heating pad.

This procedure is only suitable for Ivan tea. He, unlike Chinese raw materials, can not lose its flavor or "suffocate." This cooking option allows the brew to completely give the drink all its healing substances.

If earlier a stove was used for brewing tea, now it can be replaced with an instrument such as an electric kettle. The process of brewing in it is almost the same principle. Initially, leaves for tea leaves are placed in a prepared container. After that, it is lowered into the kettle.

The brewing process consists of several stages of water heating. Each time the kettle needs to be turned off and on again. This allows the layers of tea to mix and give all the useful substances. Total cooking time should be about 35 minutes.

This method makes it possible to get a fairly rich tea. To begin with, the thermos needs to be doused with boiling water, after which it is necessary to pour tea leaves into it and pour boiled, slightly cooled water. The amount of welding directly depends on the volume of the thermos. After that, close the thermos lid and insist the contents of 35-40 minutes. Then the drink must be poured into glassware so that prolonged contact with the metal could not destroy all the healing properties of the tea.

In order to preserve to the maximum all the useful properties of fireweed, you can do without heat treatment. Enough to pour a tablespoon of tea leaves with cold water. You can use boiled or spring water. To insist on such a drink should be up to 14 hours.

Having considered almost all methods of brewing willow tea, you can pay attention to several recipes that help to cope with various diseases.

It is necessary to take 1.5 Art. l brew and pour them a glass of boiled water. It is necessary to infuse tea for 3.5 hours, after which it should be drained. Infusion should be divided into three times and drink for a day.

To prepare such a drink, you must take 1.5 tbsp. l brew and pour it a glass of boiled water. Need to insist about one hour. Then ready tea needs to be poured into cooked dry dishes. Take this infusion should be 2 tbsp. l four times a day.

To prepare such an infusion, you need a little leaf of willow-tea pour a glass of boiling water. Insist drink need 60 minutes. After that, it is worth it to strain. Tea should be divided into three parts and drink during the day.

To prepare such a tea, it is necessary to take dried leaves, flowers, as well as chopped plant root. All components need to be mixed, separating 2.5 Art. l welding. After that, you need to fill all with boiled water, cooled to 85 degrees. It is necessary to insist on such tea all night.

This recipe differs from others in that milk is used instead of water. First you need to pour the kettle with boiled water. After this should be filled inside the brew (about 2 tbsp. L.). Then you need to fill it with a glass of hot milk. Infuse such a drink should be 20 minutes.

After that, it is worth filtering and use as intended. Several receptions of such tea will help strengthen the immune system and provide protection against infectious diseases.

To get rid of a headache, as well as cure a cold, you must take 2.5 tbsp. l brew and pour it with one glass of boiled water. It is necessary to insist such tea 35-45 minutes. Then it should be well strain the drink and take 2 tbsp. l tea three times a day with meals.

To make this tea must take:

• 2.5 Art. l ground fireweed;
• 2 tbsp. l limes;
• 1.5 Art. l fennel;
• 2 tbsp. l chamomile flowers.

A mixture of these plants must be poured 0, 7 liters. boiled water and let stand 35-45 minutes. Take this healing tea you need 45 minutes before meals three times a day. Drink it to 200 gr. at one time.

Experts recommend drinking this tea for prevention twice a day. Although there are no restrictions for its use, it is still necessary to be careful and not to abuse it. Delicious Ivan-tea and cold.

Often people add different herbs to the infusion without thinking about their compatibility. However, the correct "neighborhood" will not only provide an opportunity to get a drink with an interesting taste and aroma, but also will improve health.

The most contact are:

• black currant (you can use both leaves and berries);
• chamomile flowers;
• dog-rose fruit;
• sea ​​buckthorn berries;
• strawberry leaves;
• linden flowers;
• ginger root;
• nettle leaves;
• mint leaves;
• oregano flowers;
• thyme (flowers and stems).

All these components can be prepared by yourself, and can be purchased at the pharmacy. If, nevertheless, a decision is made to independently collect herbs, you should definitely find out at what time they are best to collect.

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