A fragrant and pleasant drink that can be consumed regardless of the season is mint tea, the beneficial properties of which are described by Avicenna.
In those distant days, when the terms “hyperarousal”, “hyperactivity”, “neurosis” were unknown to mankind, and all this was considered to be somewhat increased emotionality, the doctors advised patients who noticed abnormalities in themselves to put their mental state in order with a mint tea bowl.
Centuries passed, many new “fashionable” diseases caused by stresses appeared. To get rid of them, a host of new sedatives was developed . But before you take them, try to make a cup of mint tea, take a rest, think about it - maybe it’s not what you need, it’s an expensive medicine, maybe an amazing aromatic mint drink will be enough?
Equanimity is your middle name
There are times when everything is boring - work, the road to the office, rush hours with their eternal traffic jams or crushing in public transport, philistine conversations that one way or another have to be conducted with friends or friends, even a native family does not provide the necessary emotional balance. Usually in this state, one wants to break loose, shout, free oneself from the negative, which most of us do by loading others with the same negative.
You can get rid of in various ways: to beat the dishes or use it for its intended purpose - to brew, for example, tea with mint, whose useful properties are primarily the ability to quickly bring the nervous system in order.
With constant use of the drink after a few weeks, you may be surprised to find that the former irritants practically do not bother you. Crowds of people, lines, bright lights, city noise, morning notations from the boss - everything is taken for granted and does not cause resentment.
Well, peppermint tea has successfully completed its mission, and you are already on your way to the title of "Mr. (miss) Equanimity."
Female drink
And yet, this aromatic drink is more popular with the fairer sex. And not only because ladies prefer mint tea to other varieties. Useful properties of it are most felt by the female body.
Relieving spasmodic pain on days of menstruation that are not the most comfortable for any of the women or relieving the symptoms of menopause, peppermint tea becomes an effective and affordable painkiller.
It can and should be drunk by pregnant women suffering from toxicosis. But at the same time, a measure should be observed - no more than one cup per day, because what is useful to the mother can harm the fetus, especially if the future male baby.
But this does not end the list of physiological problems that mint tea helps to combat. Useful properties for women also consist in the ability of this rather simple drink to lower the level of male hormones. The property is very valuable for women suffering from excess hair on the body.
Mint tea is an indispensable tool for all losing weight and dieting: the abundance of essential oils in the mint herb, which dull the hunger, allows you to use the drink as the "main drink" if necessary, to lose a few extra pounds.
In the process of losing weight, there are options for using mint tea - a clean drink or famous mixes: green tea + mint, black tea + mint.
So still sedative or invigorating?
Like any other drink, mint tea has its own beneficial properties and contraindications. Not without it. But the main dilemma remains which properties are more inherent in peppermint tea - soothing or invigorating.
According to herbalists, the mint drink is universal: it can be used both as a sedative and as an invigorating remedy, the difference is only in quantity.
For example, if you need to calm down, you can not limit yourself to drink. If you want to cheer up, then two cups a day will be quite enough.
Why are men afraid to drink peppermint tea?
With regular use of peppermint tea, it is possible not only to calm the nervous system, but also to lower the male libido, which is undesirable for the stronger sex. Moreover, many of the men consider this process irreversible and refuse the drink even when it is necessary (in order to relieve strong nervous tension).
You should not be afraid, because tea with mint, whose beneficial properties and contraindications have been studied so well, temporarily affects male strength. It is enough to stop drinking the drink, and everything will be restored.
Mint as a supplement
Not only pure mint tea in honor of his fans. Many people enjoy using this plant as an additive in other teas. Linden, thyme, currant leaves, chamomile, herbal preparations are the most common teas, drinks and infusions in which mint can be present. Tea, the beneficial properties and contraindications of which must be taken into account in each individual case, must be used with caution, but never deny yourself the pleasure or, especially, the need to drink a cup of a healing drink.
One of the recipes that have come down to us from time immemorial consists of mint, thyme, St. John's wort, valerian root, rosehip berries and currant leaves and is the best remedy for malaise and loss of strength.
Not only the aroma gives tea with thyme and mint - useful properties in this case are focused on the antiseptic and analgesic effects of herbs. A double blow to the pain - this is the tea of ​​mint and thyme.
Take during an epidemic
It is impossible not to feel the bright menthol aroma with one touch of a sprig of mint. The plant is indispensable not only as a natural air freshener (although if there is a sick person in the room, you can use mint bouquets as an oxygen purifier for pathogens), but also as a powerful antibacterial agent.
During the period of increasing incidence of acute respiratory infections or a flu epidemic, start drinking as much tea as possible with mint and breathe it. Ideally, if the mint grows in a flowerpot, so it can be used fresh all year-round.
An excellent remedy for raging colds is green tea with mint, whose useful properties are to improve the body's defenses and relieve muscle spasms and headaches - the first symptoms of the disease.
What else can mint?
A useful plant, which contains healing power and which can be grown without hassle in a summer cottage, can stimulate the brain and cardiovascular system, activate the body's metabolic processes, the gastrointestinal tract, improve appetite (but also reduce it - all again depends on the concentration of the drink).
Mint tea, the beneficial properties of which have been tested by more than one generation, is drunk for migraines, nervous excitement, the first signs of a cold and given to hyperactive children (but a weak drink - two leaves per liter of boiling water). Peppermint tea is used as an external remedy for itchy skin rashes.
Those who need to be careful about drinking the drink are people with low blood pressure, varicose veins, and those who have individual mint intolerance and allergic reactions to it.