Everyone drinks tea - black, green, white, with the addition of fruit. There are special types of teas - floral. It is about them that we want to talk about today. In the article, we consider the benefits, the rules for brewing delicious teas created from flowers.
Description
All over the world, flowers are appreciated not only as a beauty of nature, but also as useful components for brewing teas. There are flower teas created only from petals and leaves, and there are those where plants are used as additional flavoring and healthy ingredients in the teas we are familiar with.
Most herbal teas are valued in China. For millennia, the inhabitants of the Middle Kingdom have revealed the benefits of plants, learned to use them. Today, the most popular flowers for brewing a drink are chamomile, rose, jasmine, elderberry.
Jasmine tea
Tea made from jasmine flowers appeared in a provincial Chinese town and eventually became popular all over the world. Pure tea is prepared from these flowers, and mixed, mainly green varieties are used that do not interrupt pleasant floral notes.
You need to brew such flower tea for no more than five minutes, and immediately drink it after cooking, as later the taste becomes different, not so pleasant.
It is not recommended to add additional components to such a drink, such as milk, honey, sugar, lemon, these ingredients can veil the whole taste created by nature itself.
The color of the drink is transparent, has a green-yellow tint, very light. The taste, like the color, is thin, light, slightly sweet. Such flower tea is excellently refreshing.
Benefits of Jasmine Tea
There are many useful substances in jasmine flowers, these are:
- tannin;
- various acids;
- vitamins and minerals;
- alkaloids;
- essential oils;
- ephengols.
Jasmine flower tea has a beneficial effect on the human body:
- excellent antidepressant;
- normalizes insulin production;
- antiallergen;
- prevention of heart and vascular diseases;
- endowed with an analgesic effect;
- antiseptic, useful in diseases of the respiratory tract, as it has an expectorant effect;
- stabilizes the hormonal background of the female body;
- useful during pregnancy;
- cleanses the liver and kidneys, recommended for cirrhosis and hepatitis;
- invigorates.
It is worth remembering that this is just tea, not a medicine, it is not able to completely improve the body. If there are any diseases, you need to be treated with drugs, and drink flower tea in the complex.
Chamomile tea
Chamomile flowers are added to regular tea, but most prefer to drink such a drink in its purest form. Usually, we recall chamomile tea when we get sick, as it helps to cope with the disease with complex treatment.
The taste of this drink is pleasant, there is a honey flavor, there is also a slight bitterness. It is not recommended to sweeten the drink, add milk or lemon to it, drink it in its pure form.
How to make camomile flower tea? Pour two full teaspoons of chopped dried flowers into a glass, pour boiling water. After that, cover with a saucer, let it brew for half an hour. Next, the drink needs to be filtered, add water to the level. Tea is ready!
The benefits of chamomile tea
Tea with chamomile is a real natural first-aid kit. Let's see in which cases it will not be superfluous to consume such a drink.
- Chamomile tea helps with weight loss. If you drink it daily, then in a month you can get rid of four extra pounds! The fact is that chamomile normalizes digestion and is endowed with a diuretic effect.
- Such a drink is very beneficial for women's health. The composition of the flowers contains bisabolol, which has many positive properties. Chamomile helps to establish the work of the endocrine system, reduce pain during women's days, and is useful for inflammation of the appendages and the genitourinary system.
- It is useful for increasing immunity, helps to overcome a cold faster.
- An excellent antiseptic, will help with gum disease, soothe the baby during teething.
- Gives the skin a healthy and well-groomed appearance. Tea needs to be taken both inside and for washing. Cubes of chamomile tea are still frozen, then they are rubbed on their face.
- Anesthetized, endowed with a diaphoretic, antimicrobial and expectorant property. You need to drink such tea for colds, flu, tonsillitis, and respiratory diseases.
- Soothes, beneficial to the nervous system.
- Normalizes digestion, good for the stomach and intestines.
- Lowers blood sugar, therefore it is useful for diabetes.
Elderberry tea
Large elderberry bushes are decorated with hats of pretty flowers, from which black berries later grow. Berries are used for making jam and wine, but elderberry tea is especially appreciated. This is a healthy drink, endowed with a pleasant taste and bright aroma.
Elderberry tea can be found under the name "Swiss Tea". It is best brewed together with chamomile, as it enhances the action of elderberry. You can add honey, it harmonizes well with the taste of such a drink.
The benefits of elderberry tea
Elderberry flower tea helps to get rid of cough, as it is endowed with an expectorant, pathogenic effect. Elderberry perfectly helps to cope with high body temperature, and for children it is better to use such a drink than chemicals. The baby needs to be given tea, cover with a blanket and allowed to sweat well.
Elderberry strengthens blood vessels, makes them more elastic. Tea from it is useful both for the prevention of vascular and heart diseases, and for complex treatment.
Elderberry flower tea has a mild diuretic effect. It is prescribed for the complex treatment of the genitourinary system, kidneys, with edema, rheumatism, heart problems.
Tea is used not only inside, but also for gargling during a sore throat, with stomatitis. With inflammation of the wounds and skin lesions, you can wash yourself with elderberry tea, as it is endowed with an anti-inflammatory effect.
Rose tea
To enjoy and prevent many diseases, flower tea is used. Rose is not in last place among herbs, it is very useful.
The drink is light, transparent, fragrant, slightly sweet, there is a light bitterness that is inherent in most plants.
For the first time, rose petals began to be used to brew a drink in ancient Rome. These flowers were not grown for beauty, but for medicine. This rose today is a great gift for women, and before it was an indispensable medicine.
People today, when pharmacies have a lot of drugs, use pink tea as a prophylaxis and complex treatment of diseases.
What is the use of pink tea?
The rose contains selenium, which helps prolong the youth of cells, prevent premature skin aging. In addition, selenium is useful for the heart and blood vessels, prevents the appearance of free radicals, improves the endocrine system. Pink tea is useful for viral diseases and those caused by bacteria. During a period of high morbidity, it is recommended to drink such tea as a prophylaxis.
Rose is rich in iodine, which is so necessary for the normal functioning of the thyroid gland. In addition, iodine is good for nerves.
The chromium content allows you to quickly break down carbohydrates. The iron contained in the flowers is necessary for the production of hemoglobin.
Magnesium helps the genitourinary system, heart, digestion. Magnesium is especially useful for nerves.
Our nails and hair need zinc, it is also in the rose. If you drink flower tea daily, then soon the nails and hair will stop breaking.
Pink tea is also used for washing. It is an antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and wound healing agent.
If insomnia suffers, then drink a mug of pink tea, it will help calm down and fall asleep faster.
Conclusion
Flower tea, whatever it may be, is very useful, therefore it is recommended to drink it at least from time to time. Such teas do not bring practically any harm, if you drink them in reasonable quantities - no more than six glasses a day.
Any flower tea can cause allergies; make sure you don’t have any tea components.