Fragrant, delicious tea can replace expensive vitamin complexes. Therefore, if you want to survive the upcoming winter season without SARS and colds, then in the summer you need to do the harvesting of healthy herbs. You can do this in many ways. Go alone to the harvesting, buy herbs at the pharmacy or grow them on your site. Vitamin tea will be a great help for the whole family, especially in the off-season.
Alternative to pills
Indeed, drinking tea is much nicer than potions. You can make tasty and healthy vitamin tea from many herbs. Use berries and fruits in addition, the taste of the drink will benefit from this. Perfectly suited for these purposes are currant leaves, St. John's wort grass, tansy. The fruits of hawthorn will give the drink a special charm. This is the only way to find the very one, your vitamin tea. Because each time it will be different, with a sweet aftertaste or with a rich aroma of meadow herbs.
Harvesting and storage
If you have enough free time, you can spend it profitably by harvesting aromatic herbs and healthy fruits on your own. Vitamin tea in this case is also very affordable.
Collect mint, thyme, St. John's wort with flowers. Therefore, part of the plants must be left so that the seeds ripen. Dry season is best for assembly. Recipes of vitamin tea will be an excellent help for those who want to please their relatives with a delicious drink. Today we will consider several options, each of which can become your favorite.
For storage of medicinal herbs, various bags are usually used. Fragrant herbs are best in glass jars with a tightly closed lid. Be sure to attach a label to the lid. It should be remembered that herbs can only be stored for two years. Therefore, do not stock up on large quantities. When the expiration date comes to an end, it remains to use herbs only for external use. That is, make decoctions for the bath, cosmetic lotions, as well as means for rinsing the hair. You can grind herbs, pour into a linen bag and put in a pillowcase. In this case, a delicate aroma will give an excellent dream.
Useful composition
This is not only a delicious drink that can become one of your family’s favorites, but also a complete multivitamin. In addition, vitamin tea from herbs copes with colds. Moreover, he often does this better than pharmaceutical preparations, in any case much more carefully.
Such tea can be considered as a source of nutrients. Such a rich composition can prevent diseases. Herbal tea is a great way to prevent seasonal colds. Quietly give it to children, pregnant women, retirees, who often have problems with blood pressure. The main thing is to cook and use it correctly.
Each drink is unique
Depending on what exactly you put in the composition of a particular collection, there will also be the amount of nutrients and trace elements. Everyone prepares vitamin herbal teas at their discretion, so you cannot find two identical compounds.
- Rosehip tea is a source of a large amount of vitamin C in addition to other trace elements. This provides a unique impact on humans. Its value can be explained by the presence of vitamins P, E, and A. This drink has many beneficial properties. You can drink it just for the sake of excellent taste, for the prevention or treatment of seasonal, colds.
- Tea with currants. Its leaves and fruits are especially rich in vitamin C. That is, the drink helps strengthen immunity and fights with vitamin deficiency. A sufficient amount of ascorbic acid is a protection against colds and flu.
- Vitamin tea from herbs. Medicinal and aromatic herbs in combination with raspberry, currant and strawberry leaves give a rich and very pleasant taste. In addition, the drink will combine many healing properties.
How to make a collection
The composition of the vitamin collection can be very different. The fragrant grass in it should be only one, so that its rich aroma does not interrupt everyone else. It can be mint, thyme or oregano. To it you need to add one or more neutral ones. Then the bouquet will be most pronounced. Moreover, it is necessary to take into account not only the quality of taste, but also the compatibility of the essential oils contained in each of the herbs with each other.
When mixing herbs, you must consider the contraindications of each of them. This is necessary for your personal safety. Unfamiliar plants are best left out of the box. It is most reasonable to use the recipes of experienced herbalists.
When and how to use vitamin tea
Reviews sometimes note that after such a drink you want to sleep, or, conversely, a person suffers from insomnia. This says only one thing. You drink tea incorrectly, or rather, do it at the wrong time.
Immediately after waking up, it is best to drink a tonic drink. For this, mint and lemongrass are suitable.
At night, it is best to brew chamomile, raspberries, and fireweed. Such a drink has a pleasant taste, and also helps to relax and tune in to a good sleep.
Experienced herbalists say that in addition to the general reaction of the body, there is also an individual one. Therefore, the first step should be a minimal portion. In summer, you can prepare a drink from freshly picked flowers and leaves, and for the winter dry them for the future. Most of the beneficial properties are preserved after drying and subsequent boiling with boiling water.
Vitamin teas from pine needles
This is a great health enhancer. It helps with colds, and it works both for prevention and treatment. Such a remedy is especially good for vitamin deficiency. Folk healers also recommend this tea for exhaustion.
Let's look at a few recipes:
- Vitamin drink from needles. You need to take it one glass a day. Between courses you need to take breaks of at least 3 days. To make tea you need 4 tbsp. pine needles, 600 ml of water and 2 tsp. lemon juice. Needles need to be washed, chopped, pour cold water and add lemon juice. Leave for 3 days.
- Anti-inflammatory and diuretic tea. It activates the work of all internal organs. For cooking, you need to take three tablespoons of needles, blueberry leaves and lingonberries. You can also add juniper berries. Making tea is very simple. It is enough to put two teaspoons of the mixture in a kettle, pour a glass of water and insist for 5 to 7 minutes.
Taiga tea
It perfectly affects the nervous system. In this case, you can use it daily, without fear of a negative reaction from the body. This is a wonderful vitamin tea for children. It saturates the body with vitamins and minerals, and, among other things, it also calms you down after an active day and makes it possible to have a good rest at night. The composition of the drink includes incense and currants, mint, thyme, strawberries, raspberries and lingonberries in equal proportions.
"Crimean bouquet"
The collection is extremely popular in the autumn and spring. It is very easy to cook at home. Vitamin Crimean tea is a balanced, vitamin-rich herbal mixture that improves well-being and is especially useful during the period of autumn slush and winter cold.
The composition includes lemon balm and thyme, rose hip, oregano and calendula. You can take one package of each type and mix them together. After that, it will be possible to brew one teaspoon per glass of boiling water. The drink tastes good, you do not need to add even sugar. If desired, you can squeeze a couple drops of lemon juice. Then the tea will turn out with a pleasant sourness. If you put honey, it acquires sweetness.
Tea "Altai bouquet"
This is a real storehouse of healthy vitamins, antioxidants and minerals. An excellent cocktail of useful trace elements that will help out in the autumn. Altai vitamin tea stores a storehouse of antioxidants and minerals. It consists of the following components:
- Leaves of black currant.
- Dog-rose fruit. An excellent multivitamin that enhances the body's overall resistance.
- Peppermint - normalizes digestion.
- Chokeberry fruits. They increase the body's defenses and are a source of iodine.
- Sea buckthorn leaves. Source of antioxidants.
- Raspberry leaf. Bracing agent.
- Melissa. Invigorates and refreshes the body.
- Calendula. Rich in essential oils.
All herbs are collected in ecologically clean areas of Altai. Wild plants are treated with care, which affects quality. Each type of plant and fruit is harvested only at the moment when it is most justified from the point of view of usefulness. Herbs are not subjected to mechanical drying and cutting. This provides positive feedback. Vitamin tea has a healing effect on the body, can be used on a regular basis. But especially recommended in the fall. You can drink in courses throughout the year, especially if the diet is low in fruits and vegetables.
Instead of a conclusion
As you can see, it is not necessary to drink black tea all the time. A great alternative can be a drink made from healthy herbs and berries. It will delight you with a bright and unusual taste. In addition, this tea will become a source of vitamins and minerals, as well as protection against diseases.
If the yard is autumn, then it's time to get the coveted bags. Do not have time to prepare yourself? It doesn’t matter, you can just buy them at the pharmacy. In this case, the preparation of the drink will take even less time, since most manufacturers pack the herbs in advance into individual bags for brewing. Specialists in the field of traditional medicine do not recommend using them. It is much better to brew herbs in a ceramic teapot. Then they fully reveal all their taste, aroma and bouquet.