Dandelion is familiar to everyone since childhood. But the fact that this is a useful plant and you can make a tasty and medicinal drink from it is for many a novelty. This article will be useful to those who for the first time decided to make tea from dandelion. To fully understand the full benefits of the drink, you need to know what properties a flower has.
Composition
Indeed, dandelion is rightly called a healing flower. It is enough to familiarize yourself with its composition:
- vitamins (A, C, B4, B2, B1),
- minerals (iron, potassium, chromium, calcium),
- organic acids
- biologically active substances,
- bioflavonoids.
And most importantly, all the beneficial substances are stored in tea. But only, of course, with proper preparation.
The benefits of tea
Thanks to its rich composition, dandelion tea is useful for:
- Colds, there are several recipes for making tea for colds.
- Skin diseases, decoctions and fresh flowers are suitable here.
- Cardiovascular disease.
- Renal failure.
- Anemia, of any severity.
- Overweight. Tea helps to get rid of excess fluid in the body, without leaching potassium. It also cleanses the body of toxins and toxins. Therefore, weight loss is also possible if there are extra pounds.
- Swelling. Dandelion tea is considered a good diuretic, and does not do as much harm as medicine, because when removing excess fluid from the body, the necessary salts are not washed out.
- Diseases of the nervous system.
- Gout, rheumatism.
- The hangover syndrome.
Also this drink:
- promotes restoration of the liver;
- improves brain activity;
- struggles with a hangover syndrome;
- just a great preventative for many diseases.
Dandelion root tea is good for cancer. The effect is much better than chemotherapy. The drink destroys cancer cells. Tea also helps to get rid of constipation and flatulence, as it normalizes the digestive tract. Dandelion juice brightens freckles, age-related pigmentation and flat warts.
Important medicinal properties of the plant: antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, analgesic; tonic, hepatoprotective. Also, a drink from this plant enhances immunity, cleanses the body and blood from harmful substances.
Therefore, if dandelion tea is added to the main treatment for one of these diseases, then the healing will be faster. To do this, you need to properly collect the dandelion and save it.
For the preparation of tea, dandelion syrups, flowers, leaves, and roots are used. And depending on this, the drink will have different properties.
Dandelion Collection Rules
The most useful will be a young flower. For collecting all its components are suitable. Collect dandelion need away from the city. It is possible in a forest, a garden where there are less harmful gases and dust. Since dandelion, like any plant, absorbs harmful substances well. And instead of benefit, you can harm such a plant.
At home, the collected flowers must be well sorted out from debris and insects. Then rinse thoroughly under running, cool water and dry. If the plant is harvested for the future, then it is dried completely, in the shade, without the use of dryers. Flowers, leaves, roots, all this must be dried separately. It is allowed to dry in the oven at a temperature of 55 degrees. Flowers are stored in open containers or in bags, but not synthetic ones.
If the collection is aimed only at the root, then it is best to collect in late autumn, before the snow falls. Pay attention to the root itself. It should be whole, thick, without bifurcation, not damaged by pests. After the correct collection and preservation of the flower, you need to be able to properly prepare it.
Easiest recipe
How to make tea from dandelions? It is not difficult to make such a drink. This is described below. First, consider the simplest dandelion tea recipe. For one glass of boiling water, take one tablespoon of raw materials (flower, leaves or root, depending on what the drink is brewed for). Then you need to let it brew for four minutes. Add honey (better than it) and you can drink it.
Roasting coffee roots
From dandelion you can make not only tea, but also coffee. It is made from roots prepared in a special way. They are dried in a dry pan at high temperature, until dark brown. The main thing here is not to burn. The drink is aromatic and tasty. But it contains less nutrients than tea, since some substances are destroyed by frying.
Flower tea
How to make tea from dandelion flowers? It is better to make it from fresh inflorescences. To prepare, you need 2-3 handfuls of the flowers themselves (without stalks) - this is if the drink is prepared in a teapot. We take from the calculation: one handful per glass of water. Pour boiling water over the contents. After they let it brew for no more than five minutes. This tea is useful for ordinary colds, poor sleep, enhances immunity, gives vigor.
Dandelion Leaf Tea
Cooking from the calculation of fresh raw materials. It takes about three handfuls of leaves. They are washed, slightly dried and placed in tea leaves. Water take 1.5 cups. For the aroma of dandelion, you can add lemon (in already prepared tea) or mint leaves (put in a teapot). The contents are poured with boiling water. After give time to brew. Tea helps strengthen immunity, rid the body of edema, and constipation. Such a drink is a good antiviral agent. If tea is made from dry leaves of the material, then it is better to grind them. So they better give away all the beneficial properties.
Healing tea
It is recommended to drink with pain in the joints. To do this, you need only dandelion flowers with a stalk. The drink should be stronger. Take 6-7 heads (medium). All this is filled with a glass of cold water. Next, the dishes are put on fire, preferably medium. When the drink boils, it must be left on low heat for another 15-20 minutes. The prepared mixture is filtered and drunk in small portions, up to three times a day, before meals. Additionally, the decoction heals the gastrointestinal tract, increases appetite, improves the liver, and is useful in gynecological diseases.
Dandelion Tea for Kidney Treatment
It is not recommended to drink it without the supervision of a doctor. Tea can cause kidney stones to exit. The main thing here is that they do not block the urinary canal. For cooking, take 2 tablespoons of dry stems and flowers (you can also have one flower or one stalk) and 1.5 liters of water. After boiling, also keep on low heat for about twenty minutes. Then the drink is filtered. You need to drink freshly prepared.
Tea from the roots of the plant
The root must be ground before cooking. It will take a tablespoon of raw materials and a glass of boiling water. Let it brew for 5-7 minutes. After cooking, strain. You can add lemon or honey. The drink helps against colds, coughs, and replenishes the body with vitamins well.
For cancer, it is recommended that you drink the next drink. Take three tablespoons of the root (pre-ground). Pour boiling water with two glasses and put on a slow fire for 20-25 minutes. Drink twice a day, thirty minutes before meals. If fresh parts of the plant are taken for cooking, then two tablespoons of chopped roots are enough for a glass of boiling water. On fire you need to keep twice as long. Such a drink can be drunk up to three times a day. 100-150 ml each.
Contraindications to use and harm from tea
Here are the most famous dandelion tea recipes. Unfortunately, this drink has some negative aspects. But they are insignificant, in comparison with its benefits. Tea is not recommended for people with gastritis (with high acidity), a stomach ulcer, with exacerbation of gallstone disease, with diarrhea and people allergic to dandelion pollen, with diabetes. The presence of heartburn suggests that tea is not suitable. That is, it harms the body. It is also undesirable to drink a decoction of dandelions for pregnant women and while breastfeeding. It is not known how tea will affect the baby.
When collecting dandelion and its processing, you must definitely monitor the reaction on your hands. If red spots, hives appear, it means that a drink from this plant will be contraindicated. An allergy may not be to pollen, but more to iodine, which is contained in a dandelion.
Conclusion
Now you know how to make dandelion tea. The benefits and harms of this drink are two important topics that are discussed in detail in the article. The benefits of dandelion tea are undeniable. The flower is easy to find, collect and dry. It helps to cure many diseases. You only need to know what part of the flower to prepare and the brewing recipe. It is undesirable to use it simultaneously with taking medications (for example, drink them pills), you need to wait time. Then there will be benefits. Well, consider the disease in which dandelion tea is contraindicated.