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Among medicinal plants, hawthorn occupies a special place. Hawthorn tea has a pleasant taste and healing properties. With proper preparation and use, it not only strengthens the immune system, but also maintains vitality at a high level.
Hawthorn tea: useful properties and contraindications
Healthy hawthorn tea is important to brew properly. It contains a huge amount of vitamins, microelements, which have a sedative, astringent, vasodilating, anti-cholesterol effect. The drink is useful for the following diseases:
- frequent dizziness;
- insomnia, neurotic conditions;
- arterial hypertension;
- diabetes;
- various poisonings;
- obesity;
- prostatitis, prostate adenoma;
- male and female infertility.
The drink will help prevent epilepsy attacks, maintain a normal state in case of liver diseases. It is better to brew a drink every day to use it fresh.
There are a number of contraindications: low blood pressure, pregnancy, breastfeeding, gastritis, peptic ulcer.
How to make hawthorn tea
Hawthorn tea has its benefits and harms, but it is important to brew it correctly. It is necessary to properly collect, prepare the berries. Then they will give the drink healing substances, give the tea a flavor.
Collection and procurement of raw materials
Ready-made dry fruits are sold in a store or pharmacy. But it is more reliable to collect the fruits yourself, to prepare them correctly. Of the harvesting methods, it is suitable: drying, freezing, drying, as well as preparing blanks using berries.
Traditional healers advised to collect the fruits of the plant on October 1, during the national holiday. But it all depends on the region. The berries are harvested from the end of July to the 20th of October. It is important that the fruits do not have time to freeze. The first frosts negatively affect the beneficial properties, the tea will turn out not so healing.
It is necessary to collect raw materials in clean areas, away from roads and enterprises. Berries are able to absorb environmental pollution.
Collect not damaged, ripe berries. Fruits should be taken whole, not pecked and not dented. When harvesting, it is correct to pick not only the fruits, but also the stalks with receptacles. This is the only way to preserve vitamin C, the most important for colds. In the stalks, healing substances, vitamins, microelements are concentrated in the same way as in the fruits themselves. For brewing a medicinal drink, it is recommended to use berries with stalks, leaves, flowers of the plant.
How to make fermented tea from hawthorn leaves
Fermented leaves are leaves that have been processed in a special way. This process will allow more healing substances to manifest. Processing looks like this:
- Wither fresh leaves slightly in the shade for 4-5 hours.
- Twist the leaves until they are soft and sticky. This can be done both with the help of hands and on a corrugated board.
- Put the twisted blanks in a container, cover with damp gauze.
- Leave to ferment for 7 hours so that the beneficial substances stand out along with the juice.
- After 7 hours, spread the leaves on a baking sheet, dry in the oven.
After the workpiece is dried, use it to brew tea. The drink turns out tasty, fragrant, but without the smell of grass. Useful properties combined with taste make the enzymatic infusion a unique product.
How to make hawthorn tea
Hawthorn tea can be prepared according to several recipes. For this, not only fruits are used, but also leaves, and even roots.
Tea from hawthorn berries
Tea is brewed with fruits, compote is brewed, an infusion is made. This is a classic recipe using berries:
- Pour a spoonful of plain black tea, the same number of berries into a teapot.
- Cover with a lid, leave for 4 minutes.
- Drink with lemon, honey.
Tea from hawthorn fruit at night improves sleep, normalizes blood pressure, and also helps with coronary heart disease, with angina pectoris.
Green tea with hawthorn
Hawthorn tea can be brewed not only with black tea leaves, but also with green tea. The drink is made according to a simple classic recipe. Green tea with hawthorn is useful in that it removes cholesterol from the body, normalizes blood sugar levels, and has a diuretic effect.
Green tea helps to restore the skin, as it accelerates the processes of cell regeneration.
Healing tea from hawthorn leaves
The leaves are an excellent vasodilator, and therefore the drink will be a salvation for chronic hypertensive patients. A healing drink from the leaves will have an anti-inflammatory effect in case of a cold, prevents the occurrence of cardiac shortness of breath.
Preparation of a classic drink from the leaves:
- Take a tablespoon of dry crushed leaves.
- Pour in a glass of boiling water.
- Insist 3-5 minutes.
You can drink a healing infusion in its pure form or with the addition of sugar, honey. Tea with hawthorn, as well as with leaves during lactation, is not recommended to drink. Drinking too much can lead to problems with low blood pressure, irregular heart rate, and a slow heart rate.
Fresh hawthorn and rosehip tea
The fruits of hawthorn and wild rose contain vitamins, flavonoids and tannins. These are healing berries that will help with colds, heart, nervous pathologies. Hawthorn and wild rose can be brewed separately, but tea from these two fruits is even more healing. The recipe for making a miracle drink is simple:
- For 1 part rosehip, take 2 parts hawthorn.
- Place in a thermos and pour a liter of boiling water.
- Insist for 12 hours.
- Strain and then you can drink.
Such a drink contributes to the occurrence of positive processes in the body:
- strengthen the immune system;
- expand blood vessels and reduce pressure;
- anti-inflammatory effect;
- relieve symptoms of a cold.
It is useful to drink such an infusion for ARVI and bronchial processes.
Tonic tea from fresh hawthorn fruits
For a tonic effect, hawthorn tea should be properly brewed in combination with dried fruits. The ingredients must be taken in equal proportions and put in a thermos. Pour boiling water over and wait a couple of hours. After that, the brewed drink can be drunk hot or cooled. For sweetness, it is recommended to add natural honey.
Upon receipt of an overly concentrated drink, it is diluted, made less strong.
How to make hawthorn tea in combination with other healing herbs
Complex infusions of hawthorn and other medicinal herbs have a positive effect on the health of the whole organism. Calming Recipe:
- Art. a spoonful of berries;
- 1 small spoon of Ivan tea;
- 2 sprigs of mint.
Put everything in a teapot, pour boiling water (300 ml). Drink chilled with honey.
Such a collection is suitable for the heart: one part of the berries in question, rose hips and mint, mixed with a small amount of chamomile and add 100 g of black tea. Store this mixture in a dark bag, take from there a tablespoon per glass of boiling water. Brew and drink after 10 minutes, when infused.
To increase vitality:
- 20 g of wild rose, roots of Rhodiola rosea, lure high;
- 15 g of hawthorn, dioica nettle;
- 10 g St. John’s wort perforatum.
Cook in a thermos, insist 6 hours. Take a third cup 3 times a day. The healing effect will cheer up, give energy and mobility.
How to drink hawthorn tea
Fruit tea is consumed both cold and hot. Drinking is allowed throughout the day. Tea does not cause drowsiness, soothes, but does not disturb the coordination of movements. In order to prevent tea, it is recommended to drink 250 ml per day, preferably before meals. It is necessary to brew the plant in porcelain dishes. It is imperative to brew hawthorn not with boiled water, but with water brought to 100 ° C.
It is better to use fresh, so that the healing effect is immediately noticeable. While the drink is standing, all the useful substances from it disappear.
How often can you drink hawthorn tea
It is not recommended to drink more than 300 ml of tea per day. The drink can lower blood pressure, pulse, cause an attack of heart failure. The patient should consult with the attending physician. The therapist will assess the presence of contraindications, restrictions on the use of infusions from the plant, recommend the patient the correct use of hawthorn in accordance with the state of health.
Restrictions and contraindications for admission
Despite the huge benefits, this plant can bring considerable harm. There are several contraindications with which hawthorn tea cannot be drunk:
- low blood pressure, chronic hypotension;
- increased blood clotting;
- varicose veins, thrombophlebitis;
- heart failure;
- gastritis, ulcer;
- pregnancy, breast-feeding;
- toxicosis;
- kidney failure;
- heart disease;
- autism, oligophrenia;
- age is less than 12 years;
- allergy.
An overdose of tea adversely affects health. It is not recommended to take tinctures, teas from hawthorn at the same time as drugs for arrhythmia.
People with chronic diseases are advised to consult a specialist. Hawthorn causes an allergic reaction even when brewed, so patients prone to allergies should carefully and carefully introduce medicinal fruits into their daily diet. Drinking a drink without the consent of your doctor is reckless. Hawthorn will not replace all the medicines that the core drinks. This is a supportive alternative therapy, it will not replace the main treatment with medicines.
Conclusion
Hawthorn tea is excellent for treatment, for the prevention of diseases of the nervous system, heart problems, as well as digestion, colds. Tea is able to tone up, give vital energy.
