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Rowan tea: beneficial properties; when to harvest chokeberry leaves
Berries of red and black chokeberry contain many elements valuable for human health. These are ascorbic acid, beta-carotene, tannins, and polyunsaturated acids. All their useful qualities are revealed by rowan tea. How to cook it properly?
Rowan tea is a healthy and aromatic drink
Useful properties of rowan tea
Red rowan tea has many medicinal properties. It is useful:
- with a lack of vitamins;
- with stool disorders;
- with kidney stones;
- with hypertension;
- with rheumatoid arthritis.
Tannins, which are abundant in mountain ash berries, contribute to the accumulation of ascorbic acid in the body. This helps to avoid vitamin deficiency and scurvy. It is not recommended to drink mountain ash tea with low blood pressure and high gastric acidity.
Chokeberry tea is recommended for atherosclerosis, impaired glucose tolerance and hypertension. But with hypotension, you should not drink it so that the pressure does not drop even lower.
Chokeberry gives not only berries, but also healing leaves. They are useful for dysfunctions of the biliary tract, improve liver function.
Tea made from these leaves can act as a choleretic and diuretic, as well as a mild laxative.
When to collect chokeberry leaves for tea? This should be done immediately after flowering. Chokeberries are harvested in autumn, and red ones after the first frost. You should not take berries and leaves from trees growing near roads, in urban areas and from industrial enterprises.
How to make tea from mountain ash – red and black chokeberry
Red rowan tea is best supplemented with rose hips: this way the healing substances will work more effectively. To prepare a drink, you need to take the fruits of both plants in equal proportions and pour 500 ml of boiling water over a large spoonful of the mixture.
You can make an amazing drink from black chokeberry and red mountain ash berries. They are mixed with black long tea and steeped in boiling water. This tea is very good for colds and other inflammatory processes, as well as for preventing pressure surges in hypertensive patients in bad weather.
To prepare a drink from the leaves, you need to brew 30 grams of raw materials in 500 ml of boiling water. Wait half an hour and filter.
This tea is drunk in a cup twice a day for problems with the gallbladder, liver and kidneys.
Any variant of mountain ash teas is a wonderful vitamin supplement in autumn and winter. To improve its taste, you can add a spoonful of honey to the drink.