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Hawthorn occupies a special place among medicinal plants. Hawthorn tea has a pleasant taste and healing properties. When properly prepared and used, it not only strengthens the immune system, but also maintains vitality at a high level.
Hawthorn tea: useful properties and contraindications
It is important to brew healthy hawthorn tea correctly. It contains a huge amount of vitamins, microelements that 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 poisoning;
- obesity;
- prostatitis, prostate adenoma;
- male and female infertility.
The drink will help prevent epileptic seizures, maintain normal condition in case of liver diseases. It is better to brew the drink every day to consume it fresh.
There are a number of contraindications: low blood pressure, pregnancy, breastfeeding, gastritis, peptic ulcer disease.
How to make hawthorn tea
Hawthorn tea has its benefits and harms, but it is important to brew it correctly. It is necessary to correctly collect, prepare berries. Then they will give healing substances to the drink, give the tea aroma.
Collection and procurement of raw materials
Ready-made dried fruits are sold in the store or in the pharmacy. But it is safer to collect the fruits yourself, to prepare them correctly. Suitable for harvesting methods: drying, freezing, drying, as well as preparing blanks using berries.
Traditional healers advised to pick 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 have a negative effect on the beneficial properties, the tea will turn out to be not so healing.
It is necessary to collect raw materials in clean areas, far from roads and enterprises. Berries are able to absorb environmental pollution.
Harvested undamaged, ripe berries. The fruits should be taken whole, not pecked or rumpled. When collecting, it is correct to pluck not only the fruits, but also the stalks with receptacles. This is the only way to preserve vitamin C, which is the most important for colds. In the stalks, healing substances, vitamins, trace elements 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, plant flowers.
How to make fermented hawthorn leaf tea
Fermented leaves are leaves that have been processed in a special way. This process will allow more healing substances to appear. The processing process looks like this:
- Wither fresh leaves slightly in the shade for 4–5 hours.
- Roll the leaves until they are soft, sticky. This can be done either with your hands or on a corrugated board.
- Put the rolled blanks in a container, cover with damp gauze.
- Leave for 7 hours to ferment so that nutrients are released along with the juice.
- After 7 hours, put the leaves on a baking sheet, dry in the oven.
After the billet is dried, use it to brew tea. The drink turns out to be tasty, aromatic, but without the smell of grass. Useful properties in combination 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.
Hawthorn berry tea
Tea is brewed with fruits, compote is brewed, infusion is made. This is a classic recipe using berries:
- Pour a spoonful of plain black tea, the same number of berries into the teapot.
- Cover, leave for 4 minutes.
- Drink with the addition of lemon, honey.
Hawthorn tea at night improves sleep, normalizes blood pressure, and also helps with coronary heart disease, angina pectoris.
Green tea with hawthorn
You can brew hawthorn tea not only with black tea leaves, but also using 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 promotes skin regeneration as it accelerates cell regeneration.
Healing tea made 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 for colds, prevents the occurrence of cardiac dyspnea.
Making the classic leaf drink:
- Take a tablespoon of dry crushed leaves.
- Pour a cool glass of boiling water.
- Insist 3-5 minutes.
You can drink the healing infusion in pure form or with the addition of sugar and honey. Tea with hawthorn, as well as with leaves during lactation, is not recommended to drink. Drinking too much can cause problems with low blood pressure, irregular heartbeat, and slow heart rate.
Fresh Hawthorn and Rosehip Tea
The fruits of hawthorn and rose hips contain vitamins, flavonoids and tannins. These are medicinal berries that will help with colds, heart, nervous pathologies. Hawthorn and rose hips 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 of rose hips, take 2 parts of hawthorn.
- Place in a thermos and pour a liter of boiling water.
- Insist for 12 hours.
- Strain and then drink.
This drink contributes to the emergence of positive processes in the body:
- strengthen the immune system;
- dilate blood vessels and reduce pressure;
- anti-inflammatory effect;
- relieve cold symptoms.
It is useful to drink such an infusion for ARVI and bronchial processes.
Tonic tea made from fresh hawthorn fruits
For a tonic effect, brew hawthorn tea in combination with dried fruits. Ingredients must be taken in equal parts 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.
When an overly concentrated drink is obtained, it is diluted, made less strong.
How to make hawthorn tea in combination with other medicinal herbs
Complex infusions of hawthorn and other medicinal herbs have a positive effect on the health of the whole organism. Soothing 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 cooled with honey.
For the heart, the following collection is suitable: one part of the berries, rose hips and mint in question, mix 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 raise vitality:
- 20 g of rose hips, roots of Rhodiola rosea, high enticement;
- 15 g of hawthorn, dioecious nettle;
- 10 g Hypericum perforatum.
Cook in a thermos, leave for 6 hours. Take a third of a glass 3 times a day. The healing effect will cheer you up, give you energy and mobility.
How to drink hawthorn tea
Fruit tea is consumed both cold and hot. Drinking the drink 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. The plant must be brewed in porcelain dishes. It is necessary to brew hawthorn not with boiled water, but with water brought to 100 ° C.
Best consumed fresh so that the healing effect is immediately noticeable. While the drink is standing, all useful substances evaporate from it.
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, and 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, will recommend the patient to use the correct hawthorn in accordance with the state of health.
Limitations and contraindications for admission
Despite the enormous benefits, this plant can also bring considerable harm. There are several contraindications with which you cannot drink hawthorn tea:
- low blood pressure, chronic hypotension;
- increased blood clotting;
- varicose veins, thrombophlebitis;
- heart failure;
- gastritis, ulcer;
- pregnancy, breastfeeding;
- toxicosis;
- renal failure;
- heart disease;
- autism, mental retardation;
- age under 12;
- allergy.
An overdose of tea is detrimental to health. It is not recommended to take tinctures, hawthorn teas at the same time as drugs for arrhythmia.
People with chronic illnesses are advised to see a specialist. Hawthorn causes an allergic reaction even when brewed, so patients prone to allergies need to carefully, carefully introduce the healing fruits into their daily diet. Drinking a drink without consulting your doctor is reckless. Hawthorn does not replace all medications that the core drinks. This is a supportive alternative therapy that does not replace basic treatment with medication.
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 vitality.
