Fragrant, pungent mint tea is used in official and folk medicine as an antispasmodic, anti-inflammatory and antibacterial agent. A useful plant contains an essential oil that is destroyed by high temperatures. Therefore, before brewing peppermint, you should familiarize yourself with the rules of preparation of a medicinal drink, the dosing regimen and the features of use.
Useful recipes
In the treatment of various pathologies, mint can be used to prepare a one-component drug - a fragrant, lightly astringent tea. For its brewing in a ceramic kettle you should put 2-3 fresh medium-sized leaves or a teaspoon of dry plant raw materials. Then you need to pour a glass of boiling water and leave it under the lid for half an hour. After filtering, useful tea is ready for use. But the greatest therapeutic activity is characteristic for multicomponent beverages, one of the ingredients of which is mint.
Warning: Fresh mint leaves should not be poured with boiling water. Under the influence of high temperature, most of the bioactive compounds will be destroyed.
Tea for the stomach
Essential oil of mint has the properties of antispasmodic, therefore its use is recommended for pains in the stomach, chronic diarrhea, irritable bowel syndrome. A fragrant drink is indicated for use in hyperacid gastritis, cholelithiasis, dyspeptic disorders. How to brew fresh mint for tea preparation:
- in a ceramic kettle put 5 large leaves and add a teaspoon of grated ginger root;
- pour 0.5 l of hot water at a temperature of 90-95 ° C and leave under the lid for 7-10 minutes;
- strain and drink 2 times a day while eating 150-200 ml.
Freshly prepared tea has a pleasant aroma and a rich taste, in which the bitterness is clearly felt. With gastritis from the diet completely exclude the products of beekeeping, so the drink can be sweetened with berry jam.
Tea for cold
Menthol, which is a part of the plant, has mucolytic, expectorant, antimicrobial effect. Fragrant tea is an excellent remedy for the treatment of respiratory infections - sore throat, sinusitis, bronchitis, tracheitis, laryngitis. Prepare the drink better from dry shredded leaves according to this recipe:
- in a teapot to pour on a tablespoon of mint, chamomile and sage;
- pour 0.5 liters of boiling water and insist 1-1.5 hours;
- strain, take on a cup 3 times a day.
To improve the taste, you can add floral honey, slices of lime or lemon to tea. Even after a single use of a useful drink, the nasal congestion and flow from the nose disappear, a person begins to cough up productively as a result of effective liquefaction of sputum.
Tea with climacterium
Phytoestrogens from the chemical composition of mint are able to normalize the hormonal background, the fluctuations of which cause tides, psychoemotional stability and headaches during natural menopause. You can also use a medicinal drink and to reduce the severity of pain during menstruation. How to brew mint for tea:
- ceramic or glass container rinse with boiling water and drain the water;
- pour on a teaspoon of dried mint, boroute of the uterus and a cranberry leaf;
- pour in about 7 liters of boiling water and leave under the lid for an hour;
- filter, use 150 ml 3 times a day.
Eliminate bitterness will help thick honey, lemon juice, pieces of citrus or berries - black and red currants, raspberries, cranberries. The duration of the therapeutic course is a month, after which you should take a break for 2 weeks.
Useful properties of tea
Due to the presence of bioflavonoids, menthol, citral, phytoncides, microelements and vitamins, mint tea has a diverse beneficial effect on the human body. It is used not only for symptomatic treatment, but also it is able to directly eliminate the cause of pathologies. What is the benefit of brewed mint:
- cupping of inflammatory processes;
- decrease in the severity of the pain syndrome;
- removal of toxins and toxins;
- elimination of nervous excitability and increased anxiety;
- replenishment of stocks of microelements and vitamins;
- excretion of concrements from the gallbladder;
- restoration of liver function;
- increased functional activity of the gastrointestinal tract.
Peppermint tea normalizes blood circulation, improves microcirculation in damaged soft, cartilaginous and articular tissues.
Recommendation: Cosmetologists advise to regularly wipe your face with fragrant infusion to patients with oily skin and acne eruptions. Menthol has a drying and anti-inflammatory effect, and phytoncides normalize the work of the sebaceous glands.