- What is it oregano?
- Benefits and harm of tea with spicy and fragrant oregano
- Preparing medicinal herb
- Brewing aromatic healing tea
Herbal decoctions, infusions are of much use to our health, but modern people know almost nothing about them. A few decades ago, our ancestors did not go to pharmacies for a new drug, they knew that a certain plant will help with the ailments, while, as a rule, growing in the area where the person lives. Not only during illness to the nature people addressed, but also behind beauty - herbal infusions and broths always helped the Slavs to be the most beautiful people. Today we will talk about a very popular plant, which is brewed and drunk for recovery, our theme is the benefits and harm of tea with oregano.
What kind of fragrance is it?
If you do not know what the fragrance looks like, then it's in the photo. But the oregano also has a popular name - the motherboard, all because this plant is female grass. For the fair sex, oregano is a real assistant, but the world's strongmen need to drink tea or broths with caution, dosed. In the herb of this very many useful components, due to what it can help us, but we can not call absolutely safe and harmless oregano, we'll talk about this a little later.
The motherboard, by the way, is also called oregano, it is often used in cooking, especially in Mediterranean countries. You can see in the sale of spices with the name of the grass, did not deprive the attention of oregano and traditional medicine. Not only in plant collections that are bought in pharmacies can be found oregano, but also in the composition of known drugs.
It's interesting! Some of the admirers of oregano are Italians, they call her oregano. In a sunny country without this spice, you can not cook pizza, which is famous throughout the world for its taste and aroma.
The beauty of oregano is that it is a useful herb available to all of us, whether it is ready-made or for collection in nature. It is worth to go out of town, and you will see in the fields this perennial herb with pleasant purple flowers. To use the plant for food and for therapy, collect all parts of the motherboard, since they are all useful. Dry oregano can be outdoors under a canopy, in an attic, in an oven or a dryer, and after using for brewing a very tasty and fragrant tea, which when used correctly has the most positive effect on our health.
Tip! If you decide to conduct grass harvesting with your own hands, then it is best to do it in July, at this time the grass is full of natural life-giving force.
Benefits and harm of tea with spicy and fragrant oregano
Healing effect
If you brew your own tea from oregano, or more familiar to us oregano, remembering the contraindications, you will get the following positive effect forHealth:
- drink perfectly helps to calm nerves, restore balance and harmony in the shower. For the modern world with a high level of stress - this is an irreplaceable quality;
- will perfectly help herbal drink to anyone who for years can not cope with the lack of sleep;
- improves appetite;
- has a beneficial effect on the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract, if there are no contraindications;
- female grass assistant during menopause, with malfunctions in the menstrual cycle;
- removes inflammatory processes, has antibacterial action;
- oregano - an excellent tool not to fall ill during the season of colds;
- has a diuretic effect that helps to expel excess fluid from the body, clear it of toxins and toxins;
- a clean intestine can help get rid of skin problems, various rashes;
- tea with oregano helps in the work of the gallbladder, relieves nausea, vomiting;
- increases the body's defenses, as it has many vitamins and minerals in its composition;
- helps to cope with migraine and a one-time headache;
- fights against pathogenic flora in the oral cavity.
Important! Tea with oregano helps to restore the menstrual cycle, but you can not drink it during women's days, only after graduation.
Ore and Pregnancy
Before proceeding to the contraindications, we would like to highlight very important information for future mothers. Often, women make the mistake of believing that if the herb is excellent for women's health, then her infusion or tea can be drunk in any quantity and at any time. No! It is the oregano that is forbidden to drink categorically during pregnancy, as this can lead to miscarriage. Especially tea is contraindicated in the first trimester, when the rejection of the fetus happens most often.
Oregano causes a strong contraction of the uterus, has a vasoconstrictor effect, which provokes miscarriage. But in no case can you use tea with oregano specifically for the termination of pregnancy with intent, since the results may be unpredictable. A child can be born and at the same time become an invalid.
And what about nursing moms? Here, on the contrary, tea can help improve lactation. In our time, young mothers often complain that the milk drastically disappears, they are in a hurry to transfer the baby to artificial feeding, which is not always good and proceeds without consequences. It is better to take different measures in time for lactation, so that milk does not disappear, and everything will be fine. Tea with oregano can help well.
Attention! Herbs can cause allergies, individual intolerance. If you are feeding a child, then introduce a new product or drink in minimum quantities and look after the reaction of the baby.
Contraindications to tea
There will also be a number of items here, as the oregano is not safe for everyone. And first of all let's start with the powerful of this world, that is, with men. They drink tea rarely, because it affects the potency and not the best side. That is, the grass is female, but not male. Also it is necessary to refuse a drink to people with the following ailments:
- stomach ulcers, intestines;
- acute diseases of the gastrointestinal and duodenal ulcers;
- gastritis with high acidity;
- cardiovascular disease.
Tea with oregano can be given to children in small quantities, since the reaction can be unpredictable. He is good at catarrhal diseases, possesses expectorant properties. Very often, grass is used for inhalation. It is also worth noting that it is better to give tea with oregano not in its pure form, but with linden, raspberry, honey, mint.
It is important to take a test before use, because often we do not consciously notice any alarm signals. For example, sometimes the heart tingles, shortness of breath while climbing the stairs. This is a trifle thought by many, but, as a rule, this is the onset of illness of the cardiovascular system, and with them it is impossible to drink infusions and broths based on oregano. Also remember that there may be an allergy, start drinking tea with a small amount and look at the body's reaction.
Preparing healing grass
Collecting herbs is a pleasant process, because at that moment a person is secluded, in harmony with nature, which is beneficial for our nervous system. On the collection of medicinal herbs it is good to walk with children so that they learn to recognize plants. The best time is the morning after dew, when it has dried, and the sun does not burn much. Do not pick up oregano and other herbs after four in the evening, as they are preparing for the night, and the juice's movement is no longer so active, and, hence, there is less strength in the grass.
Never collect grasses, berries, fruits near industrial zones, highways, gutters and landfills. Such places our ancestors called gambling due to negative energy. At home, oregano should be thoroughly rinsed from dust, remove dry, damaged parts and insects. Dry, we already said above, the grass in the oven, under a canopy in limbo. You can lay out oregano on the floor with a thin layer, constantly interfering.
For information! Curative properties of the herb preserves two years, it should be stored in glass jars, paper bags in a dry place.
Brew aromatic healing tea
We move on to the pleasant part, although the process is very simple. You can brew oregano so - a spoonful of tea grass to a glass of boiling water. Insist 15 minutes, add honey and lemon and drink throughout the day. And you can make tea leaves - take the grass in a volume of 100 grams, pour a half cup of boiling water, insist under a towel for 20 minutes. Then use as a normal tea brew.
Here's a tea with oregano and its benefits and harm. If you do not have contraindications, then it will have to your liking and will bring a lot of positive to the body. Be healthy!