Kudin tea is unlikely to taste like a healthy adult person, let alone a child. A few will agree to drink it instead of traditional black tea. A bitterish drink of light yellow or green color is not the best option for pies and cookies. Nevertheless, it is always worthwhile to keep it in your home medicine cabinet. Natural raw materials of plant origin will help ease a number of disease states, and even completely defeat the disease.
Not tea, but infusion
It's wrong to call kudin tea. Fresh or dried young leaves have nothing to do with tea gardens or plantations. The basis for the raw material is a subtropical plant - holly broadleaf. By the way, he belongs to the family that gave the world tea mate.
Usually, the site consists of several hundred small bushes. In March - April, it is time to harvest 7-8 centimeters of the apical leaves. Kilograms of raw materials are laid out in a cool room. After a couple of hours, the leaves are slightly tied, will become soft and supple to twist into the "spindle".
Chinese women work with raw materials, as if with plasticine, rolling on the table with a palm of elastic spirals. Next, the "spindles" are laid out on huge mesh trays under the open sun, periodically tumbling and shaking to make everything well and evenly dry.
The finished drink is packed in vacuum bags and sent for sale.
The legendary elixir of
Of course, not every drink in China is shrouded in a train of legends. But Kudin received such an honor. It is believed that the Emperor Xuan-tsung was very anxious to please his concubine, Jan Guifei, with an unusual gift - eternal youth. He ordered the subjects to collect all existing recipes and get the most miraculous elixirs.
One of the servants accidentally ended up in a monastery. An old monk, revered the emperor, decided to surprise his beloved ruler and handed the subject a curative drink kudin. The empress's chosen one, having tried the elixir, blossomed like cherry blossom, and was incredibly prettier. Since then, the leaves of the holly broad-leaved and the cudin prepared from them are attributed to the ability to rejuvenate the body and increase its vitality.
Benefits and harms
Useful properties
This drink will never replace the usual tea, but in the season of colds, beriberi and other troubles, it can help the body with its multivitamin complex.
So, the curative properties or the benefits of curd tea are manifested in the ability:
- Toning, invigorating, improving performance. Consumers say that if you wake up in the morning unbearable, your eyes are sticking together, you need to urgently energize the body with cousine tea. The effect is stunning - an instant charge of energy and a surge of energy.
To have a good morning, you need to know a simple secret - tea cudin - To increase the protective functions of the body, in other words, to strengthen the immune system. In adults with the slightest signs of a cold, there is every chance to get rid of the virus on the vine, drinking a cup of freshly brewed tea a day. Needless to say, for the prevention of acute respiratory viral infection it is desirable, beginning in the autumn, to drink infusion at least once a week.
- Remove toxins, metabolic products, facilitating the load on the liver. Such a useful property of the tea kudina well manifested itself in the fight against poisoning, in particular alcohol.
- Reduce appetite. Means of plant origin - a find for those who decided to lose excess pounds. In this case, the drink should be consumed in the morning on a daily basis. If there is no goal to lose weight, you should not get carried away with cudin and part with brewing.
Additionally for the drink such useful properties are noticed:
- memory improvement
- pressure decrease
- exacerbation of vision
- vascular strengthening.
In addition, kudin is a natural antipyretic( !), Diuretic and anti-inflammatory agent.
Interesting! Please note, the individual properties of the kudine tea are very similar to the effect of making lime tea. This means that the chemical composition of plants is somewhat similar.
Harm and contraindications
As for the harm of tea kudin, it's simple - the abuse of a drink can lead to hypotension, and the use of an invigorating and diuretic tea in the evening - to insomnia.
Contraindications:
- presence of gastrointestinal diseases( ulcers, gastritis)
- individual intolerance
- age to 12 years.
Pregnant and lactating women are also better off refraining from taking kudin tea. Although there are no direct bans, but it's still not worth the risk. The impact of the drink on this category of consumers by official pharmacology has not yet been studied.
Recommendations for the use of
Based on the above information, it is not difficult to single out a number of indications for the use of kudin tea. It is advised to drink:
- for vivacity or immunity strengthening - if necessary,
- against obesity 1 hour after eating,
- for hypertension half an hour before meals,
- when intoxication - instead of usual black or green tea.
Tea drinking culture
Classic version of the
Guru in the tea ceremony is preparing the cudin without problems and even being able to combine it with other drinks. Those who make the first steps in this direction, it is worth familiarizing with how to brew and drink tea kudin competently.
Of course, this is not tea, and therefore less demanding on brewing methods. Nevertheless, when preparing it there are certain rules.
So, when brewing kudin, it is very important to observe the established temperature regime. Increasing the degree above the put( 70 ° C) enhances the bitterness of the drink, not to mention the loss of useful properties. To make water, bring the water to a boil, and leave the kettle for 15-20 minutes to cool slightly.
One or two spindles are poured with water 60-70 ° C, immediately drain it, as if rinsing raw materials from dust and particles of dirt. This is a necessary measure, if we recall in what conditions the leaf of the holly broadleaf is twisted and dried.
Then the sticks are poured again and give them a time of 2-6 minutes to give the water useful microelements. When the spindles swell, the drink will change color. So, Kudin is ready.
Note! There is a second method of welding kudina. The point is: 2-3 spindles beforehand washed, soaked in cold water and only then poured hot water. After a couple of minutes the drink can be poured into mugs.
Kudin with Puer tea
Not everyone likes the noble bitterness of the healing drink. How to dull it and leave tea rich and useful.
It turns out that among gourmets a variant of combining the cudina with Puer tea is allowed. The latter is brewed in a traditional way - washing raw materials and filling it with water close to boiling. When tea is infused, it will acquire a golden color and a sweet aftertaste.
A classic cudin is added to the finished pu-er. In this case, it is better to refuse sugar. A mix of exotic tinctures is ready. Have a nice tea!
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