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Tea is a drink that accompanies us every day. We drink it when we are thirsty. We make tea when we want to warm up. We pour tea into mugs when we want to have a heart-to-heart chat with friends.
What types of tea do we usually buy in the store? Black, green. Sometimes with jasmine, sometimes with thyme. At home, we can add lemon, ginger, mint to tea. This, in general, is the basic set of the average buyer.
In fact, there are many options for adding tea. In addition to the fact that it adds new, interesting notes to a familiar drink, such additives can be useful - after all, they are products of nature itself.
But be careful! Spices and plants have their own healing properties, and those brewed with tea give an enhanced, complex effect. Therefore, such additives should not be in large quantities and on a permanent basis. Especially if you have chronic diseases, be sure to consult your doctor about the diagnosis.
Each herb, each spice has an extensive list of benefits that it can bring, and yet each supplement has a primary effect.
For example, if you want to strengthen immunity, or for the tea to have a tonic effect, try seasoning it with rosehip, ginger, calendula, hibiscus, honeysuckle, red clover flowers, sea buckthorn, lemongrass or cranberry.
If, on the contrary, you need soothing tea, the following herbs will suit you: lavender, white chrysanthemum, cypress (popularly called Ivan tea), which can be bought in http://ivan-chay.su, mint, currant, lemon balm, bergamot.
You can adjust the work of the digestive tract with the help of: cypress, dried blackberry berries, calendula flowers, tarragon, raspberries, apples, cloves, nutmeg.
In order to help the body in the treatment of respiratory tract or for prevention, add something from the list to the teapot: cardamom, anise, calendula flowers, thyme (or thyme), strawberries.
You can add cinnamon, jasmine, stevia, rose or vanilla to create an atmosphere, mood and enrich the tea.
Fruits and berries can be added both fresh and dried. You can combine various additives, look for your ideal bouquet of spices for tea - both in terms of aroma and effect. For children, it is best not to add spices and herbs to tea, but to limit yourself to fresh fruits and berries.
Please note that different times are required for brewing tea, herbs and berries. It is best to first brew the herbs in a separate container - they need about ten minutes to give all their benefits and aroma. In five minutes, brew the tea itself in the teapot, pre-warming it. A couple of minutes before serving, you can add brewed herbs, berries or pieces of fruit to the kettle.
Most of the additives in tea are in the kitchen cabinet or in the refrigerator, or in the nearest pharmacy. Try today to brew healthy and delicious tea for yourself or for everyone at home.
For example, vanilla tea is easy to prepare, and the comfort that the aroma of vanilla gives cannot be overestimated. To prepare such tea, prepare a teapot, heat it, pour the usual amount of black tea into it, add half a teaspoon of vanilla sugar or half a vanilla pod, pour boiling water and insist for five minutes.
Fresh apples, for example, "Antonovka" varieties, can be a great addition to green tea. It is not necessary to remove the peel from the apples, only remove the core. Cut into cubes and sprinkle with sugar. One apple is enough for two large cups of tea. Brew green tea in the usual way, insist for three minutes. Then put the apples in the teapot and leave for another couple of minutes. Or you can put the apples in mugs, pour the brew, cover with plates and leave to infuse in the mugs for two minutes.
Enjoy your tea!
