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In the cold season, even before a cold begins to creep up on you, just waiting for the right moment, the best preventative remedy can be a good vitamin tea. The composition of which simply must include herbs and berries, enriched with vitamins, and having certain therapeutic properties.

Plants that are very useful during periods of exacerbation of colds include: raspberries, linden, rowan, rose hips, strawberries and lemon balm.

What is so interesting about vitamin teas made from these plants?

They are prepared from field or forest berries and plants, extremely different in color, taste and aroma. Herbal vitamin teas are, in fact, nutritional components, and besides, they contain a lot of biologically active substances (BAS): enzymes, vitamins, organic acids, microelements, etc. This bouquet of biologically active substances heals, prevents, protects a person from a large number of diseases, and is beneficial for his body. Why is it advisable for all people to drink vitamin herbal teas, no matter what age the person is and what his state of health is.

The value of herbal vitamin tea can also be seen in the fact that it does not have caffeine and other stimulating ingredients that are not so harmless for the human body, and even more so for people with disorders of the cardiovascular and nervous systems. Herbal vitamin tea is especially useful for children's bodies, while ordinary tea with caffeine is not at all recommended for use by children under 2 years of age.

Nowadays, many are beginning to realize the healing effect of vitamin tea on the body as very beneficial and therefore drink it constantly.

Ingredients for making tea at home can be purchased at the pharmacy. But the best vitamin tea is the one made from herbs prepared with your own hands.

Therefore, it is very important that everyone understands and has an understanding of. First of all, you need to harvest the above-ground parts of plants in such a way that there is no “scorched desert” left behind you, because nature is quite vulnerable and you need to make sure every time that some portion of the grass remains at the collection site for its natural renewal.

How to brew vitamin tea correctly?

The flowers are brewed in a large porcelain teapot with boiling water. Fresh fruits should be flattened before brewing, and dry fruits should be crushed. The leaves are placed in hot water and boiled for about 4 minutes or brewed with boiling water. Stems, roots and other coarse fragments of medicinal plants need to be finely chopped. Then they are placed in cool water, brought to a boil over low heat and boiled for 10 minutes. After brewing, teas from fruits, leaves and flowers are kept in a porcelain teapot for about 10 minutes, and teas from stems and roots are allowed to brew in an enamel bowl for about 15 minutes.

Properly brewed vitamin tea has a unique color, aroma, taste, and most importantly, it preserves all biologically active substances.

Composition of herbs for vitamin tea.

Collections for vitamin herbal teas can be completely different and depend on the state of the human body and his taste preferences. It is recommended to include only one fragrant herb in the collection (lemon balm, mint, thyme and oregano, etc.). You should not use 2-3 of these herbs in formulations: the aromas of the plants can drown out or merge into a completely unaromatic smell. The practice of herbalists has shown that a collection should contain only one aromatic plant and several neutral herbs. This mixture is optimal. Nobody bothers you to experiment, but do not forget about contraindications to the use of medicinal plants and the possibility of obtaining an as yet unexplored reaction when mixing them...
Therefore, it is better to stick to centuries-old recipes for vitamin teas.

From these thoughts, a legitimate question arises: what vitamin teas should I drink?

In the morning, it is advisable to drink tonic tea (strawberry leaves, angelica, clover leaves and flowers, lavender, lemongrass and lovage, etc.).

In the evening, you should drink soothing vitamin herbal teas (fireweed, St. John's wort, peppermint, raspberry leaves, lemon balm, chamomile, cherry leaf, primrose, etc.).

In early spring and winter, you should pay attention to multivitamin herbal teas (leaves of blackberries, carrots, raspberries, nettles, black currants, rowan fruits, black currants, rose hips, sea buckthorn, barberry, etc.).

But in summer, herbal teas should be prepared from freshly picked plants. And it is this time that should be used as much as possible for the benefit of the body.

Heather tea recipe.

Take 2 grams of dried rosehip leaves and heather flowers, and another 10 grams of dried strawberry leaves. Rinse the porcelain teapot with hot water (at a temperature where your hand can no longer stand it - above 60 C). Then add the herbal mixture and pour over 200 ml of boiling water. Leave for about 10 minutes.

Lingonberry tea recipe.

Take 10 grams of granulated sugar, 12 grams of dried lingonberry leaves, a glass of water. Rinse the porcelain teapot with boiling water, add lingonberry leaves, brew with boiling water and leave for 15 minutes, then add granulated sugar and pour into cups.

Strawberry tea recipe.

Take 2 g of mint and St. John's wort leaves, 10 g of dried strawberry leaves, and a glass of water. Rinse the porcelain teapot with boiling water, add the leaves, pour boiling water over it and leave for about 10 minutes.

Rowan tea recipe.

Take 2 g of dried black currant leaves, 5 g of dried raspberry fruits, 30 g of dried rowan fruits. Brew the mixture in a porcelain teapot and let sit for 7 minutes. Use further as tea leaves.

Primrose tea recipe.

Take a glass of water and 5 g of dried St. John's wort and primrose leaves. Pour the mixture of leaves with boiling water in a porcelain teapot and let it brew for about 7 minutes. Use further as tea leaves.

Recipe for tea with thyme.

Take 4 g of dried lingonberry leaves and 20 g of dried St. John's wort and thyme leaves. Brew the mixture of leaves and use as tea leaves.

Vitamin tea recipe.

Take 5 g of dried oregano leaves, 10 g of dried rowan berries, 20 g of dried rose hips, 200 ml of water. Chop the dried berries, then pour boiling water over them and then cook for 5 minutes, then add oregano leaves and let sit for 10 minutes. This is a multivitamin tea that has a beneficial effect on metabolism in the body and serves as a remedy against sclerosis.

Recipe for rowan and nettle tea.

Take (7:3) rowan fruits and nettle leaves, and then 1 tbsp. l. pour 500 ml of boiling water over the composition and boil for 10 minutes, then let it brew for 4 hours in a tightly sealed container in a cool, dark place, filter. Drink 1/2 cup 3 times. in a day.

Recipe for lingonberry and strawberry tea.

Take the whole strawberry plant and the whole lingonberry plant in equal quantities. 1 tbsp. l. pour 200 ml of water over the composition, bring to a boil, filter, add honey to taste. Drink hot in a glass 3 rubles. in a day.

Strawberry tea recipe.

1 tbsp. l. pour 200 ml of boiling water over field strawberry leaves, let stand for 15 minutes, filter. Drink like tea.

Recipe for rosehip and raspberry tea.

Mix raspberries and rose hips in equal quantities. 1 tbsp. l. pour 250 ml of boiling water over the composition, boil for 10 minutes, let stand for 3 hours, filter. Drink 1/3 cup 3 times. in a day.

Recipe for rosehip and lingonberry tea.

Mix lingonberries and rose hips equally. 1 tbsp. l. composition, brew 500 ml of boiling water and boil for 10 minutes, then leave for 4 hours in a tightly sealed container in a cold and dark place, filter. Drink 1/2 cup 3 times. in a day.

Recipe for rosehip and rowan tea.

1) Mix rowan and rosehip fruits equally. Then 1 tbsp. l. Brew the crushed mixture with 1/2 liter of boiling water, let it brew for an hour, drain through cheesecloth, add granulated sugar to taste. Drink 1/2 cup 3 times. in a day.

2) Mix rose hips and rowan in equal parts. 1 tbsp. l. composition, brew 500 ml of boiling water, boil for 10 minutes, let it brew for 4 hours in a tightly closed container in a cool and dark place, filter, add granulated sugar to taste. Drink 1/2 cup 3 times. in a day.

Recipe for rose hip and honey tea.

20 g rose hips, 15 g honey, 5 g lemon juice, 200 ml water. Grind the dried rose hips, pour boiling water over them, and cook for 10 minutes in an enamel bowl with the lid tightly closed, let it brew for 10 minutes. Filter the broth. Add honey, lemon juice.

Recipe for rosehip and thyme tea.

10 g dried rose hips, 5 g dried thyme leaves, 15 g honey, 200 ml water. Chop the rosehips, pour boiling water over them and cook for 5 minutes, and then add the thyme leaves. Leave for 10 minutes, filter, add honey to taste.

Recipe for rosehip and blackcurrant tea.

Mix rose hips and black currants equally. 1 tbsp. l. brew the crushed mixture with 500 ml of boiling water, let it brew for at least 1 hour in a well-covered container, filter through cheesecloth, add granulated sugar to taste. Drink 1/2 cup 3 times. in a day.

Recipe for tea made from rosehip, blackcurrant and nettle.

Mix (3:1:2) rose hips, black currants and nettle leaves. 1 tbsp. l. pour 500 ml of boiling water over the composition, leave for an hour, filter, add granulated sugar to taste. Drink 1/2 cup 3 times. in a day.

Recipe for tea made from rose hips, black currants, nettles and carrots.

Combine (3:1:3:3) rosehips, blackcurrants, nettle leaves, carrot roots. 1 tbsp. l. pour 500 ml of boiling water over the mixture and boil for 10 minutes, keep in a well-covered container for 4 hours in a cool and dark place, then filter. Drink 1/2 cup 3 times. in a day.

Recipe for tea made from rose hips, lingonberries and nettle leaves.

1) Combine (3:1:3) rose hips, lingonberries, nettle leaves - 3 parts. 1 tbsp. l. composition, brew 500 ml of boiling water, boil for 10 minutes, soak for 4 hours in a tightly sealed container in a cool and dark place, then filter. Drink 1/2 cup 3 times. in a day.

2) Mix (3:2:3) rose hips, lingonberries, nettle leaves.
2 tbsp. l. of crushed vitamin composition, brew 200 ml of boiling water, let stand for 3.5 hours, filter. Drink a glass of 2 rubles. in a day.

Recipe for tea made from rose hips, lingonberries, currants and raspberries.

Take and mix rose hips, raspberry leaves, currant leaves, and lingonberry leaves in equal quantities. After this, 2 tbsp. l. composition, brew 200 ml of boiling water and boil for 10 minutes, keep in a tightly covered container until cooled, then filter, add granulated sugar to taste. Drink 1/2 cup 2 r. in a day.

Tell me, do many people take multivitamin complexes? In addition, natural multivitamin complexes are not cheap. They can easily be replaced by herbal vitamin teas. With their help, you can increase and strengthen your immune system, cure colds, and replenish your body with useful substances.

Herbal teas can be prepared from herbs collected from the forest, meadow, field, or grown in your own garden. Berries, fruits, and medicinal plants can be used as part of the preparations. Such a drink can be considered a natural food product, which contains a lot of useful nutrients, including vitamins, macro and microelements.

All these biologically active substances have a beneficial effect on human health. They can be used by all people, including pregnant, lactating women, and children. You just need to choose the appropriate composition for a specific situation.

The main benefit of medicinal drinks is that it does not contain caffeine or other stimulating ingredients that can be dangerous for people with certain diseases, such as cardiovascular and nervous system diseases.

Today, many people have switched to drinking herbal teas. In spring they will be doubly useful. At this time, as is known, the supply of vitamins in the body is depleted. And we still have to wait until the new harvest of fresh vegetables, fruits, and berries.

The best herbal tea is tea made from herbs that you have prepared yourself.

How to brew herbal tea

It is better to brew in a porcelain teapot. But if there is no such kettle, you can brew it in a thermos or in any other kettle, except a metal one.

Before brewing, large leaves, stems, and flowers must be chopped. Mash fresh berries and fruits with a spoon or cut into small pieces. Dried - crush.

The crushed collection is poured with boiling water in a kettle. Infuse for five to ten minutes. The drink from the stems or roots of the plant is infused for 10 to 15 minutes.

If larger stems, roots, or leaves are used for cooking, then they are first filled with cold purified water in an enamel or glass saucepan. Place it on the stove. After bringing to a boil, simmer over low heat for about 10 minutes.

Properly prepared vitamin tea retains all the healing properties of the herbs from which it is prepared. It has a pronounced taste and aroma.

You can squeeze lemon juice into the prepared drink and add honey. This will bring even greater benefits.

What herbs to use

The best are the berries and leaves of raspberries, wild strawberries, blackberries, black currants, oregano, nettles, mint, lemon balm, sea buckthorn berries, lemongrass, fireweed or fireweed and many others. Many of them can be grown in your dacha or on your windowsill in a pot.

You can brew one herb or collection. The fees can be very diverse. It all depends on the availability of herbs, your own taste and preferences.

When preparing a vitamin collection, it is advisable to include herbs that have a bright aroma, such as oregano, mint, lemon balm, thyme, leaves and berries of raspberries, currants and others.

It is still not recommended to use several of these aromatic herbs in a collection at once, so that they do not “clog” each other.

You also need to consider the time when you drink tea. For the morning, it is better to make a collection that will tone you up. It is good to include wild strawberry berries and leaves, angelica, chamomile, lemongrass berries and leaves, lavender flowers, red clover and other tonic herbs.

For evening use, accordingly, you need to choose a collection that will calm you down, relieve nervous tension, and stress. Mint, lemon balm, St. John's wort, chamomile, primrose, cherry leaves, raspberry leaves and others are suitable for it.

In winter and early spring, it is advisable to include berries, fruits, and herbs rich in vitamins and minerals. The fruits of barberry, black currant, raspberry, blackberry, sea buckthorn, rose hip, elderberry and many others are well suited.

In the summer, use fresh fruits, berries, and herbs. This will provide maximum health benefits.

How to collect and dry herbs

When collecting herbs from a bush, take only 1-2 leaves. There is no need to cut off the entire bush. After all, the plant still needs to grow. It needs leaves for nutrition. Seeds and roots for propagation.

For flowering bushes such as wild raspberries, blackberries, and others, leave a few branches with flowers when you pick the flowers. This applies to almost all flowering plants. Do not uproot, especially, the entire clearing. Next year you will no longer have anywhere to procure herbs for your healing drink.

To harvest rosehip, linden, currant and other flowers, you need to take only fully bloomed flowers.

Berries and fruits are used when fully ripe.

Harvesting should be done in dry weather after the dew has disappeared. All flowering plants are best collected at the beginning or during flowering.

Dry in a well-ventilated, dry area away from the sun. To dry, the grass is hung in bunches or laid out in a thin layer so that it dries evenly.

Drying in electric dryers is allowed.

Herbs that contain a large amount of glycosides, such as primrose, coltsfoot, mint, are dried at a temperature not exceeding 50 degrees.

Berries and fruits at a temperature not exceeding 80 degrees.

Dried herbs are stored separately in paper or cloth bags. It is better to store fragrant ones in glass jars with a lid. It is advisable to attach a tag or sign for each with the name of the herb and the year of collection. After all, the shelf life of many is only one or two years.

Dried berries and fruits can be stored for up to three or four years.

Vitamin tea recipes

Vitamin tea can be prepared from one type of herb or by mixing several. There are no special preparation requirements. Still, this is not a medicinal drug, where the dosage must be observed. You can increase the amount of one herb and decrease the amount of another according to your taste. This is tea after all. It can always be diluted with water.

Usually, a standard teapot takes two or three tablespoons of herbs or herbs and pours boiling water over them.

Lingonberry vitamin tea

Lingonberry leaves – 12 grams

Water – 1 glass

Add sugar or honey to taste.

Tea with strawberry leaves, St. John's wort, mint

Strawberry leaf – 10 grams

St. John's wort and mint - one pinch each

Pour a glass of boiling water. Leave for 7-10 minutes.

Tea with red rowan fruits and raspberries

Red rowan (fruit) – 30 grams

Raspberries (dried) – 5 grams

Blackcurrant leaves – 2 grams

Pour boiling water over it. Leave for 10 minutes.

Vitamin tea with thyme, St. John's wort, lingonberry

Thyme leaves – 20 grams

St. John's wort – 20 grams

Lingonberry leaves – 4 grams

Vitamin tea with primrose and St. John's wort

Primrose leaves – 5 grams

St. John's wort herb – 5 grams

Tea with rosehip

According to the first recipe, only rose hips are brewed. To taste, add natural honey and lemon juice to the finished tea.

Rosehip fruits – 20 grams

Grind the fruits. Pour boiling water over it. Place on the stove and simmer over low heat for about 10 minutes. Take off. Let it brew for another 10 minutes. Drink tea with honey and lemon.

Tea with rosehip and thyme

Rosehip fruits – 10 grams

Thyme – 5 grams

Pour boiling water over it. Boil over low heat for 5 minutes. Let sit for about 10 minutes. Add honey and lemon to taste.

Vitamin tea with rosehip and red rowan

Rosehip fruits – 20 grams

Red rowan fruits – 10 grams

Oregano – 5 grams

Pour boiling water over it. Cook over low heat for 5 minutes. Then leave for 10 minutes.

General strengthening vitamin teas

Tea with strawberry and blackberry leaves

Dried strawberry leaves – 3 grams

Dried blackberry leaves – 3 grams

Dried black currant leaves – 3 grams

St. John's wort herb – 10 grams

Thyme herb – 10 grams

The collection is poured with boiling water. Leave for 10 minutes. Drink with honey if desired.

Tea with rosehip and sea buckthorn

Rosehip fruits – 6 grams

Sea buckthorn fruits – 6 grams

Centaury – 2 grams

Licorice root – 2 grams

Dandelion root 3 grams

After brewing, simmer with boiling water over low heat for 10 minutes. Then leave for one hour. You can drink it with honey.

Ready-made collections of vitamin herbal teas can be purchased ready-made, with the composition already selected. Where can I buy? At the pharmacy or here

See another recipe for medicinal vitamin tea with herbs

Herbs have been used in folk medicine for many centuries to treat and prevent various pathologies of the human body. Vitamin herbal tea is traditionally natural in composition, usually very tasty and healthy drink. It is best to use local plants that grow in meadows and forests in herbal mixtures. This vitamin tea will be more beneficial than one made from exotic ingredients. Although sometimes it is possible to add plants that are especially useful in their effects to tea, which themselves are rare and have pronounced medicinal properties. But still, vitamin teas are preferable from plants that represent the local flora. They are in many ways more adequately perceived by the body, do not cause adverse allergic reactions and have stronger energy.

In fact, vitamin teas are the same products, but saturated with enzymes, vitamins, biologically active substances and are intended to replenish the lack of such substances in the human body. Just like for adults, vitamin teas for children are useful, but before giving such tea to a baby, you need to consult a pediatrician. And since herbal vitamin teas do not contain substances that stimulate the nervous system such as caffeine, they are well tolerated by people with heart and nervous system diseases.

DIY vitamin tea

Recently, more and more people have begun to lead an active lifestyle and take care of their health and the health of their loved ones. The most useful vitamin tea- this is one that is prepared personally from personally collected and dried herbs and fruits growing in the bosom of their native nature. But in order for all the ingredients of such tea to have healing powers, there are certain collection rules, methods of processing raw materials and, accordingly, storage rules. Then it will not be just a herbal infusion, but a real vitamin tea, tasty and healthy at the same time.

Collect mature tea ingredients

Often, herbal preparations include well-known plants that are familiar to many, such as stone fruit, and many others. Either a few leaves or flowering parts are taken from these plants, but some of the flowers must be left on the plant for subsequent seed formation.

If you collect only flowers from plants such as elderberry, jasmine (), or hawthorn, then you need to take only fully blossomed, formed specimens. It’s the same with raspberry, blackberry, currant or cherry leaves - you need to take not young, but mature, unfolded leaves. The same rule applies to picking berries and fruits. Unripe fruits may contain substances that are of little use and sometimes even harmful for use.

When to harvest and how to dry grass

In order for vitamin tea to have a wonderful taste and aroma, the herbs included in its composition should be collected only in dry weather, so that there is no moisture on the plants. Harvesting time is the first phase of flowering or the moment when the plant blooms in full force. The collected plants should be carefully inspected and placed for drying either under a canopy or in a well-ventilated room to prevent blackening, and even more so, rotting of the plants. From time to time, the raw materials should be inspected and turned over, removing blackened parts. Even a small amount of raw materials spoiled as a result of improper drying will ruin any vitamin tea.

Those herbs that contain volatile essential oils are dried slowly and the temperature during drying should not exceed 30°C. Fruits collected from berry bushes or trees should be dried in special dryers at a temperature of 80°C so that vitamin C is most fully preserved in them.

Vitamin teas containing large amounts of vitamin C will be an excellent preventive measure during outbreaks of respiratory viral infections during the cold season.

It is most convenient to store dried and sorted fruits, leaves and herbs in bags made of fabric or paper, or in glass jars. Bags or jars should be provided with a label indicating the type of plant, place and time of collection. Then it will be easy to create delicious vitamin tea from ready-made ingredients according to any recipe.

According to the rules established long ago by herbalists and traditional healers, there are certain storage periods for plant materials. For example, they last the longest rhizomes and plant bark, fruits and dried berries - up to three years, and herbs, inflorescences and leaves - no more than one and a half, two years. If plant raw materials are stored longer than the established period, it loses its healing properties and the vitamins included in the composition are destroyed. And who needs herbal vitamin tea without vitamins? Therefore, even when buying vitamin teas at a pharmacy, you should first of all pay attention to the packaging labeling.

Prepare vitamin tea correctly

If the composition contains flowers, then vitamin tea should be brewed in a glass or ceramic teapot, pour boiling water over them and let it brew for several minutes. Before brewing, the berries should be mashed if they are fresh, and if dried, then crushed. The collected and dried leaves are first dipped in hot water, then brought to a boil and kept on fire for up to five minutes. The bark, coarse stems and rhizomes are first crushed, poured with cold water and brought to a boil over low heat, continued to boil for about ten minutes, and then allowed to brew for about the same amount of time. It is better to take enamel dishes for this. Vitamin teas, if brewed correctly, not only have a wonderful aroma and unique taste, but also retain all their healing properties.

Properly formulated vitamin tea is a drink that tastes pleasant and is beneficial for a certain person. Therefore, everyone can brew tea according to their own ideas, but also based on their own needs, taking into account the healing properties of the ingredients. There are aromatic, fragrant herbs, such as oregano, thyme, monarda, which are good to add to vitamin tea so that its smell is especially pleasant. But if you don’t have experience, then you should only add one such herb to your tea for flavoring; the rest of the ingredients should be neutral. If you add too many herbs that have a strong smell to your vitamin tea, the result may not be as pleasant as you would like.

For morning appointment strawberry leaves, lemongrass, and leaves, lovage or are good. In this composition, tea will have an invigorating, tonic effect.

For an evening reception vitamin tea should include raspberry leaves, chamomile, peppermint, cherry leaf, St. John's wort and other herbs that have a calming effect on the nervous system.

In early spring and in winter, the composition of herbal tea should be multivitamin, replenishing the lack of vitamins that occurs during this period. These are ingredients such as blackcurrant, raspberry and blackberry leaves, carrots and nettles, as well as rowan fruits, sea buckthorn, rose hips, and other berries.

Summer vitamin teas are prepared from freshly picked herbs; they are most effective and beneficial for the overall health of the body.

It is very healthy and beneficial to drink vitamin-rich herbal tea after a hot Russian bath. In the bath, along with sweat, all harmful substances accumulated in the skin are removed from the body, and this is a completely natural physiological process. At a high temperature in the steam room, there is an increased release of fluid, that is, sweating, to prevent overheating of the body. Along with sweat, toxins are also removed, resulting in cleansing and healing of the body. Naturally, the lost liquid needs to be replenished, and to quench your thirst, either or vitamin herbal aromatic tea is the best choice.

To replenish the amount of fluid lost through sweat and restore the normal water balance of the body, you should know how to do this most correctly. It seems that thirst can be quenched with cold water or kvass, but this is not so, only hot, fresh tea can not only replenish fluid in the skin cells, but also perfectly quench the feeling of thirst. For this purpose, a samovar is usually placed in the dressing room, or, if there is none, then an ordinary thermos will do.

The main thing is that the tea is freshly brewed, tasty and of high quality, so that both you and your guests can enjoy it. You can drink it while relaxing after the steam room, or after leaving the bathhouse, enjoy it or with jam.

There are a great many varieties of tea and everyone chooses a variety to their liking. People have known for many thousands of years about the beneficial and tonic properties of this popular drink. And, despite the fact that in recent years, tea has become increasingly popular, partially replacing tea from our diet, we cannot refuse this valuable drink, especially if this vitamin tea.

And it turns out that such a healthy drink as vitamin tea is very easy to prepare yourself. Moreover, drinking it is especially useful in the spring and early summer, before natural vitamins grow in the gardens and gardens, as well as in the fall, to prepare the body for the cold season.

How to prepare vitamin tea?

In order to prepare the most useful vitamin tea, you need to take rose hips, mint, chamomile, rowan, currants, sea buckthorn or other medicinal plants. Dried herbs and berries can be purchased at the pharmacy or prepared in advance yourself. You need to make a mixture from the ingredients you have chosen, combining them in equal proportions. Then you need to brew 1.5-2 teaspoons of the vitamin collection with a glass of boiling water and leave (or better yet, brew directly in a thermos) for 1.5-2 hours. But you shouldn’t abuse this drink, so you should drink no more than a glass of vitamin tea a day.

If you are new to drinking vitamin teas, then start by adding only one aromatic herb such as thyme, oregano, mint or lemon balm and several more neutral herbs to the herbal mixture.

The effect of vitamin tea on health

Vitamin tea will retain all the active biological substances of its components, so the benefits of such tea are undeniable; it has a beneficial effect on metabolic processes in the body, tissue regeneration and hematopoiesis. By taking vitamin tea daily, you can increase your body's resistance to diseases and adverse environmental influences, strengthening your own immunity.

If there is a deficiency of vitamins in the human body, he feels increased fatigue, muscle weakness occurs and this can lead to disorders of the gastrointestinal tract, nervous system, vision and other body systems.

The modern fashion for natural products has also touched upon health issues, which is why they have gained enormous popularity among the population. Since they are very healthy, affordable and easy to prepare. And their diversity depends on the taste and imagination of each person.

It is important to remember that if you have any chronic or acute diseases, you should consult your doctor before taking vitamin teas. Therefore, in order to achieve a positive result, you must take into account your own health.

Useful composition of vitamin teas

The environmental situation in the modern world is quite complex and this has led to a weakening of many functions of the modern human body, which includes a reduced ability to absorb vitamins from food. Therefore, by eating vegetables and fruits, we receive only a small percentage of the vitamins they contain. This means that vitamin tea, which will supply the body with the necessary substances, can be a way out of this situation.

Rosehip tea. Rosehip tea contains a large amount of vitamin C (up to 2 g of vitamin per 100 g of drink), which makes rosehip tea an excellent health-improving drink. The value of this tea is also the presence in it, for example, of vitamins such as vitamins A, E, P, as well as other beneficial substances that determine the adaptogenic (increasing the body's resistance), tonic and healing properties of this drink.

Currant tea. Both the leaves and fruits of black currant also contain a very large amount of vitamin C, which means that with the help of this tea you can also fight vitamin deficiency and strengthen the immune system.

In addition, if the body receives enough vitamins, it becomes protected from both the common cold and influenza viruses.

Healing collection. To make the most of natural resources, prepare tea from rose hips, strawberries and currant leaves, taking all ingredients in equal parts, about 15 g each. This mixture should be brewed in the same way as regular tea and drunk about 3 glasses a day. The drink turns out to be very aromatic, tasty and combines many healing properties.

You can prepare multivitamin tea from a variety of field, forest herbs or fruits, which differ from each other in taste, aroma and even color. Such drinks can be regarded as components of the diet, since they contain many valuable biologically active substances, such as enzymes, vitamins, organic acids, microelements and much more. Such a rich beneficial composition can not only prevent many diseases, but also treat them. Vitamin teas are an excellent means of preventing many diseases.

Also, such teas are valuable because they do not contain caffeine, like, for example, regular teas. Therefore, vitamin tea can be drunk at any time of the day and at any age. An important condition for healing with vitamin tea is its systematic use, as well as proper preparation.

How to brew vitamin tea correctly

The method of brewing vitamin tea depends on what ingredients you choose to prepare it.

Flowers should be brewed with boiling water in a porcelain teapot. Dried berries must be crushed before brewing, and fresh ones must be crushed. The leaves need to be brewed with boiling water or put them in hot water and simmer over low heat for 3-5 minutes. Other parts of plants (stems, roots, etc.) in crushed form should be placed in cold water, then brought to a boil and simmered over low heat for about 10 minutes.

After the vitamin tea is brewed, it must be infused. Tea made from leaves, berries and flowers is infused for 5-10 minutes in a porcelain teapot. Tea prepared from rough parts of plants is infused for 10-15 minutes in an enamel bowl.

With regular use of vitamin teas, you can constantly keep yourself in high vitality and feel good, which is especially important during periods when fatigue accumulates and there are not enough vitamins.

When and what vitamin tea to drink

In the morning, it is best to drink vitamin tea, which has a tonic effect. The composition of such tea may include: leaves and flowers of clover, angelica, lemongrass, strawberry leaves, lovage, lavender, etc. But in the evening, on the contrary, soothing and relaxing vitamin teas from fireweed tea, St. John's wort, raspberry leaves, chamomile, mint would be more appropriate pepper, lemon balm, cherry leaf, primrose, etc.

In summer it is best to brew vitamin tea from fresh herbs, and in spring and winter - from dried ones. For the cold season, herbal teas made from blackcurrant, blackberry, raspberry leaves, rose hips, nettle, barberry, carrots, rowan, and sea buckthorn are the most suitable.

Vitamin teas are very useful, but when consuming them, you should take into account the effect of each plant included in their composition.

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All my relatives know that I am a fan of herbal teas, well, firstly, because in the summer and autumn I have the opportunity to independently prepare herbal teas for tea, rather than buying them in a store. I collect mint, thyme, leaves and berries of strawberries, raspberries, blueberries and blueberries, lingonberries, cranberries, sprigs of willowherb (fireweed), heather and other garden and forest plants, dry them, make herbal tea bouquets and package them in many beautiful jars and boxes, some of which go for sale, and the rest for themselves and loved ones. And secondly, the fact is that herbal vitamin teas, prepared from forest or field plants and berries, heal, protect us from a huge number of diseases and strengthen the immune system.

4 steps to making herbal tea at home:

Stage No. 1. Withering

Place the collected tea leaves in a dark place in a layer no thicker than five centimeters for several hours. Your task is to wilt the leaves. Don't spread them too thin or they will dry out and become brittle.

Stage No. 2. Twisting

Now knead the wilted leaves by twisting them between your palms. Typically, in the industrial production of tea, the leaves at this stage are rolled between metal tubes.

Stage No. 3. Fermentation

Place the twisted leaves in a five-centimeter layer in wooden boxes, cover with a wet cloth and leave for 6-10 hours in a warm room with a temperature of 26 degrees. Tip: for fermentation it is convenient to use a cooling oven or, for example, a dressing room.

Stage No. 4. Drying

Dry the leaves that have darkened during the fermentation process at a temperature of about 100 degrees in the oven.

Stage No. 5. Make a collection

Now our leaves are ready for tea. All that remains is to mix them with dried flowers or berries, if you are making a collection, for example, according to one of my recipes.

6 recipes for vitamin teas

Collection No. 1. Heather + Rosehip

Take 2 grams of dried rosehip leaves and heather flowers, and another 10 grams of dried strawberry leaves. Rinse the porcelain teapot with hot water. Then add the herbal mixture and pour 200 ml of boiling water over it. Wait 10 minutes

Collection No. 2. Lingonberry tea

Collection No. 3. Rowan + raspberries + currants

Take 2 g of dried black currant leaves, 5 g of dried raspberry fruits, 30 g of dried rowan fruits. Brew the mixture in a porcelain teapot and leave for 7 minutes. Continue using it as tea leaves

Collection No. 4. Rosehip-honey tea

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