From Ivan-tea, also called fireweed narrow-leaved, make tea, but it is called Koporsky. In order not to get lost in this phenomenon, it is necessary to draw an analogy with ordinary tea. Everyone knows that black tea is made from green by fermentation. The same thing happens with Ivan tea, from which Koporsky tea is made, which has a sophisticated and refined taste. The very same willow-tea is an outstanding healing herb.
Koporsky tea
This perennial grass, serving as raw material for Koporsky tea, sometimes rises two meters above the ground and pleases the eye with its flowers of red-violet, pink-purple, dark pink, pale pink or completely white. It can be found in the spaces of the entire Northern Hemisphere, especially in places where there are wet meadows, dried swamps, forest glades. This plant loves the company of their relatives and forms the real thickets.
Did you know? In addition to the commonly used names of ivan-tea, willow-herb, and Koporsky tea, this plant has more than seventy names among the people, which indicates its exceptional popularity.
The composition of fireweed
This plant is literally saturated with beneficial substances, which are contained in its colors, and in the leaves, and in the roots. They contain a lot of tannins, plant mucus, organic acids, flavonoids and tannins.
Vitamins
In terms of the content of the most famous and demanded vitamin C, Ivan-tea is well ahead of such famous sources of vitamins as lemon and rosehip. Vitamin B group is well represented in Cyprus: B1, B2, B5, B6 and B9, and not so widespread vitamin PP.
Other plants also have medicinal properties, such as lungwort, laconosa, savory, white silverweed, marsh wild rosemary, peppermint, anise, and cholstyanka.
Minerals
Micro- and macronutrients, necessary for the normal functioning of the human body, are very widely represented in this plant. In Ivan Cha there are minerals in the form:
- gland;
- calcium;
- magnesium;
- potassium;
- copper;
- manganese;
- sodium;
- zinc;
- Selena;
- phosphorus.
Calorie content
Caloric content of 100 g of dried fireweed is 150 kilocalories.
Did you know? The abundance of valuable substances in the leaves, flowers and roots of fireweed does not exhaust the use of this plant for humans. Pillows are stuffed with its seeds' seed, and yarn was made of it in villages and handkerchiefs were knitted, and ropes were made of fibrous stalks.
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In terms of nutritional value, carbohydrates are the most abundant in this herb. 100 g of dried product is almost 32 g. In second place are proteins - about 5 g, and nutrient trio of fats close them - about 2 g.
What is the use of Ivan-tea
The saturation of this herb with substances useful for the human body predetermines its ability to fight with many ailments, as well as to prevent them.
This ability is expressed in the presence of such healing qualities of willow-tea:
- antioxidant;
- anti-inflammatory;
- bactericidal;
- antiviral;
- sedatives;
- sleeping pills;
- antiallergic;
- wound healing;
- anticancer;
- antipyretic;
- sweatshops;
- moderately painkillers;
- enveloping;
- antiedematous;
- anticonvulsant.
But especially appreciate the healing properties of willow-tea women.
As the willow-tea has antipyretic properties, the sucker is silvery, barberry, Rhodiola rosea, meadowsweet, blackberry, viburnum, cornel, heather, sloes.
When the menstrual cycle fails
On critical days, many women experience not just discomfort, some feel worse. Especially dangerous are excessively abundant discharge of blood, which is fraught with the appearance of internal bleeding.
As the practice of many years shows, in this case it is very useful to simply have a glass of warm Koporsky tea, drunk in the morning before breakfast and half an hour before bed in the evening. This drink also helps to overcome the accompanying pain and migraine.
With menopause
Excellent use of willow tea and menopausal during an extremely unpleasant for women. The sedative properties of this herb remarkably cope with overcoming irritability and increased nervousness in women in this difficult period.
In addition, the tool eliminates the occurrence of temperature fluctuations, headaches, hot flashes, excessive sweating and swelling in the legs and arms.
To facilitate menopause, celery, veronica officinalis, yarrow, nasturtium, lavender, peppermint, primrose are recommended.
Especially good results are obtained when taking tincture, for the preparation of which in half a liter of 70% alcohol, you must add 50 g of dried ivan tea. After two weeks of sludge in a dark place with regular shaking, take the product daily, 30 drops three times a day.
With infertility
The onset of pregnancy in women of reproductive age is often inhibited due to obstruction of the fallopian tubes or the occurrence of an ovarian cyst. If the process has just begun and has not gone far, the absorbing properties of the omnipresent fireweed can come to the rescue together with your doctor.
In addition, this grass with the help of its unique set of minerals and vitamins is able to activate the appearance and development of follicles, which, in turn, contributes to the onset of pregnancy.
Sometimes endometriosis becomes the cause of female infertility. Drugs from willow are often coping with it even better than officially recognized medications.
With frequent discharge
This attack, as whites, can be eliminated using a decoction of the roots of willow-tea. To do this, the grass roots must be placed in 200 milliliters of boiling water and boiled again for ten minutes. After this broth should be insisted about an hour. The filtered means should be taken before meals three times a day, 70 ml.
When thrush
Ivan-tea is even more famous among women for its ability to crack down on a fairly frequent female problem - thrush. To do away with it, you need to pour a tablespoon of dried and chopped herb leaves in 250 ml of boiling water and let it brew in a shaded place for half an hour.
Filtered then the infusion is ready for use in the form of two or three times daily douching.
For the treatment of thrush recommended the use of propolis tincture, sage meadow, kefir fungus and chaga mushroom
Usage features
The grass is very popular with pregnant and newly born women, because it allows to solve a number of health problems that arise during this difficult period. However, it is worth knowing how to use the tool in order not to harm yourself and the child.
Read also, how during pregnancy to use honeysuckle, turnip, bee pollen, Peking cabbage, nectarine, walnuts, lettuce, gooseberry, dates
During pregnancy
Drink from this herb, used by pregnant women, is remarkable in that it not only strengthens the future mother’s body in difficult conditions and prevents possible illnesses, but also heals them.
In addition, it also brings pleasure to its outstanding taste. And at the same time it performs another task - it optimizes the water balance of a pregnant woman who, in her position, has to be very selective in her drinking.
Important! With all the usefulness of a drink from willow-tea for pregnant women, more than three cups a day should not be consumed. This is a remedy.
During lactation
When breastfeeding women need to consume as much fluid as possible. And here again, Ivan-tea is in a hurry again as one of the best drinks for nursing mothers. Tea is one of the leaders among the means that activate lactation, while simultaneously saturating the body of a nursing mother with a mass of beneficial substances.
Moreover, an infusion of leaves and flowers of fireweed can eliminate problems with nervous breakdowns, as well as digestion, which often occur in women after childbirth.
As nursing mothers themselves note, drinks from this plant, besides undoubtedly stimulating lactation, also improve the appearance of women, having a beneficial effect on their hair, skin and nails.
Possible harm and contraindications
Cyprus is such a wonderful plant that it is unable to harm the body, and therefore there are few contraindications to its use.
The exception here may be women with individual intolerance to its components, as well as with caution it is worth taking pregnant - only after consultation with the doctor.
Careful attention should be paid to willow tea for people who have excessively increased blood clotting, as this herb may strengthen it. Eating disorders and liver problems are also possible.
In case of liver diseases they also consume: aloe, hibiscus, white currant, fennel, thrown amaranth, canuper, momordik, Phrygian cornflower.
How to make Ivan Tea
To make a drink from this plant, you must first prepare the raw material from which it will be made. And for this there are certain rules and technologies.
Terms and rules for collecting leaves
Typically, the fireweed harvested from July to early September. For the preparation of suitable leaves and not yet blooming flowers. After the plant begins to appear fluffy seeds, the leaves are already not worth collecting.
Usually the leaves are collected in the morning in dry weather. The easiest way to collect them is to hold the top of the stem with one hand and hold the other from top to bottom. But here you should not get carried away and observe the measure, so as not to leave the plant naked and thus not condemn it to death. Most of the leaves should be left on the stems.
Tea fermentation and drying
It is not recommended to dry the leaves in direct sunlight. It is better to do this under a canopy in a place that is actively ventilated with warm air. Dried leaves are stored in glass jars, as well as in paper bags.
And for fermentation, after which Koporsky tea is obtained, the leaves of fireweed should be rubbed between the palms or rolled with a rolling pin on the table until they begin to secrete juice and darken. Leaves rolled in this way should be placed in a container, covered with a damp cloth and allowed to ripen for 12 hours at a temperature not lower than +28 degrees. In the process of ripening, the smell of grass turns into the smell of flowers, which is the meaning of fermentation.
The leaves that have passed the fermentation process should then be cut with scissors and, spreading them on a baking sheet, dried in an oven at a temperature not higher than 50 degrees.
As you can see, this process is quite laborious, but the game is worth the candle. Tea from fermented fireweed is much tastier and more aromatic than from simply dried leaves.
How to brew a drink
For the certificate of brewing willow tea, it is important to determine the correct dose of the product. Two teaspoons of welding Koporskogo tea is enough for a half-liter kettle.
Tea leaves are poured with boiling water, tea leaves are closed with a lid and tea is allowed to infuse for a quarter of an hour, after which the kettle is slightly shaken in order to invigorate essential oils. For at least two days these oils retain all the qualities of brewed Koporsky tea, which can then be repeatedly heated, without bringing it to a boil.
Rules of use
The fermented leaves of the plant acquire increased biological activity, therefore per day a person is not recommended to use more than two tablespoons brewing willow tea. With drugs do not overdo it.
Use of fireweed for beauty
Not only ingestion of infusions from cypress brings tangible benefits to the human body. Cosmetic properties of the herb are well manifested when externally applied infusions of it.
Steam bath
A tablespoon of dried flowers of fireweed should be poured into a glass of boiling water. The resulting steam bath should be taken before facial massage for cosmetic purposes. This should be repeated one hour each day.
Anti-inflammatory mask
To make it, you need to add 10 ml of oatmeal and table salt in 10 ml of infused vodka flowers. The mask obtained with stirring, similar to liquid sour cream, is applied to the face and held there for 10 minutes.
Features of the use of Ivan-tea for weight loss
Excellent achievements of willow tea in the difficult task of losing excess weight in people have been noticed. This is facilitated by his ability to moderate the cleared up appetite, to intensify the digestive processes and metabolism in general. It is also important and mild laxative and diuretic properties of herbs that help to solve problems with swelling and constipation, which, in turn, helps to get rid of excess weight.
Losing those extra pounds will help: watercress, litchi, beans, squash, fruit of the suite, broccoli, spinach, cardamom, goji berries, cilantro, lovage.
What is different from tea and what is the benefit of Koporskogo infusion
In the 17th century, when Chinese tea began to be actively imported into Europe and Russia, this product was very expensive. And very quickly, our people found a substitute for it in the form of an infusion from fireweed, which was similar in color and taste to classical tea from China. The most active promotion of the drink on the market in the village of Koporye near St. Petersburg. Hence the name "Koporsky tea."
This drink is made from fermented willow leaves, Indeed, it resembles real tea both in color and taste, but at the same time it has several advantages. One of them is the high saturation of the Koporsky infusion with vitamins, minerals, essential oils, which is not so rich in classical tea. In addition, the classic version has stimulating properties, whereas Koporsky drink, by contrast, has sedative qualities and can act as a sedative.
Important! The main difference between Koporsky drink from traditional tea is the absence of caffeine, as well as substances that are not very useful for humans in the form of, for example, oxalic acid and purine compounds.
This is the popular ivan-tea plant, which is not only able to give a person pleasure in the form of a cup of aromatic and tasty drink, but also save him from many health problems.
