Raspberry Tea
Raspberry tea is an ideal remedy for colds. The leaves have antipyretic, antitoxic, anti-inflammatory and immunostimulatory, as well as diaphoretic properties. The composition of raspberry leaves includes a whole range of useful substances: from organic acids and ascorbic acid to substances called salicylates, which act as a natural antipyretic, similar to aspirin.
Contains vitamins C, B1, B5, B9, K, E, PP. As well as iron, manganese, copper, magnesium, zinc. Due to the content of B vitamins in raspberries, raspberry tea promotes deep, healthy sleep.
For hypertensive patients, raspberry tea is just a panacea for jumping blood pressure.
An indispensable drink for women: drinking tea before the onset of critical days relieves pain and reduces the intensity of bleeding.
Benefits
Such tea is able to have an antipyretic and diaphoretic effect.
Tea from raspberry leaves is drunk with sore throat or bronchitis.
Strengthens immunity.
With the help of tea from raspberry leaves, you can normalize bowel function and improve the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract.
Tea is useful for gastritis and enteritis.
Tea helps to resist stress, improves body tone.
Helps with diseases of the cardiovascular system.
Helps the body cope with the nervous overload.
If you rinse your mouth with tea, then you will get rid of the inflammation of the gums and diseases of the oral cavity.
Pectins promote blood clotting, so this tea is recommended to drink with heavy periods. The analgesic properties of salicylic acid in this case also help to more easily survive painful periods.
How to drink tea when the body temperature is high?
Tea should be consumed warm, not hot. Too hot tea will, on the contrary, increase the temperature, hence the numerous disputes about whether raspberries will increase or decrease the temperature. It's not even about raspberries, but about the fact that the drink has a high temperature. Therefore, if we consider raspberries, then berries and leaves are an effective antipyretic, if we consider the drink prepared from it, then everything depends on its temperature.
It is important to remember that raspberry drinks have a diaphoretic effect, thereby dehydrating the body, therefore, in parallel, you need to give the patient more fluids, plain drinking water, so that there is something to sweat.
If you feel that you are getting sick, then start taking raspberry tea - it will speed up the healing process and ease the symptoms.
But at the same time, remember that raspberries are not a medicine, but only a way to help the treatment. Use common sense and consult your doctor to ensure success.
How to brew raspberry tea?
Brewing times or ingredients may vary as they are more a matter of personal preference than medical reasons. In terms of medicinal effectiveness, raspberries go well with lemon or honey.
Contraindications.
Do not use tea with aspirin!
Raspberry tea is also used with caution in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, especially with peptic ulcer and gastritis, as well as for pregnant women.
The use of raspberry leaves in the first and second trimesters of pregnancy is strictly prohibited due to kaempferol, a substance that affects the tone of the uterus, as well as enzymes that reduce the level of estrogen in the body of a pregnant woman.