Karkade - useful properties

Drink pharaohs, royal drink, red tea - all this karkade - tea, originally from India. True, carcade is difficult to call tea, it is rather a herbal drink made from flowers of hibiscus.

Useful properties of carcade

The use of carcade tea for the body is enormous. This "magic" drink has a good cleansing and rejuvenating effect. Tea cleans and strengthens blood vessels, fights malignant and benign tumors, freeing the body of free radicals. The healing properties of carcade tea are explained by the content in it of a huge number of different acids, microelements, vitamins:

1. Anthocyanins and vitamin P, known as rutin, normalize blood pressure.
2. Flavonoids improve metabolism and remove excess metabolic products, in addition, flavonoids help fight microbes and even worms.
3. Citric acid, contained in the flowers of hibiscus, helps the body to maintain immunity, to fight against colds.
4. Linoleic acid is responsible for the health of blood vessels and ensures that the body does not accumulate excess fat.
5. Well known properties of carcade, facilitating weight loss . For this answer pectin and polysaccharides. The body quickly says goodbye to excess fluids, along with which slags are removed, unnecessary salts, heavy metal compounds and toxins.
6. Vitamin C and fatty acids raise the mood, tone, fight with fatigue and blues. There is an opinion that useful properties of carcade tea are manifested in the fight against traces of alcohol intoxication.

Curative properties of carcade help and in the intimate sphere, especially common this remedy is among men.

Red tea or karkade is not in vain loved by different generations of people, not only for its aroma, refreshing taste, but also for its beneficial properties.

Contraindications to the use of carcade

However, karkade, which has useful properties, has contraindications:

• It is not recommended to drink tea to people suffering from ulcers or other gastric diseases due to increased acidity;
• it is not desirable to drink the drink with cholelithiasis or urolithiasis;
• caution should be given to carcade allergies;
• karkade has the property of lowering blood pressure, so this tea should be taken with caution by hypotension.

How to use the drink correctly?

Using knowledge about the benefits of karkade and contraindications, you can prepare a variety of teas and drinks that your relatives and friends will appreciate.

Light refreshing with sour tea in the summer or a hot, sated, slightly sweetened honey tea in the winter will not leave anyone indifferent. Traditionally, this tea is brewed in porcelain utensils and is drunk with sugar and lemon. You can add cloves, mint, ginger or other spices to the drink and it will play a completely different flavor. This royal tea should be drunk royally, and then it will only benefit, and still bring a lot of pleasant minutes.

Egyptian carcade

If you want to make karkade tea according to the Egyptian recipe, then for 10 g of petals you will need 1 tbsp. water and sugar to taste.

1. First, soak the petals in cold water. The longer the soaking time, the better: the optimal time will be 12 hours, so it is possible to soak overnight and calmly go to bed.
2. Then the soaked raw material should be boiled for about 5 minutes, after which the semi-finished tea must be filtered.
3. Add sugar, you get a divine drink. Petals, by the way, can not be thrown away, but used in various dishes or eat, seasoning with lemon juice and honey. Enjoy your tea and good health!