For a long time Cyprian or Siberian tea was used as a cure for all sorts of ills. Today, when people return more and more to their roots, the plant from which a medicinal drink is made, has gained new popularity. Ivan tea or kraprei is narrow-leaved - a herbaceous plant, of flowers, leaves, stems and rhizomes which make a fragrant healthy tea.
The Benefits of Ivan the Tea
To list all the advantages of Ivan-tea - not enough for a day. But the main, for which he fell in love with the people - the ability to improve immunity, help the body cope with colds, bronchitis, lung disease, genitourinary system. In addition, a decoction from this plant is used to treat skin diseases, wounds and burns .
Where does the plant grow ivan-tea?
To buy a box with ivan-tea in the pharmacy is rather expensive, because we plan to try it not a couple of times, but to introduce it into our daily tea-drinking ritual. Therefore, raw materials should be harvested independently, and in rather impressive volumes - to be sufficient until the next season.
But in order to collect this wonder-grass it is necessary to know where Ivan the tea grows in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. It turns out that finding it in our northern hemisphere is not so difficult - it grows literally next to us, but due to ignorance we do not always pay attention to it. Most of all it is concentrated in Siberia, in the Altai and the Urals, in the Carpathians and in Belarus Polesye.
You can find a healing plant on the edge of a forest, on a clearing, near a forest lake and on the river bank. Also loves willow-tea drained marshes, places of fires, but in a marshy wet terrain it does not grow. There are a lot of it along the roadsides, but you can not collect it here in any case, since the gas contamination of these places increases the content of harmful lead and other heavy metals in the plant hundreds of times.
Collect the grass during flowering in the middle of summer, after podvyamivayut, ferment, dry, and only then drink a delicious fragrant drink that supports and restores health.