The tea mushroom or "tea jellyfish" is known for a long time. It represents the thick mucous film consisting of symbiosis of barmy fungi and acetic bacteria, floating on the surface of nutrient medium (for example, sweet tea, juice).
Useful properties
Drink which turns out by means of a tea mushroom has a pleasant sweet-sour flavor. He is capable to improve blood circulation, food of internals, increases immunity thanks to the content of vitamins of group B, vitamin C, RR, folic, gluconew, lemon, dairy, acetic and apple acids. Consumption of such tea causes inflow of cheerfulness and also perfectly increases efficiency of the person, thanks to caffeine and tannins in structure. Drink from "a tea jellyfish" at stomach diseases, a liver is especially useful, kidneys and, of course, intestines. Ready infusion accelerates recovery at colitis and enterita, bacterial dysentery, fights against locks, regulates cholesterol level in an organism that interferes with adjournment of plaques on walls of blood vessels. This unusual drink and in cosmetology is widely used. Do various face packs, compresses and lotions of it. Thanks to valuable structure of a tea mushroom, skin rejuvenates, the turgor improves and pores are narrowed.
Leaving
Care for a tea mushroom isn't put at all. It is recommended to keep it in a 3-liter jar with a wide neck. Comfort temperature – 25-26 degrees. You keep a mushroom in a shadow since sunshine are harmful to it. It is necessary to merge infusion each 5-6 days in winter time and 2-4 days in summer. The bank with ready drink is recommended to store in the fridge.
How to make a tea mushroom
For a zavarivaniye of a tea mushroom it is better to take young shoots, from those who grow up a tea mushroom long ago. Make in bank or a bowl 100-120 g of a black or green tea on 1 liter of water and add 40-70 g of granulated sugar. Place a shoot of a mushroom in a 3-liter jar, and fill in with a squirt, in advance cooled tea. Close a neck banks several layers of a gauze and leave to infuse at the room temperature at 2 weeks. In 14 days the bank needs to empty accurately, having poured out ready, slightly carbonated drink in a clean bottle, and again to give in it some tea with sugar. In such a way infusion of a tea mushroom can be "grown up" and used for years.
How to grow up a tea mushroom
To grow up a tea mushroom, it is necessary to mix 120-200 ml of strong black tea with 1 tablespoon of sugar and to leave in heat for 2-3 days. The thin film which needs to be poured together with infusion in the capacity in which you will continue cultivation of "a tea jellyfish" has to be formed.