Today we will talk to you about rather popular South American drink which was taken centuries by Indians, including it the best medicine. We learn how do tea lapacho, than it is useful and whether there are contraindications. Let's discuss rules of preparation of drink.
Production
Let's begin with a couple of words about what represents lapacho where grow up raw materials and as on its basis do tea.
Lapacho is a tea from bark of an ant tree (phytotea). The ant tree is valuable culture which grows in Central and South America (Argentina, Peru, Mexico).
Important! The distinctive feature of phytotea is that it does not contain caffeine.
Collecting raw materials is made in the spring when at trees the active sokodvizheniye is observed. Collect only bark from the top parts of a trunk to receive a product which will not taste bitter and also will give more advantage.
After collecting, bark is slightly dried in the sun then crush and dried until until the product loses moisture. Further almost ready tea is mixed with pleasantly smelling essential oils which affect not only aroma, but also taste.
The ready-made product has red-brown opaque color and represents small crushed wood shavings of identical color.
Nutrition value
Bark of a tree cannot be especially nutritious or high-calorie product, however it can contain many minerals and biologically active agents.
In bark of an ant tree a large amount of iodine, potassium, iron and also other minerals which are necessary for the person was revealed: selenium, silicon, manganese, cobalt, chrome, magnesium.
There are also B1, B2, B3, C vitamins.
Separately it is worth emitting in structure active agent lapachin which is in consonance with the name of tea. This substance, according to researches, struggles with tumors therefore many consider what lapacho is anticarcinogenic means.
Also bark contains rather large amount of tannins (tannin) which positively affect composition of blood. Tannin is used in medicine and also by production of ink.
Pay attention that tannin also contains in a bergenia, corn snouts, a sea-buckthorn and meadow honey
Useful properties
Further we will talk about what drink from tea lapacho is useful to us and also we will tell about the proved useful properties.
Whether you know? Wood of an ant tree is applied to production of a parquet. Also the plant is an excellent melliferous herb and is used as an ornamental plant.
Lapacho is antibacterial and resolvent which has the anesthetizing effect. It can be applied also during catarrhal diseases, and at pains of various etiology. The activity is shown both in relation to bacteria, and to mushrooms and also various parasites. At the same time drink strengthens the immune system.
It is worth mentioning that this tea possesses laxative action, respectively, helps to get rid of puffiness.
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Other useful properties:
- stimulation of production of erythrocytes an organism (blood cells which transport oxygen);
- adjustment of a metabolism;
- decrease in level of sugar in blood;
- healing of the suppurating and badly healing wounds;
- normalization of pressure both at hypotonia, and at a hypertension.
Tasty drink helps to purify blood from the dangerous and poisoning connections, to improve a condition of sore joints and also has symptomatic effect.
Whether you know? In the 80th years of the last century demand on lapacho as marketing specialists convinced buyers that tea is capable to cure cancer and AIDS was artificially created. However further researches showed that for treatment of similar diseases it is necessary to use huge doses of tea which will cause the severe poisoning because of active agent.
Contraindications
Let's begin with side effects which can arise at the wrong zavarivaniye, or at hypersensitivity of an organism to structure of tea lapacho. The active component lepakhol can cause the following phenomena:
- vomiting;
- anemia;
- dizziness;
- nausea;
- diarrhea;
- stomach pain.
All above-mentioned pobochka is caused by what lepakhol is toxic connection because of what to do strong drink extremely dangerously.
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Contraindications:
- children's age up to 12 years;
- intake of the medicines diluting blood;
- hemophilia;
- pregnancy and period of breastfeeding;
- any chronic and sharp gastrointestinal diseases.
Important! It is forbidden to have this tea less than a month before carrying out band operations.
How it is correct to make lapacho?
In end we will talk about how it is correct to make tea to keep all useful properties of a product and to receive at the same time tasty drink.
Tea is not just made, and boiled. For this purpose on 1 l of water take 3–4 teaspoons of a dry product then add it to water and put on a plate. After boiling mark 5 minutes during which drink has to boil on poorly fire. Further tea is left for 5 minutes to infuse that liquid was tasty and fragrant.
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It is possible to drink drink as in hot, and cold. Temperature does not affect comprehensibility and taste.
Remember that the product is partially toxic therefore do not drink it in large volumes and do not wash down with it medicines. If you have problems with a liver or other serious diseases, then the doctor will also have no superfluous consultation.