The melissa is a grassy plant which is often called still lemon mint. As this grass is widespread and has medical effect on an organism, its not one millennium is applied in medicine. Most often do tea of it. In article we will tell what benefit is brought by drink from a melissa whether there are to its use contraindications as it is correct to make it.
Than tea from a melissa is useful
Properties of a melissa are known since ancient times. So, Greeks considered that this grassy plant helps at a severe hair loss, problems with digestion, fever, decrease in sexual desire.
The Persian scientist Avicenna claimed that the melissa is capable to reduce arterial blood pressure, to prevent a heart trouble and vessels, to save from a depression, inflammation of airways.
Slavs used a plant for calm of nervous and vascular systems, elimination of dizzinesses, treatments of cold, simplification of a state at paralyzes.
Later, when the structure of a melissa was already studied, it became precisely known from what means with this grass can help with structure. It contains essential oils, vitamins B, With, tannins, flavonoids and saponins, tannins, organic acids, macro - minerals and other substances.
Whether you know? About what medicinal properties of a melissa began to apply long ago, the fact that the ancient Roman writer Pliny the Elder (24-79 BC) in Naturalis historia and the Ancient Greek doctor Pedany Dioskorid in Materia medica described recipes demonstrates how to apply a grass in case of stings of insects, an abdominal cavity pains, female diseases, inflammations, locks and rheumatic diseases.
The made melissa at the regular use improves operability of a brain, activity of a GIT, sexual function, increases appetite, removes excess liquid, helps to cope with insomnia. Balm tea has the following positive effect on a human body:
- anti-inflammatory;
- sudorific;
- diuretic;
- antidepressant;
- soothing;
- antifungal;
- all-strengthening;
- antimicrobic;
- antiemetic;
- gipertenzivny;
- toning;
- cleaning.
Warm grass drink will be useful to adults and children, women and men, pregnant women and the feeding mothers. His children need to drink at neurosises, hyperactivity. The adult — at diabetes, elevated pressure, gastritis, cholecystitis, an anemia, decrease in working capacity, a depression, chronic fatigue, migraines.
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To pregnant women herbal tea helps to cope with vomiting during toxicosis in the first three months of incubation of the kid.
For women the made melissa will become the real rescue at menstrual pains, violations in a hormonal system, inflammations, at an initial stage of a menopause. Besides it will be interesting to ladies to learn that, having ability to clean intestines, to bring out of it toxins and also to eliminate excess liquid in an organism, balm tea is excellent means in fight against excess weight.
In what time of day it is better to drink
As tea with a melissa has easy sedative effect, it is better to drink it in the evening. After its use it is necessary to avoid driving of the car.
Whether you know? The word Melissa is translated from Greek as a honey bee. So, a grass nicknamed because it is a good melliferous herb. Other its names — a matochnik, an apiary, a medovka.
What can be added
Leaves and flowers of a melissa add to any tea, mix with other herbs for special taste and improving effect. Special advantage green tea with addition of a melissa has. It is good to drink it for satisfying of thirst and recovery of water balance of especially hot periods, and it is most effective for weight reduction.
And here it is important to use hot drink from a melissa and mint during the periods of seasonal virus epidemics for strengthening of immunity. At addition of a linden it is possible to achieve febrifugal effect. It is better to take balm drink without sweeteners. However if it seems to someone insufficiently tasty, then it is possible to add honey, syrup, jam or sugar.
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Contraindications and harm
Usually tea from a melissa is transferred by most of people well. Among contraindications there are only an excessive use, individual intolerance, tendency to the lowered pressure.
With care it is necessary to drink drinks from a melissa that who uses sedative drugs. In that case consultation of the doctor who registered medicines will be useful.
How to make: the best recipes
It is simple to make tea. And it is possible to use it both warm, and cold. Its taste resembles taste of mint tea with addition of a lemon.
Important! Doctors not against daily consumption of warm and cold drinks with addition of a melissa, however advise to be limited to three cups a day.
For children
The soothing property of balm broth well proves at the use by his hyperactive children and also that at whom neurosises are observed. It calms, adjusts concentration of attention, improves memory, thought processes. Tea is cooked as follows:
- To crush a melissa.
- To boil 250 ml of water.
- To fill in a teaspoon of the crushed grass slightly cooled down — up to 90 degrees — boiled water. For small children it is necessary to do less concentrated drink.
- To insist 10-15 minutes.
- Before the use to add honey or sugar to taste.
It is better for children to give drink in a warm look in the small portions throughout the day.
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For pregnant women
Balm tea will be useful to pregnant women as at this particular time the woman suffers from differences of mood, emotional instability. She is often angry, upset, stays in nervous excitement. All these states negatively affect health and development of a fruit, and sometimes lead to threats of termination of pregnancy. Grass broth as light sedative is capable to remove undesirable manifestations of nervous system, to normalize a dream, to tone up, eliminate headaches. Gynecologists quite often recommend also balm hot drink to women in situation in the first months of pregnancy as its antiemetic action is noticed. On late terms it will help to cope with hypostases, accumulation in a liquid organism that too threatens with pregnancy course complications.
One more trouble with which grass broth helps to cope to pregnant women is the lock.
It is important! In spite of the fact that pregnancy is not included into the list of contraindications to consumption of balm tea before drinking it regularly, it is necessary to consult with the gynecologist. At it it is necessary to specify a dosage and the maximum number of cups in day which the pregnant woman can drink.
Except a zavarivaniye just of a melissa, it is possible to mix it together with other tea — black or green. For this purpose it is necessary to make usual tea previously. Then to take couple of leaves of a melissa, to place them in a teapot, to fill in with freshly brewed tea and to insist 10 minutes. Pregnant women should drink warm drink in the small portions throughout the day. At the use late evening with addition of honey it is possible to achieve a good dream.
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For the women nursing
It is important to the women nursing to drink drink from a melissa as there are data that it improves a lactation. At the same time only one cup a day will be enough.
At consumption of such drink mother should watch closely a state, skin, a chair of the kid in time to notice allergic reaction and to stop intake of tea.
If there is no fresh grass near at hand, then in drugstore it is possible to get dried up.
From dry leaves tea is cooked as follows:
- To boil 200 ml of water and to cool up to the temperature of 90 degrees.
- To fill in with boiled water a raw materials tablespoon.
- To insist 20 minutes.
- Before the use to filter.
By the way, the melissa can be drunk not only made. It can be added fresh to salads, desserts, the first and second courses.
The feeding mothers can take not only clean balm drink, but also the made mixes of herbs and fruit. It is authorized to add hips, lemon segments, camomile flowers, caraway seeds, fennel, an anise. However each of these ingredients should be entered separately and gradually, noting reaction of an organism of the kid.
For taste it is possible to add honey or condensed milk to warm drink.
Tea needs to be had, the lactation then it is necessary to take one and a half-two months a break will not be restored yet.
For normalization of pressure
Hypertensive persons also should pay attention to such harmless, but at the same time an effective remedy for pressure decline as balm tea. How many to drink it and in what doses, will depend on what figures are usually shown by a tonometer at measurement of pressure at each certain person. Besides, it is important not to self-medicate, and to consult concerning additional therapy in the form of consumption of grass drink the doctor. Tea for hypertensive persons is ready as follows:
- To boil 400-500 ml of water.
- To place in it two teaspoons of the crushed melissa and mint.
- To boil on slow fire of 15 minutes.
- To pour out in a thermos and to insist 30 minutes.
- Before the use to filter and add honey.
Important! At consumption of tea from a melissa for the purpose of treatment it is necessary to control constantly pressure that it did not fall below norm.
In conclusion we want to share also the recipe of the most tasty herbal tea with addition of berries and fruit:
- To prepare and wash up leaves of raspberry, blackcurrant, mint, a melissa, strawberry. It is possible to add apple pieces, various berries.
- To boil three liters of water.
- To place herbs, leaves, fruit, berries in boiled water. To close capacity a cover and to wrap up with a blanket, a thick towel or something another that heat longer remained.
- To insist 10 minutes.
Thus, tea from a melissa is the useful, available and inexpensive drink allowing to satisfy thirst, to get rid of some problems with health and in general to strengthen an organism. It is better to collect raw materials for tea before blossoming, usually in August. So the aroma of a grass will be more saturated. If to make own preparations there is no opportunity, then it is better to buy a grass in drugstore.