spices as turmeric, ginger, cinnamon, cardamom, nutmeg, mint and fennel not only do dishes more tasty, but also help with fight against flu. Some spices act also as prophylactic. And even if to the person has the luck to ache, by means of these spices he will quicker recover. It is proved by science: The city sanitary and anti-epidemic commission of Moscow recommends to use some spices (parsley, ginger, a turmeric, fennel) for prevention of flu.
What to cook from spices during cold and flu?
First of all, spicy drinks. For example, fragrant tea Magic Fairy Tale.
Ingredients:
- water, 3 glasses,
- milk, 1 glass,
- black tea, 1 tablespoon,
- grated root of ginger, floor of tablespoon,
- carnation, 4 pieces,
- ground cardamom, nutmeg and cinnamon, 2 pinches.
Recipe:
We boil water with spices within several minutes, we add black tea and we insist 3 minutes. We add warm milk and we heat, without bringing to boiling. We add sugar or honey to taste.
It is necessary to use such tea at least three times a day.
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In what secret of this tea?
- Ginger. In Ancient India, ginger was considered as universal medicine which awakens special energy in the person, warms from within and struggles with diseases. Ginger has the immunostimulating, anti-inflammatory, anesthetizing, sudorific, spazmolitichesky and rassasyvayushchy properties. Ginger is effective at a loose cough – for this purpose it is necessary to make hot milk with ginger. At dry cough or bronchitis mix lemon and ginger juice and add some honey.
- Carnation. Clove oil has a number of curative properties: antimicrobial, sudorific, anesthetizing, diuretic and antiviral. The carnation usually is a part of anti-cold balms and ointments. At cough, cold and congestion of a nose it is necessary to do inhalations with clove oil. At dry cough the chewing of the dried-up carnation bud will help. At a tonsillitis pound five gvozdichek, fill in with hot milk, cool and drink small drafts.
- Cinnamon. It possesses powerful antibacterial impact on an organism and lowers heat. Excellent prevention against flu – a hot bathtub with cinnamon. If daily to use a honey tablespoon with a quarter of a cinnamon spoon, cough by all means will recede.
- Cardamom. It helps at cough, cold, removes slime from a bronchopulmonary system and from nose bosoms. Yogas usually treat cold tea with cardamom.
- Nutmeg. In the ancient time this nut was a part of love drinks. It strengthens protective functions of an organism. Outwardly essential oil of nutmeg is used together with eucalyptus and camphor oils as grindings.
Before spice were appreciated worth its weight in gold. Now they are very available. Therefore have Magic Fairy Tale tea, eat buns with cinnamon and be not ill!