Prepared with soul from the picked herbs, berries or fruits a tea beverage will give to an organism necessary vitamins, energy, will warm in cold weather and will lighten the mood. It is only necessary to make it correctly.
Preparation of the home-made tea drinks from a medicinal, savoury herbs and berries, is in general similar to a zavarivaniye of a habitual nonfermented or black tea. Namely, for receiving healthy drink it is necessary to take porcelain, glass or ceramic ware. As a last resort, also enameled will approach. It is important that such ware had no damages and a splitting off of enamel as metals worsen taste of drink.
Essential difference will be what herbal teas draw longer, than usual tea. Sometimes herbs bring to the boil and insist 10-20 minutes. Even short boiling within 5-10 minutes is allowed. It is possible to boil such herbs as ivan-tea, a St. John's wort, a meadowsweet, leaves of a bergenia, raspberry, blackberry. A savoury herbs can't be boiled. It concerns such all the known and favourite herbs as mint, an oregano, a melissa, buds of a rose and others. When boiling they lose the aroma. Such herbs add right at the end.
As for berries in a dried look, they can be filled in with boiled water and to insist. When boiling in berries vitamins collapse. The best way of preparation of tea from berries of a dogrose, currant, blackberry, a barberry, rowan, a quince and others is their zavarivaniye in a thermos. Fruits and berries fill in with the boiling water and insist within half an hour. Then add a savoury herbs, leaves or flowers and 5-10 minutes later after that it is possible to start a tea drinking.
It is better to use herbs, fruits, berries and roots in the crushed state.