At the end of the 20th century there was no family in Russia at which in kitchen on a windowsill the 3-liter jar with layered substance and liquid of color of tea didn't tower proudly, perhaps. Liquid was drunk, treated with it guests. The name at liquid was a miscellaneous: tea mushroom, tea kvass, Indian or Japanese mushroom. Despite strong belief that the mushroom is useful to health, nobody plainly knew anything about it.
History of a tea mushroom
There are many legends according to which the sick Chinese or Japanese emperor the foreign doctor cured this infusion many thousands of years B.C. Sometimes magic treatment was attributed even to reasonable insects like ants. In our country a tea mushroom, or tea квасок, peasants since the 19th century used, intuitively understanding its usefulness after heavy works.
What contains in infusion
The tea mushroom is rich with the useful vitamins of group B, vitamins C, PP and D necessary for increase in immunity, normalization of cholesterol and normal functioning of a thyroid gland. But for strengthening of impact of vitamins on an organism special enzymes, such as are required: amylase, sucrose, lipase, catalase which are responsible for the splitting of proteins, fats and starch. All of them are present at mushroom infusion. And, at last, the tea mushroom is rich in organic acids (acetic, gluconew, apple, dairy, gipoyevy, oxalic, etc.).
At what diseases the tea mushroom is useful
The tea mushroom isn't a panacea. Also they shouldn't substitute drug treatment. But in a complex with medical prescriptions it is quite capable to improve a condition of the patient at various diseases. If the head hurts, it is possible to drink usual infusion, and it is better to stir couple of teaspoons of honey in one glass. The regular use of infusion will help to get rid of headaches, especially when they are combined with spasms of muscles. The tea mushroom at cold, otitis, a tonsillitis helps. Infusion will caress the throat, tampons impregnated with structure, put in a nose. And for a sore ear do a compress. Rinsing by the warmed-up infusion relieves a toothache. At slight burns and injuries of skin it is possible to do appliques and compresses, adding infusions and pressures of various herbs. The tea mushroom at atherosclerosis and elevated pressure is useful. But it is necessary to drink it a long time and not when pressure sharply increased. At chronic gastritis with the lowered or zero acidity mushroom infusion helps if to drink it one couple of hours prior to acceptance of food. If gastritis with excessive acidity, infusion it is necessary to mix with honey. At the same time infusion has to be by all means warm, but we don't heat.
Tea mushroom in cosmetology
Mushroom infusion naturally restores acidic environment of an integument, tones up it and tightens. On the basis of infusion it is possible to do the cleaning face packs and toilet water if to mix a mushroom with mineral water. And with structure, infused within a month, it is good to do the bathtubs helping skin regeneration, and even deodorants. Massage of head skin infusion promotes strengthening of hair and improves their appearance. And even dandruff is reduced significantly if to rub after washing in head skin monthly infusion.
Contraindications
With care the people having gastritis with the increased content of acidity should use infusion. It is contraindicated to diabetics because the mushroom infuses on a large number of sugar. Also it isn't necessary to drink strongly concentrated infusion. As it is possible not to recover, and to do much harm to the health.