Useful herbal teas are of interest to healthy lifestyle advocates. These drinks are good to make from plants that are grown in the garden as ornamental. The article will focus on the tea from badan, their effect on human health, methods of brewing, how to prepare and dry raw materials.

The properties of tea from frankincense

Adhesive thick-leaved (Mongolian tea) is an evergreen herbaceous perennial plant growing up to 15-50 cm. This plant crop is found in Siberia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China and Korea. In Altai, it is brewed and called “chigir tea”. Due to the aesthetic appearance, this plant is grown as a decoration for a personal plot.

This unpretentious shade-tolerant perennial makes demands only on moisture. It blooms in May - June with bell-shaped flowers of red-lilac or pink hue, collected in panicle-corymbose inflorescences on a powerful stem. Its round-heart-shaped leaves grow from a basal rosette and can last up to 2-3 years. Thick creeping root and overwintered foliage are used in medicinal collections.

Did you know? Badan is a champion in the content of arbutin in the leaves (up to 22%) - a substance used in medicine for the treatment of cystitis, as an antiseptic and in cosmetics for whitening the skin. Before him, bearberry was the first in the concentration of this compound.

Leaves often go to make tea, popular with the Mongols, the Chinese, and Siberia, which benefits health. To taste this fragrant drink is similar to black tea. It has the same dark brown color and a slightly astringent taste. It can be drunk both hot and cold.

Video: The Benefits of Tea from Frankincense

Useful and healing

Badan contains valuable substances: gallotannins, glycosides, essential oil, pectin, mineral and vitamin components. This makes the drink of it especially useful.

• It has the following medicinal properties:
• anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial effect;
• tones up well;
• has a positive effect on the intestinal microflora;
• strengthens the whole body;
• helps with some gynecological problems in women (erosion, inflammatory processes, heavy periods);
• relieves nausea, is indicated for diarrhea;
• calms, helps to cope with a stressful situation;
• has indications for diseases of the oral cavity;
• It is a good prevention of colds;
• helps with kidney and urinary tract problems;
• possesses antitumor effect.

Badan often appears in the recipes of Tibetan and Russian traditional medicine. Its root is especially popular. Leaves are used less often, mainly for making tea drinks.

Contraindications

• Despite the large number of useful properties, canoe should not be taken by everyone. There are some contraindications to the use of this herb:
• Angina pectoris, tachycardia and arrhythmia.
• Chronic hypotension.
• With severe constipation.
• Pregnant and lactating women.
• With individual intolerance.

Caution is required to drink tea with thrombophlebitis and increased blood clotting. Due to its viscosity, this drink contributes to thickening of the blood. Also, do not forget that all herbs have a complex composition and are not fully explored. Therefore, phytotherapists do not recommend taking herbal teas too often, since abuse of them can harm the body.

How to make tea from frankincense at home

As mentioned earlier, put the leaves of incense in tea, but it is important to collect and dry them correctly. Residents of Siberia, Altai, Kazakhstan and Primorye can harvest it in the natural environment of growth. Possible locations are mountain slopes, talus, forest with good lighting. This plant can be grown in the garden and then you will not have to go far for raw materials. There are many recipes for healing drinks with this flower.

Did you know? Employees of the Siberian Medical University found that frankincense is a stronger hepatoprotector than silymarin obtained from spotted milk thistle.

When to collect frankincense leaves

You need to collect leaves in early spring, when the snow melts, and they dry out in the sun. For harvesting, dried incense foliage is taken, which transferred the winter under snow cover and went through the natural fermentation process.

After all, the greenery of the incense does not die completely from the cold, but under external influence (rain, snow, heat and cold) it is soaked and dried several times, which helps to remove bitterness from it. Thus, the leaves can be on the plant for up to 5 years. After such natural fermentation, they turn black and dry.

Video: Gathering the leaves of incense

How to dry frankincense

The collected darkened and dry leaves after collection are dried in the oven at a temperature of up to + 60 ° С. The raw materials can still be dried to the required state in a dark, dry and ventilated area. To do this, ripped foliage is placed in a small layer.

After the dried sheets are crushed and placed in a suitable container for storage. Best of all - in tightly closed glass or tin cans. Such raw materials can be stored for up to 3-4 years.

Important! Fresh green leaves of frankincense can not be used, as they contain toxic substances. For tea, the lower part of the foliage of the plant is suitable.

Step-by-step cooking instructions: healthy recipes

The most useful and tasteful tea from badan is obtained if it is prepared in combination with other plant crops. Such drinks have a tonic and anti-inflammatory property. These infusions are pleasant to drink in the heat and cold, and most importantly - they are easy to prepare at home. They are recommended to be used fractionally, during the day, and not to drink a cup of the drink immediately at a time.

Golden root tea

Mongolian tea in conjunction with the golden root (pink radiola) gives strength and strengthens the human body with weakness, overwork, after stress and illness.

Ingredients for the preparation of the mixture:

• Badan - 4 tsp;
• golden root leaves - 2 tsp;
• blackcurrant leaves - 2 tsp;
• thyme - 1 tsp;
• lingonberry leaf - 2 tsp.

Cooking Instructions:

1. Pour 2 tsp. herbal mixture with cold water (250 ml) and put on a burning stove.
2. Bring to a boil and cook for 3 minutes.
3. Cover and let the drink brew for 1 hour and 30 minutes.

Drink 100 ml 3 times a day.

Blueberry tea with incense leaves

This tea is good for seasonal illnesses and for colds.

Ingredients for the preparation of the mixture:

• Badan - 3 tsp;
• blueberry leaf - 2 tsp;
• bony leaves - 2 tsp.

Cooking Instructions:

1. Pour 2 teaspoons of tea collection with 300 ml of cold water and put on fire.
2. Bring to a boil and set aside with a lid.
3. Insist 2 hours

Drink 120 ml 3 times a day.

Strawberry tea with wheatgrass

Herbal tea with wheatgrass and strawberry leaves in combination with a bergenia will cleanse the blood and have a beneficial effect on the skin. It will make the skin smoother, remove the rash and reduce sebum secretion.

Did you know? Badan is able to accumulate a large number of tannins. Since the natural habitats of this plant were depleted, they began to grow it on plantations and used for tanning and dyeing in black and brown shades.

Ingredients for the preparation of the mixture:

• Badan - 4 tsp;
• blackcurrant leaf - 3 tsp;
• strawberry leaves - 1 tsp;
• crushed wheatgrass root creeping - 1 tsp.

Drink warm 130 ml 3 times a day.

Cooking Instructions:

1. Pour 2 teaspoons of herbal tea with clean water (200 ml) at room temperature and put the mixture on fire.
2. Boil the drink and set aside, closing the lid tightly.
3. Leave to infuse for 1 hour, and then strain

Cloudberry tea with incense leaves

The combination of Mongolian tea with cloudberry leaves has an anti-inflammatory, diuretic and tonic effect. It is good to drink it in the cold season, with cystitis and small kidney stones.

Ingredients for the preparation of the mixture:

• Badan - 3 tsp;
• cloudberry leaf - 1 tsp;
• cuff leaves - 1 tsp.

Take 130 ml 3 times a day.

Cooking Instructions:

1. Stir 2 hours of herbal collection with a cup of water and put on the stove.
2. Boil the broth, and turn off the gas or set aside the container with the drink.
3. Insist tea in a sealed container, and then strain and dissolve in it sweeteners (honey, sugar).

Features of use

Drink from badan brewed like our usual tea. There are two ways to cook it.

In the first case, the following actions should be performed:

1. Rinse with boiling water an ordinary teapot and pour 1 tablespoon of prepared chopped herbs into it.
2. Then fill the contents with a half liter of boiled water.
3. Insist a drink for 15 minutes. and immediately after this time, strain.
4. Pour the infusion into cups.

You can use another way:

1. Pour the frankincense with cold water in the same proportions as in the above recipe.
2. Put the liquid on the stove and bring to a boil.
3. Set aside from the fire and allow the drink to cool slightly.
4. Strain and drink.

It is recommended to add honey or sugar to such drinks. Teas well tone the body, so it is better to drink them long before bedtime. Before taking this drink, you should familiarize yourself with the contraindications and make sure that they are absent. Such drinks are very good during colds and epidemics of flu, but constantly it is better not to drink them.

Important! If unpleasant conditions such as palpitations, constipation and others appear after drinking badan tea, then you should refuse it and get a doctor's consultation.

Teas from the leaves of a frankincense are not only pleasant to taste and smell, but also useful. This plant is medicinal and is used in traditional medicine recipes. It can be grown in your garden and harvest raw materials for delicious drinks yourself.