Green tea is one of the most popular drinks in the world. It is drunk in hot or cold form, in pure form or with the addition of aromatic herbs. Green tea is useful in itself, but if you add a piece of lemon to it, you can get a unique healing and invigorating drink.
Benefit and harm of green tea with lemon
Even those who do not know what exactly green tea with lemon is useful for, are confident in its medicinal properties. And not for nothing: this drink is rich in substances that have a curative effect on the human body and enrich it with energy. The benefits of green tea with lemon are manifested in such properties:
- Strengthens the body's defenses, helping to cope faster with pathogens and easier to tolerate diseases.
- Reduces the amount of harmful cholesterol, strengthens the walls of blood vessels, improving the state of the cardiovascular system.
- Positively affects the condition of the skin.
- Performs a purifying function, improves the liver, removes toxins and toxins from the body.
- Saturates the body with the necessary substances: potassium, phosphorus , fluoride, iodine, tannins, pectins, provitamin A, group B vitamins, vitamin K, E.
- Has antimicrobial properties, so the decoction of green tea can be used to treat diseases.
- The benefits of green tea with lemon extend to the nervous system. Tea has tonic properties, and with systematic use improves the stability of the nervous system to stress and irritants.
- Green tea with lemon is also useful for losing weight. He removes from the body excess
liquid, promotes the splitting of fats and helps to make up for shortages of nutrients during diets.
Contraindications to drinking green tea with lemon
Green tea can be harmful if you use it in such cases:
- with strong excitability;
- with hypertension;
- in the presence of mental illness;
- in renal diseases in acute stages.