How to brew hawthorn correctly?

Berries of hawthorn are tasty and nutritious: they can be eaten fresh, they improve the taste of any compote, with them you can brew wonderful healing tea, which will be discussed. It just seems like brewing tea is nothing complicated. In fact, to get the maximum benefit, you need to know how to properly brew hawthorn, and in this case, as it turns out, there are secrets.

How useful is the hawthorn tea?

This tea is not just a drink, but an exceptionally useful preparation, rich in vitamin C, which is used to treat various diseases, among them:

Given that any disease requires its own way of treatment, then the properties of the hawthorn will manifest itself in different ways: depending on what we are going to treat.

How to make tea from hawthorn?

Cooking of hawthorn tea can be done with fresh berries, or with the use of dried fruits.

If the drink is recommended to be used as an additional tool in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, it should be prepared as follows:

  1. 1 tablespoon chopped berries pour a glass of boiling water and simmer on fire until the volume of raw materials is reduced by 2 times.
  2. Cool, strain and take before meals 3 times a day.

If the recipe indicates the preparation of tea from fresh raw materials, and you do not know how to brew fresh hawthorn, let it not frighten you, because the main feature of this procedure is the need to grind the fruits.

Regular consumption of this drink stabilizes the work of the heart muscle, reduces the level of "bad" cholesterol and helps get rid of cholesterol plaques, which in turn will have a beneficial effect on the circulatory system.

If we are talking about the treatment of hypertension, stress and depressive conditions and other diseases, dry hawthorn is usually used, so you need to know how to brew tea with dry berries in order to extract the maximum benefit from the drink.

To do this, usually take a tablespoon of dried fruit, make a glass of boiling water and for two hours insist in a warm place. After this, strain, take before eating.

Sometimes you need special welding in a thermos, but most often prefer to prepare a drink in it, rightly believing that with this method of brewing tea stays longer and does not lose its medicinal properties. To make it really curative, you need to know how to properly brew hawthorn in a thermos.

Rules for brewing berries in a thermos

The order of preparation of the drink consists of several steps:

  1. In the thermos flask, whole berries are filled (whether fresh or dry).
  2. Raw materials are poured with boiling water in accordance with the required volumes, but so that the liquid does not enter the "throat" of the thermos.
  3. Filled with boiling water berries for five minutes are absorbed by moisture (do not cover the lid!).
  4. Then, the thermos is tightly closed, and the contents are insisted overnight.