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Ginger dilutes the blood, through which improves blood supply brain and lungs, so it can be used by patients with bronchitis, pneumonia and even asthma. Ginger Tea – an effective remedy for colds, runny nose, it promotes expectoration and dissolve phlegm and is actively strengthening immunity.

So, the recipes of ginger tea.

An easy recipe: 1 tsp. Ginger insist in a glass of boiling water for 20-30 minutes, add honey to taste. Drink 3-4 times a day.

Green tea with ginger
Grate fresh ginger on a fine grater or sprinkle half a teaspoon of dried ginger, along with welding. Tea is brewing in the kettle, you can in a thermos. Insist 20-30 minutes, drain. Short duration heat treatment preserves useful properties of ginger.

Ginger Tea Cough
0,5 l of water, fresh ginger root (3-4 cm), Cardamom – 2 pods, a pinch of cinnamon, 1 tsp. green tea, honey to taste, cloves – 1-2 pc., half a lemon.

Preparation: green tea brews and insist that 5 minutes, then strain, pour into a saucepan with stainless steel, add the cardamom, finely chopped (or grated) ginger root, cinnamon, cloves. Boiling. On low heat for 20 minutes hold. Then add honey and lemon juice (you can throw into the pot along with lemon abrasive cloth). Keep on low heat for 5 minutes. Remove and insist tea for 15-20 minutes. Then filter. Optionally, add fresh finely chopped mint. Ginger tea is expected to have the amber-yellow color. Cinnamon and cloves well help with a hacking cough.

Ginger tea (cold and depression)
1,2 L of boiling water, 2 tsp. tea leaf (green is better – it has more antioxidants and terpenes), 5 st. l. grated ginger, honey to taste red pepper or chili; 4 tbsp. l. lemon or orange juice.

Preparation: Boil water, add ginger, honey and stir. Strain through a sieve, trying to squeeze out the maximum amount of ginger liquid. Add a pinch of red pepper and juice. Eat hot.

Fresh ginger can be replaced with dried or powdered, but in much smaller quantities. Tea at the same time be a little dull. Ginger tea can not boil, just brew boiled water and insist in a thermos for 20-30 minutes. So in the drink will remain more useful properties.

Originally published here.

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In Iced Tea, author Fred Thompson serves up 50 vibrant variations on “the house wine of the South,” using black, green, and oolong teas (“considered by some to be the Lafite Rothschild of teas”) as well as tisanes, which are teas made not from tea leaves but from flowers, herbs, and spices. Recipes range from Southern-Style Iced Tea–a basic formula of tea, water, and sugar–to Teatotaler’s Sangria, which combines chilled green tea with peaches, oranges, and other fresh fruits. Other notable concoctions include the tropically tinged Bimini Island Iced Tea; Cha Yen, or Thai Iced Tea, which uses condensed and evaporated milk; and the classic Sweet Tea, whose main ingredient is sugar–and lots of it. (“A visitor to the South once said that it made his teeth hurt,” writes the author.) There’s also a section of mixed alcoholic drinks.

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