30 teaspoons of herbs and plants

As a child I was always confused why my grandfather did not drink tea shops "all the people", and always makes tea on grasses or trees. Years have passed and here we are, "sat down" on these herbal teas, and their smell every now and again reminds me of childhood in the village.

Let us consider what herbs and plants suitable for tea and what good are they.

Tea herbs - these are the herbs that are pleasant to the taste when brewing. The plant can be used leaves, twigs, buds, flowers, and in some species - the roots.

Some plants reveal their taste only the fermentation of leaves and the dried or raw, they are pale and grassy taste, are the leaves of strawberries and strawberry. Or a taste of their weak without fermentation, like a maple leaf.

These plants like willow-herb, can be fermented, and can brew dried upper leaves and flowers. Fermentation changes the taste to a more full-bodied, with notes of coffee and tsikoreevymi. The fermented willow-herb is one of the most rewarding taste of tea drinks. Compare with him on the density of color and the bright taste of tea leaves may bark oak or alder cones, but this saponin not drink like tea, as well as medicine.

Very bright taste and aroma has meadowsweet. However, it is so fragrant, that not everyone will be able to drink tea just because of its color, because its taste is bright to even cloying. But she is very good as a supplement to other herbs, giving the flavor of honey tea setting.

cherry leaves are good as a separate tea and additives. They have a sweet, slightly tart taste. But if they are used without the addition of other herbs, has a slight tint of herbal flavor that not everyone likes. Therefore cherry leaves (and cherries) can be combined with the leaves of oak and maple.

Currant, mint, lemon balm, sage, raspberry, chamomile - a queen (and king) herbal teas for vkusnoty, vitamins, benefits, flavor. These herbs can be drunk fresh, dried and fermented.

Wild plants are the main tea blueberries, heather, lingonberry. From blueberry and heather get a great, gentle, sladkovytye, fragrant teas. Lingonberry tea infusion gives sourness. A chemist cranberries sweet and bitter at all, perhaps because it is collected along with bearberry, which is one with her family and similar properties, but gives the tea bitter.

If you want to cook the most delicious herbal tea is useful, it is necessary to collect his own hands. Or buy (accept a gift) from good people who treat with herbs gently, with love as brothers / sisters our smaller.

When collecting herbs is important not to hurt the grass, to talk to her, ask her to share a little leaves, and never to disrupt it completely. When you go to collect grass not on his plot, and in the field or in the woods, you need more to welcome the spirits of the place and ask for permission to collect. As the forest / field of spirits and herbs, like a caress. Grasses and trees can be ironed, singing their songs and prayers. And so the soul becomes joy in this communion, and plants reciprocate. Well, when there is its place where plants and perfumes, they protect, are familiar with the collector of herbs and excited for his return.

List of tea herbs (leaves, flowers)

1. Ivan-tea (Cyprus).
2. Meadowsweet (meadowsweet).
3. Currant.
4. Raspberry.
5. Blueberries.
6. Cranberry.
7. Mint.
8. Melissa.
9. Catnip.
10. Deadnettle.
11. Linden.
12. Cherry (cherry).
13. Strawberry (strawberry).
14. Oak.
15. Maple.
16. Blackberry.
17. Rosehip.
18. Sage.
19. St. John's wort.
20. Nettle.
21. Thyme.
22. Chamomile.
23. Clover.
24. Badan.
25. Lemongrass.
26. Jasmine.
27. Hyssop.
28. Oregano.
29. Lavender.
30. Pear.
31. Heather.
32. zmeegolovnika.
33. Fennel.
34. Tarragon.