Homemade tea for colds: 3 simple and effective recipes

Author Peter Deryabin

Updated: 04/21/2020 20:17 Published: 11/27/2003 08:56

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During the cold season, no matter how hard we try, most of us cannot avoid catching a cold. And although there are patented modern remedies against viruses and bacteria, each family has its own recipe for how to get rid of the disease as quickly as possible. Our readers share their experiences.

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Spiced tea for cough and fever

“If I have a cold, tea with spices helps me a lot to reduce the troubles of the acute period of illness and brighten up my stay at home. To prepare it, put one teaspoon in a liter thermos:

chamomile
sage
mint
Bay leaf
valerian root
one or two cloves
a pinch of ground ginger
coriander
a little ground black pepper
a teaspoon of honey

and pour boiling water over everything. In an hour the tea is ready. Strain it through a strainer and drink it in small sips throughout the day, making sure it is moderately hot. This drink:

relieves fever and fever
reduces cough
calms down
and helps you recover faster.

Anna Illarionovna Starkova, Perm

What tea for colds?

Dried medicinal herbs for brewing tea can be purchased at a pharmacy or prepared in advance yourself (but you need to know the conditions for their collection, the rules for preparation and storage). Medicinal herbs contain many useful substances that have a beneficial effect on the human body and can enhance its immunity: these are various essential oils and plant hormones, vitamins and organic acids, enzymes and lipids, etc.

The simplest way to brew medicinal tea, which does not require a lot of time and special skills, is to pour boiling water over a pinch of medicinal herb, steep (preferably in a thermos) for about 5-10 minutes and strain. It is better to drink this tea hot, adding a teaspoon of natural bee honey to enhance the healing effect.

Some of the most beneficial herbal teas recommended for colds include the following:

linden tea, which increases sweat secretion and improves the body's immunity; A common recipe for its preparation: pour 2 tablespoons of flowers with a glass of boiling water, leave for 20 minutes. Take 2 glasses of tea per day;
A good diaphoretic is also tea, for brewing which black elderberry flowers are used (pour a spoonful of flowers with a glass of boiling water, leave for 20 minutes), this tea is drunk hot 15 minutes before meals or at night;
tea from black currant leaves (infuse 2 tablespoons of leaves in half a liter of boiling water for half an hour), which helps lower and normalize the temperature during an exacerbation of the disease, drink a glass 3-4 times a day. For greater effect, it is advisable to add natural honey or fresh black currants, ground with sugar, to the tea;
tea from dried chamomile flowers (a tablespoon poured into a glass of boiling water, leave for a quarter of an hour): drinking it in large quantities very well relieves inflammatory processes in the body. You can enhance the effect of chamomile tea by adding a tablespoon of oregano when brewing (this drink will help with a strong cough) or a tablespoon of mint, which will significantly improve the taste and smell of the tea, and also act as an antipyretic and analgesic.

Ginger tea for colds

In the East, the healing properties of ginger have long been well known and actively used: its root contains essential oils that are very beneficial for the body, a large amount of vitamins, microelements, amino acids, perfectly strengthens the human immune system, and stimulates the circulatory system. In addition, ginger cleanses the upper respiratory tract well and relieves symptoms of a runny nose and cough, increases sweating, which helps cleanse the body of toxic substances. Having a beneficial effect on the body as a whole, ginger reduces inflammatory processes, increases immunity and the body's resistance to viruses. During periods of exacerbation of respiratory diseases, it is recommended to drink ginger tea as a universal preventive measure.

Ginger tea recipe for colds

There are many recipes for brewing ginger tea.

To prepare ginger tea based on traditional black or green tea, pour boiling water over a mixture of tea leaves (1 tablespoon) and finely chopped ginger root (the size of a walnut), close the kettle tightly with a lid and leave for about 10-15 minutes. If desired, you can add lime or lemon, a cinnamon stick, 2-3 clove buds, a cardamom pod, a spoonful of honey to ginger tea, which will not only change and improve the taste of the tea, but also significantly enhance its beneficial effect. It is better to drink this tea hot at night. To enhance the diaphoretic effect, it is recommended to wrap yourself in a warm blanket after taking it - and in the morning you will most likely wake up as a completely healthy person.

You can brew green tea, then add grated ginger root (4-5 cm), prunes (to taste), dry red wine (250 g). The resulting solution is kept on low heat for 15 minutes, filtered and diluted with boiling water in a ratio of 11. This drink will relieve a runny nose and cough, relieve headaches and muscle pain, and will invigorate a weakened body.

To prevent colds during the cold season, you can quickly prepare ginger tea: put chopped ginger, green tea leaves and fresh lemon in a cup, pour boiling water over it for two minutes. This tea will strengthen the body and fill it with energy for the whole day.

Cold ginger tea has another wonderful property: it can quench your thirst well in the heat.

Lemon tea for colds

Perhaps the most famous and common recipe for tea, which is drunk for colds, is any black tea brewed in the traditional way, to which a slice of lemon is added. Due to the high content of vitamin C, this wonderful fruit can become an excellent prophylactic during periods of exacerbation of colds. If you do get sick, drinking tea with lemon in large quantities during treatment will significantly strengthen the immune system and, as a result, will facilitate and speed up the recovery process. In addition, this fruit has a powerful antiseptic and bactericidal effect, since it contains many other useful substances: essential oils, pectins and phytoncides that can destroy harmful viruses and bacteria.

When using lemon as a healthy addition to tea, you should remember that vitamin C is easily destroyed in boiling water, so to preserve all the beneficial properties, lemon must be placed in a slightly cooled drink. Lemon in tea in combination with natural honey works very effectively: together they warm the body from the inside, fill it with strength and energy, and strengthen the immune system.

You can enhance the healing effect of lemon on a weakened body by consuming it fresh, along with the peel, which contains three times more vitamin C compared to the pulp. Another option is to drink tea with grated lemon, including grated zest.

Tea with honey for colds

Since ancient times, this amazing product has been used as a component of various herbal teas and decoctions used for the prevention and treatment of colds. According to research, the result of treatment with honey for acute respiratory infections is several times higher than the result of treatment with medications. In addition, due to the high content of glucose, fructose, a large number of various vitamins necessary for the normal functioning of the body, microelements, minerals, enzymes, honey can significantly strengthen the human immune system, increase its performance (it is enough to eat a spoonful of honey at breakfast), improve mood and general well-being .

The classic recipe for treating colds at home is to drink large amounts of regular black or green tea with honey (the advantage of such tea is that you do not need to buy and brew special herbs). During illness, honey reduces or relieves headaches and sore throats, relieves chills and increases sweating (therefore, removes toxins), as it has an excellent warming effect.

To achieve the greatest effect, tea with honey is drunk in large quantities, always warm (if honey gets into a hot environment, it loses many of its medicinal properties), in small sips. When choosing honey, it is better to choose linden honey - it is the healthiest of all existing ones.

Raspberry tea for colds

The high healing properties of raspberries are due to the fact that it contains many organic acids, the most useful of which is salicylic acid. Thanks to its presence, raspberries help reduce fever and are actively used in the treatment of any viral diseases at home.

Raspberry tea is prepared in different ways; it can contain both berries and pre-dried leaves. Here are the most popular recipes:

Add ready-made raspberry jam to freshly brewed black or green tea (raw berries mashed with sugar are most effective); You can drink this raspberry tea several times a day; after taking it, it is not recommended to go out into the cold, it is advisable to lie down and wrap yourself warmly;
when brewing classic tea, add dried berries, pour boiling water over it (proportions: a teaspoon of tea and 2 tablespoons of raspberries per half liter of water) and leave for a quarter of an hour; Honey is added to the finished tea before drinking. It is advisable to drink tea before bed, after which you should wrap yourself in a blanket;
Dried raspberry leaves are poured with boiling water (a couple of tablespoons of raspberries per 1.5 cups of water), kept (preferably in a thermos) for one to one and a half hours, before eating, add raspberry jam or honey to taste.

Hot tea for colds

During the cold season, a mug of hot tea allows you to warm up, and family tea makes the atmosphere in the house cozy and warm. This feeling is especially pleasant when the first symptoms of a cold appear. In combination with honey and raspberries or hot tea prepared with medicinal herbs, it reduces pain in the throat, helps eliminate toxins, and improves the general condition of the body. It has been proven that the more tea a person drinks at the initial stage of a cold, the more actively his body fights the infection and the faster the patient will recover.

To somehow pamper yourself (when you are sick you always want something unusual), you can fill your tea with a new taste. For example, when brewing, add orange zest, a couple of cloves and vanilla sugar to traditional black or green tea (a tablespoon of tea per half a liter of water). After a quarter of an hour, sweetening the drink to taste, you will get an unusual orange-clove tea.

Another way is to boil 150-200 g of dried apples in a liter of water for about half an hour. Add the resulting strained broth, along with natural honey and freshly squeezed lemon juice (a tablespoon at a time), to classically brewed black tea - and a delicious healing drink from apples is ready. Drink it hot in any desired quantity.

Tea made from fresh cranberries, oranges and cinnamon is rich in vitamins. To prepare it, freshly squeezed cranberry (from 100 g of berries) and orange (one citrus is enough) are added to ready-made black or green tea (half a liter) along with half a cinnamon stick, three cloves, sugar (to taste) and infused. After 15 minutes you can enjoy the pleasant sweet and sour taste of the life-giving drink.

Thus, the usual tea drinking on a cold winter evening can be made unusual and very beneficial for the body.

Tea with cognac for colds

Sometimes, in case of hypothermia, in order to prevent colds, they drink 50 g of cognac and eat it with a slice of lemon. This method will help prevent illness, but if signs of a cold do appear, instead of an alcoholic drink, drink a glass of tea at night with the addition of 2 tablespoons of cognac and a teaspoon of honey. Another option is to add a slice of lemon or orange, half a cinnamon stick, and sugar (to taste) to tea with cognac instead of honey. Eating lemon with the peel will additionally provide the body with vitamin C.

They drink tea with cognac hot, after which they immediately go to bed and wrap themselves up warm to sweat well. This tea will help you warm up and relieve chills, reduce pain, and improve sleep.

For preventive purposes, tea with the addition of cognac improves immunity and promotes maximum absorption of vitamin C by the body.

Green tea for colds

In China, the birthplace of tea, there is a belief that every new cup of tea leads to the ruin of the pharmacy owner. This fully applies to green tea, which is distinguished by a large number of enzymes and microelements, tannins and minerals, vitamins and essential oils that are beneficial for the body. But the main advantage of green leaves is the presence in them of a large amount of antioxidants, which help remove harmful toxic substances from the body and prevent their appearance in the future, and vitamins B and C, which strengthen the immune system. Therefore, drinking green tea is especially useful in the early stages of a cold; by the way, only loose leaf tea has a healing effect. Combining it with other natural remedies will significantly increase the effectiveness of green tea.

Green tea with the addition of mint leaves and cranberries has a strong diaphoretic effect. The recipe for its preparation: 2 teaspoons of green tea and 1 tablespoon of fresh or dried mint are poured into a glass of boiling water, fresh cranberries, grated with sugar, are added to the finished drink. After hot tea, they wrap themselves up warm to sweat.

In case of severe hypothermia, it is useful to drink freshly brewed green tea with the addition of red dessert wine in the proportion: 1 part wine to 3 parts tea. A tablespoon of honey will help improve the taste and enhance the healing effect.

To get rid of chills, drink green tea with a slice of lemon and a small pinch of ground black pepper: it warms well and increases sweating. It must be remembered that such tea is contraindicated for people suffering from high blood pressure and cardiovascular diseases.

To enhance the antipyretic properties of green tea, add fresh cranberries mashed with honey. Tea with the addition of fresh ginger or mint leaves will help soften a severe cough.

Linden tea for colds

Linden tea is one of the very healthy and at the same time quite tasty (it is usually sweetish) and aromatic drinks. It is usually brewed from linden tree flowers, which are collected in late June - early July. The collected inflorescences are dried in a shaded place, excluding direct sunlight. Dried linden flowers should be stored in a fabric bag in a cool, dark place.

The polysaccharides, glycosides and other beneficial substances contained in linden flowers are known as good antipyretics, analgesics, diaphoretics and diuretics. Typically, linden tea is prepared from a tablespoon of flowers and a glass of boiling water. The decoction is infused for 20 minutes and taken a glass before meals. For a patient with a high temperature, the dose is doubled. This drink is also effectively used in the treatment of inflammatory processes in the upper respiratory tract and bronchitis: it is taken half a glass 4 times a day. To enhance the therapeutic effect, add raspberry jam, natural honey, and lemon to the tea.

Tea made from linden flowers in combination with raspberries is an excellent remedy for soothing and treating dry cough. To prepare the decoction, pour 1 tablespoon of linden flowers and dried raspberry fruits into a glass of boiling water and leave for about half an hour. Add a spoonful of honey to the strained infusion and take a glass 2-3 times a day.

When drinking linden tea, you need to know that for all its benefits, it activates the body's protective properties and can increase the load on the heart. Therefore, it is not advisable to use linden tea as the main drink during illness or drink it for more than two weeks in a row.

Linden tea for pregnant women with colds

Pregnancy is a special period in a woman’s life when she has to think not only about her health, but also about the health of the child. Colds and medications used for treatment during this period of a woman’s life can negatively affect the development of the fetus, for example, cause pathology. It would be appropriate to use herbal teas to treat a woman in case of illness, the healthiest of which is tea made from linden flowers. It has a beneficial effect on the immune system of women and children, saturates the body with useful vitamins and microelements.

The known and proven antipyretic and diaphoretic effect of linden tea allows you to avoid the use of medications during pregnancy. To prepare tea, linden flowers are poured with boiling water (2 tablespoons per half liter of water) and infused for 15 minutes. You can enhance the effect of linden tea by adding natural honey. A pregnant woman can drink up to 4 cups of this healing drink per day.

Sometimes linden tea is prescribed during pregnancy as an expectorant in the treatment of bronchitis and pneumonia. Quite often it is used as a diuretic for edema, often observed in pregnant women. Linden tea also has the ability to calm the nervous system, improve blood circulation (linden thins the blood and saturates it with oxygen) and the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract.

Linden infusion, which has a bactericidal effect, is widely used for rinsing the mouth during inflammatory processes: stomatitis, sore throat, etc.

Along with all the beneficial properties, linden tea can have a negative effect on the cardiovascular system, so it is better for a pregnant woman to control its use. In this case, it would be useful to consult a gynecologist.

Salt water against runny nose

“When I feel the first signs of a runny nose - a sore nose, a slight excess of liquid mucus - I immediately rinse with salt water. To do this, I fill the teapot with lukewarm, almost cool boiled water, and dissolve a teaspoon of table salt in it.

Having tilted my head over the sink so that one nostril “looks” up, I slowly pour salt water into it through the spout. Gradually, water begins to flow out of the other nostril. So I empty half the teapot.

Then, turning my head in the other direction, I repeat the same with the other nostril. If you do this procedure on time, repeating it a couple of times daily, you will be able to completely get rid of your runny nose in a day or two.” Elena Zamyatnova, Kirovograd

Inhalations for cough

“My grandmother once taught me how to make inhalations for a cough, and since then I have been using this recipe for myself and my children.

Pour the boiling decoction of medicinal herbs into a small bowl. It is better to do this in the bathroom, where the air is pre-warmed by a heater or a stream of hot water from the tap. Then undress to the waist and cover yourself over the basin with a large terry towel. Breathe fragrant hot air for ten to fifteen minutes.

At the same time as your respiratory tract, this air heats:

breast
neck
face.

Herbal tea with raspberries and honey will save you from the first symptoms of a cold

So the heating comes from both sides. Then quickly rinse yourself with a warm shower (you can go up to your waist), put on clean, dry underwear, wrap yourself warmly - and go to bed. It would be nice if they served you a cup of hot herbal tea with honey. Or prepare the tea in advance in a thermos and place it by your bed so you don’t have to walk around the house after inhalation. After that, all that remains is to fall asleep. And in the morning you will feel much better.” Lyudmila Gnezdinskaya, Tallinn

The best cold remedies for children: herbal teas

Very often, pediatricians advise using children's teas for colds. But which drinks are the most effective? How they will help cope with the disease. This article will tell you about cold teas for children and their benefits.

Choosing the right cold teas for children is half the battle. You need to learn how to brew them correctly. This is what determines how successful the treatment of a child’s cold will be.

A common cold in children lasts on average from 4 to 10 days. This disease is considered the most common, since there are a lot of viruses that cause it. Therefore, the disease itself can recur more than once or twice. In children, a cold usually manifests itself as a runny nose, loss of appetite, weakness in the body and body, cough and fever. If a cold is not cured in time, it can develop into more complex diseases such as otitis media, pneumonia or tonsillitis.

An incipient cold can be successfully treated with herbal teas. But you should be careful, because your baby may have an allergic reaction to some plants.

Onions and garlic against flu and colds

“A very simple and effective recipe helps to avoid colds and flu, even if an epidemic is raging around. Every day, when you come home in the evening, do the following procedure. Rinse a clean teapot with boiling water and place finely chopped:

garlic
or onion.

Close the lid and breathe in the fumes through the kettle spout. You can also slightly warm up the kettle, for example, in a microwave oven or by placing it on low heat on the stove for a second. This little trick will help “deal with” pathogens in the respiratory tract and avoid infection.” Andrey Sokolov, Moscow

Sea pebbles will save you from a lingering cough

“To overcome a lingering cough, my grandfather always advised this remedy: put your back to the heated stove and sit like that for half an hour, or even an hour. The next morning he got up practically healthy. I follow his example when I manage to get out to the dacha, where we have a stove.

And if a cold catches me at home, then I do this: I heat pebbles brought from the sea in the oven, wrap them in a thick napkin and apply them below the collarbones, where we have the trachea and bronchi. When the pebbles have cooled, I heat them up again.

After warming up a few times, I wrap myself up and go to bed. By morning the cough goes away or becomes less.” Augusta Polikarpova, Vologda

Beetroot and soda for sore throat

“Diluted beet juice helps my children with a runny nose. To prepare it, I grate small fresh beets on a fine grater, squeeze the juice out of it and dilute it halfway with boiled water. I put it in my nose several times a day.” Diana Vazhinova, Astrakhan

Inhalations with onion or garlic help with cough

“If I have a sore throat and feel like a cold is coming on, then I start doing this procedure several times a day.

First, I gargle with warm water, in which a teaspoon of table salt and a spoonful of tea soda are diluted, plus a few drops of iodine. Then I take a tablespoon of vegetable oil, preferably olive oil, and rinse my mouth with it so long and intensely that foam forms between my teeth.

When the oil becomes completely liquid, like water, you can finish rinsing. After this procedure, any sore throat is alleviated, and recovery occurs much faster.” Vasilisa Cherkasova, Kerch

“Drinking this helps a lot when you have a cough. Boil in 0.5 liters of milk:

medium sized onion
and add a spoonful of honey.

This mixture should be consumed at night. The milk is very tasty, does not smell of onions at all, and even children drink it easily. The dry cough after it becomes softer and goes away faster.” Galina Naletova, Saratov

What tea to drink, brewing recipes

During illness, appetite disappears, so you need to prepare delicious tea to make you want to drink more. Be sure to sweeten warm tea with sugar or honey. Traditional medicine offers different types of brewing tea for colds. Here are 8 types of healing brews that will help make life easier when you have a cold.

Tea with lemon

This is the most affordable remedy for colds. This tea is famous for its warming effect and reducing sore throat. Accelerates the healing process due to vitamin C, which stimulates the body's immune system. For common colds, any doctor will primarily recommend vitamin C.

The bactericidal and antiseptic enzymes in lemon will help the body fight viruses. Lemon peel is especially useful. How to brew tea with lemon?

Brew loose leaf black tea.
Prepare your usual drink and let cool to 60 degrees.
For 200g, add honey or sugar to taste.
Throw in a piece of lemon. Squeeze the lemon with a teaspoon until the desired sourness appears in the tea.
Drink tea and eat lemon with peel.

The peel contains all the necessary elements. Boiling water destroys all the beneficial properties of both honey and lemon, so tea with lemon should be drunk warm.

Ginger tea for colds

The miraculous properties of ginger to treat colds have been known in folk medicine since ancient times. It's all about the essential oils, trace elements and vitamins contained in this product. Strengthen the body's immune system, increase blood circulation, and increase sweat production. In addition, the airways are cleared and coughing is relieved. Together with sweat, the body gets rid of viruses.

As soon as the first symptoms of the disease appear, drink ginger tea before going to bed and sweat well. The next morning all ailments will be forgotten. Prepare regular tea and add a piece of ginger root.

Recipe for making a healing drink with ginger:

Add 1 tbsp to a 0.5 liter brewing container. a spoonful of brewed tea and small pieces of ginger root in a small amount. Pour boiling water, leave for about 15 minutes.

Add honey (sugar) before use. You can increase the healing properties by adding lemon, cinnamon, cardamom or cloves.

Interesting!
Tea with the addition of ginger, when chilled, quenches thirst well.

Tea with raspberries

Raspberries can reduce high fever during illness, as they contain organic acids along with other beneficial substances. Berries can alleviate the patient's condition. Raspberries are very often prescribed for colds along with lemon and honey.

There are different ways to prepare the drink:

Add raspberries, ground with sugar, to regular tea - the healing drink is ready. Drink warm in unlimited quantities.

After drinking a lot of such delicious tea, it’s good to cover yourself with a blanket and sleep.

Pour 0.5 liter of boiling water over dried raspberries and leave for more than 15 minutes. Add honey and drink before bed.

The beneficial properties are also preserved in raspberry jam. Add 3-4 tablespoons of aromatic jam to regular tea.

“Pie” made from mustard plasters

“To “break through” a stuffy nose, I invented the following remedy: add Vietnamese Golden Star balsam to a glass of freshly prepared boiling water on the tip of a knife. Cover your head with a towel and breathe through your nose the steam rising from the glass. After a few minutes, the runny nose was gone, although over time the nose would become stuffy again. The remedy is brutal, but very effective. And yet it should not be abused.” Svetlana Remennikova, Dmitrov

“When my cough doesn’t go away for a long time, I make myself a “pie” of mustard plasters for the whole night.

To do this, I place six mustard plasters with the “active” side up on a sheet of newspaper folded eight times, after slightly moistening them. I lie down on this “pie” with my entire back and fall asleep. During the night, mustard plasters emit constant but weak heat, which thoroughly warms the bronchi, but does not burn the skin through eight layers of newspaper.

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and take them off if they start to sting my skin. This procedure cannot be repeated the next day; it is better to wait a few days. But usually one or two are enough for noticeable improvement to begin.” Larisa Sinelnikova, Kazan

“When I get sick, my mother begins to treat me immediately and with all available means: she puts me in a chair, puts my legs in a basin with hot water in which mustard is dissolved, rubs my chest with lard, at the same time drips oil and onions into my nose, and then gives me hot tea. with raspberries and honey. Then another mustard plasters on the back at night. It’s not easy to endure all this, but the next morning I’m usually healthy.” Anton Shemyatov, Kaliningrad

A heavy dose of vitamins will protect against colds

“During a flu epidemic, regular intake of large quantities of ascorbic acid is very helpful. I buy it in powders of 0.5 g:

dissolve in water
add honey and sugar

and I drink 1-2 g after meals in the morning and evening. Very often you manage not to get sick when everyone around you is sneezing and coughing.” Lidiya Loseva, Arkhangelsk

Radish juice with honey is great against prolonged coughs.

“Before, I often got a cold immediately after my period - apparently, there was some kind of weakening of the body. The doctor advised to take medications with:

calcium
and magnesium

and also eat nuts, especially hazelnuts. It really helped me become more resistant to colds.” Alla Gavrilova, Chelyabinsk

“My favorite tincture of Echinacea, an American sunflower, helps me fight colds and flu.

I start drinking it as soon as I hear about the approaching epidemic. Twenty drops a day for prevention and forty drops if you already feel signs of ill health.

This helps to avoid infection, and if the disease has not passed, you can recover much faster.” Yulia Zelenchuk, Moscow

“To cure an incipient runny nose, and at the same time prevent complications such as otitis media, I put on a warm ski cap at night and put tampons lightly moistened with boric alcohol in my ears. During the night, the ears warm up well, and the alcohol vapor disinfects the internal sinuses. In the morning the runny nose was gone.” Olga Tikhonovna Yurchenko, Alexandrov

Treatment of respiratory diseases with herbal decoctions

Even doctors claim the benefits of herbs in the treatment of ARVI and influenza as an additional therapy. After all, most anti-inflammatory drugs in pharmacies contain plant extracts that have unique properties. At the same time, the body is not exposed to powerful chemicals and at the same time is cleansed of toxins. Since ancient times, ailments have been dealt with using roots, berries, and leaves of herbs that grow underfoot. Their natural power allows them to withstand low temperatures and heat, which means their potential can be used to combat human diseases.

Ginger tea is an excellent preventative against colds.

Tea against flu and colds - the best compositions

There are huge quantities of cold kits on pharmacy shelves. Which one to choose to eliminate this or that symptom, that is the question. We hasten to dispel doubts and present the best options for fees for a specific purpose.

To strengthen the human immune system - tea with ginger. The exotic root contains a whole group of vitamins, phytoncides, essential components that enhance internal forces, affecting hematopoiesis and sweating.
Add a few pieces of root to regular green or black tea for ARVI, leave for half an hour, add a teaspoon of honey and drink 3-4 glasses a day.
Add finely chopped lime or lemon slices, a cinnamon stick, 2 cloves, and a cardamom pod to tea with ginger. The product has an excellent anti-inflammatory effect and eliminates the feeling of thirst.

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Hot drinks with honey

Bee products are used in both folk and official medicine; they are part of the best medicines for various types of diseases. They contain fructose, antioxidants, sucrose, vitamins of all groups, flavonoids, antiseptics, etc. Drinks help relieve fatigue, stress, give energy and vigor.

Important: honey has bronchodilator, anti-inflammatory, antiviral and antifungal properties. Promotes sweating, relieves swelling. Add to warm herbal, green, black teas (1 teaspoon per 150 grams).

Teas for colds and flu can be purchased at the pharmacy for pennies, but their effect is amazing. Let's select recipes based on their properties.