Karkade tea properties and history

Many are familiar with such a drink as karkade tea. This delicious and useful flower tea is only a little inferior in popularity to traditional black and green tea. But in most cases this drink is not used in our way as it should.

As already mentioned, karkade - floral tea, although flowers karkade simply do not exist in nature. In fact, this tea is brewed from the flowers of hibiscus, which is also sometimes called Sudanese rose, desert rose or Aswan rose. And the word "karkade" Egyptians call garbage, which remains in bags from under these flowers. And the flowers are supposed to be brewed, or even whole petals. To us, in the main, they bring exactly crushed petals, that is, karkade.

In Russia, this tea appeared relatively recently, which is why we have not developed a culture of its use. Up to what we often call red tea, for color. But this is not entirely correct, despite the visual evidence of such a name. The fact is that red tea is a tea obtained during the fermentation process of ordinary black tea, to which you are accustomed.

Karkade tea, whose properties are known to many, contains a huge number of different useful elements. It includes various fruit acids, amino acids, antioxidants, micro and macro elements, vitamins, bioflavonoids and polysaccharides.

That is why karkade tea has its own properties and acquired it. It helps strengthen the walls of blood vessels, regulates their permeability, lowers the amount of harmful cholesterol in the blood, has an antibacterial effect, normalizes the digestive system and the liver. In addition, it helps fight some types of allergies, and also helps to remove toxins and heavy metals from the body. This property of hibiscus has a lot of practical applications. For example, karkade tea perfectly helps with alcohol poisoning. In addition, the removal of toxins and toxins greatly contributes to the process of weight loss, so that you can also be recommended to lose weight by losing weight karkade. The properties of this tea are truly magical and the above does not end there.

Another impressive property of karkade tea is that it normalizes the pressure. More precisely, in the cold form, the carcade lowers the pressure, and in hot it increases. The property is truly unique, as it is extremely rare for one and the same drink or drug to possess both of these properties.

Its antibacterial properties make it possible to use it for the treatment of colds, and in some cases also as a helminthic agent. In general, as can be seen from all the above, tea karkade simply irreplaceable. Like any herbal or floral tea, you need to use it with breaks: a few weeks to drink karkade tea, 1-2 weeks to use other teas. It is in this case that a person receives the maximum effect, without harming the body.

By the way, about harm. Do not forget that the carcade contains a fairly large amount of acids, so it is not recommended for people with stomach problems. In addition, with caution should be used it for those who have any food or drug intolerance. In addition, it is contraindicated in the use of carcade and children up to a year. That's what he is, a karkade tea whose properties really amaze the imagination.

It only remains to mention how to properly brew this tea. There are three different ways:

- the petals of hibiscus are filled with boiling water, leave for 5-10 minutes;

- lower the petals in a boiling pod and boil for 3-5 minutes;

- put the petals in cold water, bring to a boil, remove from heat and let it brew.

Usually karkade is brewed in the following proportion: 1 teaspoon of flowers per 250 ml, however, personal preference is much more important in this case .