Fireweed ivan-tea

Fireweed ivan tea today takes its place of honor in every home medicine cabinet. The healing properties of this plant are amazing and very diverse. Back in Russia in the 12th century, this drink was an integral part of everyday life and was drunk everywhere. Ivan tea was prepared in a special way, subjected to enzymatic processes, popularly called "Koporsky tea".

The Ivan tea plant itself is also known as plakun-herb. This perennial root-sucking plant belongs to the onager family. The rhizome of Ivan-chai is very thick and creeping, reaching a length of up to a meter. Stems are erect, slightly branched, cylindrical. The leaves have protruding veins, they are dark green at the top, and gray-green at the bottom. Ivan tea flowers can be lilac, purple, white. The inflorescences of the plant open early in the morning.

Fireweed ivan tea grows all over Russia, both in glades and on the edges, glades, in wastelands. This plant gives a person propolis, royal jelly, high-quality pollen, and ivan tea fluff is used for stuffing pillows and mattresses. And the stems, and leaves, and roots, and flowers are edible. Flour is prepared from the rhizome of willow tea, and they are also consumed raw. Very tasty salads are prepared from young shoots, which taste like asparagus. And the leaves are used to make aromatic tea that does not contain caffeine.

Ivan tea is widely used in folk medicine, it relieves pain, soothes, and a decoction from this plant perfectly strengthens the hair. If you regularly use a decoction of ivan tea, you can normalize sleep, get rid of migraines, strengthen the immune system, ivan tea is a natural purifier.