Ivan-tea encyclopedia
Ivan-tea is great honey plant that is why when the willow-herb is in bloom the professional beekeepers bring the hives to fields covered with the “nature royal purple”.
Willow-herb honey was always considered the high quality product both in taste and benefits for health. Fresh Ivan-tea leaves are good in salads, and boiled willow-herb stems and roots are often served in fine restaurants as a side dish, though this is not an eco-food innovation but traditional historical recipe. We can find the methods of flour sweetening and cereal cooking with dried ground willow-herb root. Roasted ground roots can be cooked as coffee and even overcome it with the tonic effect, but are much healthier as contain no caffeine. But the decoctions and infusions of willow-herb leaves and flowers gained really worldwide fame and are often called Russian Miracle.
- Willow-herb tea is strong mean to prevent prostatic hyperplasia.
- Ivan-tea has positive effect on male potency.
- Ivan-tea gently normalizes the peristaltic activity.
- Strong tannins and vitamin C mixture of Ivan-tea has two effects that professional doctors use. The first one is anti-inflammatory, and second – these substances envelop the stomach and that is why are helpful for peptic ulcer, gastritis, colitis, enterocolitis, dysentery diarrhea, flatulence and anemia.
- Ivan-tea can also be helpful to cure cardioneurosis neurocirculatory dystonia, as it contains flavonoid giperozid that normalizes blood pressure.
Ivan-tea can be also used as preventive and normalizing mean for many diseases, for instance:
• Works like sedative, so it is used to cure insomnia, headache and neuroses,
• Normalizes blood pressure,
• Recovers mucosa and strengthen in cases of exhaustion,
• Cleanses organism in cases of intoxication (including alcoholic intoxications and cancer diseases),
• Has positive effect on immune and endocrine systems,
• Relieves depression,
• Increases efficiency,
• Increases potency,
• Relieves headache,
• Protects from common cold,
• Is effective as anti-inflammatory mean,
• Eases epilepsy symptoms,
• Helps to cure the catarrh of upper respiratory and many other otolaryngology diseases.
As we can see in Russia willow-herb was popular not only for its’ taste, but as well for the benefits it brings. Balanced vitamin and microelement content has strong positive effect. Ivan-tea beneficial effects are well known from long before and proved by modern medical researches. Let’s sum up what we’ve just said and mare a kind of review of Ivan-tea health benefits:
• Ivan-tea decoctions and infusions have strong anti-inflammatory effect. Amongst all examined Russian plants willow-herb has the strongest anti-inflammatory effect.
• Ivan-tea also has enveloping effect of Ivan-tea that is why folk and modern herbalists use it to cure ulcer and other gastrointestinal tract diseases.
• Willow-herb is known to prevent the herpes simplex virus reproduction in tissues.
• Willow-herb contains hanerol has anti-inflammatory effect, so Russian herbalists always used Ivan-tea to cure different malignancies.
• Ivan-tea has sedative effect and is helpful for neurosis treatment. Willow-herb decoctions also increase the effect of sedative and sleeping pills and also have anticonvulsant effect. They improve the mood, decreases aggressiveness, protects from stress and also can cure headache and insomnia.
• Ivan-tea has positive effect on the heart condition due to giperozid contents.
• Willow-herb tea can be used to cure eczema, atopic dermatitis, psoriasis and other skin diseases.
NOTE: Willow-herb contains coumarin (lactone – ester with COO ring group) and its’ long consumption can damage liver. Natural medicine recommends not drinking willow-herb tea for more than 30 days and making a pause for 2-3 month after each month of tea consumption. BUT thanks to special technologies coumarin is neutralized in all the willow-herb production of «Geada» company, so it is possible to consume our trademark production CONSTANTLY with no time limitations!
