The main feature of this tea is that, with special brewing, it resembles subtropical tea. Made Ivan-tea is quite simple: the leaves of tea were dried, then scalded with boiling water. After that, they were rubbed in the trough, and the last procedure is dropping the leaves and drying them in the oven, and understandably, in a Russian stove. Once the leaves were dried, they had to be rinsed again. All. Tea is ready. It remains to properly brew.
At the moment, we can easily notice that there is a catastrophic hobby for teas and overseas coffee. And what is the result? Deterioration of health! And do not think that we are inventing. Statistics speak for us - the number of heart attacks and strokes has increased enormously, which are also covered by various nervous disorders. Why is this happening? All the fault is foreign teas, which are full of caffeine - even coffee is not needed. But, since our body is formed over many centuries and earlier our body did not receive so much caffeine. But, now we receive ultra-high doses - they are reflected in our health.
Some time ago, Academician Pavlov established that caffeine significantly enhances excitation processes that occur in the cerebral cortex, which in turn increases motor activity. Another point - in tea there are alkaloids, which increase cardiac activity. With the use of tea, myocardial contractions become more frequent. This causes, so-called, the arrival of forces. But, as it is supposed, with such a strong allocation of energy, this energy will be expended even more than usual. Do not constantly consume caffeine, because it leads to the depletion of nerve cells in our body. If you have health problems, then large doses of caffeine are also contraindicated to you. And if you go deeper, you can say that frequent use of caffeine leads us, as a result, to the manner of city life. As a result, we will observe atherosclerosis, insomnia, hypertension, glaucoma, and other diseases that can seriously damage the heart. And yet, excessive consumption of caffeine can lead to the formation of various diseases in our body of the gastrointestinal tract. And yet, the tannins of tea surprisingly well remove from the body the most important substances: phosphorus, magnesium, calcium. As you can see, if you consume too much tea, you can well dice your health. If you make the right tea, the risks are small, but otherwise.
There is a subsequent question, where did this interesting name come from - Ivan-chai? This name was given to tea in the first half of the seventeenth century - during the tea-coffee world expansion. Before this time, this tea was called a simple borage potion. At that time Ivan-tea treated headaches, relieved inflammation. But on this, his functions did not end there. In those days Ivan-tea was often called Melnichkom. And it's no accident. The fact is that in those days the roots of this plant were used for baking bread. There just added flour and baked. This tea had one more nickname - "Cockerel apples". This is due to the taste of his young leaves, because they were then safely consumed in salads. The tea had many more names, but we can not enumerate all of them. But the huge number of names once again confirms its popularity.
Our people brewed Ivan tea in a special way. As we already said, it tasted like subtropical tea. Most of this tea was brewed in the village of Koporye, which is located near St. Petersburg. It was there that he began to spread well. Our product was bought not only in Russia, but it should be noted that hundreds of poods of this product were sold in Russia. The Dutch, the Danes and the Don Cossacks bought it. Later it became the most important element of the Russian export market.
After special treatment, this tea was sent to England by sea. Do not forget about sending it to other European countries. There he was also very famous, here, however, had a different name. In Europe it was called "Russian tea". Sailing away on a long journey, the sailors took Ivan-tea with them-they drank themselves and gave to strangers.
Even Great Britain bought from us tens of thousands of poods of our tea, because, in their opinion, it was better than the Indian one, which they owned.
And here is the most interesting mystery. What stopped the production of tea so profitable for Russia? What influenced? It's pretty simple. Tea became so popular that it began to undermine the financial power of the largest East Indian tea campaign, which was engaged in the trade of Indian tea.
It was this company that began to fan the scandal around our tea, supposedly we are rubbing our tea with white clay, which is harmful to health. It's clear that nothing of this happened, but the company needed to restore sales levels of its products.
The company has achieved its goal, and the purchase of Russian tea has been reduced. After the revolution in 1917. The purchase of tea completely stopped, due to the stoppage of production.
Quite recently people remembered about this tea, and a precious recipe was restored.
And now the recipe for brewing this precious tea. Do everything according to the recipe, and you can feel its taste and aroma.
Recipe:
Prepared tea (which we did in the beginning) we type into one tablespoon, it needs to be poured a glass of boiling water and insist in a thermos till the morning. That's all.
As for the application, then here too everything is quite simple:
If you are going to give this tea to young children (who are under 5 years old), then they need to give a tablespoon several times a day in the process of eating, older children - up to 1/4 cup.
Adults also can drink half a glass 4 times a day during meals.