Chaga - mushroom parasite. It sucks the juices and kills the tree on which it grows, but it can bring health to the person, however only if it has been removed from a still living tree. The pulp of the chaga, which is found in the middle part of the fungus, is used to make medicines, including tinctures, ointments, and also in the form of tea. However, so that it brings tangible benefits to the body, you need to know how to properly brew and drink chaga.
Method of brewing tea
To benefit from the reception of tea from chaga, you need to consider some of the features:
- Before making tea, the chaga should be washed and then soaked in plenty of water for four to five hours.
- Rinse well, finely chop, or better - grate, then put again in the water, where the mushroom was located, the temperature of which is from 20 to 50 degrees, and leave to infuse for two days.
- Take a glass 30 minutes before eating.
However, tea from the chaga mushroom can be brewed and drunk as a regular tea, however, it is not usually brewed: in some cases, the pieces of the mushroom were poured with boiling water and boiled for several minutes, and then taken as tea; in others - insist in hot water for several hours. And then accept. In addition, it is allowed to brew chaga in a thermos. Depending on the concentration, the resulting broth is used to treat and prevent various diseases.
The most effective are several methods that give ideas on how to brew and take chaga. If the mushroom is poured with boiling water and allowed to stand for several minutes, it can be drunk like ordinary tea, but, according to experts, the benefit from it will be small.
How many times can I brew chaga?
For a long time there was debate about how many times you can brew chaga, and opinions were divided: some thought that the mushroom can be brewed once, but most agreed on the opinion that with repeated brewing, the useful properties of chaga are not lost, and it can be brewed up to five times. It was experimentally established that the greatest therapeutic effect can be achieved by brewing the mushroom the second and third time.
Chaga Slimming
Among the effective recipes are allocated infusion, used for weight loss. To do this, fill the bowl with water +50, insist, then add 2 teaspoons of honey. The resulting tea is filled with a small ball of propolis , it is well stirred and taken in the morning on an empty stomach, provided a plant diet is used.