Green tea

     In all after several mouthfuls you will feel, as thoughts become clear and customary composure returns.  Everything because tea drinking - most real positive " tuning " for the soul. Just at this moment it is desirable to be inclined toward the cup in order to catch the hardly distinguishable aroma of fresh dry hay with the notes of strawberry sheet and citrus fruits.  This fragrant smell involuntarily tunes us to the sincere harmony.  Do you want to make your tea still more fragrant?  Pour into the boiled teapot green tea, place several pieces of melon with the rind, flood with hot water; not more than 80-90°C - and let draw for 10-15 minutes.  Pour tea into the cups and decorate with the fine strips of melon.

     Naturally, tea  is faster preventive, than therapeutic agent, and to hope for it, as to the medicine, perhaps, it is not necessary. Tea, of course, will not cure, but it will help to avoid disease or more easily and more rapidly to endure it.   

In the beverage harmoniously are combined the vitamins C, B1, B2, PP, K, and also iodine, potassium, copper, zinc and fluorine. The action only of vitamin P is enormous - it supports and increases the elasticity of blood vessels, and it also strengthens their walls. 

     People, drinking  5-7 cups of green tea daily, sometimes even do not suspect, that thus they accelerate decomposition of cholesterol and fats in the blood, and it means, they prevent fatty liver, impede aging of organism and support immune system " in form ".

     Green tea is an excellent agent of the prevention  of atherosclerosis, diseases of heart and vessels of brain. 

This beverage is possessed of strong antimicrobial, antiviral and antipyretic action.  It is used successfully with dysbacteriosis, influenza and during the food poisonings. 

     Because of the content of iodine, the tea beneficially has an influence on the work of endocrine system, exactly, therefore it is recommended to drink to people with the increased thyroid gland. 

     Green tea enjoys enormous popularity among those people, which follow their figure.  It fairly often is employed as means for the weight loss, indeed it strengthens metabolic processes and accelerates the removal of fat from the organism.  Furthermore, beverage is capable to remove salts of heavy metals and other waste products from the organism.

     Doctors recommend the drinking of green tea not only those, who wants to lose excess weight or to normalize pressure,  but also those, who suffers at spring from avitaminosis, apathy and common seasonal spleen.  

As of vascular system, tea acts on it as tranquilizer, it removes angiospasm, enlarges them and thus facilitates the process of blood circulation. 

     The stimulating properties of beverage are well-known, since in its composition there is caffeine.  Because of active influence of exciting substances on the organism the doctors imperatively advise not be keen on strong tea, and to let it draw not more than 2-3 minutes.

      Cosmetologists have long ago known that green tea moistens and calms the skin, removing reddenings and irritations of  it, and also it equalizes the relief of the skin.  Furthermore, the tanning substances of green tea create the dense film on the skin, which exerts bactericidal influence.  In the cosmetic it is used both extract of green tea and active ingredients, obtained from it. The prescription of rejuvenating mask, which it is possible to make at home: take 10 g of yeast, dilute with 2 table spoons of  strong warm tea, leave mixture for 30 minutes in a warm place. Then add the table spoon of mayonnaise, half a tea spoon of mustard (or grated horseradish), and for the thickening - a little starch or wheat flour.  Apply by thick layer on the face and leave for 15-20 minutes.  Wash off by warm water and look at your fresh skin and delicate flush.

     In summer our skin actively undergoes the action of the sun, water and dry air. Therefore it is necessary  regularly to moisten and to feed  it - 1-2 times a week. Take 2-3 table spoons of olive oil and add to it 5 drops of oil of green tea, 5 drops of peppermint, and also 5 drops of almond oil.  Apply to the clean skin of body, muffle oneself up in  terry  sheet and stay in the pleasant relaxation 15 ? 20 minutes, after being covered by blanket. This wrapping is very efficient and effective - oil mixture completely is absorbed, and the skin becomes silky and acquires natural luster.