TOP 20: The best tea recipes for baths

It would be interesting to do some research. What is included in the “gentleman’s set” of numerous bathhouse lovers in our country. A headrest for the bath, a felt cap, two brooms, slippers, a volume of Pushkin and the obligatory tea for the bath. And note, no two liters of vodka and a can of beer per person. Our people understand a good bath like no other.

General recommendations

It is extremely important not only to choose the right drink, but also to prepare it correctly. To preserve most of the valuable properties of tea, it is advisable to brew it using clean water. It is important that there are no foreign odors or impurities in it.

To make tea for a bath, sauna or steam room, pour the herbal mixture into a special clay or porcelain bowl and fill it with cold water. Then the liquid is brought to a boil and immediately removed from the heat. It is recommended to infuse the drink for at least five minutes. In the case of using large-leaf herbal collection, it is advisable to increase this time to half an hour.

To prepare a drink based on hard stems, fruits or roots, you need to boil it for ten minutes and then infuse it.

Natural fruit drinks and kvass for baths

When going into the steam room for a short time, it is good to rest during pauses, drinking healthy drinks, for example, kvass. It's best to cook it yourself. Bread made from any type of flour (wheat, buckwheat, rye, etc.) is suitable for this. But to make healthy kvass for a bath, you can also use various berries or fruits. For the first recipe you will need rye bread crusts. They need to be cut into small pieces and filled with boiled water. The prepared kvass must ferment for 7 days.

For fruit kvass, you can take apples, raspberries, cherries or lingonberries. Large fruits should be cut into even pieces and, if necessary, seeds removed. For example, for apple kvass take:

500 g apples;
100 g sugar;
10 g dry yeast;
2 liters of hot water.

After mixing all the ingredients except the yeast, place the mixture on low heat in a large saucepan. You need to cook kvass for 10 minutes. After cooling the resulting drink to a temperature of 30°, add yeast. Fermentation lasts 12 hours, after which the kvass can be filtered through cheesecloth and bottled.

Fresh natural juices are very useful both for drinking in the bathhouse and in everyday life. They increase enzyme activity, removing harmful substances and toxins from the body. Grape, carrot or beet juice can be obtained simply by using a juicer. For some people, the acute question is what to drink after a bath to lose weight. The principle of losing weight by visiting saunas or steam rooms is to speed up metabolic processes, burn fat, and remove excess moisture from the body.

Immediately after the steam room, experts recommend drinking half a glass of warm water with lemon, natural cranberry juice or other fruit and vegetable drinks.

Making this drink is very simple. To do this, wash the root vegetables and tops of beets, radishes, radishes, and dandelion leaves well. Carrots should also be washed, but not peeled. All ingredients are squeezed out using a juicer and the drink is drunk immediately without storing it in the refrigerator or other place. This juice is consumed at the end of the paired procedures, in small sips or through a straw.

Tips for use

It should be noted that bath teas are recommended to be consumed hot or warm. When boiled again, they lose most of their valuable properties. It is equally important to know which herbal teas you can drink before, during and after the bath.

So, immediately before entering the steam room, you can only drink tonic teas. For these purposes, you can brew rose hips, as well as strawberry or lingonberry leaves.

In the steam room itself, it is advisable to drink vitamin or diaphoretic bath tea. It is brewed from currants, cherries, wild strawberries or strawberries. You can also use a drink made from a mixture of chamomile, St. John's wort and linden blossom for these purposes. Collecting these herbs enhances the healing effect of the bath and helps improve immunity.

After visiting the steam room, it is recommended to drink soothing teas. As a rule, chamomile, oregano, St. John's wort and mint are brewed for this. It should be noted that it will take only seven minutes to infuse such a collection.

How to make tea with your own hands?

The technology for preparing a healing drink is quite simple. You need to take the amount of dried herb indicated in the recipe and brew it with a glass of boiling water. It is convenient to use a thermos or thermal mug for this purpose. As a rule, after 15-20 minutes all the beneficial substances are released into the decoction, so it is filtered and diluted to the required volume.

You can add various ingredients to create a more pleasant (or favorite) taste. Traditional bath tea recipes go well with lemon, orange, honey, ginger and cinnamon, berries and apple peel. Their taste is well complemented by cloves and vanilla.

Important! If you are making tea for weight loss, avoid adding sweet ingredients.

The benefits of vitamin drinks

Those who have not yet decided what kind of tea to drink in the bathhouse can be advised to pay attention to options prepared from field or forest herbs and fruits. They contain a huge amount of biologically active substances. They are rich in vitamins, enzymes, microelements and organic acids.

St. John's wort, raspberry, peppermint, chamomile, lemon balm, primrose, angelica, lemongrass and lavender are often used to prepare such teas. They are often brewed from cherry, currant, barberry, sea buckthorn, rowan or strawberry leaves. Blackberries, nettles and rose hips are also suitable for these purposes.

How to drink herbal tea in a bath?

The fragile cellular structure of plants is easily destroyed by high temperatures, so the water for brewing should not be boiling - up to 90-95 degrees. For 1 serving of drink, take 1 tsp. tea leaves, fill with water and infuse. Exposure time for flowers and leaves is 10 minutes, for collection with fruits – 20 minutes.
Dried rose hips are pre-crushed until the pulp in the core opens.
When brewing tea in a thermos, slightly less than the recommended volume of dry herbs is taken to avoid excessive strength and viscosity of the drink, which will certainly appear due to long-term extraction.

Drinks against colds

When planning a trip to the bathhouse, you can prepare a very healthy tea in advance, which allows you to quickly get rid of respiratory diseases. Pour a tablespoon of linden inflorescences into a pre-prepared bowl and pour a glass of boiling water over them. Infuse this drink for a quarter of an hour. If desired, natural honey is added to it.

Another simple, but at the same time very effective tea can be made from berries and dried raspberry leaves, mixed in a 1:2 ratio. The prepared plant material is poured with boiling water and left for about half an hour.

An excellent anti-cold remedy that can be used during bath procedures is an infusion made from sage, St. John's wort and chamomile flowers. All components are combined in equal quantities. To prepare tea, pour a tablespoon of herbal mixture into a glass of boiling water and infuse for an hour.

What effect can be achieved with tea?

By choosing the right herbal tea for a bath, you can get the following effect:

Speed up metabolism.
Increase sweating, cleanse the body of unnecessary substances and toxins.
Relieve pain and inflammation in joints, muscles, spine.
Eliminate internal spasms (intestines, uterus, bronchi).
Improve digestion.
Activate the central nervous system.
Improve your mood and recharge your energy.
Strengthen your immune system.
Get rid of extra pounds.
Calm the nervous system, relieve stress.

Visiting a steam room has a strong impact on the human body due to the influence of several physical factors: high temperature, air pressure and steam. In this situation, all internal organs begin to work more actively - they strive to adapt to such extreme conditions.

Therefore, if you drink healing teas after a bath or steam room, they will have a stronger effect due to:

quick and complete absorption;
deep penetration into the cells of internal organs that need fluid;
active involvement in various metabolic processes, the course of which accelerates after bath procedures.

Every cell of the body will feel thirsty at this moment. But along with the water, the healing substances contained in the herbal decoction will also enter it.

Sweat Tea Recipes

Black elderberry, strawberries and raspberries are great for making such drinks. All these plants have excellent diaphoretic properties. In addition, teas brewed from them contain a large amount of useful vitamins and microelements.

A very simple, but at the same time effective drink can be made from a mixture of raspberries and linden blossom. A tablespoon of this collection is poured into a glass of boiling water and left for at least a quarter of an hour.

For those who have not yet decided what tea to drink in the bathhouse, we can recommend preparing it using a collection consisting of an equal number of linden flowers and black elderberry. This is a fairly effective drink that has an excellent diaphoretic effect.

A good tea is made from a mixture of peppermint leaves and elderberry, linden and chamomile flowers. To brew the drink, all the above components are mixed in equal proportions and poured with boiling water.

Tea made from one part of oregano herb and two parts of raspberries and coltsfoot leaves has an excellent diaphoretic effect. Pour a tablespoon of this mixture into a glass of boiling water and leave for at least five minutes.

What is the beauty of tea

Tea has been taken into the bathhouse since time immemorial. And from the times of pagan Rus' to this day, herbal teas remain the most popular drink of true connoisseurs and deep experts in bathing. Why is tea so popular?

Conventionally, all teas, according to the mechanism of their effect on the human body, can be divided into several large groups:

Thirst-quenching. This group has the simplest mechanism of physiological action. While in the steam room, the body actively loses moisture. To maintain the water-salt balance, the moisture deficit must be replenished, which, in fact, happens in the most natural and unpretentious way;
Toning. These teas, due to their inherent set of active substances, increase phasomotor functions, elevate mood, improve general well-being and worldview on a purely emotional level. This subtle moment was felt by American business back in the century before last, which brought to the market a tonic drink that is still triumphantly marching around the planet - Coca-Cola. The Soviet industry could not stand aside and responded with “Baikal” and subsequently the store shelves were filled with various tonics, the names of which, sometimes, even the manufacturer himself does not remember. It is obvious that tea in a tonic bath acts more naturally and softly than a synthetic mixture of something unknown, richly seasoned with carbon dioxide;
Vitamin. Drinks of this type are aimed at charging the human body with a shock dose of vitamins and microelements necessary for the full maintenance of life and functionality. They are especially good in winter, when access to vegetables and fruits is somewhat limited;
Teas for the prevention and treatment of certain types of diseases. Herbal medicine or herbal medicine has long enjoyed well-deserved fame, and its use, in combination with bath procedures, gives a good therapeutic effect. They are also called health-improving. This group also includes very popular, especially recently, antioxidants. And herbal medicine knows plants that have such a pronounced effect;
Relaxing. This group acts as a counterbalance to tonic teas, and has a pronounced anti-stress orientation. The calming, relaxing atmosphere of a bathhouse, especially an oriental one, in combination with such drinks allows you to confidently get out of stress and get rid of the negative manifestations of post-stress syndromes.

Recipes for teas for baths

Of course, the choice of drink depends on the taste preferences of each individual person and on the goals that he pursues. So, some drink a drink made from linden, others from mint, and still others from berries.

Those who have not yet decided what tea to drink in the bathhouse can be advised to pay attention to the lingonberry version. It has excellent diuretic and antiseptic properties. It is recommended for use by people suffering from diabetes, cystitis, gout, obesity and liver diseases. To prepare such a drink, combine green tea and crushed lingonberry leaves in a 1:2 ratio in one container and pour boiling water over it. For a glass of hot water you will need a teaspoon of this mixture. Infuse the drink for a quarter of an hour.

To strengthen the immune system and tone the body, we can recommend another recipe. Perhaps this is the best tea for a bath, since it has excellent restorative properties. To prepare it, dried oregano stems are used. One teaspoon of crushed herbal raw materials is poured into a glass of boiling water and infused for several minutes. It is important not to over-exert the drink. Otherwise, it will lose its delicious natural aroma.

About the benefits of a bath

In the bathhouse we are exposed to complex stress factors - heat shock, almost one hundred percent humidity, sudden temperature changes, steam. How does this affect a person and what benefits does it bring?

Overheating, the body begins to cool down with the help of sweat, and with it excess salts and toxic waste products come out.
Immune cells perceive heating with hot water and steam as inflammation and are activated, thereby affecting not imaginary, but real foci of inflammation.
Peripheral circulation increases - blood flows from the brain to the organs. This gives a calming effect, relieves nervous tension, and gives a feeling of relaxation.
Inhaling steam is comparable to inhalation, especially if it is saturated with healing essential oils.
Due to the increase in heart rate, blood circulates faster and cardiac output becomes more powerful. The supply of oxygen to tissues is enhanced, metabolic processes are activated.
Steam cleanses the skin of old epithelium, nourishes it with moisture, and makes it velvety.

But the advantages of bath procedures have a downside - excessive loss of fluid. To compensate for it, as well as enhance the healing effect, herbal teas are exactly what you need.

Science has put forward its own version of the benefits of the bath. As a result of the temperature stress that the body experiences in the steam room, heat shock proteins are activated. They are intracellular structures that utilize the so-called cellular debris - incorrectly folded, old proteins. In addition, they participate in regenerative processes, cleanse and heal the body at the molecular level.

What tea to drink after a bath?

This is the question that worries those who first decided to visit the steam room. Tonic drinks with aromatic additives are best suited for such purposes. Today, there are many recipes that can be used to prepare such teas.

To brew one of these drinks, you will need a liter of filtered water, a whole lemon and three tablespoons of tea. You will have to prepare it at home, before going to the bathhouse. To do this, carefully remove the peel from the lemon, dry it in a preheated oven, carefully chop it and combine it with the tea leaves. The resulting mixture is poured into a pre-prepared kettle and poured boiling water. After five minutes, the drink is poured into a thermos and taken with you to the sauna. If desired, add sugar or honey.

How to refresh yourself in a bathhouse

Toning hot drinks, which are best to start your relaxation in the bathhouse, can be based on black or green tea, or herbal. The latter are quite easy to prepare. Moreover, all they need is just the fragrant leaves of several plants and rose hips. For example, you can chop a couple of rose hips, add a couple of leaves of blueberries, strawberries, lingonberries, and black currants. Pour a glass of cold water over everything, bring to a boil, reduce heat and cook for another ten minutes. Then remove from heat and let sit for five minutes.

It will take more work to create a good refreshing drink, since it contains about a dozen plants. But this decoction will become a real vitamin cocktail. To brew tea you need to take the following components:

chamomile;
rose hip;
corn silk;
oregano;
peppermint;
St. John's wort;
eucalyptus leaves;
valerian (roots);
coltsfoot;
hawthorn.

You can prepare a refreshing tea from them directly in the bathhouse or sauna. Mix all the ingredients one teaspoon at a time, pour into a thermos and pour a liter of boiling water. The decoction should be left to steep for half an hour. Then cool and drink in small sips. Due to the rich composition of this tea, you can drink no more than one glass. At the same time, the benefits of such a drink are extraordinary. It has a beneficial effect on the nervous system and also normalizes the functioning of the cardiovascular system and gastrointestinal tract. It is recommended to drink this decoction in the bathhouse after visiting the steam room.

Tea made from rose hips and black rowan berries has an interesting and refreshing taste (sold in pharmacies under the name “Chokeberry”). You need to take two tablespoons of both ingredients per 400 ml of boiling water. Fill with water and leave to brew for thirty to forty minutes.

But this unusual recipe is suitable as a tonic tea for a bath, according to which you can prepare two servings of the fragrant drink.

Ingredients	Quantity
Bay leaf	2 pcs.
ginger root	1 PC.
cinnamon, cumin, mint	on the tip of a knife
black or green loose leaf tea	1 tsp.
water	½ liter

Grate a small piece of ginger on a fine grater and mix with all the other ingredients. Pour in water and bring to a boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for half an hour. Remove from heat and let the tea steep for five minutes. If you wish to sweeten the drink, use a small amount of honey.

To refresh yourself in the sauna, you can brew a simple tea consisting of just one ingredient - black currant leaves. You need to take 1 tablespoon of crushed berry leaves and pour two glasses of boiling water over them. Leave to sit for at least twenty minutes.

Tea made from black currant leaves will not only help maintain water balance in the bath, but also stimulate metabolism. Therefore, it is worth adopting for people who perform anti-cellulite self-massage in the steam room and want to get rid of excess weight.

Bath tea for weight loss

A drink made from a mixture of rosehip and stinging nettle decoctions is considered an excellent way to get rid of extra pounds. In addition, you can add lemon balm, mint, tansy, wormwood, viburnum, raspberry and hawthorn fruits to them. It is advisable to add a little honey, lemon juice and apple cider vinegar to the finished drink.

Pu-erh tea is also considered a good way to lose weight. In the bath, its effect only intensifies. This drink helps remove waste, toxins and excess fluid. It speeds up the process of digesting food and normalizes metabolism. It should not be consumed on an empty stomach. Since this tea has an invigorating and tonic effect, it is not advisable to drink it in the evening.

Classic tea or herbal

In the context of this question, it’s time to remember the well-known A.I. Koreiko, an underground millionaire, from the novel “The Golden Calf” by Ilf and Petrov. This prominent figure in the gray financial world never drank classic black and green tea, because he knew that tea provokes active heart activity, and Alexander Ivanovich was sensitive to his health.

Modern science claims that classic black tea actually has a pronounced tonic effect, stimulating the active work of the myocardium. At the same time, it is endowed with a sufficient set of antioxidants that block free radicals and slow down the general aging processes of the human body exclusively at the physiological level.

Important! According to the latest medical research, the tonic effect of black tea tannin is superior to that of caffeine contained in coffee beans.

Green teas for baths have a tonic and invigorating effect to a lesser extent than their black counterparts, but at the same time, their antioxidant effect is more pronounced and accentuated.

Do not forget that both black and green tea are, in the vast majority of cases, imported products and the price of truly high-quality raw materials is tied to foreign currency, which determines their high price for the end consumer in the country’s domestic market.

Herbal recipe

This option will be a real find for those who like to drink tea after a bath. The recipe is interesting because it contains various medicinal herbs. To prepare a similar drink, which was known to our distant ancestors, crushed rose hips and dried oregano herb are combined in one container. St. John's wort is also sent there. Mix everything thoroughly, add hot water and leave for twenty minutes.

This herbal tea after a bath is not recommended for allergy sufferers and people suffering from chronic kidney disease. Everyone else can drink it in unlimited quantities. It is advisable to prepare it immediately before use.

Where to buy ingredients for herbal teas?

You can always buy high-quality ingredients for preparing herbal teas from ecologically clean regions in the online store “Russian Roots” for delivery or in one of the herbal pharmacies of the chain in the capital.

“Russian Roots” is a reliable supplier of natural products in our country. High quality of goods, free consultation, timely fulfillment of obligations, affordable prices - a short list of the company’s advantages. The quality and safety of products are confirmed by relevant documentation.

Refreshing drink

The recipe in question was developed in the eighties of the last century. It was invented by employees of the Scientific Institute of Medicinal Plants. This healthy tea should be drunk immediately after visiting the steam room. The restorative and refreshing drink contains ten herbs, which can be purchased at any pharmacy. The use of this collection helps to normalize the activity of the nervous, digestive and cardiovascular systems.

In one bowl, combine an equal amount of chamomile, corn silk, rose hips, St. John's wort, peppermint, oregano, valerian root, eucalyptus leaves, hawthorn and coltsfoot. Store the finished mixture in a tightly sealed glass container in a cool, dark place. You need to infuse the brewed drink for about half an hour. It is advisable to consume this tea chilled and no more than two hundred milliliters.

How to properly organize a “bath tea party”?

Given the greater severity of the effect of tea, there is no need to use strong, concentrated drinks after a bath. In this case, it is more expedient to increase the total volume of liquid, but at the same time reduce the concentration of its components .
If strong decoctions are used, they are drunk in a small dose (no more than one glass), and subsequently the loss of liquid is replenished with clean water. To ensure that tea is absorbed faster, it is advisable to maintain its temperature at the level of average body temperature. You can use a thermos or place a container with a drink near the stove to keep it warm. However, you don’t need to heat it up too much: additional heat in this case would be inappropriate.

Tea is drunk after each “entry” to the steam room. During the rest, that is, a 20-40 minute break between visits to the steam room, you can drink one or two glasses of weak tea. Its total volume can reach two liters, provided there are no contraindications from the kidneys or cardiovascular system.

Soothing herbal teas

Those who are still thinking about what kind of tea to drink in the bathhouse can be advised to try preparing another option. It has a sedative effect and helps get rid of sleep problems. To make such a herbal mixture, you will need one tablespoon of Tatar plant flowers, crushed valerian root, lemon balm and mint leaves. All this is mixed in a clean glass container and stored in a cool, dark place. To brew tea, pour a tablespoon of the herbal mixture into a glass of boiling water, leave for half an hour, filter and pour into cups.

Another drink made from dried hop cones, crushed valerian root, motherwort and mint has a good sedative effect. To make a soothing bath tea, you will need to mix one tablespoon of these ingredients, pour half a liter of boiling water over them and leave for twenty minutes.

Choosing the optimal recipe

Herbal teas for baths are distinguished by a wide choice and a very diverse effect. Therefore, selecting the optimal recipe is by no means an easy matter.

Traditional herbal tea after a bath is a rich infusion obtained by brewing the stems, roots, flowers and fruits of plants with boiling water, which has a certain effect on the human body at the physiological level. A prerequisite is the complete absence of natural or synthetic caffeine in the final product.

Attention! In the tsarist era, as imported tea from China appeared on the market, fireweed tea, obtained from the herb Ivan tea, became an inexpensive alternative. This drink did not have a pronounced tonic effect and was held in special esteem in monasteries and Old Believer hermitages throughout the Russian North.

Various herbal preparations differ quite strongly in both the nature and depth of the effect they have on the human body. For ease of perception, we will compile the information below in the form of a table. So, if the main goal of your trips to the bathhouse is to lose weight, then the teas offered will perfectly complement the system for obtaining a tangible final result:

Tea name	Recipe in mass parts, in gr.
Multivitamin tea for weight loss, with pronounced restorative properties	Buckthorn bark - 30, dandelion root - 10, parsley fruit - 10, peppermint herb - 10. 1 tbsp of the mixture is brewed in a glass of boiling water. One-time dose no more than 200 ml. Full course - 6 weeks, 1 time per week
Rowan tea for weight loss	Rowan berries - 70, rose hips - 10, stinging nettle leaves - 30 1 tbsp mixture per 250 ml of boiling water, infusion for about 25 - 30 minutes. One-time dose no more than 500 ml. Full course 6 weeks, with cyclical visits to the bathhouse once a week
Blackberry tea for weight loss	Blackberry or wild strawberry leaves - 80, buds or young birch leaves - 10, mother and stepmother grass - 10. The mixture is poured in a ratio of 1/20 with boiling water, infused for 15 - 20 minutes and consumed at the end of the bath procedures in the amount of 400 - 500 ml. The course of herbal treatment is 2 months, subject to visiting the bathhouse at least once a week

A word from Experienced! If the main goal of drinking tea in a sauna is to lose weight, then you should definitely give up the practice of sweetening the tea. When drinking drinks for the purpose of prevention and restoration of the body’s water balance, you should use only natural honey or eat dried apricots or prunes as a snack.

In times of accelerated pace of life and constant stress, diaphoretic bath tea does not have the same importance as soothing tea. This bath tea, the recipe for which we provide, has been tested by practice and has very positive dynamics, both in the relief of stressful conditions and in their prevention.

Proven Soothing Tea Recipe

Peppermint - 10 gr.
Lemon mint or lemon balm - 10 gr.
Valerian officinalis root - 10 g.
Wild strawberry or garden raspberry leaves - 30 gr.
Large-fruited hawthorn fruits - 40 g.
Flowers of prickly tartar or thistle - 10 g.

1 tbsp. l. 250 ml of mixture is brewed. boiling water and infuse for 30 minutes. One-time consumption rate is about 300 - 350 ml. The oncoming effect is palpable and mentally tangible. The kinematic effect of this collection is quite pronounced, so within 2 hours after drinking the drink, a decrease in the reaction to external stimuli is possible, which is something you should definitely remember when getting behind the wheel. For more complete extraction of the active substance, it is useful to wrap the teapot in a cotton towel, felt, or use a high-quality thermos. It is good to sweeten such a drink with linden, flower and acacia honey.

Moroccan mint tea recipe

To prepare this tasty and healthy drink, you need to stock up on all the ingredients in advance. In this case you will need:

A tablespoon of sugar.
Five sprigs of fresh mint.
A couple of teaspoons of green tea.
400 milliliters of water.

Sugar and washed and dried mint leaves are placed at the bottom of a pre-prepared kettle. All this is poured with 150 milliliters of boiling water and covered with a lid. Green tea and the remaining hot water are placed in another bowl. After five minutes, the infusions are mixed in one bowl and poured into cups. The water used to prepare this drink should not boil for long. It is removed from the heat immediately after the first bubbles appear.

What recipes can I use?

For those who decide to prepare medicinal tea for the bath, the recipe should be selected based on the existing health problem or the purpose of prevention. That is, first of all, you need to decide what effect you would like to achieve with this drink. It is not entirely correct to drink tea in a bathhouse “for company” without thinking about its effect. Each person is unique, and each needs its own specific composition.

Here are the most effective and popular bath teas:

Chamomile. Has a pronounced calming and relaxing effect. Recommended for neurological problems and stress. Helps relieve spasms from the intestines and genitourinary organs. Helps normalize intestinal and genitourinary microflora. Accelerates recovery from colds. Prepared from the ratio: a teaspoon of dried chamomile per glass of boiling water.
General strengthening tea made from St. John's wort, mint and oregano. Helps cope with insomnia, lung diseases, colds, normalizes digestion, eliminates headaches and tinnitus. Strengthens the immune system, increases vitality, relieves irritability and stress. Stops inflammatory processes. Brew at the rate of a teaspoon of the mixture (herbs are taken in equal proportions and crushed) per glass of boiling water.
Vitamin tea. It has a strong tonic, restorative and healing effect. Prepared from a mixture of rose hips, dried strawberries and currant leaves. You can mix the components in different proportions; mono-component teas are also used - rosehip, strawberry, blackcurrant.
Tea to lower blood pressure. Increased blood pressure is a problem that many sauna lovers face. Tea made from dried chokeberries (a tablespoon of dry berries per glass of boiling water) helps normalize it. For greater effectiveness, lemon (along with zest) or hibiscus is added to it.
Bath teas for colds. Used when the first signs of a cold appear: sore and dry throat, dry cough (“coughing”), nasal congestion. The most effective are teas made from dried raspberry leaves or berries, linden leaves and a mixture of three herbs: chamomile, St. John's wort and sage. You can combine all of the listed components in equal proportions. A good addition to this tea would be viburnum berries - they will enhance its effect, as well as ginger, which will destroy infections in the mouth and throat and increase immunity.
Diaphoretic tea (for weight loss, cleansing the body). It is brewed from linden leaves - a teaspoon per glass of boiling water. For weight loss, simple, weakly brewed green tea with the addition of ginger is also used.
Tea for kidney and bladder health. Lingonberry leaves and dried berries are used to prepare it. It is useful to supplement this tea with cranberries - they destroy pathogenic bacteria.
For heart health. This tea is brewed from dried strawberry leaves and berries, as well as dried hawthorn berries.
For joints. Tea made from dried or fresh juniper berries is good - it has an anti-inflammatory, anti-edematous, analgesic effect. It is used for pain in the joint after injury and against the background of arthritis, arthrosis and other diseases. For a glass of boiling water you need to brew a tablespoon of chopped berries.
For the respiratory system. Tea based on thyme, oregano, linden and turmeric is used. Turmeric is added to the finished drink (at the tip of a knife), it has an antimicrobial and decongestant effect. The remaining herbs are mixed in equal proportions, crushed and brewed at the ratio of a tablespoon per glass of water.

Important! Before using tea, you should make sure there are no individual intolerances or contraindications.

If you don’t want to prepare a special composition, you can simply brew mate. This tea has a refreshing effect, it clarifies thoughts and consciousness, improves mood and promotes contemplation.

By choosing herbal tea, you can improve your well-being and health, reveal the hidden reserves of the body, become cheerful and full of energy. As Hippocrates said, “your food should be your medicine.” Herbal teas are the best way to set yourself in a healthy mood!

Video lesson: how to brew tea in a bathhouse.

Tea balm recipe

To prepare this drink, you need to make sure that you have all the necessary ingredients on hand. To get an aromatic and tasty drink you will need:

A couple of spoons of black tea.
Honey.
Three teaspoons each of chopped rose hips and hawthorn.
A couple of fresh mint leaves.

Combine all the bulk ingredients in one bowl and pour boiling water over them. For every two teaspoons of the resulting mixture you will need 250 milliliters of hot water. The drink should be infused for at least fifteen minutes. After this time, it is filtered, sweetened with natural honey and poured into cups.

What drinks do not go well with a sauna?

You need to understand that not every drink is suitable for a bath. Some of them not only will not bring any benefit, but can cause illness, thereby ruining your vacation and even contributing to serious health problems.

Beer and alcohol

Few people think about the effect even weak alcohol can have on a person in a bathhouse. Most of them are simply trying to get as many alcoholic drinks as possible in order to properly enjoy their vacation.

Under no circumstances should you do this. Yes, the same beer perfectly relieves thirst, but for a short time, while putting a colossal load on the heart and kidneys. This differs from normal conditions in that in a steam room these organs are already working to the limit of their capabilities.

The point is not entirely that visiting a bathhouse for the body is practically no different from strong physical activity: alcohol, entering the body, begins to sharply expand the blood vessels, and then also sharply narrow them. The more alcohol, the stronger its influence.

Even beer drunk in a bathhouse increases the likelihood of a heart attack, arrhythmia or stroke. You shouldn’t risk your health and life - after all, the bathhouse exists to improve your health, not ruin it.

The only acceptable option is to allow yourself one can of low-alcohol drink and drink it slowly, gradually.

Coffee and black tea

Coffee and black tea are also not the best choice of drinks in the bathhouse. It's all about the increased caffeine content, which increases blood pressure and the already strong load on the heart and blood vessels due to high temperatures. This can cause headaches, dizziness, and there is a risk of heart attack and stroke.

Option with rose hips

This time you should have:

20 grams of black tea.
A couple of tablespoons of sugar
Liter of water.
200 grams of rose hips.
Orange zest.

In a deep bowl, mix water with sugar and put it on the stove. After the liquid boils, add rose hips and cook for another five minutes. The resulting infusion is poured into black tea combined with orange zest and set aside for a quarter of an hour. After this, the drink is filtered, sweetened with honey and poured into cups.

Green tea after the steam room

Immediately after visiting the sauna you should drink a large amount of liquid. Not so long ago, people preferred regular black tea, but recently other varieties have come into fashion, among which green tea took first place. Despite the fact that this drink is less aromatic compared to black, it is not inferior to it in terms of the number of active ingredients, vitamins and beneficial properties.

Green tea is healthier

Green tea is a special variety, the production of which does not involve fermentation or steeping processes. Thanks to the careful processing of green leaves, the infusion retains the entire necessary complex of microelements and vitamins. It has a greenish tint, a pleasant faint odor and a bitter taste.

The chemical composition of green tea contains a special component called theanine. This substance helps stimulate brain cells, has a calming effect on the entire body and helps the body relax after the heat in the steam room. At the same time, the person does not fall into a sleepy state, but on the contrary, feels cheerful and filled with energy. Green tea allows you to:

Think clearly
Improve blood circulation
Completely get rid of fatigue

In order for green tea to be most effective after a steam room, you need to use a recipe for its preparation that was known to our ancestors. It is important to know that when brewing tea, it is forbidden to use boiling water.

You need to boil the water and let it cool slightly.
When the water has reached the required temperature, pour it over the green tea leaves and drain immediately. This is necessary so that the drink is not bitter.
Next, the washed tea leaves are poured with new boiled water and infused for 5 minutes.

You need to remember one rule: when drinking a drink after completing bath procedures, you do not need to add milk or sugar to it. If a person is not used to drinking unsweetened tea, sugar can be replaced with one spoon of honey. The use of other sweeteners is not recommended. Return to content

Black tea

Despite the popularity of green tea, many people prefer to use some recipe inherited from their grandmother. This is argued by the fact that it was in the old days that people treated the bathhouse with respect. Even the smallest details, without which not a single bath procedure is complete, were approached with great responsibility.

Black velvet tea

Maintaining ancient traditions, most continue to brew simple black tea in samovars, since it:

Considered the best solution to quench thirst
Gives you the opportunity to get a breath of freshness
Helps cleanse the kidneys
Allows you to stabilize the process of capillary blood circulation

To get as much benefit as possible from this wonderful drink, in addition to black tea, it is advisable to add washed raspberry leaves or linden inflorescences to the teapot. Thanks to this combination, you can increase sweating. However, doctors strongly recommend not to get too carried away with such drinking, since large amounts of the drink can have a negative effect on the kidneys.

A good solution would be to combine black tea with dry leaves of strawberries, mint, currants or St. John's wort. You can also add any jam to it. You should drink tea with the addition of various herbs or berries 20 minutes after completing the bath procedures and in small portions. Basically, 150-200 ml of the drink will be enough to restore the water balance in the body, but if you want to drink more, you can simply rinse your mouth with tea.

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Alcoholic drinks

Drinking alcoholic beverages in the bathhouse is prohibited. Since ending up in a hospital after a bath is the least of two evils. When you are in a hot steam room, your heart already bears a heavy load, and alcohol can only increase it. By drinking heavy alcoholic drinks (vodka, whiskey, cognac), you can ruin the holiday not only for yourself, but also for your friends.

Even a completely healthy person can end up in a hospital bed after a bath, since alcohol slows down the reaction and dulls attention. In the steam room, the water, walls and stove are heated, and if the reaction is reduced, touching any of the above is fraught with serious burns. If you really want to drink alcohol, then it is better to drink a glass of beer, but not too cold.

A mug of natural bread kvass can become a good tradition - and there is alcohol present and no harm.