How to brew currant leaves

Black currant bushes are now found in every summer cottage. The berry of this plant is used both in cooking and for the needs of traditional medicine. But the leaves of the plant are undeservedly ignored, and yet they are no less useful than the fruits.

The benefits of currant leaves

Black currant bush leaves contain many nutrients. According to these indicators, they can be called a real storehouse of health. When used correctly, the leaves of the bush can help with a number of diseases:

• As a means to improve the immune defense, currant sheets used to treat vitamin deficiency, asthenia and anemia.
• Due to the ability to relieve inflammation and disinfect, the leaves are used to eliminate gastrointestinal diseases. They help to cope with pathogenic microorganisms that inhabit the human intestine.
• For skin diseases, compresses, masks or baths with decoctions of currant leaves are made.
• With the help of bush leaves in the process of treating gout or rheumatism, harmful uric acid is removed from the body.
• Decoctions and infusions of blackcurrant leaves have a good diuretic effect, which is useful in the treatment of diseases of the kidneys and urogenital organs.

• Currant leaf is useful during seasonal exacerbations of colds. He picks up well immunity organism and helps not to get sick.
• Elderly people are especially recommended to use currant leaf tinctures. This remedy has a good effect on the circulatory system, improves heart function, cleanses blood vessels, inhibits the development of sclerosis and helps maintain a clear mind.

Correct brewing of currant leaves

Cook the right one tea with a currant leaf is quite simple. Usually, already dried leaves of the plant are used for this purpose, but if necessary, you can use fresh ones. If a fresh currant leaf is taken, then it is finely cut beforehand. The leaves of a wild plant have the greatest benefit, but the leaves of garden currants also contain many useful substances. You can simply buy dried currant leaves at any pharmacy.

The dried leaf needs a tablespoon per liter of cold water. If the tea is made from fresh leaves, then you need to double their portion. To make a drink made from currant leaves have a more pleasant taste and aroma, it is mixed with ordinary black or green tea in a 1: 1 ratio.

Chopped currant leaves are mixed with black or green tea and steamed with a liter of boiling water. The container is covered with a lid and kept for a quarter of an hour. This time is enough for the currants to give all their nutrients to the drink. The ready-made healing drink can be filtered through a strainer, but you can also use it like regular tea.

How to take a decoction of currant leaves

To get rid of colds, currant leaf decoction is prepared in the usual way, without adding any additional ingredients. Four full tablespoons of crushed dry currant leaves are poured with a liter of boiling water and heated in a water bath for half an hour. After that, the broth is allowed to cool, passed through a sieve and consumed three times a day.

For healing from kidney diseases, removing stones or sand, it is preferable to use not a decoction, but an infusion on a currant leaf. For such a drink, per liter of boiling water, take 1 large spoonful of dry raw materials and brew in a thermos or in a saucepan wrapped in a warm blanket. In an hour, the infusion will be ready for use. It is drunk up to six times a day for 1 glass. The same infusion is used to treat boils by applying napkins soaked in the infusion to them.

It is useful to use the crushed leaves of this plant to improve the condition of the skin. For this purpose, fresh leaves are used, crushing and grinding them to a mushy state. After that, separate 2 tablespoons of the product and mix them with beaten egg white from two raw eggs. The mixture is applied to the skin of the face and after 20 minutes washed off with cool water. With constant use of such a mask, the fat content of the skin decreases, the pores narrow, the skin becomes lighter. It is useful to use a decoction for hair. They rinse the curls after washing. This procedure is especially recommended for oily hair.