At the end of 1941, instead of moving in the direction of Leningrad, Hitler gave the order to send tanks to the village of Koporye in order to destroy the object "River of Life", under this codename was an experimental laboratory that produced drinks from medicinal herbs according to old Russian recipes, which were based on Ivan-tea.
The history of oblivion of "Ivan-tea" and its replacement in Russia with foreign tea
The consequences of the craze for foreign tea and coffee are now more than obvious. The number of heart attacks, strokes, and nervous disorders has sharply increased everywhere. The overseas caffeine-rich tea is partly to blame. Our body, genetically formed for centuries, was not able to “digest” a shock dose of caffeine, which is essentially a drug, without consequences.
The worst herb used in the form of tea is industrial Indian tea
In Indian tea, two not very good groups of substances are identified: - these are theophyllines - these are substances of the ephedrine type, from which drug addicts brew "dope". In pharmaceutical medicine, ephedrine is equated to drugs.
And the second group of substances present in ordinary tea is astringent, tanning tannins, which, and this has been proven, in the intestinal lumen, “tan” the intestinal wall too, making it impenetrable and preventing the absorption of vitamins and, in general, useful substances.
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Thus, there is a paradox in the world: there are millions of species of vegetation in the world, and it is its single poisonous varieties that are industrially supplied to the stream in the “civilized world”: tobacco, cocaine (Coca-Cola), tea and coffee.
By chance? There is nothing accidental in this world "my friend Horatio"!
Why is Russia not industrially put on the production of, say, "tea" from "St. John's Wort" or "Ivan-Chai", which grow underfoot in Russia and cost a penny, which are not much healthier than Indian tea from all sides? Why was Russia put on “English tea” after the Crimean War?
India is an English colony. After all, before the Crimean War in Russia, neither English tea nor Persian tea, and they are actually Persian, there were no samovars - but literally in a few years, suddenly, as if by magic or by order from above, English tea suddenly becomes, like the notorious "Orthodox Church", they say, "A primordially Russian national drink" without which Russians now, they say, cannot imagine themselves, and the Russian government began to spend frantic money, buying English tea at the price of silver per ounce, when something, but in Russia its the herbs are full. This is a question, by the way, for all Russian patriots.
By the way, exactly at the time when Russia was planted on "tea", China, for example, was planted on opium, in the so-called "opium wars" of the West against China. The Chinese did not want to smoke opium - they stuffed it into the esophagus.
The European Union and the UN have a principle: each nation has its own kind of drug
Even academician Pavlov found that caffeine enhances excitation processes in the cerebral cortex and increases motor activity. Tea alkaloids enhance cardiac activity, myocardial contractions become more intense and frequent. As a result, a person feels like a surge of energy. But such lifts of spirit are accompanied by an increased expenditure of energy.
Large doses of caffeine consumed on a regular basis lead to depletion of nerve cells. Caffeine is contraindicated for many ailments (or rather, the consequences of an urban lifestyle): insomnia, hypertension, atherosclerosis, glaucoma, cardiovascular diseases. Excessive consumption of caffeinated drinks leads to exacerbation of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.
In addition, tea tannins remove calcium, magnesium, phosphorus from the body. Thus, tea drains its immoderate fans.
The path to the improvement of the Russian nation is simple, like everything ingenious - to return to the roots, to remember the undeservedly forgotten, primordially Russian drink - "Ivan-Chai".
It received this name in the first half of the 17th century, that is, at the time of the beginning of the tea and coffee World expansion!
And before that, Russian healers called "Ivan-tea" for its powerful healing properties a borax potion. Especially popular were infusions on the leaves of "Ivan-tea", which were used to treat headaches, relieve various inflammations. Ivan-Chai also had such nicknames as bread-bin or miller. They appeared due to the fact that the dried, ground roots of "Ivan-chai", following the recommendations of folk healers, were often added to flour for baking bread. Also "Ivan-tea" was called cockerel apples - for the taste properties of young leaves, which completely replace salad. Yes, as soon as they did not call "Ivan-tea" among the people, which again speaks of its popularity!
So, our "tea-growers" brewed "Ivan-tea" in such a way that it began to resemble subtropical tea in taste and color. It was made like this: the leaves of "Ivan-tea" were dried, scalded in a tub with boiling water, ground in a trough, then thrown back onto baking sheets and dried in a Russian oven. After drying, the leaves were crumpled again and the tea was ready.
Most of this tea was prepared in the village of Koporye near St. Petersburg. Therefore, they began to call the drink, and later the "Ivan-tea" itself, Koporsky tea. HUNDREDS of poods of this product have been used in Russia. It was appreciated by Siberians and Dutch, Don Cossacks and Danes. Later it became the MOST IMPORTANT component in Russian exports. After special processing, "Ivan-tea" was sent by sea to England and other European countries, where it was also REPLACE, like Persian carpets, Chinese silk, Damascus steel. Abroad, "Ivan-tea" was called Russian tea!
Leaving on a long journey, Russian sailors always took Ivan-tea with them in order to drink themselves. And as gifts in foreign ports.
However, there were also unscrupulous merchants who used "Ivan-tea" to counterfeit Chinese (Peking) tea. They mixed the leaves of "Ivan-tea" with Chinese tea and passed off this mixture as an expensive oriental curiosity. But it must be said that in pre-revolutionary Russia, and even after the revolution until 1941, the addition of other plants to subtropical teas was considered shameless falsification, fraud and was prosecuted by law. Therefore, such merchants were most often convicted of such unseemly acts and brought to justice, sometimes even arranging high-profile trials.
However, even such cases could not deprive Koporye tea of popularity, and already in the 19th century it became a powerful competitor to Indian tea.
Great Britain, which owned HUGE tea plantations in India, annually bought tens of thousands of poods of Koporye tea, preferring Russian tea to Indian tea!
So why has such a profitable production of Koporsk tea stopped in Russia? The fact is that at the end of the 19th century, its popularity turned out to be so great that it began to undermine the financial power of the East Indian tea campaign, which traded Indian tea !!! The campaign fanned a scandal, as if Russians are grinding tea with white clay, and it is supposedly harmful to health. And the real reason is that the owners of the East India campaign had to remove the most powerful competitor from their own market in England - Russian tea!
The company achieved its goal, the purchase of Russian tea was reduced, and after the revolution in Russia in 1917, when England entered the military bloc "Entente", the purchase of tea in Russia stopped completely! The koporye went bankrupt …
And just recently, people remembered about this healing drink. After a long break, the sailors of the "Kruzenshtern" were made according to old recipes and took with them to the round-the-world regatta. The famous lone traveler F. Konyukhov always uses this healing "Ivan-tea" in all his travels!
The underside of coffee vigor
In the near future, it is necessary to introduce "Ivan-tea" into the food of people, excluding or, at the first stage, to limit the consumption of subtropical teas and coffee, where there is an excess content of caffeine, which for a Russian person can be used very limitedly.
In the mechanism of action of caffeine, an important role is played by the fact that it inhibits the enzyme phosphodiesterase. At the same time, cyclic adenosine monophosphate accumulates inside the cells, under the influence of which metabolic processes in various organs and tissues, including muscle tissue, and in the central nervous system are enhanced. But a paper cup of tea or coffee is not considered doping at a distance.
At the same time, caffeine binds to receptors in the brain, displacing adenosine, which normally reduces the processes of excitation in the brain. Replacing it with caffeine leads to a stimulating effect.
However, with prolonged use of this alkaloid, like other drugs, its effect gradually decreases.
And from tinted boiling water, they often go to a cup of real tea (a teaspoon of tea leaves for 0.15-0.2 liters of boiling water) washed down in three doses at intervals of 1.5-2 minutes. Then, by the morning cup, a daytime cup, and then a third one, because in the absence of caffeine, the accumulated adenosine occupies all available brain receptors, sharply increasing the inhibition processes, fatigue, drowsiness, depression appear, blood pressure decreases and other unpleasant sensations arise.
In addition, the tannins contained in tea, and up to 18% of them (the higher the grade, the more there are), bind insoluble compounds and remove calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, metal salts of copper, zinc, nickel and other trace elements from the digestive system. That is why in the East tea is drunk one hour before a meal or two hours after a meal, and without any spices and sweets, which stimulate the secretion of saliva containing a lot of calcium and other digestive media rich in enzymes and vitamins.
… And Ivan-tea blooms from mid-June to late August. Flowers open from 6 to 7 am, attracting many bees. This is not surprising, since Ivan-Chai is one of the best honey plants. It is estimated that bees can store up to a thousand kilograms of honey from a hectare of the "Fireweed" land. By the way, according to experts, fireweed honey is the sweetest, and if the honey is fresh, it is the most transparent. In addition to nectar, the bees remove their bread-bee bread from the flowers of "Ivan-tea".
The seeds of "Ivan-chai" ripen in August. Ripe seeds with fluff fly out of the fruit-boxes. Above the thickets of "Ivan-tea" and far around, down flies - as if several featherbeds were ripped open. The seeds of "Ivan-chai" are remarkable for their amazing volatility - the wind carries them away for tens of kilometers. Flowers, leaves, less often the roots of "Ivan-tea" are used as medicinal raw materials.
The collection is carried out during flowering (usually leaves and unblown buds are prepared separately).
"Ivan-tea" contains
Flavonoids (quercetin, kemferol, which has an antispasmodic choleretic and diuretic effect).
Tannins (up to 20% of the tannins of the pyrogal group, which have anti-inflammatory and hemostatic astringents).
Mucus (up to 15%, which provides emollient and enveloping properties, the ability to relieve inflammation, soothe pain, soothe and relieve cramps).
A small amount of alkaloids (these substances are poisonous in large doses, but in small doses they have remarkable healing properties, they can improve metabolism, blood circulation, the state of the nervous system are good pain relievers).
Chlorophyll (green plant pigment that absorbs light energy, stimulates wound healing, improves metabolism).
Pectin (this substance increases the shelf life of tea).
The leaves contain vitamins, especially a lot of carotene (provitamin A) and vitamin C (up to 200-388 mg - 3 times more than in oranges).
The roots are rich in starch (this is a storage carbohydrate of plants), polysaccharides (these carbohydrates are involved in immune reactions), organic acids (are involved in biochemical reactions., Play an important role in maintaining the acid-base balance).
In addition, the leaves of "Ivan-chai" contain a large amount of trace elements that stimulate hematopoiesis - iron, copper, manganese and other trace elements necessary for metabolism - nickel, titanium, molybdenum, boron.
No plant can boast of such a set of microelements!
The unique composition determines the variety of healing properties of "Ivan-tea". This is a mild laxative, emollient, enveloping, wound healing, analgesic, anticonvulsant effect. By its anti-inflammatory properties, "Ivan-tea" surpasses all medicinal plants - it has been scientifically proven that it has the highest anti-inflammatory coefficient among plants! And according to its tranquilizing effect (sedative, reducing feelings of tension, anxiety, fear)
In folk medicine, "Ivan-tea" has long been considered also an antineoplastic agent. And scientific studies have confirmed the centuries-old experience of herbalists, from the inflorescences of "Ivan-tea" was isolated a high-molecular compound hanerol, which exhibits antitumor activity, has a relatively low toxicity and a wide range of effects on tumors.
To summarize, "Ivan-tea" gives us:
Prevention of malignant and benign neoplasms;
Strengthens potency;
Effective in diseases of the genitourinary system (powerful prevention of prostititis);
Scars stomach and duodenal ulcers;
Increased immunity to respiratory viral infections;
Caries prevention;
Improves blood composition;
Reduces intoxication of the body;
Relieves food and alcohol poisoning;
Restores strength when exhausted;
With stones in the liver, kidneys and spleen diseases;
Strengthens hair roots;
Vitamin "C" in "Ivan-tea" is 6.5 times more than in lemon;
Eliminates headache;
Normalizes blood pressure !!!
Ivan-tea is also called "narrow-leaved fireweed". It is a tall plant.