As consumers and writers of content about healthy eating and naturopathic medicine, we often hear about some well-known home remedies.
In fact, one of the top most talked about natural medicines is chamomile tea, not only because many people recommend it, but also because many others don’t understand:
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Why drink chamomile tea?
Drinking chamomile tea is recommended especially if you are a person with stomach discomfort because it decreases stomach pains and improves the digestive process thanks to the high amount of flavonoids.
Chamomile tea works as an anti-inflammatory when drunk as an infusion as well as an antispasmodic by preventing and decreasing stomach cramps and stomach problems.
Is chamomile tea good for gastritis?
Probably after reading the previous paragraph many people may have concerns as to whether there are any other benefits of chamomile tea on digestion, such as whether it works for gastritis. Well, fortunately, this is correct.
Chamomile tea is one of the best-known and most effective remedies to reduce gastritis due to its digestive and anti-inflammatory properties: it protects and restores the gastric membrane and that is why it is not only an ideal medicine for gastritis but also for treating other stomach diseases. In these cases, it is recommended to drink it once a day.
Is chamomile tea useful at bedtime?
The answer is yes. This tea is very good for falling asleep and calming down, so many people use to drink this tea before going to bed.
For this effect, you have to drink the tea about 45 minutes before going to sleep and in this way achieve a state of drowsiness. This is due to its apigenin content, a chemical compound that promotes the desire to sleep when it reaches the brain receptors.
What are the uses of chamomile tea for viruses?
Maybe you are still wondering what other reasons are there for you to drink chamomile tea. Let us tell you that it is also widely used to treat colds and flu through aromatherapy, but not only that, it is also very useful to fight infections caused by bacteria if you drink 2 or 3 cups a day for 2 weeks. This is because this plant increases the level of polyphenols in the body.
Is chamomile tea useful for weight loss?
We’ll give you another of its uses. You can drink this tea if you want to lose weight because it has components that help the body to purify itself, diuretic properties and also helps to improve digestion.
Chamomile tea also promotes body purification by supporting the elimination of toxins from the body. When the body has purified all the toxins, it will be much better able to absorb healthy foods and not junk food, resulting in a decrease in weight.
What is chamomile tea good for?
People also asked about the benefits of chamomile tea and here we’ll answer the question by summarizing the properties we had mentioned and exposing new benefits.
- It helps the digestive system
- It relieves gastritis
- It is anti-inflammatory
- It is a natural sleeping pill
- It treats colds and bacterial infections
- It promotes weight loss
- It is antioxidant and antispasmodic.
- It reduces joint pain
- It treats liver diseases
- It is a natural pain reliever
Does processed tea have the same effects as homemade tea?
Many people wonder if the tea they buy in supermarkets is of the same quality as homemade tea, and the answer is no. Processed tea goes through a series of processes that alter its natural composition as it is the fact of putting it in the bags. These bags have a small part of heavy metals that are not recommended for human consumption and that alter the components of the plant, something that does not happen with the tea that is made directly with the plant, for this reason, it is more advisable to ingest the latter.
To sum up
Through this blog, you may notice the many reasons why you should drink chamomile tea, a beverage with many medicinal properties that can even help you lose those difficult-to-burn-of extra kilos.
Beyond the discussion in this answer post, we recommend you to check our blogs where you’ll find much more information about chamomile and other interesting aliments that have much more to contribute to our health than what we usually think.