If you have eaten too much, if your stomach or intestines are affected in the end of the day by the accumulated stress, if you have not given yourself the right time for the meal and everything has stopped there, here's how to facilitate the digestive process and make peace with the stomach: just a handful of herbs, a bit of honey and water are enough!
The herbs or plants that we offer and which help us prepare infusions or digestive infusions are readily available, often cultivable by themselves: mint, against bloating, nausea, poor digestion; anise, if you have eaten too fatty foods; and again chamomile, hyssop, lemon and laurel .
Here are some useful recipes.
Mint digestive herbal tea
Ingredients :
> about 300 grams of fresh or dried mint leaves
> one liter of water
Mint can use both fresh and dried leaves; when the water comes to a boil, pour the mint leaves into the teapot, wait five minutes of infusion before filtering. Drink hot, adding lemon juice or honey to taste.
Here is how the body reacts to mint: the green leaflet acts positively immediately on the stomach and intestines. It therefore lends itself to being a useful remedy in cases of poor digestion, nausea, intestinal discomfort . This herb also helps to eliminate gas and swelling .
Difficult digestion? Try the essential mint oil
Anise digestive herbal tea
Ingredients :
> a teaspoon of star anise > a cup of hot water
Put the star anise in a cup of hot water and leave it covered for 15 minutes, covered. Strain and drink hot after meals to aid digestion. It can also be taken earlier to tickle the appetite.
From the particular shape similar to a star from which its name derives, originating from East Asia, it is cultivated in China, the Philippines and Japan.
Star anise is used in folk medicine for internal use due to its digestive, carminative, balsamic and galactological properties.
Anise is an excellent carminative, with aperitif and digestive properties, stimulates the appetite and promotes digestion.
Digestive herbal tea based on hyssop
Ingredients :
> a tablespoon of dried hyssop leaves and flowers
> a small pot of water
Put the tablespoon of dried hyssop leaves and flowers in a small pot of water previously boiled. Leave to infuse for ten minutes, filter and then drink a cup a day, when the disorder occurs.
Hyssop is a herb with a thousand virtues: besides being a valid ally to defeat cough and disorders related to the respiratory tract, it promotes digestion, the secretion of gastric juices and the elimination of intestinal gases .
The properties include: antispasmodic, antiseptic, pain relieving, anti-meteorism.
Camomile digestive herbal tea
Ingredients:
> a spoonful of whole flowers
> a cup of water
Chamomile is used for whole flowers, one teaspoon per cup, left to infuse for up to five minutes; if you like it you can add a few seeds of fennel, cumin, with the deflating power, or a few drops of lemon and honey. To drink in the evening before bedtime .
Simple and functional, this herbal tea helps in digestion and promotes relaxation, is antispasmodic and antiseptic.
Lemon digestive infusion
Ingredients :
> lemon peel
> a small pot of water
> a spoonful of honey
> a few drops of lemon
Cut the yellow part of the strictly organic lemon peel, boil it in water for a few minutes. Add, once poured into the cup, a teaspoon of honey and a few drops of lemon.
If you have bay leaves, add them at the end of the infusion, the stomach will calm down immediately. If you like the taste of ginger, add it fresh to the lemon peels, with a pinch of fennel seeds and one of cumin seeds . You have given yourself a very effective antibacterial and deflated addition.
