Rosemary is a plant origin from the Mediterranean coast. The scientific name is Rosmarinus Officinalis, a common herbal which is well-known by many people. Its flowers and leaves have a strong fragrance. Most of the rosemary flowers are blue and called “Dew Of The Sea”.
Rosemary has a pleasant aroma and was often used in religious ceremonies in ancient times. Nowadays, rosemary is mainly made into spices, essential oils, and rosemary tea.
What Is Rosemary Tea
Rosemary tea is made from the rosemary leaves after drying, with a strong pine-scented, taste light sweet but a little bitter. The unique herbal flavor may be unacceptable to somebody, but once you’ve accepted rosemary tea and fallen in love with it, it can bring lots of health benefits to you.
Benefits Of Rosemary Tea
Rosemary leaves are rich in rosmarinic acid, carnosic acid, and carnosol, which have high antioxidant activity and anti-inflammatory effects. And what benefits the tea made by rosemary leaves will bring to us?
Protect The Heart
Rosemary tea has a high antioxidant effect, effectively prevent the aging of arteries, protect the heart and reduce the incidence of myocardial infarction. Research[4] showed that the antioxidant properties of rosemary tea can reduce the stress response of heart muscle cells and repair hardened heart tissue. For the old man, have rosemary tea daily helps to prevent the heart disease
Prevent Canner
Rosemary tea is rich in carnosol[1], a high-efficient anti-inflammatory substance. The scientists studied and show that rosemary extract has promising potential to prevent prostate, breast, skin, leukemia, and colon cancer.
Although it cannot prove that drinking rosemary tea can prevent cancer in 100%. But people who live in the Mediterranean, where rosemary originated, have taken it in life for a long time, significantly lower rates of these cancers than other regions.
Help In Treating Alzheimer’s Disease
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a disease for which no known cure, the usual incidence in the elderly crowd.
There is no specific evidence for the cause of AD, but most causes by the degeneration of nerve. The diterpene[2] contained in rosemary tea has a high antioxidant effect and can protect nerve cells from ischemic injury by scavenging ROS, show potential in the treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease.
Manage Mental State
Thanks to the benefits of diterpenes on the nerve tissue, having rosemary tea can also improve people’s mental strength and concentration, which is of great help to students during the study and those who need to maintain high concentration in work.
Oral Inflammation Treatment
Rosemary tea contains an anti-inflammatory ingredient that can relieve bleeding gums and treat oral diseases, just as same as the elderflower tea. Hold rosemary tea in your mouth for 2 seconds or gargle with it when drinking it, can reduce inflammation and freshen your breath at the same time.
Promote Hair Growth
Rosemary extract has the effect of promoting hair growth, is one of the main ingredients of many anti-hair loss products. But having rosemary tea cannot get this benefit. What you need to do is apply a high concentration of rosemary tea to your hair and scalp. This method gets the same effect as rosemary essential oil, but just a little.
Relieve Menstrual Pain
When women in menstrual, having rosemary tea also can relieve the pain. Research[3] showed that the anti-inflammatory ingredients in rosemary can stimulate endometrial contraction, reduce blood loss and effectively reduce the pain of menstrual.
Rosemary Tea Side Effects
Rosemary tea is not suitable for people below
Epilepsy Patients
Because the diterpenes in rosemary can stimulate the nerves, epilepsy patients may cause seizures or worsen after having rosemary tea.
Pregnant Woman
The anti-inflammatory ingredients of rosemary tea can stimulate endometrial contraction, in severe cases will lead to miscarriage, so it should not be drunk by pregnant women.
How To Brew Rosemary Tea
- Take out 3-5g rosemary tea, put it into a teapot which after pre-heat, and slowly pour 500ml boiling water into it. The fragrance of rosemary will spread out quickly.
- Steep for 3 minutes will be done; The second round needs to steep for 7 minutes, and the third round should longer to 10 minutes.
- Pour out the rosemary tea leaves if you are not drinking, long time steeping will make the tea taste bitter; Pour them out at time can make it still taste good at the next round.
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