Everyone knows that mint has the effect of freshening breath, and mint also has medicinal effects, such as treating sore throat, headache, red and painful eyes, muscle pain, skin eczema and itching caused by cold and fever. So what are the benefits of drinking mint water? Let's take a look together!
Benefits of Drinking Mint Water
1. Mint Rock Sugar Tea
Ingredients: Rock sugar and mint leaves.
Method: Rinse the mint leaves and place them in a teacup. Add a suitable amount of boiling water and cover the cup to let the mint leaves steep. After 20 minutes, you can smell the mint fragrance coming through the cup lid.
Then, open the lid and add some rock sugar, which can improve the taste and make it easier to drink.
Mint rock sugar tea is beneficial for muscle relaxation and has a certain therapeutic effect on muscle spasms and stiffness.
Not only that, this mint tea is also beneficial for intestinal peristalsis, stimulating digestion. Drinking a cup of mint rock sugar tea after eating oily food is really comfortable.
At the same time, this tea also has the effect of refreshing and relieving stress, in addition to its muscle relaxation effect.
2. Rose Mint Tea
Ingredients: Mint leaves, rose petals.
Method: Wash the mint leaves and rose petals, place them in a cup, and add boiling water. Then it can be consumed.
However, the effect will be better if the tea is cooled before consumption.
Rose mint tea is mainly suitable for consumption in spring, to avoid excessive mental strain and to fight against spring drowsiness.
In addition, this tea is especially suitable for women to consume. The mint in rose mint tea can relieve emotions, and the rose can make women's skin become smoother and more beautiful.
3. Mint Chrysanthemum Tea
Ingredients: Mint, chrysanthemum.
Method: Similar to the rose mint tea, after cleaning the two ingredients, add them to a cup and pour in hot water. Cover the cup for about 10 minutes.
Let the two ingredients fully evaporate, and it is better to consume them after they have cooled down.
Mint chrysanthemum tea is also a drink that is beneficial for relieving fatigue. At the same time, it also has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying.
Precautions for Consuming Mint
1. Pregnant women should avoid using it. Mint leaves can inhibit milk secretion, so it is not suitable for breastfeeding women to use it excessively.
2. Mint leaves have a brain-stimulating and excitatory effect. Therefore, it is not suitable to use it excessively at night to avoid sleep disturbances.
3. People with yin deficiency and fever, blood deficiency and dizziness should be cautious in using mint. People with spontaneous sweating should not consume mint. In addition, when making mint decoction with tea, do not boil it for too long.
4. Dosage: Mint oil has a strong paralyzing effect on mammals. Excessive use can cause respiratory paralysis and death.
Therefore, the dosage in medicinal products should not exceed the prescribed limit (except for medicinal use, generally not more than 2mg/kg body weight per day per person).
