The brewing art of vanilla tea: cold brewing and hot brewing have their own ingenuity.

In recent years, many restaurants have often seen herbs as food or seasoning, and some people put herbs, small tomatoes and lemon slices into water bottles to add vanilla flavor to boiled water.

In fact, different brewing methods of vanilla will really affect the efficacy.

For example, sage, which is commonly used in cooking, is used to remove it during cooking to help meat digestion, but experts of aromatic herbs use sage for inflammation of mouth and throat, such as mouthwash (please refer to the magic book of herbal healing). Sage has different functions when drinking hot or soaking cold. Drinking it while it is hot can promote sweating and reduce fever, but if it is cold soaked or ground into powder, it will be swallowed.

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Most herbal teas are hot-soaked, but some herbal teas can reduce the green feeling caused by the release of tannic acid by cold-soaking, such as red raspberries, which are called "women's herbs" because they are closely related to women's reproductive and physiological functions. It belongs to Rosaceae, and its leaves, like stems and roses, are covered with needles, usually from the leaves planted in the second year. However, if another brewing method is adopted, the raspberry leaves are put into boiling water at room temperature and then put into the refrigerator for 24 hours before drinking. This cold soaking method can also be used for volatile essential oils of vanilla, such as mint, rose petals, blackberry and other heat-sensitive essential oils.

In addition, plants with mucus, such as cotton candy, slippery elm and other plants that nourish the respiratory tract, diminish inflammation, moisten the throat and repair the gastrointestinal tract, are also particularly suitable for cold soaking. Some experts will soak 500ml cold water with 30g fragrant medicine all night, which can better preserve the mucus in the fragrant medicine, especially suitable for the use of blisters and ulcers in the mouth caused by virus infection. Its viscosity is similar to that of Ashoka and Okra, and this fragrant herb with mucus often uses food-grade glycerol or low-concentration alcohol of about 20? 30-degree alcohol production, so as to avoid high-concentration alcohol destroying its viscous substances.

In addition, Gladstar, one of the most influential masters of fragrant herbs, also proposed two special brewing methods: sunlight soaking and moonlight soaking; She believes that these two brewing methods can absorb the energy of the earth and strengthen the healing ability of vanilla, which is especially suitable for people who pursue physical and mental balance.

Daylight method: put the vanilla in a sealed glass container near the kitchen window and let the warm sunshine shine on the vanilla tea for several hours. If you can't have an outside window in your kitchen, you can put it on the balcony.

Moonlight method: put vanilla tea on the second night of moonlit night. Suggest doing it when you see the moonlight. Not applicable in rainy weather.

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