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Children and adults drink raspberry tea when they have a fever to improve their general condition, relieve unpleasant symptoms of a cold or flu, and speed up recovery. This unique plant has a whole range of advantages - natural composition, a rich set of vitamins, quick relief at high temperatures. To prepare tea, berries, inflorescences and green parts of the plant (leaves, shoots, branches) are used.
Is it possible to eat raspberries for colds and fever?
Raspberry tea is great for helping with fever and speeds up recovery, so it can and should not only be used for viral and infectious diseases. Valuable substances found in raspberries:
- Sahara;
- pectins;
- essential oils (antiseptics);
- protein substances;
- vitamins;
- organic acids;
- wine, isoamyl alcohol;
- tannins;
- ketones;
- anthocyanins;
- catechins;
- fixed oils.
You can eat raspberries at a fever, but doctors recommend drinking them - making juice from the berries, tea from the fruits, leaves, small branches (can be combined with other crops).Leaves are collected during active flowering - when they contain the most nutrients. The branches are harvested in the fall - thoroughly dried and placed in glass jars. The berries are frozen, pureed with sugar, canned, and used to make compotes.
You need to harvest the crop as it ripens, very carefully so as not to damage the berry pulp, since the fruits are fragile and tender. The juice from them has a rich red tint, so it is used in cooking as a natural dye.
Raspberries have a pronounced antibacterial effect, improve secretory activity, and have an anti-inflammatory effect. A drink made from berries, leaves, and branches removes thirst well, cleanses the body of toxins and waste, strengthens vascular walls, and improves blood clotting processes.
You can drink tea with raspberries at a temperature - yes, you can. This is an ideal remedy for low readings around 37-38 degrees, when medications are not recommended. If the thermometer shows 39 or more, tea alone is not enough. You need to consult a doctor - he will recommend effective medications, and raspberry tea is suitable as an aid. When a high temperature (39-40 degrees) lasts for several days, seeking medical help is mandatory.
What are the benefits of raspberries for colds?
Tea with raspberries at a temperature of 39 or below has the following effect:
- increases sweating;
- reduces body temperature;
- eliminates symptoms of fever;
- improves sputum discharge;
- removes toxins;
- strengthens the immune system.
Indications for treatment are acute respiratory infections, pneumonia, influenza, sore throat, laryngitis, bronchitis. Raspberry syrup is used in pharmacology to improve the taste of medications, especially those intended for children.
Raspberry pulp is rich in organic acids, including salicylic acid. Thanks to it, the berries have an effect similar to aspirin. The tanning components of raspberries suppress dangerous pathogenic microflora. The fruits contain a lot of minerals, vitamins, and other useful substances necessary to speed up recovery.
Raspberries for a child with fever
Raspberries are no less useful for colds and flu in childhood than in adults. It gives practically no side effects, which cannot be said about pharmaceutical drugs, and rarely causes allergies. Raspberry berries are allowed to be given to children over 1 year old - first a few pieces at a time, then the dosage can be increased. As a diaphoretic, restorative, tea is effective at temperatures no higher than 39 degrees.
Rules for treating raspberries in childhood:
- To make tea, they use either homegrown crops grown without chemicals, or healthy ripe berries purchased at the market;
- Tea made from fresh fruits works better, rather than ground or frozen ones, especially jam;
- decoctions of leaves and branches cause allergies even less frequently than those prepared from berries;
- Before giving your baby a raspberry drink, you should give him water or compote to drink (this will make the sweating process more active).
To ensure that treatment with raspberry tea is as effective as possible, the child is given the drink, then wrapped up and put to bed.If the baby sweats a lot, clothes and underwear are changed, then the patient is put back to bed.
Recipes for raspberry tea for colds and fever
Tea with raspberries at a temperature of 38 will reduce fever and improve well-being. To make it, you can use any of the following recipes.
Raspberry tea at temperature
It’s easy to make a drink from berries - just pour a tablespoon of fruit with a glass of boiling water. If the raspberries are frozen, they must first be allowed to thaw; if the raspberries are dried, simmer them in a water bath for 5 minutes. The infusion time until the drink is ready is 20 minutes. You can drink it pure or with lemon or honey.
Raspberry leaf tea
Raspberry leaves are also suitable for making tea; such a drink is no less beneficial for the body than a berry drink. Raw materials must be harvested before the first fruits appear, preferably in the morning. If the leaves are wet, they are dried and then placed in jars for storage.
The procedure for preparing raspberry tea from leaves is simple - 2 tablespoons of dry crushed raw materials are poured into 0.5 liters of boiling water and left for 20 minutes. The recipe is effective against fever and reduces sore throat.
Tea made from raspberry branches has an astringent effect and will be useful for gastrointestinal disorders. Its constant use will remove toxins and strengthen the immune system.
Tea with honey and raspberries at temperature
Raspberries and honey are an excellent combination of effective natural substances for the treatment of colds, flu, and high fever. 30 g of fresh or frozen fruits are kneaded until smooth, honey is added, and drunk warm.
You can add a few mint leaves and a pinch of baking soda to the recipe.Raspberries and lemon go well together - add a couple of slices of citrus to a cup of drink.
Raspberry tea with linden
Raspberry leaves are steamed with boiling water at the rate of a tablespoon of raw material per glass of water. Then the infusion is filtered and drunk throughout the day in equal portions in 3 doses - this is a classic recipe. Raspberry tea with linden is prepared from a spoon of raspberry leaves, the same amount of linden leaves and 2 cups of boiling water. Linden blossom enhances the effectiveness of the drink at temperature.
In addition to leaves, dried inflorescences from raspberry bushes are used. Leaves and flowers are taken in equal proportions and steamed with boiling water at the rate of 200 ml of water per 10 g of raw material. Leave for 20 minutes and drink throughout the day.
Recommendations for use
Hot raspberry tea at a temperature is good, regardless of the causes of the inflammatory process. It is prescribed for colds, coughs, bronchitis, flu, and other viral diseases. Pleasant side effects from drinking the drink include eliminating nausea, heartburn, and improving skin condition.
Tea from the fruit is used as a bactericidal, analgesic, and diaphoretic. Of the green parts of the plant, branches and shoots are considered the most effective. It is not recommended to make tea for future use - during storage the content of nutrients and vitamins decreases.
In the treatment of colds, doctors recommend following this regimen. First, the patient drinks water, compote or another drink, and then raspberry tea. This will speed up sweating and, accordingly, start the process of active recovery.
Contraindications
Raspberry tea has contraindications - they must be taken into account during treatment. So it can worsen the condition of a person with pathologies of the kidneys and gastrointestinal tract. Since the berry is a strong allergen and contains substances that accelerate labor, it is contraindicated before pregnancy 32.
It is not prohibited to consume raspberries with antipyretic and painkillers, but some people develop symptoms of drug overdose - nausea, stomach pain, tinnitus, dizziness, heavy sweating.
Other contraindications:
- individual intolerance to raspberries;
- increased acidity of gastric juice;
- gout;
- asthma.
You cannot combine treatment with taking aspirin and drugs based on it, otherwise there are no restrictions. If there are doubts about the normal individual tolerance of sweet pulp, you need to introduce a new product in small portions or prepare tea from leaves, shoots, branches.
Conclusion
Children and adults drink raspberry tea at temperatures up to 38 degrees as an independent therapeutic, antipyretic agent, up to 39 degrees in combination with medications. The berry is rich in organic acids, vitamins, microelements, and has a pronounced bactericidal and diaphoretic effect. Contraindications: asthma, gout, high acidity of gastrointestinal tract juice, pregnancy in the first two trimesters.
