Tea with digestive tract diseases

The ability of tea to regulate the process of digestion is seen long ago. With stomach disorders in adults and children, tea is actually the only food.

In the postoperative period, tea is given as the first and basic therapeutic dietary remedy.

With simple and toxic forms of dyspepsia, children are prescribed a tea diet in the first day. Patients with various infectious diseases and those with severe forms of poisoning are also advised to have tea.

In order to increase the secretory function of the stomach, the use of green tea is recommended, since the latter contains more vitamin C and has a bitter taste.

From the intestine, the healing properties of tea are most clearly manifested. Alkaloids theobromine and theophylline together with flavonoids( quercitrin, isokvertsitin, meritsitin, rutin, etc.), as well as with ascorbic acid cause a pronounced cholagogic effect and a noticeable spasmolytic effect. In this regard, after taking tea, especially black, the feeling of pain and bloating is removed, digestion of proteins, fats and carbohydrates improves. Pectins, cellulose and hemicellulose, which are part of tea, normalize the motor function of the intestine, slow the absorption of cholesterol from the intestine. This plays an important role in the prevention of atherosclerosis and cholelithiasis.

Tea, especially green, has a pronounced antimicrobial effect. It has been experimentally established that infusion of green tea in a ratio of 3 g per 100 ml of water suppresses the growth of dysentery and some other pathogenic microbes and contributes to the normalization of intestinal flora.

For the treatment of patients with dysentery prepare the decoction as follows: 100 g of dry green tea pour 2 liters of water, insist 20-30 minutes, then boil for 1 hour, stirring occasionally. Remove the broth filtered from the fire through a double layer of gauze, the rest of the tea( tea leaves) is again poured into 1 liter of water, boiled for 40 minutes, then filtered through cheesecloth. Both filtrate are mixed, bottled and sterilized. Prepared in this way the drug can be stored in the refrigerator for 6 months, and at room temperature - 3 months. Assign the drug 1-2 tablespoons 3-4 times a day for 20 minutes before meals( for children up to a year - 1-2 teaspoons, and the elder - for a dessert spoon).In severe forms of acute dysentery, this drug can be injected into the enema. It should be noted that the use of the decoction does not exclude the generally accepted set of measures for the treatment of dysentery( therapeutic nutrition, plentiful drink, enzyme preparations, broad-spectrum antibiotics).In acute dysentery treatment lasts 5-10 days, and for chronic dysentery, 15-20 days.

Tea promotes the normalization of the stool, reduces the "voiced" peristalsis, creates conditions for alleviating digestion. Astringent components of tea - tannins - make tea an excellent preventive tool for intestinal atony, indigestion in general. The tradition of drinking tea after a meal, especially after oily and heavy meals, is very sensible.

Tea is an indispensable food product in many armies of the world. It is known that the caloricity of tea( meaning a fresh leaf) is almost 25 times higher than the calorific value of wheat bread, which is due to the protein content in the plant. A cup of tea with a tablespoon of milk and a piece of sugar contains 40-50 calories. How many people saved this calorie in the blockade of Leningrad! My neighbor in a communal apartment, having experienced all the hardships of the blockade, believes that she saved herself and saved the children thanks to some supplies of tea and pepper peas. She added it to tea or simply boiled water. Here is the treatment of alimentary( food) dystrophy.

The word "tea" in Russian folk cuisine is also called a number of other hot drinks: linden, raspberry, cowberry, etc. Most of them are used as a remedy.

I will give the most frequently used teas for diseases of the digestive system.