Magic fig leaf tea

If you suffer from diabetes, stomach ulcers, bronchitis or suffer from high blood pressure, fig leaf tea is a real salvation.

Fig leaves are rich in antioxidants and fiber. Among others, they contain vitamins A, B1 and B2, as well as the minerals calcium, iron, manganese, phosphorus, potassium and sodium.

Although the fruits are not recommended for diabetics due to their high sugar levels, the fig leaf is very healthy and useful for this group of people because it helps regulate blood sugar levels.

The good news is that by consuming tea you can even prevent diabetes because you will increase your insulin sensitivity.

Fig leaves are especially recommended for problems of the urinary and digestive tract.

Their consumption helps lower high blood pressure and triglyceride levels, thus providing additional protection to the heart and blood vessels.

Although a certain level of triglycerides is necessary for good health, an excess of triglycerides in the body significantly increases the risk of obesity and heart disease.

It is the fig leaf that helps lower and regulate blood triglycerides.

Benefits of fig leaves:

- regulates blood sugar levels

- helps to lose weight

- stabilizes blood pressure

- lowers triglycerides

- strengthens bones

- helps with skin diseases

- helps with anemia

- relieves stomach ulcers

- prevents imprisonment

- improves heart and blood vessel health

- helps with aphthae

Leaf drying

In late spring, summer or autumn, pluck healthy and whole fig leaves from the tree and arrange them on the surface where you will dry them.

Dry them in a dark and airy place. That the leaves are dry, you will see by the fact that they are wrinkled and crumble under your fingers when you squeeze them. To make them dry faster, you can also chop them a little before drying.

When they dry, crush them and leave in a glass jar with a lid.

Fig leaf tea

For health purposes, fig leaf tea is recommended to be drunk for about a month every day and then paused for a few weeks so that re-consumption has an equally strong healing effect.

Help with diabetes

Pour 2 tablespoons of dried fig leaves with a cup (200 ml) of hot water. Cover and let stand 10-15 minutes. Then strain. Drink one cup of this tea with breakfast every morning.

Help with stomach ulcers and canker sores in the oral cavity

Chew 2 fig leaves well every day and swallow them. In addition to helping with ulcers, it will refresh your breath and alleviate unpleasant canker sores.

Help with bronchitis

Boil 3 fig leaves in water with a little brown sugar and drink. In addition to diabetes, ulcers, cold sores and bronchitis, tea is recommended to drink for better heart health, lowering blood pressure and as an aid in the treatment of cancer and anemia.