Technically, any liquid intended for drinking is a beverage so named by a word derived from French and Latin verbs meaning ‘to drink.’ Healthy beverages are beverages with health benefits that attribute by its nutritional value. The use of healthy beverage for promoting health and relieving symptom is as old as the practice of medicine.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Healthy benefits of Anise drinks
Anise is a highly aromatic, low growing plant a that produces feathery leaves and small yellow and white flowers on stalks.
Anise produces seeds that contain a special oil, anethole. It is this that provides the main benefits, either as a tea infusion or as oil.
Anise is sweet and pungent in tastes and pungent in post-digestive action. An appetite stimulant and a digestive aid, anise also increases semen, cures diseases caused by gas and sooth fevers and burnings sensation.
Anise is used as a tea. Star anise is found in beverages like benedictine and typical anise drinks like pastis and ouzo.
Taking anise in drinks during the summer is very popular especially in India. It is good for sore throat and drink as warm as possible.
Anise has a quieting and soothing effect in the stomach, stimulating it action. It is believed to increase milk secretion in nursing mothers. Anise oil may also be used in formula milk to relieve colic.
For a tension headache the drinks often gives immediate result and for a chill, a shock or severe agitation this remarkably soothing drinks is definitely worth trying.
Healthy benefits of Anise drinks
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