Have you ever heard about Tail Grape Tea?
It will be delicious.
Tail Grape Tea is prepared using the leaves of Artabotrys hexapetalus plant.
Artabotrys are very interesting, medium sized vines from Asia. These beautiful vines with shiny green leaves are not really grown for the flowers. People like them for the unusual fragrance. They are also called "juicy fruit vine". Artabotrys hexapetalus sports an amazing perfume fragrance. The perfume from this flower smells as a combination of lemon and melon, extremely fragrant. Flowers are similar to the tree because blooms start pale green then turn yellow with age. Flowers produce scents that last for days even when picked and taken indoors to perfume your home. They also provide many benefits to human health.
1. Leaves and Roots.
Leaf extract of Tail Grape plant contains flavonoids, alkaloids, phenolic compounds, tannins, anthroquinones, reducing sugars, fatty acids, saponins, tanins, terpenoids and steroids. These phytochemicals act as important constituents for the antioxidant, antibacterial and antifungal activity. Further, trisaccharide, n-Hexadecanoic acid and Z-8-Methyl-9-tetradecenoic acid found in the leaves of Artabotrys hexapetalus contains higher anticancer activity. Besides that, leaf decoction is used for cholera and exhibits antifertility effect. Essential oil of Artabotrys hexapetalus contains various components including sesquiterpene hydrocarbons, oxygenated sesquiterpenoids, β-caryophyllene , caryophyllene oxide, etc., and it restrains cancer cells and has excellent antihelminthic property. Benzylisoquinoline alkaloids, namely, hexapetalines A and B, found in the stems of Artabotrys hexapetalus inhibits human cancer cell lines. Roots are used for treating malaria.
2. Flowers.
Tea like beverage and perfumes are prepared using flowers. Antioxidant activity of flower extract might be attributed to the presence of flavonoids and phenolic compounds. Essential oil from flower has antifungal activity and used in aroma therapy. It is used as substitute for the famous Ylang - Ylang oil, which was obtained from Cananga odorata, a plant comes under the same family.
3. Fruits and Seeds.
Fruits contain volatile oil, glycosides and resins. Pulp of ripened fruits has been used in scrofula and fungal infections. And their extracts exhibit hypotensive and spasmogenic effect. Both fruits and seeds found to possess cardiac depressant activity in which cardiac and uterine stimulant activity is attributed to the glycosides. Ionotropic and chronotropic effect exhibited using the extract of the pericarp.
You can also use Artabotrys hexapetalus as screening and as balcony plant.
Making this tea is so simple.
Write down the ingredients.
Tail Grape leaves, Dried Tail Grape Flower Powder and Water.
Preparation.
Boil 3 cups of water with finely chopped leaves for about 10 to 15 minutes.
Filter the water and add 2 pinch dried tail grape flower powder. Let it be for 5 minutes.
Strain and drink two times a day.
11 окт 2024
