WEEKLY CONTEST WEEK 8 - Healthy Game - Day 1 - The Best Natural Stress Recipe - By @alicargofer
Greetings to everyone in this healthy community, this week's theme is fabulous because it can help improve our emotional stability and our health if we naturally manage the stress that wreaks havoc on our lives. Everyday life and the modern world cause stress, irritability and sleep disturbances.
Stress, achieves the concentration of hormones in the blood increases, that is, it increases adrenaline and cortisol, it also increases the respiratory rate and increases the heart rate, it can even interrupt the work of the central nervous system, considerably affecting our health and emotional stability. I consider that one of the main options to reduce stress is emotional, for this, irritability and negative emotions that can lead to depression and limit our quality of life, weaken the immune system and accelerate the aging process must be calmed, etc.
To reduce stress it is mainly recommended to relax the body and normalize breathing, for this you can do breathing exercises; meditate, walk outside, listen to music, and even take herbal baths. It is also recommended to take infusions of natural herbs: Melissa and Mint.
Melisa tea
Melissa is a medicinal aromatic plant that has great sedative properties and has a pleasant flavor.
Ingredients:
Lemon balm leaves
Lemon
Water
Honey or Sugar.
Preparation:
The melissa leaves are washed, poured into the pot, add two cups of water, add lemon, put it in the kitchen, when it starts to boil, turn off the kitchen and cover the pot for 2 minutes, then cook. Strain and heat the infusion and add honey or sugar to taste.
Mint Infusion.
Peppermint promotes relaxation and relieves headaches.
Ingredients:
Mint leaves
Water
Honey or Sugar.
Preparation:
The mint leaves are poured into a container, then added with boiling water, allowed to infuse for 40 minutes. Strain and add honey or sugar to taste.