Bulgaria: Mursal tea
Mursal tea? It is found in Bulgaria (and, according to some sources, in the Crimean mountains), and very high in the mountains of the Rhodope mountains. This kind of grass family Sideritis Scardica grows at an altitude of 1300-1700 meters above sea level. Also called Pirin, because it is grown in the South, the Pirin, Rhodope or Trigradsko tea. And it is Mursal because its main homeland is Mursalitsa countryside, near the village of Trigrad. By the way, Pirin is one of the highest mountain ranges in Bulgaria, it includes 45 peaks over 2500 meters. Is this mountain range in southwest Bulgaria.
Blooms of this species of grass from June to July, reaching 30-50 cm in height.
Collected at the end of July, when grass fully Matures and accumulates a maximum of medicinal substances and trace elements.
Part of Mursal tea includes about 300 minerals. The effect on the body it is compared with ginseng.
It is believed that contraindications this tea has. Recommended daily drink at least one to two cups of tea (preferably without sugar).
You can buy it in cartons (ground) and kind (nice switches). Tea box we bought at the bar in the supermarket (it cost a little more than the 1st Euro), and the "broom" is in the souvenir shops, the market, and in the Park near the lake Kleptuza.
In Bulgaria, this tea is popular since ancient times; at the moment he is a national treasure of Bulgaria!
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