Mallow flower tea isn’t just stunningly blue, it’s also super beneficial for your body! Mallow flowers have anti-inflammatory properties. You can mix mallow flowers with leaves and blossoms from other wild plants to create your own unique tea blend. Plus, literature suggests that mallow flower tea can balance your mind, soothe your heart, and help you bounce back from stress. <\/p>\n
Mallow flowers are rich in carotenoids \u2013 natural plant pigments! This makes the tea valuable for healthy vision and skin. Mallow flower tea has long been used for various respiratory ailments (including vocal cords, tonsils, and oral cavity issues), as well as in cases of chronic constipation. <\/p>\n
We’re adding to the description of mallow flowers with information compiled by Iveta Gal\u0113ja:<\/strong><\/p>\n Wild mallow is a very close relative of the hollyhocks that grow in our flowerbeds, and it has been widely used in medicine since ancient times. It’s also called blue mallow because the flowers lose their pink and violet color when drying and turn an intense blue. Judging by historical records, almost all great doctors of ancient times described the valuable properties of mallow and emphasized that mallow is a universal remedy for all ailments, and modern scientists have indeed confirmed a large part of those ancient assumptions. In Roman times, it was recommended to drink mallow juice daily to strengthen the body and its ability to resist diseases. Later, mallow was also highly valued by soul healers and recommended for morbid melancholy and depression, and for a choleric temperament. Nowadays, dried flowers are mostly used in medicine, less often leaves and roots. By the way, a strong blue-violet dye is obtained from mallow flowers. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n For your health<\/p>\n *Mallow flowers are an effective remedy for colds, irritating coughs, bronchitis, mouth and throat inflammations, and gastritis \u2013 these ancient insights have been confirmed by modern clinical studies.<\/p>\n *An infusion of mallow flowers is used for gargling and rinsing the mouth if you have an infection:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Steep 2 tsp of dried mallow flowers in 200-250 ml of water (room temperature) and let it sit for 10-12 hours. Then strain and use for gargling or slowly drink it sip by sip. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n *Mallow flower tea \u2013 for a strong cough \u2013 can be supplemented with plantain leaves, cowslips, and sage for an even better effect.<\/p>\n *Externally, mallow is used to treat skin diseases and wounds, and to soothe sunburned skin.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In the kitchen<\/p>\n *Add the young, tender leaves to salads \u2013 they give a very pleasant taste. Unripe seed pods are also used in salads and preserved in oil. <\/p>\n *Larger and older leaves are added to soups and stews; they serve both as a leafy vegetable and as a thickener. In Italy, lightly boiled leaves are often mixed with olive oil, lemon juice, salt, and pepper. <\/p>\n *The flowers are great in drinks \u2013 depending on the amount, they color the drink in pink, violet, and even bluish tones.<\/p>\n *The flowers are used in desserts: puddings, creams, cakes, ice creams.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In cosmetics<\/p>\n *Mallow is a wonderful plant for sensitive and dry skin care.<\/p>\n *Mallow extract is used in cream formulations; it’s combined with olive oil, evening primrose oil, and jojoba oil and used to restore skin elasticity, especially after childbirth.<\/p>\n *The substances in mallow lighten so-called age spots.<\/p>\n *A bath with mallow additives is beneficial for inflamed skin and skin affected by eczema.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mallow flower tea isn’t just stunningly blue, it’s also super beneficial for your body! Mallow flowers have anti-inflammatory properties. You can mix mallow flowers with leaves and blossoms from other wild plants to create your own unique tea blend. Plus, literature suggests that mallow flower tea can balance your mind, soothe your heart, and help […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[138,139],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-12056","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-herbal-teas","product_cat-spices","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-variable"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manasgarsas.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/12056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manasgarsas.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manasgarsas.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manasgarsas.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manasgarsas.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manasgarsas.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manasgarsas.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=12056"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manasgarsas.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=12056"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manasgarsas.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=12056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}