We have three warm and delicious drinks so you can strengthen your immune system, since this is the time of year when we have to redouble our efforts to stay healthy.

Thanks to the immense herbal tradition that we have in our country and in other parts of the world, there are countless recipes that can help you strengthen your immune system prepared with herbs and spices common to our daily lives.

This time we will focus on three: ginger, bay leaf and cinnamon.

This time, we will focus on three ingredients that will help you stay healthy despite the cold, so that you can prepare different infusions with them.

• Ginger is useful against morning sickness during pregnancy or chemotherapy.
• It is anti-inflammatory, natural analgesic.
• Regular consumption can help protect against heart disease by promoting lower blood pressure and lowering blood cholesterol levels.
• It reduces hunger and increases the feeling of satiety, being very effective in controlling obesity.
• It reduces inflammatory markers, which can help against many chronic diseases, including those of the heart.

• It is a good expectorant, activates the immune system and improves the condition of the body during a cold.
• Prevents the deterioration of cells, counteracting the damage caused by free radicals, preventing the appearance of nervous and heart diseases.

INGREDIENTS:

¼ cup fresh ginger, cut into thin slices
1 cinnamon stick
Two bay leaves
1 and ½ cups water

PREPARATION:
Wash the ginger well and cut it into very thin slices. It can also be grated.
Place the water, ginger, cinnamon sticks and bay leaf in a pot over low heat for 20 minutes.
If you want a stronger infusion or tea, leave it on the heat for longer.
Strain and serve.
This is the basic recipe and from there the others can be derived with some specifications:

To make bay leaf tea, 1 and ½ cups of water and approximately 20 or 30 grams of leaves are used, with those that are more mature and fresh being the most recommended, since the properties and active ingredients of bay leaf are usually reduced in the case of the dry leaves.

The most common way to take bay leaf is as an infusion, which is obtained by boiling the leaves and letting it rest for at least ten minutes, straining it before ingesting it.