John Myers
Cranesbill tea and baby alarm?
Just as there is no greater windfall after a cup of win-a-million tea, it is just as little scientifically proven that your dream of having children will come true as soon as you have had a few cups of cranesbill tea.
- The drink was not called cranesbill tea because it increases fertility, but for a completely different reason.
- The shape of the fruits of the Ruprechtskraut is strongly reminiscent of the beak of a stork and, like the rest of the plant, has no scientifically proven fertility-enhancing effects at all. The context of cranesbills, storks, and an unfulfilled desire to have children was probably created by resourceful profiteers.
- But even if the fertility-enhancing abilities of the herbaceous plant can be very much doubted, the medicinal plant still has positive effects on our health.
- As a rule, geranium robertanium, which also bears the less hopeful name of stinky cranesbill, is used for cranesbill tea, of which there are several hundred different types.
- Due to its essential oils and various tannins, Ruprechtskraut has an anti-inflammatory effect and is therefore often used to treat gastrointestinal inflammation, for example.
- In conclusion, it can be said that the stork beak tea contains some positive active ingredients for our health, but is hardly conducive to pregnancy.
