Everyone uses and considers parsley a spice for soups and stews, but this vegetable is much more than that. Parsley is a powerful diuretic which is great against urinary tract infections and other problems such as kidney diseases. This article presents a parsley tea which is popular in the Balkans. Here’s how to prepare it:

Ingredients

• 5 tablespoons of chopped parsley
• 1 l. water

Preparation

The preparation of the parsley tea is simple – all you need to do is to put the chopped parsley into a liter of boiling water. Leave the tea for 20 minutes, then strain it and it’s done!

Parsley is a powerful diuretic and an antioxidant which can stimulate water disposal from the body, an important process that eliminates toxins, bacteria and harmful substances along the water.

Note: although the parsley tea is beneficial, you should drink it in limited amounts. The daily recommended amount of the tea is one liter.