Natural Home Remedies: Using Herbs As Medicine

Herbal medicine may seem overly complicated, yet accessible. It’s true because just about anyone can grow herbs or purchase them. The confusion comes in when enthusiasts want to make their own medicine but lack the understanding of how to do so.

Admittedly, that’s what generally puts enthusiasts off attempting to make their own herbal medicines.

If you educate yourself, you can create your own herbal medicines to help treat everyday issues like anxiety, fatigue, digestive problems, and even a low immune system.

If you want to get into herbal medicine, then we have some additional information that should help you get started.

There are a variety of different solutions that you can make using herbs. You may prefer teas or tinctures, balms or salve, decoctions or perhaps even bitters.

Tinctures

tinctures aren’t as difficult as they may sound. It’s similar to tea, with the main difference being that alcohol is used to extract the health benefits from the plant. The alcohol is also then used to preserve its medicinal value.

This is something that you can do in your kitchen, much like people can jar jam or can vegetables. You may enjoy making your own chamomile tea during the season and recognize that there’s too much for you to get through.

You can use a mason jar, chamomile flowers, and add alcohol (40% vodka will do the trick) so that it’s around two inches above your chosen herb. You should fill the jar about halfway with herbs.

If you’re using dried herbs you may need to add more alcohol at a later date. You should label the jar with the date, the herbs you used, and the ABV.

Make sure you give the jar a shake twice a day, every day, for a period of one month.

Once the month is up you can use a cheesecloth to strain. Then, during the off-season, you can still enjoy the health benefits of your favorite herbs.

Tinctures are powerful so, you should only enjoy a few drops at a time.

Teas

when it comes to tea, it’s the same as above except you are using hot water and enjoying the beverage right away.

• Maceration – generally, oils are used to extract the medicinal benefits from the plant. You can allow them to infuse for a month or even just a couple of hours. Ideally, you should use fresh herbs and chop them into small pieces. Then place them in a small jar with oil. These are powerful remedies so you should only be taking them in small amounts.

Decoction

for every cup of cold water, you plan to use, you should use around a tablespoon of your chosen herb. The water and the herbs should be tossed into a pot and brought to a gentle boil.

Once it starts to boil you can turn it down to simmer, place a lid on the pot and leave for around half an hour.

Strain the herbs and it’s ready to enjoy. You should use the liquid within 48 hours of making it. You may be able to use the herbs to create another decoction. it’s also possible to use a decoction to create a syrup for cold and flu season.

Bitters

to make your own herbal bitters, you will need a mason jar as well as dropper bottles (amber is preferable as this will protect the ingredients).

You will also need a cup of a white spirit, such as vodka, gin or rum.

There are plenty of recipes available online. However, for the purposes of this description, we will describe what you will need to make a digestive bitter.

You will need to peel an orange, two tablespoons of dandelion leaves, eight cardamom pods, as well as three sage leaves.

The dry ingredients should be placed in the mason jar first, once you have done that you can pour in your alcohol.

Place the lids on it securely and shake vigorously. You should shake it once a day for around three weeks or so. You can then strain the alcohol using cheesecloth before transferring your liquid into the smaller amber dropper bottles.

You can enjoy your remedy around 15 minutes before you plan to eat – half a dropper on your tongue should be more than sufficient.

~~ As you can see, there are plenty of home remedies that can take care of just about any ailment you are likely to experience.

Some of them come directly from nature, while others require a bit more ingenuity.

Regardless, you can make use of what's already in your home without rushing off to purchase expensive over the counter products or treatments.

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