How to make a herbal extract
Author: Eihna Dutch
We have many medicinal herbs that are helpful to cure diseases, ease pain or as a complement to other treatments.
But it is important to know how each should be administered to achieve the desired effects. There are several ways in which we consume them according to the characteristics of each plant.
Many plants whose therapeutic substances are highly soluble in water can be taken as infusions, thus ensuring the most effective. But others need to go through a process of maceration to extract the best of them. An extract or tincture of herbs is sometimes the only way that a plant has medicinal effects but many people do not know how to make a herbal extract thinking that this is a complicated chemical process when it is actually very simple.
To make an extract or tincture take about two cups of dried herbs. We can combine different herbs if we get other purposes but this must first be studied because there are herbs that should not be mixed.
Add a pint of alcohol with herbs and store in a bottle or jar of clear glass with tightly fitting lid. Alcohol can be ultra thin or replaced with vodka or gin. Alcohol is used because it can extract much better all the healing power plant in addition to acting as a preservative.
Must be stored covered jar or bottle for at least four weeks shaking a little each day.
After this time the extract you are ready, move to smaller bottles of dark glass.
Tips
The better the quality of the herbs the better the quality of the extract, we must take this into account when deciding which herbs were used.
Well informed about which herbs are best taken in this way and what are the recommended doses.
These natural medicines withstand the test of time and after several years continue to be effective.
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