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.
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