Daniel Vitali's creator of the Elixir Craft Mastery program for tasting our medication

Daniel Vitali's creator of the Elixir Craft Mastery program for tasting our medication

In this article, Daniel Vitalis reports about the gradual production of an elixir and some amazing insights into the "tasting" of our medication. Daniel Vitalis has gained a wealth of knowledge of knowledge around water and elixirs and launched the Elixir Craft Mastery Program.

Kevin: We talk a lot about elixirs and I am sure that there are people who don't even know what they put in an elixir. I'm not even sure what things you put in your elixirs. Why don't you explain some of the things you have entered, and then we will examine some of the different questions that some people have specifically about different herbs and this thing.

Daniel: Great. Okay, the foundation of every elixir - you know that you have heard the saying "We have built it up from scratch" - elixirs are built up from scratch. So I start with the water I collect. Sometimes I postpone that. For example, in Maine we will start harvesting waterbirks and maple trees in the next few weeks, which are converted into maple syrup or birch syrup. So sometimes you can pull liquids out of such places. Sometimes you can pull liquids out of plants to make juices. But mostly the spring water is the foundation of my drinks

I collect that.

The course itself leads you through the Elixir Craft Mastery Program. It is a sequential thing that I built up started with water. The second step is that I often take the water and convert it into a tea. For example, today my tea was dandelion root, dandelion leaf, nettle leaf, blank root, yellow dock root with rose hip. I just threw these things in. I like them together. This is the medicine I want. Again, it is not a specific recipe that I try to get people to get it, it is exactly what I am using because this is the medication that I want. So it always changes. Which herbs you also work with, you can make a tea out of it. This is the second part of Elixir Craft and that is the second part of this course. We talk about how teas are made that are essentially a water -based extractions.

So I like to extract herbs or medication into the water so that I can now drink a tea. I can take this tea and put it in my blender. I really love Vitamix Mixer. I wish they weren't made of plastic, but I really love them. Throw this tea into the mixer and there you can add your superfoods. When the superfood thing started, we suddenly had all these plant flours. It is essentially a flour as they have flour made of wheat powder. In the end we had chocolate flour, maca flour, mesquite flour, Johannisbrot flour and all these powder-shaped power foods. What do you do with these things? Well, I thought, just mix them into the tea. So I started to interfere. It's like the third step, I will start to interfere with these different powder.

Then we have to think about it: "If I only drink tea with a few powders, I won't be very satisfied. I need a few calories." So we have to say: "Do I want my calories from protein, sugar or fat?" These are the only places where you will get your calories. What you can do is to add things ... If you want to fill up with fat, you can add coconut butter. If you want to fill up with protein, you can add something like chlorella. If you want to fill up with sugar, you can add honey. Here you can start adding calories.

What I do is to start with this water and build it up and add medicine. That sounds like something that would take a long time, but as soon as you have understood the system, it is very quick. So I can prepare meals in about five minutes that contain so much food that I would say that one of my drinks probably contains more ingredients and more food on average than the average American eats over a whole month. It is about assembling medicine and nutrition. Hippocrates said: "Let your medicine be and let medicine be your food." We take all of these medication and transform them into food, be it these elixirs, and then drink.

The whole goal is that it tastes good. If it tastes bad, you don't do it right. If it tastes bad, there is a subtle rejection from your body. In other words, your body is not really enthusiastic. It gives you the news: "Hey, I don't like that." So it is not really open to reception. The whole goal is to coordinate the flavors to what your body really asks you. So it is something that is very similar to the best smoothie you ever had, except that it contains the entire medicine of food and herbs with a high durability.

Kevin: There is a place for things that do not taste good that your body absorbs, how very strong herbs and the like?

Daniel: That is a good question. I am surprised that you asked that because here is what I want to say. What does not taste good? Is bitter a bad taste? We have a mental program. Bitter can be a really bad taste when they grew up with Mountain Dew and Ding Dongs. I grew up with these things and bitterly tasted a bit. Over time, I really appreciated the taste of things that are bitter or what we could say tastes good.

Kevin: interesting.

Daniel: If there was something that does not taste good, the flavors are mixed inappropriately. If they are mixed inappropriately, it doesn't taste good. But I think most medicinal herbs have a good taste. One of the things I like to do in Elixir Craft is instead of trying to hide the taste instead of trying to cover up and mask the taste, I try to highlight aromas. So if there is a bit bitter, I would rather work with it than to hide it. Here is a little secret. This next statement could give your listening to your listening to enormous added value. It will sound very easy, but if you let this develop and meditate about it, you will understand something that very few people get today. You know that you don't understand because you can see how our herbal systems work. We capsules things. The Chinese told us that the taste of a drug was an essential part of its effect. In other words, if you take your herb and put it in a small capsule and swallow it and your body does not even come into contact with it and the substance of this capsule breaks out in your stomach and you avoid your taste buds, your body will not achieve the full effect of this drug. So instead of trying to hide your taste, bring it out. If a bit bitter, a little salt and a little sweet can really highlight the beautiful part of this bitter instead of trying to hide or disguise it. I love to work with the flavors.

Kevin: Where can you find pure herbs?

Daniel: This is another great question because we are really encountering some problems in our culture. I will not go into the negative aspects here, but we are all currently seeing some big changes here in this country that are economic in nature. The nice thing is that it drives us to local economies. It drives us to work. The paradigm of having food from all over the world, from different places to your doorstep, will not last that long. We have to start getting things on site. The best will come from nature, wild where you live.

The next best stuff will come wild from somewhere else. The next best stuff is cultivated by people and grown on site by people in a very intelligent way.

The next best stuff are things that have grown very intelligently and sent to them. Where it really gets, really strange, you start accessing things that have grown badly, where you don't know where they come from. So what I would say is that you can access things on site, such as local gardeners, local herb connoisseurs. If you can go for a walk in natural forests, you can get the best things. Otherwise, look for reputable companies that produce products that go biologically or biologically. As you know, organic is somehow meaningless. What we have to find are things that are beyond organic, things that are grown biodynamically or processed wildly.

I get a lot of things from the place where you do it, Kevin. Many great superfood and raw food people out there bring the best things out there. I like companies like Mountain Rose Autumn. I get a lot of things from you. And I collect many of my herbs more and more. I have learned that over the years. This is something I know that it will be something that I will learn in the course of many, many more years in the course of my life. You don't learn that immediately. A company like Mountain Rose Herbs is a good start. Over time, you can learn how to do this directly from nature. There you get the best things.