How to make herbal teas - and ask and answer

How to make herbal teas - and ask and answer

An infusion is a large amount of herbs that are brewed for a long time. Typically, an ounce of weight (approximately a cup of volume) dried herb is placed in a quart glass, which is then filled with boiling water to the edge, tightened and left for 4 to 10 hours. After seven, a cup or more is used up and the rest is cooled to slow down the spoilage. It is common to drink 2-4 cups every day. Since the minerals and other secondary plant substances are made more easily accessible in nourishing herbs by drying, dried herbs are best suited for infusions.

I do my infusions at night before I go to bed and you're done in the morning. I put my herb in my glass and water in the pot and the pot on the fire, then I brush my teeth (or cush the floor) until the boiler whistles. I pour the boiling water up to the edge of the glass, screw up a firm lid, switch off the stove and the light and go to bed. In the morning I spend the plant material, press it out well and drink the liquid. I prefer it unless the morning is frosty. I drink the liter infusion within 36 hours or until it spoils. Then I use it to water my houseplants or to pour it over my hair after washing, as a last rinse that can be left.

My favorite herbs for the infusion are nettle, oat cabbage, red clover and leg wave blade, but only one. The tannins in red clover and legwell let me move my lips, so I add a little mint or bergamot when I pour them out, just enough to season the brew easily. A little salt in its infusion can lead to it tastes better than honey.

questions - and answers - about strengthening herbal infusions

can I use fresh herbs instead of dried herbs when I make my nutritious herbal infusion?

No. The herbs that I use for my nourishing herbal teas - such as nettle, oat cabbage, red clover, leg wave blade, linden blossoms, chickweed or royal candle leaves - contain little or no volatile components that are lost when drying. Rather, drying releases their minerals and other nutritious components.

can I brew my infusion as a "sun tea"?

No. It is important to pour boiling water over the dried herb to release the minerals.

How can I provide many people with nutritious herbal teas?

When we prepare 30 nutritional herbal teas in the Wise Woman Center, we initially cook 4 gallons water in our biggest pot. Then we add a pound of herbs (16 ounces in a pound and 16 liters in 4 gallons) and stir well until the water boils again. We cover the pot well with a densely closing lid, make the fire and let it pull it right there.

Can I make enough infusions to keep a whole week?

No. It is best to freshen up the infusion every day. Once made, spoiling nutritious herbal teas quickly. The cooling extends the time when the infusion is easy to drink. Depending on many factors, including the herb used and the interior temperature during brow, the cooled infusion is usually at least 24 hours, sometimes even 72 hours.

How can you find out whether your infusion is spoiled?

When a nutritious herbal infusion tastes funny, smells strangely and / or bubbles, it is no longer drinkable.

What can you do with spoiled infusion?

Everything is not lost; A spoiled infusion ensures perfect hair rinsing and excellent plant feed.

are infusions for children?

nourishing herbal teas are not only for children, children also love to nourish herbal teas. Children who drink nutritious herbal teas instead of fruit juice are often healthier and more robust.

What's going on with fruit juice?

fruit juices are really very cute: drinking daily can promote caries and obesity. They are expensive and actually contain little nutrients in relation to the calories. Even if you are sweetened with honey, nourishing herbal teas have a much cheaper ratio of nutrient density to calories. (Attention: Do not give infants under one year of a honey.)

Can I drink too much nutritious herbal teas? Or eat too much seaweed?

You may be amazed at your wishes to nourish herbs when you start using them regularly. That is quite common. If you have recorded all the minerals you need, your desire disappears naturally. So, no, it is not really possible to drink too much nutritious herbal teas or eat too much seafash.

It is true that you do not take any food supplements?

it is. I have not taken any food supplements for more than 25 years. I eat healthy with wholesale food, drink nutrient herbal teas every day, consume a lot of yogurt and take time for my weekly (for 35 years) yoga and twice a week (for 5 years) Tai Chi lessons.

How much infusion do you drink?

I drink 2-4 cups of nutritional herbal teas every day and use several tablespoons of mineral-rich herbal vinegar every day for my wild salad as well as a lot of garlic, onions, fungi and seatang.

How do you like to take your herbal infusion?

I prefer to drink my nutritious herbal tea frozen. Although I can prefer my leg wave infusion hot and with honey when the wind is crying and the snow blows outside. A little salt or miso or umboshi vinegar in nettle infusion is another interesting variant that I enjoy.

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