Are you a mama who wants to know more about how you can use herbs internally to improve your health and your children's and family health? If so, you are my kind of mama, please raise the chair. First, let's explain how herb works. Herbs contain "active ingredients" that cause physiological changes in the body. These active ingredients are called names that stand off all kinds of tannins, alkaloids, saponins, glycosides, bitter principals, and so on. Let's ignore all scientific terms now. For now, these active ingredients, "deliciousness", and holistic mothers need to know is to extract and incorporate these "deliciousness" in order to take advantage of the health benefits of herbs It is that it must be. Somehow the body. So how are you going to do?
It can be ingested internally and applied topically to use herbal "deliciousness". In this article, we focus only on internal preparation. For internal purposes, we usually extract herbal sweets with water or alcohol as a solvent. By ingesting the water and alcohol used to release herbs, we incorporate these ingredients and align them to obtain therapeutic benefit. In order from the weakest to the strongest, we can take herbs as capsules, tisanes, infusion, decoction, tincture, extract.
* capsule : Literally, herbal capsules are packed in digestible capsules of dried herb materials. When the capsule membrane reaches your stomach it melts and herbs release good things to your body and blood flow throughout the digestive process. This is the most modest way to use herbs, as it relies on stomach acid to release stomach acid rather than directly ingesting stomach acid. If you are trying to change your health as a whole over the long term, that is, if you give your husband a Saw Palmetto capsule to protect the prostate every day, taking capsules is adequate.
* Tisans : To be honest, herbal tea is like "tea". "Tea" refers in particular to Camellia sinensis (tea, green tea, white tea etc.). tisane uses hot water to extract delicious herbs (melts in hot water). Usually extract 1 ounce teaspoon herbs in 8 ounces of hot water.
* Infusion : Injection is similar to legislation except that it is slightly stronger, as the concentration of herbs is higher (from 1 ounce of herbs to 1 pint of water). Typical dosage of Chinese medicine is 8 to 10 cups, 3 to 4 times daily.
* decoction : Decoction is like intravenous dripping, but instead of soaking a whole cup of herbs with a cup of boiling water, add herbs to water and boil the whole. As herbs you are trying to take medicine may be harder / woody substances (bark or roots or rhizomes), you will make decoction instead of infusion. Decoction has the same herb / water ratio as the infusion. Typical dosage of decoction is 3 to 4 times a day, 2 to 6 glasses.
* Tincture : Tincture uses alcohol (usually vodka) to extract the deliciousness of herbs, but if you are making a tincture for children, you can use apple cider vinegar instead of alcohol. Tincture strength is usually expressed as a ratio such as 1: 5, which means that 1 pound of herb material dissolves in 5 pounds of liquid. Making chicken is a little science. The proportion of herbs to alcohol (or vinegar) will depend on the herb you are using (different plants need different alcohol concentrations to give up their own food). Because the tincture is more concentrated, it usually drips into the water or tongue. Typical dosages of tin key are 8-12 milliliters, about 2-3 teaspoons, 3-4 times per day.
* Elixir : Elixir seems to be a tincture, except that the mixture of herbs is suspended in solution (usually alcohol). (Most tinctures are single herbs or plants.) Elixirs are usually soaked in a powdered herbal or herbal formulation in a solution of water and alcohol at a rate of 2 ounces of herbs, 1/2 pints of alcohol, and 1.25 pints of water, training, filtering, dipping honey , And dilute before use.
* Extract : The extract is more concentrated than the tincture (about 2 times stronger). They can not extract at home because they need some very special and special equipment to prepare. Extracts are made using evaporation, cold percolation, or high pressure, depending on the taste of a particular herb. Typical dosages of extract are 2-8 milliliters, or 1-2 teaspoon, 3-4 times per day.
* syrup Syrups are particularly useful herbal preparations as a mixture of coughs. Syrup is preparing to cook with honey added to a cold decoction of selected herbs (usually expectorant herbs such as the Huhand or Licorice route). The syrup prepared in this manner can be stored for up to 3 days in a refrigerator or up to 1 week with the addition of vegetable glycerin.
* essence : Essence is preparation of herbs that can make bitter substances more delicious. Essence is made by adding 1 cup of essential oil to 3 cups of alcohol (usually vodka). It is best to store the essence in a cool dark place of dark glass bottles (amber, cobalt etc).
