Make your own herbal remedies
Learn how to make your own herbal remedies. Choose a remedy from the list mentioned below.
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Decoctions
root and berries) are used because of their medicinal functioning.
Decoction must be cooked at least for 10 minutes.
Method.
Materials.
- 20 grams fresh herbs or 40 grams dried herbs
- 8 dl water
Working method.
Cut the root or bark of the plant as fine as possible, so that
the boiling water can take up as much compounds from the plant
as possible.
Put the chopped particles in a pan with cold water and heat
the water till it cooks.
Close the pan and lets the decoction cook for a number of minutes
(at least 10 minutes) on low fire.
Let the decoction cool down and filtrate the fluid (through
a cotton cloth). Let as much fluid as possible of the medicinal
functioning to lose.
When you want to combine several parts of two different herbs,
for example roots and leafs, put the leafs in just at the end
of the boiling period.
Decoctions can be kept longer than infusion,
because the fluid is sterilised by cooking.
Example: Drink against stress and nervousness.
- Third decoction of valerian root
- A third tea
of gildkruid
- A third tea of borage
This drink (for adults) is useful in periods of stress.
It will decrease nervousness and reinforce the nerve system.
Vinegar
Creams
Skin creams contain to feed and to enrich ingredients on oil and on water basis the skin.
Thick creams protections offer against the defence influences and fluid creams can become uses to clean the skin and of liquid to foresee. Creams especially have been arranged for the softening of a part of the skin that irritated or dry is.
For use, you must do always an allergy test.
Preparation.
The preparations of a cream is more difficult than of an ointment.
This comes because the oil and the water, carefully must be mixed.
If this lifted good, do not separate the ingredients self prevent of each other.
The mix to simplify, becomes use made by an agens, mostly is this emulgerende was. An example of an emulgerende wash is Cera Cetomagrogol, is available this by the pharmacy.
Quantity and durability.
Because it water in the cream stretch, is the durability court short. Make about that always small quantities. Round the durability and the quality of the cream to improve, can add you an ethereal oil. Keep creams always on a cool place, for instance in the refrigerator.
Method.
Requisites
7 parts infusie/ decoction
2 parts oil
1 part emulgerend was
ethereal oil
Method
This proportion remains equal, in spite of the quantities that you use.
A pan with water at the boil bring and set the fire layer.
Place in this a smaller pan or scale and pour in that the oil and the infusion, so that this are heated to the bain marie.
Join the was all moving closed at the mixture, until these has been melted totally.
Get now the scale from the pan and place these in a scale with cold water.
It is to be remained stir cools down considerably meanwhile the mixture, separate otherwise the ingredients self of each other. During the cooling down becomes the cream thicker.
Join the ethereal oil closed and stir everything good through each other (join 3 drops ethereal oil to
Per 30 g cream).
Spoon the mixture in glass pots, closes these well finished and jot down the name of the cream and the date of preparation. Keep the pots on a cool place.
Example: Soothing cream.
- 7 teaspoons muur infusion
- 2 teaspoons oil
- 1 teaspoon emulgerende was
- 3 drops ethereal kamille oil
Wall works cooling and calms by itch. Ethereal kamille olie works inflammation brake, anti-allergic and sees to there moreover for that the cream longer maintainable remains and well smells.

Compresses
Herb tea, Infusions or Tisane
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Example: Tea against cold and flu.
A half quantity thousand leaf
A half quantity vlier
A snuff peppermint
This means (for adults) lowers decreased the fever the cold and stimulates the sweating through which the body is cleaned and repair can.
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Medical Oil
Medicinal oil is differently than is simple ethereal oil and it and cheaply self home to prepare. The oil can uses become for massages and can serve as an oil basis for ethereal oils.
Medicinal oil can become uses also oil as a basis for creams and put ointment on.
What oil you can use.
For the making of medicinal oil is vegetable oil (sunflower or soy oil) it mostly arranged. Use olive oil only for cold herb oil.
Durability.
The oils is approximately 1 year maintainable.
Warning.
Go carefully with hot oil.
Do never use the oil inwendig and do not let him in contact come with sensitive membranen, as the eyes.
Cold and warm oil.
There are two manners oil round medicinal to make: a cold preparation, by which the oil through the
Sun is heated, and a warm preparation by which the oils heated becomes softly on the stove.
Method for Cold oil.
The preparations is simple, but time-consuming.
Beginning with the filling of a clean, dry pot with the through you chosen herb.
Pours after that the oil carefully in the pot, so that the herbs become covers totally.
Closes the pot well finished and set these on a warm, sunny spot, for instance on the windowsill or
Outside in the sun, and let him 2 weeks stand.
Shake and turn the pot each day.
Sift the oil then, with help of a cotton cloth (for instance a dishtowel), above a bowl. Take care for it that you already the vegetable material remove. Press the last drops oil from the herbs, so that these want to become so well possible.
Keep the oil it gladly in dark bottles and on a dark place.
Set the name and date of preparation on the bottles.
Method for Warm oil.
Requisites.
100 grams dried season or 200 grams fresh herbs
4 dl vegetable oil
Method.
The preparation is faster ready something more complicated only.
Firstly a pan with water at the boil bring and set the fire layer.
Place up here a smaller pan or scale.
Do that the vegetable oil and the herbs in and closes everything good off with a lid.
The oil and season become thus to the bain marie heated. The oil do never comes comes thus in direct contact with the heat source.
After the oils and season good heated be, must the mixture minimally 2 hour remain stand so that it can cool down. Then the oil in a clean bowl is filtered by a cloth or filter.
Remove now it used herb and repeat the whole trial with fresh herbs, so that the oil becomes two time so powerfully.
Do the oil it gladly in dark, glass pots and keep these on a dark place.
Set the name of the oil and the date of preparation on the bottles.
Example: Calming oil.
- Saint John herb flowers.
- Vegetable oil.
The flowers of Saint-janskruid its yellow, but when the oil from the plant with the
Vegetable oils mixed becomes, changed the colour in deep red.
This oil has been arranged stretched for the massaging of or painful parts of the body
For instance by strained muscles or neuralgia (nerve pain).
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Medical wines
Syrups
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Example: Recipe syrup against cough (on tea basis).
2 dl thyme infusion
200 g rough sugar
Thyme works antiseptic and slime dissolving and helps about that quite good by cough and throat pain.
This means has been arranged also sore for children.
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Example: Tincture against insomnia.
100 g real chamomile.
2.5 dl vodka.
7.5 dl water.
This tincture is sore arranged as a means against insomnia.
Approximately 20 minutes before you take in goes 5 ml (1 teaspoon) to bed.
If this do not works, take in then again 5 ml.
You may take in at most 15 ml per night.
The next evening you can begin with for instance 10 ml, until you find the furrow you ideal quantity.
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Example: Ointment for snij- and schaafwonden.
2 dl medicinal gold flower oil
(for method see medicinal oil)
25 g bijenwas
2 drops ethereal lavender oil
This ointment combines the anti-bacterial qualities of gold flower with the astringent and inflammations brake qualities of lavender.
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[1]. Britton, Jade & Kircher, Tamara; - De healing power of herbs - First busily;
Groningen: TextCase (2000). ISBN 90 , 5764 , 030 , 9
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