Make your own herbal remedies

Decoctions
Vinegar
Creams
Compress
Herbal tea, Infusies
Medical Oiling
Medical wines
Syrups
Tincture
Wound mashes
Ointments

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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.

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Vinegar can be used in exact the same way as tincture and can be an alternative if people dislike alcohol - or glycerine preparations. Vinegar contains acetic acid that helps to extract and conserve the herbal essential ingredients


Method.
Use a pot or a bottle with a broad opening.
Choose a herb and take care that it is as dry possible.
Put the herb in the pot and fill the pot with vinegar.
Put the pot at least 2 weeks in a dark place (some sources describes
1 or 2 months) and shake it each day.
Filtrate the fluid and put it in a clean bottle.
The vinegar must be placed in the bottle for another 2 weeks before use.



Dosage and use.
Herbal vinegar can be taken in the same manner as tincture: with a tea spoon, processes in a salad or in a soup or as an ingredient of pickles.
Vinegar can also be added to a bath or can be used as a lotion and even as hair rinse.


Example I: Lotion against itching skin.
Elder blossom.
Vinegar.

The flowers of the elder tree are known because of their inflammation decreasing functioning. They are especially suitable for internal use with allergies, but it can also be processed in a lotion to decrease an itching skin (especially at allergic responses).
It is also useful to keep close in case of a bite of an insect. This will ease the pain rapidly.

Example II: Rinse to ease a dry a skin on the head.
Tops of stinging nettles
White-wine vinegar.

The astringent properties of stinging nettle combined want to shine with the soothing working of vinegar thump her again and stimulates the blood circulation by a dry head skin.
Join also a little bit vinegar closed at the last spool water.


Example III: Sla dressing.
2 cloves garlic, peeled and choped.
2 dl white wine vinegar.

Garlic stands known round its healing qualities, but the penetrating smell sometimes a problem can be. As a garlic processes becomes in a salat dressing, is the result however quite pleasant. Garlic has an antibiotic effect, works cholesterol verlagend and helps also good by inflammations at the airways.



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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.

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Compresses are put in immediately on the skin.
By the preparation of a compress uses one the liquid of the herb mixture instead of the herb by wound paste.,. Use a cool compress by warm inflammations and a warm means round verrekkingen and pain in cold, painful regions to light.


Method for the making of compresses.
A compress can just as a wondpap made become of a
When the liquid is manage, then a clean cloth take, water these in the liquid and wring him good out.
Firstly a little vegetable oil (sunflower oil) bring puts in stick at on the skin before you the cloth on the spot to prevent. The cloth damp to hold, can cover apply you him with a stiff plastic and then a connection.
When necessary, you can replace the compress.


Example: Cooling compress.
2 d lavender infusion
A lavender compress can become on the forehead or in the neck to light gelegd round tensions and headache.


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By infusions become the live off parts of the plant (leaf, flowers and seeds) uses, of which the
Medicinale working is released in water. A herb tea becomes also well infusion or tisane named and is a traditional method season to prepare.


A herb tea make.
Use for the making of a herb tea not the pot in which you usual tea set, because the looizuur the working of the ingredients from the herb tea can outstrip.
If you set your tea in a head, cover these then equal off. Particular ingredients of the tea contain
Namely quick oils that evaporate easy through which the therapeutic working of the tea becomes less. The tea can become hot drunk or are cooled in the refrigerator for later use. Keep the tea at most 24 hour.


Method.
Requisites for a teapot (3 until 4 heads tea)
6 dl boiling water
20 grams dried or 30 grams fresh herbs

Requisites for a head
2 grams (1 until 2 teaspoons) dried or 3 grams (2 until 3 teaspoons) fresh herbs

Method
Use for your tea 1 herb or a combination of 2 or 3 different herbs (equal portions)
That together the above-mentioned quantity form.
Heat by the setting of a pot tea firstly the pot, do then the herbs in the pot and pours the boiling water on it. Cover the pot finished and let the tea 10 minutes pull.
Pours the tea through a tea sieve in a head and join possible honey closed the tea to kisses.

Do by the making of 1 head tea the herbs in a tea sieve and place this above the head.
Pours there then hot water on, cover the cup finished and let the tea 10 minutes pull.
Possibly what add honey. Drink 2 or 3 time a day one cup, dependent on the furrow you valid quantity.

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.

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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Wine becomes uses from way back as a medicine. The easiest manner medicinal wine to make is through wine to buy (by preference biological), at which you add season then.
By red wine is said that he a salutary effect has on the heart, while white grapes good would be for the immune system, because these unwanted harmful matters clear.


Method.
Requisites.
100 g dried season
1 litre red or white wine

Method.
Do the herbs in a glass pot and join the wine to. Closes the pot well finished and let him to slightest 2 weeks stand. After that can the liquid filtered and bottled become. The harbal wine can use you now to need.


Example I: Means for being stuck cough.
100 g dried Greek alantwortel (or 200 g fresh Greek alantwortel)
1 litre white wine
This tonic wine helps by continuous, being stuck cough, because he works slime oplossend and the lit fabric calms.


Example II: Iron realm recipe.
50 g dried stinging nettle
50 g hooked apricots
1 litre red wine
This wine can become uses is as a tonic by anaemia, when it talk of futloosheid and tiredness and also by dry eczema.


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Syrups its soothing, stroperige urges.
You can make sweeten of a tea, a decoction or a tincture a syrup through at this or to join honey closed. Because of this also the taste becomes of less delicious herbs more pleasantly.


Syrup on tea basis.
Requisites
2 dl tea
200 g sweeten or honey

Method
For this type syrup, you have equal quantities tea and sugar or honey necessarily.
Make the tea on the customary manner ready, but late these now 15 minutes pull instead of 10 minutes.
Sift the tea and press so much possible liquid from the herbs.
Heat the liquid softly in a breakdown and join the sugar or honey to.
Go through with rudders, until everything has been mixed good. Do not let the mixture boil or burn.
Let the syrup cool down and pours these in bottles.
Closes the bottles finished and jot down the name and the date of preparation.
(Late the shell by the closing a little bit loose sit; too tight rejected bottles can explode).
Keep the bottles on a cool, dark place.


Syrup on decoction basis.
This method is the same as that for syrup on tea basis, see up here.
A decoction let however always 30 minutes doorkoken.


Syrup on tincture basis.
Requisites.
1 dl water
200 grams sugar or honey
1 dl tincture

Method.
Beginning with the boiling of water.
The boiled pours water in a pan with the sugar or honey.
Heat the mixture on moderate fire.
Rudder till all sugar or honey has been solved and get the pan of the fire.
Let the syrup cool down and join the tincture all moving to.
Pours the syrup in bottles. Closes they finished and jot down the name and date of the preparation.

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.

Tinctures can become uses round roots or leaf to prepare.
They contain next to water also alcohol the ingredients from the herbs to get that otherwise not free would come. The alcohol can replace become possibly through glycerin or vinegar.
Known tinctures for professional use its under others the tinctures of Dr. Vogel.


Preservation and quantity.
If you use wants a herb long, is a tincture the best preparations method.
Tinctures its approximately 2 year maintainable.
A tincture is much more strong than a tea or a decoction and becomes about that also in millilitres (ml) or teaspoons (tl) taken in.
In the general counts: 20 drops = 1 ml and 5 ml = 1 teaspoon.
The average quantity will vary of 3 time daily 1 ml until 5 ml, dependent on the herb.
Check about that always the individual herb quantities.


Method for tinctures.
Requisites
200 grams dried season or possibly 400 grams fresh herbs
2.5 dl alcohol*
7.5 dl water
*The alcohol percentage must season at least 30 per cent its the active matters from the to
Can get and can keep they.
Use for instance vodka or gin. Industrial alcohol do never use.

Method
Hack the season fine and do they in a glass bowl or pot.
Mix the alcohol with the water and join the liquid closed and closes the pot good off.
Set the pot on a warm, dark place and let him that 14 days stand.
Shake the pot each 2 or 3 summon.
Sift the mixture after the 14 days in a clean pot by which the remains of the wet herbs held separately become. These then can be squeezed with for instance a wine press or through she in a
Piece cotton to wrap and to wring they out.
Keep the tincture in a coloured, glass pot or bottle and set these on a dark place.
Set the name and date of preparation on the bottles.

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.

Wound pastes become uses to stimulate from way back to get harmful matters from the body, the blood circulation and to promote the cure.
A wondpap is a herb that externally on a painful spot on the skin are put in.
You can season or season use for this fresh herbs, dried in powder form.
A cool wondpap use by warm inflammations and a warm means round verrekkingen and pain in cold, painful regions to light.


Method for: Wondpap of fresh herbs.
Bring firstly a little bit sunflower or other vegetable oil on the skin at stick to prevent.
Bruise the plant and place these immediately on the to treat spot.
Stop the wondpap its place a connection or zwachtel.


Method for: Wondpap of dried season.
Cook the dried season approximately 5 minutes in a pan with large water.
Let the mixture cool down. Press the liquid from the herbs and keep the been left season.
Scattered the herbs evenly on a connection or zwachtel and put in these on the skin.


Method for: Wondpap of herbs in powder form
Mix the powders firstly with a cold liquid: water, infusion or tincture.
Rudder till it a fine paste arises and cover with this the verhand as is described.


Example: Recipe for feature paste.
Equal want to divide:
Heemstwortel powder
Red-ieppoeder
Water

This recipe, that the feature qualities of heemst combines and the soothing, cramp defence qualities of red-iep, becomes uses round splinters, insects angels and boils out to pull. It can become uses also by itch, causes through insect beten.

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Ointments are preparations on oil basis that not only the recovery process stimulate, but also a protection beating form on the skin. They are then also sore arranged for use on those parts of the skin that at defence influences are exposed.
Zelfgemaakte put ointment on form a soft alternative for the products that in the store for sale are.
They can bring has been affected the skin relief as that by the sun, ageing, food or soap.


Allergy test for a sensitive skin.
Zelfgemaakte herb cream and put ointment on be sore arranged for men with a sensitive or allergic skin.
You can select the ingredients self and the use of additions or conserveringsmiddelen that irritations cause can until a minimum limit.
Only before you a means on the skin will use, must do you firstly an allergy test:
Spread a little bit ointment or cream on a stiff skin (for instance at the inside of the elbow) and late this 24 hour sit. If it acts a reaction, use the ointment or cream then not.
Round medical advice as the irritation ask arrests.


Method for the making from put ointment on.
Requisites
2 dl medical oil
25 g bijenwas
2-5 drops ethereal oil (when wished)

Method
A pan with water at the boil bring and move then the fire layer.
Place up here a smaller pan or scale and pour in that the oil, so that this is heated to the bain marie.
Grate the bijenwas and join the was all moving closed at the oil until these totally melted is.
Drop possibly the ethereal oil in the mixture.
Remove now the scale of the heat source and poured the yet warm ointment in a clean, dark, glass pot stiffly to become. Closes the pot well finished and jot down the name of the ointment and the date of preparation.

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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