This article originally appeared on Modern Farmer. Health enthusiasts happily shell out hundreds of dollars each year for herbal products of every variety, from lavender salt scrubs for the bath to ...

Why alcohol? While making a tea with your herbs can extract some of the medicinal compounds, alcohol is a more powerful solvent. It also preserves the medicinal compounds for 5 years or more. Don’t ...

Many people who take an active role in their own health and well being also tend towards naturally-sourced nutritional supplements and remedies for minor ailments, such as taking a cup of chamomile ...

Learn how to make herbal tinctures and how to make an herbal infusion to sip your way to better health and enter a soothed state of mind. Herbal teas remain my favorite way of using herbs medicinally.

Herbal tinctures – concentrated, drinkable plant extracts – are a centuries-old wellbeing practice, dating back to the ancient Egyptians. Recently, however, they’ve become increasingly popular for ...

Harvesting herbs for tea is the simplest way to make use of medicinal plants, but for more potent medicine, botanical extracts (commonly referred to as tinctures) are a better choice. Besides the ...