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 ...

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 ...

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.

The herbalist Jade Marks shares three simple recipes for calming, restorative drinks. By Alex Tudela For anyone skeptical about the medicinal power of plants, the 27-year-old herbalist Jade Marks is ...

Want to make your own herbal medicines, but not sure where to start? Tinctures (alcohol extracts) and infusions (concentrated teas) are my favorite ways to take herbs internally- after eating them as ...

Adirondack Herbals shares a recipe for keeping iron levels high for healthy blood cells, based from traditional herbs.

Drinking herbal teas or syrups is a good way to benefit from herbs' healing properties. One of my favorite herbal preparations is a tincture—a concentrated liquid made by soaking herbs in alcohol.

Functional or medicinal mushrooms are taken over the wellness world with health benefits that optimize immunity, vitality, brain health, and overall sense of being well. Even before the success of the ...

When herbalist Clare Kritter’s sunlit storefront in sleepy downtown Mazomanie isn’t open for shopping, she might be in the back kitchen workshop stirring up tea blends like an alchemist. At Hedge ...

GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUNGI: Coffee drinks are a good way to experience the benefits of medicinal mushrooms, says The Pot Stirred co-owner Taylon Breeden. A vanilla mushroom latte is the most ...

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 ...