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Boil some water in a pot and put some herbal plant leaves in the strainer above. Then cover the pot. After a while, put the soft and warm herbal cures on a tucker of loose tecture. Cope the aiching body part with it. Cover this bandage with a cotton tucker to fix it. Don’t leave it to cool down. The most effective is cat’s tail poultice.
This poultice can remain on the body for two hours or during the night.
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Stems and leaves of herbal plants have to be breaked into pulp. Then it has to be greased onto linen tucker and put on the aiched body part. Fix it by the help of another tucker and keep warm. This poultice have to be kept on the body for the night.
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Fres juice of herbal plants are good to use as dips or to cream the aimed body part with. We make the juice with shaker as it can chop the herbs up and squeeze them as well. Make fresh juice for daily use only. If we keep the juice in small bottles, plugged properly, it can be good for several months.
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Herbal tinctures are also essences, that are made of grain or fruit „palinka” or some kind of spirit with alcohol content of 38-40 percent. A bottle or another locker vessel can be poured, until it is almost full, with the herbal plants. Then water it with the grain or fruit „palinka”. As it is well locked, we leave the herbal tinctures alone in a warm place (about 20 Celsius) for 14 days or more.
Sometimes, we stir the herbal tinctures up, then the herbal essence should be stirred up and strained. Finally, we strain it and the fruit pieces and grain seeds remained in the strainer are squeezed.
Herbal tinctures can be used for oral use- drop some dips of herbal tinctures into the tea. Hence, for external use, it is used as compresses or friction.
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Infusion or tisane: Fresh herbs are to be chopped up and to be put into a bottle or into another vessel that isn’t made of metal. Boil the water, get it off fire and pour it on the pre-prepared drying herbs. Soak the fresh herb for a while- half a minute is more than enough. The tea should be pale-yellow or light green. Herbal green tea need a bit more time to soak (1-2 minutes). The tea that is made this way is much nicer and more pleasurable.
Roots are to be put up in the given amount in cold water. Boil them just for a while, than leave them alone for further 3 minutes.
Pour the daily portion of herbal tea into a bowl, and drink by little gulps during all day, according to the directions.
Usually, we can get a complete spoon of herbal plant for a mug (or quarter of a litre) of water, unless there is another direction of the given herb.
Cold soak: Some drying herbs (eg. mauve, mistletoe or sweet flag) mustn’t be scalded over, as it can loose its herbal curative power. We make some cold tea from them. Soak the appropriate amount of herbal plants into cold water for approximately 2 hours (durig the night). Then, herbal green tea should only be warmed for immediate use. The daily portion should be kept in thermos bottle, that had been rinsed with hot water previously. However, herbal plants and herbal seeds can be utilized the most effective way by making a mixture of the soaked essence and the boiled herbal green tea.
Herbal cures should be soaked cold into the half amount of the water for the night, and they should be strained off next morning.
Herbs that remained in the strainer are to be boiled with the other half amount of the water, then they should be sieved repeatedly. Pour the essence and the tisane together.
Herbal green tea that is made in this way will have the natural herbal remedies that resolve only in cold or warm water.