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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.