The best herbal tea: recipes. How to make medicinal tea at home

Traditional healers for thousands of years they have tried to understand healing power herbs. Treatment experience accumulated over centuries various diseases passed down from generation to generation. Many of the antiquities used have survived to this day.

Today, the healing power of plants is widely used both at home and in traditional medicine And . The main steps to obtaining high-quality medicinal raw materials at home are compliance with and.

But since some herbs can cause pain, some are toxic, and there are others that are simply poisonous and should be used only after consultation with a doctor and in strict dosages, then practicing herbal medicine at home and without proper knowledge can sometimes be dangerous to health.

How to recognize plant allergies

And we also need to take into account the fact that herbal recipes may not suit every person. After all, the reaction of any person even to simple food and air is strictly individual.

The first thing you need to do before using any homemade medicinal or cosmetic product or just before starting herbal treatment- This conduct an allergy test. Moreover, it will not take much time and will not take much effort, and at the same time, it will sometimes protect you from unnecessary trips to the emergency room.

Everything you are going to use must be attached to inside wrists for a maximum of 20 minutes. If redness occurs immediately, use is unacceptable! If redness occurs 20 minutes after application to the wrist, then it must be used with great caution (dilute 5-10 times).

Also check for smell: if you absolutely do not like the smell of a plant, decoction, powders - i.e. what you are going to use, you should not experiment on yourself, doing treatment or even prevention. Necessarily listen to the state of your own body, to your feelings. Our body is smart, it will often tell us if there is something we shouldn’t do.

Rules of herbal medicine

Herbal treatment differs from medication in its duration. Of course, it’s faster to take a pill to make it go away, but this is not always the most safe way. although it heals much more slowly, it gives longer positive effect . Both tablets and herbs human body addiction may occur. To prevent this between courses of herbal treatment it is necessary take breaks of 1-2 weeks. You can replace herbal teas with others with a similar effect.

When making preparations, strictly adhere to the recipes. If all plants and dosages are selected correctly, then general action collection will be softer and more targeted. If you made a mistake in the preparation of the drug, then the herbs in the incorrectly formulated mixtures are often neutralized, sometimes even blocked healing actions each other, the therapeutic effect of such a collection is minimized.

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How to take herbal preparations and preparations

1. Treatment should begin before the onset of the acute period.
2. In order to avoid addiction, the composition of the herbal mixture should be changed once a month.
3. Treatment should be carried out under the supervision of a herbalist.
4. Use only freshly prepared herbal infusions.
5. The dosage of herbal medicines for children is different from that for adults, do not forget about it!

Rules for drawing up fees

Medicinal collection should include plants that have anti-asthmatic, cleansing, tonic and anti-allergic effects.

1. Plants are antiseptics:

• St. John's wort,
• yarrow,
• pine buds,
• Birch buds,
• eucalyptus leaves,
• Salvia officinalis,
• chamomile,
• thuja (cones),
• lingonberry (leaves),
• walnut (leaves),
• Great celandine.

2.Plants with anti-inflammatory and expectorant effects

• large plantain (seeds),
• Linden blossom,
• raspberry leaves,
• black elderberry flowers,
• strawberry leaves,
• wild rosemary,
• coltsfoot,
• licorice naked (root),
• Dill seeds,
• black radish (juice),
• Icelandic moss,
• viburnum (berries and bark).

3. Bronchodilator plants

• chamomile,
• great celandine,
• Linden blossom,
• St. John's wort,
• prickly hawthorn,
• peppermint,
• motherwort five-lobed.

4.General strengthening herbs and berries

• stinging nettle,
• large burdock (root),
• wild strawberry (leaf),
• common knotweed (leaf),
• prickly rosehip,
• chokeberry,
• red rowan,
• common barberry,
• blueberry,
• marsh calamus (root),
• strawberries

5.Antiallergenic plants

A) helping to restore the elasticity of the walls of blood vessels

• cinnamon rosehip,
• herbaceous elderberry,
• black currant,
• orange.
• green tea,
• prickly cocklebur,
• tripartite sequence,
• tricolor violet,
• medicinal veronica,
• chokeberry;

B) helping to normalize the permeability of vascular walls:

• hop cones,
• black tea,
• common oak (bark),
• prickly hawthorn,
• red rose (petals),
• buckthorn (berries),
• tanning sumac,
• common heather;

B) reduce inflammation respiratory tract stimulating sweating and appetite:

• sandy immortelle,
• horsetail,
• common knotweed,
• water pepper.

6. Antioxidant Plants

• aloe,
• eleutherococcus,
• common anise,
• black elderberry,
• Aralia Manchurian,
• warty birch,
• wild strawberries,
• St. John's wort,
• peppermint,
• rose hip,
• sowing flax,
• black currant,
• common chicory,
• ordinary pumpkin,
• field horsetail.

In my articles, I will always remind you of the rules for using any plant or a preparation from it when necessary, if the plant is allergic or toxic. You can also always get free, competent advice on the pages of our website or from

Journalist Elena Egorova talks about some of the secrets of herbal medicine with pharmacist, hereditary herbalist, member of the Society of Herbalists of St. Petersburg, author of the books “I Know About Herbs...” and “Hemlock - Healer of Oncology and Other Diseases” Lidia Nikolaevna Dyakonova.

How long should you take herbal treatment? What mistakes do people most often make when using herbal medicine: do they drink the herb they need for too short a period of time or, conversely, for too long?

L.D. More often than not, people take medicinal herbs for less time than they should: they feel better and then stop drinking the herb. However chronic diseases, such as joint diseases and tumors, take a long time to treat. For example, tumor diseases thyroid gland, mastopathy, fibroma should be treated with herbs from several months to a year, or rather, until complete recovery.
In case of cancer after tumor removal surgically medicinal herbs should be taken for 5 years to avoid relapse, and it is advisable to alternate antitumor herbs. Among the best plants, preventing the recurrence of cancer, can be called the Siberian prince - these properties have long been valued in Tibetan medicine. It is advisable to use hemlock, which kills tumor cells, to prevent relapses - but all tumor cells cannot be removed from the body with a knife. Hemlock is taken once a day, in the morning 1 hour before meals according to the scheme from 1 drop to 40 drops (on the first day take 1 drop, on the second - 2 drops, on the third - 3, etc.) and back from 40 to 1 drop. After such an 80-day course of hemlock treatment, a week break is taken. During this period, herbs are used to cleanse the body of intoxication. In Siberia, Lespedica kopeechnikova is most often used for these purposes. Where lespedeza is rare, you can use burdock root or wormwood herb. I often prescribe a collection of six herbs to cleanse intoxication: wormwood, immortelle, yarrow, dill, St. John's wort and birch leaf. Pour 1 teaspoon of finely ground collection into a glass of boiling water, leave, strain and drink, without sweetening, throughout the day.
Another thing is taking herbs containing cardiac glycosides, which include such a sensational plant as hellebore. There are even known cases of hellebore poisoning due to ignorance of the people who used it, the characteristics of this plant and the rules for its use. The general rule for using poisonous plants is to start taking them with very small doses. Thus, finely ground hellebore root powder is first taken in an amount of 5 mg (which corresponds in appearance to the size of a small match head) once a day, in the morning on an empty stomach, with a glass of water.
After taking hellebore for three weeks, you need to take a week break. At the same time, in parallel with hellebore, and also during weekly breaks from taking it, you need to drink diuretic herbs, such as rose hips (can be in the form of compote), birch leaves, currants or lingonberries. In addition, it has long been noted that hellebore is most effective in the cold transitional season - autumn and spring. The dose of hellebore can be increased by a third after about three weeks.
Foxglove, Adonis vernacular, and jaundice also contain cardiac glycosides, so after every three weeks of taking any of these herbs, take a week-long break during which you drink diuretic herbs.

Lidia Nikolaevna, you said that joint diseases can also be treated with herbs for quite a long time. For how long and with what herbs?

L.D. Avicenna wrote that joints need to be treated in four seasons, that is, a year, but usually it takes even two years to treat them.
For joint diseases, herbs with anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial effect, which influence skeletal system, as well as herbs that activate kidney function, Bladder and having a diuretic effect, because the infection needs to be washed out of the body. Such herbs include lingonberry leaf, elecampane, heather, knotweed, birch leaf, meadow geranium, marsh cinquefoil, and horsetail.
Some medicinal plants, having a mild diuretic effect, help eliminate salts that the body does not need, which are deposited in the joints. For these purposes, you can use, along with the already mentioned birch leaf, lingonberry leaf and knotweed, also black currant leaf, asparagus, goldenrod, burdock root, rose hip root, and common cocklebur.
Preparations from herbs and mixtures with anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial effects are not only taken orally, but also rubbed on the joints.
It should be noted that during treatment tumor diseases They also combine the internal use of herbs with the external use of the same herbs, for example, for fibroids, they make bandages soaked in medicinal infusion, on the stomach.

How should the intake of herbs be correlated with food intake?

L.D. Herbs for treating the liver and gallbladder should be taken 15–30 minutes before meals, and for a diseased liver, it is better to take herbs in the form of infusions and decoctions, rather than alcohol tinctures.
If you are treating a sore stomach or intestines, then take the herb you need 30 minutes before meals.
In herbal medicine of the kidneys, the corresponding herbs are taken an hour and a half before meals or an hour after meals - after all, the kidneys must, on the one hand, be washed, but on the other, not washed medicinal substances herbs
For treatment oncological diseases use poisonous plants (celandine, periwinkle, mistletoe, etc.). Poisonous plants, as a rule, taken once a day, in the morning an hour before meals and washed down big amount water (at least 100 ml).

Should I take breaks from taking non-poisonous herbs?

L.D. Need to. The fact is that if you take any herb or herbal tea Without taking breaks, the body gets used to the phytotherapeutic effects, and as a result, the therapeutic effect is significantly reduced.
Some herbs require particularly skillful use. For example, wormwood cannot be used for a long time - this herb is taken no more than a week a month. The point is that she long-term use harmful to the stomach and the brain (dries out the brain, as Avicenna wrote). Tansy, a bitter and quite toxic herb, is also not recommended to be taken for more than a week a month.
Some herbs have an abortifacient effect and are therefore contraindicated during pregnancy. Such herbs include oregano, burnet, gentian, tansy.

What general rules for combining herbs with each other should be followed?

L.D. Herbs that have a calming and tonic effect do not combine with each other, so they are not consumed at one time. The first include valerian, motherwort, evasive peony, blue cyanosis, mint, lemon balm, and hop cones. The second ones include eleutherococcus, Aralia Manchurian, lemongrass, tall plant, Rhodiola rosea, ginseng. However, you can take a tonic herb in the morning, and a calming herb in the evening of the same day.
Diuretic and laxative herbs are not taken at the same time, as they weaken the effect of each other. Laxative herbs (joster, hay, buckthorn) should not be used every day. If you suffer from constipation, take herbal laxatives every other day, preferably at night.
When taking this strong remedy, like hemlock, even the food consumed by the patient is important. Immediately after taking hemlock, it is not recommended to drink tea, coffee, milk and dairy products. sour foods, as well as sour foods such as grapefruits, lemons, oranges, sour apples, sauerkraut and dishes seasoned with vinegar. But within a few hours after taking hemlock (say, at lunch), these products can be consumed. Smoking and alcohol also reduce the effect of hemlock.
Some herbs do not go well with hemlock: wormwood, ferula, celandine, and periwinkle should not be taken with it.

Probably, it is important not only to choose the right medicinal herb, but also to prepare the medicine correctly from it?

L.D. Yes, sure. Although I want to emphasize that good recipe Not suitable for everyone. The fact is that each person has his own characteristics, his own health problems, and herbs can have side effect. For example, galangal and St. John's wort fix, St. John's wort increases blood pressure - all this must be taken into account.
Now about preparing herbal medicines. The roots and bark of medicinal plants are usually boiled. So, calamus root, galangal and rose hip roots, and oak bark are boiled so that they release their healing substances into the solution. In addition, the decoction of oak bark, rich in tannins, does not need to be infused for more than 20 minutes - it is filtered while still warm.
Contrary to the general rule, the roots of plants such as burdock and marshmallow do not need to be boiled, although people often try to do this. The fact is that the active principles of these medicinal roots containing mucus, dissolve in water at room temperature.
Some herbs cannot be boiled because they active ingredients are destroyed when boiled. Such herbs include European dodder. And when meadowsweet is boiled, an unpleasant pharmaceutical smell appears, so a cold method of infusion of plant raw materials is also advisable for this plant. Soak the meadowsweet in water at room temperature overnight and strain in the morning.
And one more piece of advice. Since essential oils are quickly destroyed in solution, plants rich in essential oils, leave for no more than 10–15 minutes, filter and apply immediately. Such herbs include wild rosemary, mint, lemon balm, chamomile, sage, buds and pine needles. These plants, rich in essential oils, are useful for inhalation when colds.

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How to use medicinal plants correctly?

How to use medicinal plants correctly?

Medicinal herbs are used both internally and externally. Juices squeezed from plants, decoctions, steams, infusions, tinctures, extracts from roots, bark, seeds and fruits, powders from dried parts of plants are taken internally. Externally, medicinal herbs are used in the form of baths, enemas, wrapping in a sheet soaked in a decoction of medicinal plants, in the form of lotions, poultices, compresses, applying plant parts and pastes from them to sore spots, etc.

The most common dose for using medicinal herbs internally is 1 tbsp. a heaping spoonful of finely chopped plant or mixture per glass of boiling water or 4 tbsp. spoons with “top” per liter of boiling water.

Medicinal plants Medicinal plants are used for compensated diabetes of any type to lower blood sugar levels, as well as for complications of diabetes. Many plants have an effect similar to that of insulin due to the presence in their