PREPARATIONS
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The following datas are standardized information. For
sure according to the plant, the troubles, the quantities can vary.
INFUSION
DECOCTION
MACERATION
ALCOHOLIC TINCTURE
WINE
OIL
BATH
OINTMENT
CREAM
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Prepare an
infusion:
About 2-3g (1 teaspoon) of dried plant for 1 cup of
water.
One can prepare in a teapot with 20g of dried plant for
500ml of water.
- boil some water.
- pour the quivering water into a bowl (as a teapot) containing the plant,
and put a lid by above.
- let infuse during 10 minutes.
- leak
out with a sieve and overturn into a bowl
- Yu can add some sugar or some honey before drinking.
Posology: Drink 3 to 4 cups a day (about
500ml).
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Prepare a
decoction:
About 20g of dried plant for 750ml of cold water which
will be reduced in 500ml.
- put the plant in a pan with some water.
- carry in boiling and let shiver during 20-30mn up to reduction of a third
- filter the decoction with a sieve.
-
overturn into a bowl and put in the cool.
Posology: Drink 3 to 4 cups a day (about
500ml).
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Prepare a
maceration:
It is necessary about 20g of dried plant for 500ml of
water.
- put the plant in a bowl with some cold water and
cover.
- let soak a whole night.
- leak out
Note: A maceration is made in quant cold the active principles
of a plant can be destroyed by the warmth. Nevertheless, one can doit with
the water and the already infused plant or décoctionnée.
Posology: Drink 3 to 4 cups a day (about
500ml).
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Prepare an alcoholic
tincture:
It is necessary 200g of dried plant for 1 liter of alcohol
for more than 45 ° (Vodka, Rum)
- put the plant in a glass bowl and cover it with alcohol
- close, shake 1-2mn and store in a fresh and dark place
(10 in 14 days).
- shake every 2
days.
- pour the preparation into a juicer for wine or possibly into a sieve to
filter the plant.
- pour the tincture into a bowl
Posology: Drink 2,5ml of tincture diluted in a glass
of water 2 - 3 times a day.
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Prepare some
wine for base of plant:
Between 25 and 100 grams of dried plant for
1 liter of white or red wine.
- put the plant in a big jar, pay(pour)
enough wine to cover it completely.
- close the bowl with care, shake and let it during 2 weeks.
- filter the plant and keep at cool in a closed bowl.
The drink keeps 4 months maximum.
Drink 1 half glass of wine a
day.
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Prepare a medicinal
oil:
250g of dried plant for 750ml of vegetable quality oil
(olive, sunflower).
- mix the oil and the plant in a salad bowl warmed in
the bath marries.
- cover and let shiver during 2-3h.
- let cool, then pour the mixture into a passoir or a
juicer and be well urgent to extract from it all the liquid.
The medicinal oil keeps about 1 year in a coloured glass
flask.
NB: You can do also oil for cold: It is necessary to
compress the plant in a jar, to pour the oil and to make rest 2 in 6 weeks,
get back then the liquid.
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Prepare a bath
for base of plant:
- overturn 500ml of an infusion (or the
other drink) filtered by plant in the water of your bath. One can also put 5
in 10 drops of essential oil
According to what one wants one soaks completely or seluement
the reached part of the body.
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Prepare an
ointment or a cream:
About 60g of dried
plant and according to: ointment: 500g of petroleum jelly or soft paraffin wax;
cream: 300g of émulsifiante wax, 140g of glycerin and 160ml of water.
- to melt the mixture cream or ointment in a glass bowl
in the bath marries.
- add the plant finely cut
and let shiver 15mn for the ointment and 3 hours for the cream while
moving.
- pour the mixture into a stamen(muslin) fixed with the thread at the edge of
a jar and leak out.
- thread rubber gloves and press the mixture to extract most possible liquid
of the stamen(muslin).
- overturn
without waiting for the liquid ointment or for the cream in jars. Close jars and
cooled time, screw profoundly lids.
Posology: Apply a small quantity 2 - 3 times a
day.
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