Herbal Teas - Echinacea - Dandelion Root - Cat's Claw

Anyone use herbal tea with good results?

I feel positive results and strong effects from the herbal teas I use.

I also felt some things I haven't felt before after herbal tea use. They are very strong & it seems I can actually

feel their effects.

I think they are easy to digest for the body while getting the benefits..I"m going to incorporate more herbs in tea form soon.

I do herbal teas all the time and just plain fun ones. I found a pure pomegranate one today at Nugget market and tomorrow morning I shall taste it. My all time favorite is mint magic. I don't do the teas so much for the herbs unless I get a cold. But I do them because I tire of water, lemon water, kombucha, acv drinks, etc.

I would not take any of the main treatment herbs as tea unless that is accepted/suggested by the herbalist that created the protocol. Some of the chemicals in these herbs are not heat resistant. So if you add them in boiled water it destroys them and you get placebo instead of herbal magic ...

That sucks, mpost, as I've recently been very worried about the alcohol content in some tinctures, especially the few of them that were made 1:2, and I'd planned on eventually switching to all powders of the herbs to be made into tea, to be rid of the alcohol as well as for ease of use = not having to count out hundreds of drops, multiple times daily, or put powders into capsules.

Some Buhner recommends using in capsule form, capsules filled with the powder, so I figured a tea would be alright, eating the powder along with it. Other herbs, while he recommends another format, I've a few here seen mention using as a decoction.

A couple most typically recommend to be used in tincture form though. I'm still not sure about those.

I realize that the amount being used at once is small, but, first and foremost, I deal with a lot of chemical sensitivities, and I get the feeling that alcohol has become on of them, and, really, while the amount in each dose of a tincture is small, when you're using 10+ at a time, it adds up.

I've been putting them into hot, not boiling, just hot enough to create some steam, for about 20 minutes, and I neither smell nor taste any alcohol, so I'm inclined to think that works.

But, falling in line with what you said about the boiling ruining some of the medicinal value, I worry that my removing the alcohol from the tinctures does the same. I mean, the alcohol is what draws out and preserves a lot of the good stuff from the herbs, right? That said, if it were to be removed, wouldn't some of those things go along with it?

That, coupled with the cost of so many tinctures, is why I was gonna go with the teas, but you reminded me of the possibility of impairing my treatment efforts in that way as well.

I could make some into tea, use others in capsules, and take only those in tincture form that I absolutely have to, allowing them to retain their alcohol of course, but I wanted to take the "easy" way. Throw all this in there, mix it up, consume. I still might, I don't know.

There are always bumps in the road, with this. Far too many. You can't do this, you can't do that, this is bad. This is good, but only if so and so.

Really, I'm not sure if it even matters what form of these things I'm taking in the big picture, 'cause there's so many things that I'm not able to take that I likely need to be, so many known aspects, yet unreachable, and, even worse, so many unknowns, some possibly to never be seen.

I am just struggling, whether up or down, until I.. go up.. or down, I guess, if that makes sense. lol

Anyway, getting carried away.

I don't expect a response, just talking. I will probably forget I was here, all the same, even if one comes.