herbal supplement

Teas

The herbs that will be used for herbal teas are generally the cut and sifted form, or the crumbled dried leaves and/or flowers. Herbs should always be prepared in nonmetallic containers. Steep the herbs in a nonmetallic container with water that has just been brought to a boil. This is an infusion, and is used for the more delicate herbs to prevent destroying their healing agents.

A decoction is used to extract the healing agents from herbs that are roots and barks. The herbs are simmered in a nonmetallic cooking container for about one hour. Simmer uncovered until the amount of water is reduced by one half. Those herbs that contain important volatile oils should be simmered in a tightly covered pot.

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Gathering, Storing, and Using your Herbs

There’s something about herbs that we should realized and understand so it could bring a benefit for us and wont bring a tragedy to us either the plant or others that we called as herbal. When gathering or harvesting your herbs, first be absolutely sure you know what you are going to gather! This is very important when gathering plants from the wild. Be absolutely certain you know what the plant is before you attempt to use it. If you are not sure of a particular plant, or it “looks like” something but could be something else, leave it alone. You would be better off to purchase the herb through a store or mail order. The alternative may leave you dead, something that you don’t want of course. If you care about our natural plants, you will prefer to purchase or grow what you need. Today’s herbal needs are creating quite a strain on the numbers of medicinal plants in the wild.

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Which one is better?

People consumed supplement of vitamin C for its antioxidant benefit. It’s said that antioxidant also have benefit as anticancer. But recently, researcher from Milan, Italy, found a surprising result in their research.

They compared antioxidant effect from three group of volunteers.

Each of the group drink one out of these three : orange juice, water plus vitamin C, and water plus sugar. And voila, blood samples from the group which drink orange juice showed least DNA damage. While water plus vitamin C are considered to have no protective effect to DNA damage caused by oxidation. They presumed that it’s not just vitamin C, but another substance which have the antioxidant effect in orange. And this is additional Herbal Supplement information for you.

Strawberry

Do you know that strawberry is good for our health? It is said that by consuming strawberry we will be one step ahead in preventing gastrointestinal cancer. It can lower your cholesterol and blood pressure, improve your blood flow as well as your stamina. The later benefits couples. Strawberry improves blood flow, it means a better blood flow throughout the body, include sexual organs. Thus, it improves the quality of sex as well. So, strawberry pie everyone?