Preparing Medicinal Teas

A cold infusion is a simple herbal preparation that involves soaking herbs in cool water over several hours, typically overnight. This slow, gentle method helps preserve delicate compounds like mucilage and essential oils, making it especially effective for soothing the digestive tract, calming irritated tissues, and supporting overall hydration.

Beneficial for herbs like marshmallow root.

A hot infusion is a classic herbal tea method made by pouring hot water over herbs and allowing them to infuse for 15-30 minutes. It’s ideal for delicate plant parts like leaves, flowers, stems, and aromatic herbs, helping to release vitamins, volatile oils, and soothing compounds into your tea.

Beneficial for aerial parts of plants (leaves, flowers, stems).

A nourishing infusion is a long-steep herbal tea, typically made with mineral-rich herbs like nettle, oatstraw, red clover, or alfalfa. Prepared with hot water and steeped for 4–8 hours (or overnight), it extracts deep nutrients like calcium, magnesium, iron, and silica. These infusions are deeply supportive for energy, stress, bone health, and whole-body resilience.

Beneficial for nourishing herbs like nettles, dandelion, red clover, red raspberry leaf, oatstraw, and leavers.