Extracting herbal principles as if you were making a coffee

A particular and easy way to extract and get herbal principles, is the espresso procedure, nothing more than the one used to make an espresso coffee.
So it will be enough to have an espresso pot (moka) to use exclusively with herbs and with cut and ground herbal mixtures.
It will be necessary to be particularly careful about herbs origin. They must come from biological farming, that is they must be completely without pesticides and other chemical substances, because 50-70% of pesticides are dissolved through watery extraction.
For a medium flavour, fill half of the pot filter, adjusting it according to the desired flavour.

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How to prepare herbal remedies

The first thing to know to learn healing yourself with natural products is the difference between a tea and a decoction, a juice and an extract. Here is how to move deftly among leaves and dried flowers, strainers and mortars.

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The word refers to the kind of preparation which extracts active ingredients from the plant. There are three main ways of preparation: infusion, decoction and maceration.

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