Hot Infusions-Cold Infusions
Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2017 12:33 pm
While studying I came across an interesting list of herbs/roots that suggests which herbs require boiling water and which need cold (better protects volatile oils) for extraction of the herbal goodness. This book is James Green's "The Herbal Medicine-Makers Handbook" page 110.
Hot Infusion: cayenne, chamomile, cleavers, comfrey leaf, dandelion leaf, Elder (flower and berry), fennel, ginger, ginkgo, hawthorn, mugwort, mullein, nettle, oat, peppermint, plantain, st. john's wort, saw palmetto, scullcap, valerian, yarrow.
Cold Infusion: burdock root, chamomile, cleavers, comfrey root, crampbark, marshmallow root, mugwort, nettle, peppermint, uva ursi, slippery elm.
Any thoughts?
I'm surprised by a couple of the entries...Elderberry for one, I thought that the berries performed better when infused cold...I'll work on this thought...hmmm Kiva Rose maybe wrote something about no heat to Elderberries...or Matthew Wood???? And mugwort has pretty valuable volatile oils...hmmm???? Got some thinking to do
Hot Infusion: cayenne, chamomile, cleavers, comfrey leaf, dandelion leaf, Elder (flower and berry), fennel, ginger, ginkgo, hawthorn, mugwort, mullein, nettle, oat, peppermint, plantain, st. john's wort, saw palmetto, scullcap, valerian, yarrow.
Cold Infusion: burdock root, chamomile, cleavers, comfrey root, crampbark, marshmallow root, mugwort, nettle, peppermint, uva ursi, slippery elm.
Any thoughts?
I'm surprised by a couple of the entries...Elderberry for one, I thought that the berries performed better when infused cold...I'll work on this thought...hmmm Kiva Rose maybe wrote something about no heat to Elderberries...or Matthew Wood???? And mugwort has pretty valuable volatile oils...hmmm???? Got some thinking to do