Interesting healing infusion recipes: herbs, bark, grasses, cones...

I was looking up "currant branch infusion" , after reading the book "Lost in the Taiga", in which it says:

The Lycovs drank infusions of tree fungus, currant branches, and loosestrife, and for the winter they prepared wild onions, bilberries, wild marsh rosemary, origanum, and tansy. At my request, Agafia gathered another ten or so different "healthful, God-given plants."

I hope someone will R this post, since it looks like a good list, and site, for those wishing to make more of their own medicines, for example, this one is intriguing to me, since the thyroid takes on such a burden, for women who are post-menopausal:

Thyroid infusion

- Another infusion made of pinecones can help you if you have nodes in your thyroid gland. To prepare this infusion put 15 pinecones collected in May into a glass jar and add some Vodka to it. Close the jar with a plastic cap that has some holes. Infuse it for 10 days in a cold dark place. Do not put it into the refrigerator. Filter the infusion and take it by the following schedule:
First two days take a drop of it three times a day before eating. The next two days take 3 drops three times a day before taking food. On the fifth day and the rest of the course, take 5 drops three times a day before eating. The course is 21 days long.


whereas this is somewhat mystifying:

Tibetan infusion

To prepare the infusion you need the biggest leaf of aloe (the lowest one) and chop it up. Do not water the plant 7 days before cutting it. Then chop up a pod of bitter red pepper. Mix pepper and aloe and add a full tablespoon of grinded dried greater celandine. Put this mixture in a half-liter jar made of glass stir it with a small birch branch and add 400 milliliters of Vodka. Close the jar with a piece of foil and put a piece of cloth on the top of it. Put the jar into a dark place. Infuse the mixture for 3 weeks shaking it daily.


Sounds almost like it comes out of the old religion, the Bon, with the foil and cloth ON TOP of the foil. If anyone has any idea why or how that works, I'd love to hear your thoughts...may have to ask a tibetan Amchi about it (herbal doctor)



Good stuff, makes me want to go out and tramp the woods.

and yes, all these forums apply, if you read the recipes! :-)
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