Common and the most easiest way of applying the cure made of herb is in form of tea. Besides tea, there are other ways of preparing the cure. Tea (lat. infusum) is prepared by perfusing the herb with the boiled water: leaves, blossoms, root (cutted in pieces) are parboiled - you do not boil them. In order to prepare tea, properly, you must use fresh and clean water. Good prepared tea is not boiled.
Other methods of preparing the cures from herbs are:
1) Soaking the herb into the unheated water - it is called maceration. It consists in the fact that the curing herb material is sunk into the water and it is left there for 1 - 48. hours or longer. After this, we get so called herb's "wine". So, maceration means deacidification - remove acid from the herb, to get the curing ingredient in a liquid.
2) Boiling the herb in water - decoction. This might take 15. minutes till one hour. You have to take care of the material you use, because the boiling time depends on if we took the root, cortex or leves. The deacidification of the root is very slow and oftenly without results, while leave deacidification is much faster The boiling result is ptison.
3) The third way - we get cure from herb using alcohol. If we use this method we must know if we prepare the cure using the fresh plant or the dried one. If we use the fresh one, we get brine, and if the dried one is used then we get the curing drops. It is called tincture. We will use these terms on our site.
4) If we use the fourth method then we have to use wine. The root, leves or the whole plant are sunk in the water. You left it there for 8 - 10 days, and then strain and use it. Those medicine wines (lat. Vina medicata) have great curing ability.
If some plant, that we want to get the tea from, has oil inside itself (rosemary, spearmint) then you should pour it over with boiled water and wait for 15. minutes.