Herbal Salve making Basics

Herbal Salve Recipe Basics

Did you ever wonder why salves are so good for everyday use for example how about a bee pollen salve is so powerful for the skin,  where bee pollen is cold infused into the oils used in your salve recipe. Bee pollen is a powerful skin care aid in cell regeneration because of the flavanoids,antioxidants, vitamins, minerals and amino acids but particularly because of its pure form of b complex vitamins . Domestic Bee pollen due to the bees cross pollination process(s) allow this. providing a new and powerful source of cell regeneration of the skin.

Herbal healing salves are great for everyday use and are very powerful in healing Wounds, Cuts, Sores, Bug Bites with little or no scaring They are also used for sore muscles and actually extracting infections and  poisons from a wound. and a good black salve can over time pull a small splinter out of a wound or hard to get area.

Follow this category to get the recipes for many salves

Below is a simple recipe for a general healing salve to help you understand how salves are made and to be used as a base recipe for other salves you desire.

There are many different types of salve used for different purposes. E.G.  

• To draw out a poison or infection of some sort one can use a black salve. 
• For Burns of all degrees one can use a good burn salve.
• For. Cuts and bruised one can use a general healing salve
• For Injuries one can use a  sprain salve
• For poor Circulation, reumatory arthritis, and or joint pain or even to help stimulate blood circulation in specific ares of the body through a topical process one can use a circulation Salve
• For inflammation one may use an powerful anti-inflammatory salve.
• For Eczema use a lavender tea tree, oregano,plantain salve
• and these are just a few salves 

Making The Salve:

What You Will Need:

• 1 ounce of pure Beeswax
• 8 ounces of herbal infused oil
• Lavender essential oil
• tea tree essential oil
• vitamin e liquid capsules ( to use as a preserver to get more of a shelf life of the salve)
• stainless or enamel pot
• potato ricer or cheese cloth for pressing the oil soaked herb(s)
• Glass jar for storage ( Small baby food jars work great)
• 2 cup pyrex measure cup (for transferring liquid salve into containers or tins)

Here is a video on a simple healing Salve that can be used everyday everywhere for cuts, bruises, bug bites, dry skin, burns, and sore muscles as well as vascular veins.

I.  First you will need to make an infused oil:

Cold infused oils: ( better quality salves and longer shelf life)

Take 6 ounces of your herb or her combination (in total) and place in a quart size mason or glass jar.

Add a Good quality olive oil and stir very well.

Let sit for a min. of 4 weeks to achieve a good quality infusion. Some say 2 weeks (I go 4 weeks and try to make extra so I always have some ready to make a batch of salves

after the 4 weeks strain and press herbs back into the stained oil.

Warm infused oils: ( Quicker good for quick needs but has a shorter shelf life)

 In a  stainless steel or enamel pot add 1 1/2 cups of good quality olive oil  and bring to a very low simmer once you reach the simmer point back off the heat

Add  6 ounces of your herb or her combination (in total) .

stay on low or warm for 1 hour.

After one hour take off stove and let oil cool. Once cool stain and press

II. Making the salve liquid to pour into your containers:

1. Add once ounce of pure beeswax and slowly melt it completely
2. Once completely melted, add infused oil to the melted beeswax.
3. You will notice it will solidify at this point just let it all remelt together as one liquid.
4. Once completely a warm liquid add to pyrex measure cup and quickly pour into your containers.
5.  While still in liquid form break and add vitamin E liquid of one capsule and then add essential oils 2-3 drops of each per container. 
6. Let harden and use as needed

Natural Solutions for Diabetes Part 4

Natural Solutions for Diabetes Part #4

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Berberine Herbs and Diabetes

There are many natural solutions for diabetes a very powerful herb classification are “BERBERINE Herbs” mainly derived from cir cumin a few main herbs which possess berberine are (to list a few)

• Turmeric Root
• Ginger Root
• Goldenseal 
• Golden leaf
• Barberry
• Oregon Grape
• Yellowroot

Berberine Herbs assist in both the creation and regulation and maintenance of Healthy Insulin. Also its natural put powerful antiseptic properties aid in the detox process to maintain a health flow of insulin . insulin contaminated with toxins produce more toxins and is marginally inceptive to the current system at hand but may not be considered diabetes but hypoglycemic effects. causing fatigue,neuropathy, joining inflammation and water retention and more so detox is vital for all forms of diabetes. ineffective production of a normal balance of “healthy “ GLUCOSE Levels will effect blood flow control thus not being able to reach to its fullest and deliver blood to nerve endings. Eventually these nerves and nerve endings will too become in a fatigued state thus not receiving proper nutrient and oxogen level . this causes spasmodic activity to occur or a like shooting sensation to occur this is know as neuropathy.

Neuropathy:

A Few Good Herbs and essential oils good for neuropathy are:

White Willow Bark: a powerful herb to help aid in joint inflation and nerve pain specifically.
Burdock root: a powerhouse of a blood purifier

Cinnamon: a powerful antiseptic herb for diabetics

Cayenne: maintains a healthy Blood circulation

Hawthorne: maintains cleat arterial and vascular wall to maintain a healthy and consistent blood flow to all the main systems.

Essential Oils: (for neuropathy)

Use topically Pepermint essential oil (diluted to 2 percent) as an antispasmodic.

Use Topically: Clove essential oil as an all natural anesthetic

Use Topically: Cypress oil Helps with muscle cramping and more server neuropathy (shooting pain effect)

USE TOPICALLY: Lavender Essential oil: for its antimicrobial properties

Detox:

Another bunch of herbs that are great for diabetes and particularly used as a “Detox” are (but not limited to):

Dandelion

Burdock

Goldenseal

Milk Thistle

Barberry

Cinomon

raw Cilantro

raw Parslet

raw Chicory

Nutrition:

Another Vital Need for Diabetics is “Nutritional support”

Proper nutritional values delivered to all the main systems particularly the liver and adrenal glan is vital improper nutritional values and maintained nutritional valued will cause Oxidation (particularly in the joints (causing a rumatory arthritic effect.

Secondly, a healthy immune system is vital to all diabetics for this to will also aid in a healthy maintenance of glucose levels. 

A Few Good Nutritional herbs for diabetes are:

BEE POLLEN!!! a superfood containing the purest form of B Complex vitamins. This is due to the fact of the cross pollination process of the bees pollen collection(s).

Slippery elm Bark it is loaded with vitamins, mineral and much more 

Dandelion: Loaded with Vitamin A K Magnesium , manganese, and trace minerals of Calcium.

Nettles: Good for Water retention and will help stimulate the digestive glands of the liver and abdominal organs.

Spirruilina: This superfood pack a powerhouse level of protein and is said could potentially end world hunger. Secondly, it also is a power booster for the immune system thus maintaining a healthy immune system so that the nutrients of this superfood nourishes all the main systems.

Chlorella: One of the best super foods, chlorella is packed with nearly ten times the healthy chlorophyll of similar greens like wheat grass, barley and alfalfa. In fact, chlorella’s name comes from its high amount of chlorophyll, an important nutrient for cleansing your body.

Making a Powerful Thieves oil variant with the Herbal Survival Kit.

Making a powerful thieves oil variant with your Herbal Survival Kit

You will need:
Pure Grapeseed oil
Eucalyptus Oil
Pepermint essential oil
Clove Essential Oil
Oregano Esential Oil
Lavender Essential Oil
Tea Tree essential oil

Recipe:
Pure Grapeseed oil   1/2 ounce
Eucalyptus Oil          15 drops
Pepermint essential oil 10 drops
Clove Essential Oil  25 drops
Oregano Esential Oil 25 drops
Lavender Essential Oil 30 drops
Tea Tree essential oil 30 drops

Directions:
Add all ingredients together in a dark color bottle and percus 35 times to dispense all the oils and begin the propagation . let sit overnight to propagate.

Usage:
Add 4 drops to one quart of distilled water  in a sprayer bottle. Alternatively you can use a standard simple steam vaporizer that hold 1-2 gallons of water and add 6 drops and a pinch of salt to the water in the vaporizer . The salt will increase the steam levels but only add a pinch.

Note: If you are making a few bottles of this spray ahead of time add 1 tablespoon of 80 proof vodka or food grade alcohol to it as a preservative. DO NOT USE THIEVES OIL around small children. if you use the variant with rosemary essential oil ALSO do not use it around people with Epilepsy or those who have a history of seizures.

add alcohol then oils then mix them both well then add the distilled water and shake before each use.

Herbs for Migraines and headaches

"Herbs for Migraines"

Migraine headache can effect ones  lifestyle with a major impact. Pain alone can cause irritability, fatigue, lack of desire, and even cause stress on the main systems. A headache is an indication that there is a problem somewhere mostly lack of nutritional supplementation. sometimes eating helps as we absorb the nutritional values of the meal just consumed. but otherwise there are natural solutions both fast acting and short lasting and short acting and long lasting. 

Headaches are often a digestive system disorder that reaches the stomach or abdominal nerve area(s). other causes can be dress , fear, pain, to excessive levels. also improved elimination of bowels is important so that toxins from bowels do not back up into the blood stream.

A few good headache herbs are but not limited to:

Black Cohosh: Good for women during there menstrual cycle.
Feverfew: a fast acting short lasting herb for migraines due to inflammation.
White Willow Bark: A slow acting long lasting herb with an aspirin like effect good for headaches and other nerve pain.
Butterbur: This herb is mainly used for migraine prevention, however has anti-sposmadic and anti-inflammatory properties by regulating the calcium channels.

These  herbs can be taken as a tincture or tea. 

                                     To make a herbal Tea:

For menstrual related pain take Ginger tea

Take 2 tablespoons of cut dried herb and place in a tea ball or infuser let steep for 4-5 minutes then strain and press( this is were the best parts are in the soaked cut herb so press well!)
Do not use if preagnet or breast-feeding or have liver problems.

If headache is stress related or from nervousness use Nervine herbs. these herbs will relax the frayed nerve endings by calming inducing rest and sleeplessness. once nerves recover this will help the overall pain 

A few good Nevine Herbs

• Skullcap
• Lemon Balm
• Lavendar
• Chamomile
• Valerine
• Hopps