Choose one of the nutritive herbs (nettle, oatstraw, red clover, linden flower, violet leaf, horsetail, passionflower, cleavers, chickweed, lemon balm, or mullein leaf).\u00a0 You may add a little of one of the mints or others for flavour, but choose one of the primary nutritives.\u00a0 Place one full ounce, by weight, into a quart jar.\u00a0 Canning jars work splendidly for this.\u00a0 Fill the jar to the top with boiling water.\u00a0 Stir and add until the herbs are saturated and the jar is as full as you can make it.\u00a0 Screw on a tight lid, and steep for four to twelve hours.\u00a0 Strain the liquid, and refrigerate.\u00a0 Drink at least one cup a day, up to four cups a day.\u00a0 Rotate the nutritive chosen every few weeks.<\/p>\n
You can also do similar with another set of herbs, sometimes called “longevity” herbs.\u00a0 These also fall into the nutritive category, but the ways in which they improve the body directly effect the impact of aging on the body.\u00a0 They are:\u00a0 dandelion, nettle, burdock, and oats.\u00a0 Oddly enough, some of our most pernicious weeds are also some of our most potent allies in herbal medicine and nutrition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Choose one of the nutritive herbs (nettle, oatstraw, red clover, linden flower, violet leaf, horsetail, passionflower, cleavers, chickweed, lemon balm, or mullein leaf).\u00a0 You may add a little of one of the mints or others for flavour, but choose one of the primary nutritives.\u00a0 Place one full ounce, by weight, into a quart jar.\u00a0 Canning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[340,276,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editing","category-foods","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.ravenandcoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.ravenandcoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.ravenandcoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.ravenandcoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.ravenandcoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1880"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/archives.ravenandcoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2975,"href":"https:\/\/archives.ravenandcoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions\/2975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.ravenandcoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.ravenandcoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.ravenandcoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}