Nourishing Herbal Infusions: Nature’s Supplement

Adding sup­ple­ments to your diet is the new great way to get your nutri­tional require­ments. If you aren’t for­tu­nate to know your farmer, reg­u­larly buy organic or bio­dy­namic foods or grow your own veg­eta­bles you need to be sup­ple­ment­ing addi­tional nutri­ents into your diet.

Net­tle Infusion

Using sup­ple­ments can be tricky because the sup­ple­ment indus­try suc­cess­fully lob­bied against any reg­u­la­tions on their label­ing.  What does this mean for you? You have to research your sources and know the sci­ence behind the sup­ple­ments you are using.  For most of us research­ing sup­ple­ment com­pa­nies isn’t at the top of the pri­or­ity list.

A whole food alter­na­tive to tak­ing sup­ple­ments is using nour­ish­ing herbal infu­sions.  Infu­sions are made from steep­ing nutri­ent dense herbs in hot water for 4 or more hours. Like a strong tea. Spe­cific herbs pro­vide a pow­er­house of nutri­tion to sup­port the body in heal­ing and real­iz­ing opti­mum health.

Here is a sim­ple recipe that can be applied to most med­i­c­i­nal herbs to cre­ate a nour­ish­ing herbal infusion.