DIY Herbal Remedies: Powerful Medicinal Recipes to Try at Home

In this video, I'm sharing three potent medicinal recipes that you can easily make at home. Join me as I dive into the world of herbal remedies and discover how to create your own bee balm oxymel, sleepy time tea, and fire cider.

Homemade Sleepy Time Tea: Relax and Unwind
Indulge in a soothing cup of homemade sleepy time tea, handcrafted with dried lemon balm, borage, and chamomile. Immerse yourself in the calming process of packing these aromatic herbs into tea bags. Uncover the secrets behind these herbs' calming properties and learn how to make the perfect cup of tea to help you unwind and enjoy a restful night's sleep.

Bee Balm Oxymel: Fight Off Colds and Flu Naturally
Learn how to harness the immune-boosting properties of bee balm, apple cider vinegar, and honey in a delightful oxymel. Watch as I guide you through the step-by-step process of fermenting this magical elixir for four weeks.

Fire Cider: Ignite Your Immune System
Prepare to ignite your immune system with this fire cider recipe. Join me as I combine ginger, turmeric, garlic, peppers, lemon, orange, and apple cider vinegar to create a potent tonic. Witness the four-week fermentation process and discover how to finish it off with a touch of honey. Unlock the immune-boosting potential of this invigorating elixir and give your body the support it deserves.

Whether you're seeking relief from colds, aiming to improve your sleep quality, or looking to fortify your immune system, these recipes have got you covered.

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[HomegrownFloridaZa]

Do you have a favorite herbal medicine? Leave the recipe below 👇

[roxannem.wallrn]

I used to be a “non believer” in herb products, I am now and have been for the last 7ish years a true believer in not only consuming herbs for health but I grow them all myself. I have converted my front yard to a medicinal herb garden…people walk by and love the way it looks and smells. I use my herbs in my homemade herbal teas. My backyard has a lot of herbs also but I also grow veggies. Love watching your videos - take care!! Tulsi basal is one of my favorites

[raakheemenezes]

So pretty and healing tasty colourful recipe ❤

[suzycowan]

Thank you for sharing your recipes with all of us, it is much appreciated. May I suggest a few things regarding your Fire Cider? first, allow it to steep/ferment for up to 6 weeks as it really makes a stronger cider. Second, the next time you make a batch, try adding a handful of elderberries, blueberries, or cranberries to the recipe, it's supposed to really enhance the taste so much more, and think of the added benefits they offer. Now lastly, this is something I just recently learned and I will be trying it as soon as I strain my own batch of cider, and that is to dehydrate (or freeze-dry) the solids rather than throwing them into the compost or garbage can. Then once they are thoroughly dry, ground them into powder and make capsules out of the powder using the "00" vegan capsules. All the beneficial properties and health benefits are still in the solids and they are saturated in ACV and therefore are still a very potent medicine. I'll re-watch your video again, but I don't remember seeing if you told everyone that after straining out the solids, they needed to add some raw honey to their cider, not just for the sweetness, but also for the benefits. I hope any one of these helps you or your other viewers. May God always Bless you with good health, safety, and prosperity in all you do. Take care

[ladilynne]

You need parchment between the vinegar and that metal lid. Vinegar will start to break down lid - don't want that in oxymel. Or I generally use the plastic mason jar lids or leak proof.

[patroot]

I have a dehydrator, but i dry so much so i put some in mason jars cover with a coffee filter and use a ring to hold it on set on my table and shake everyday until dry . It takes longer but it works great.

[janicemoyer]

You won’t believe this but I was traveling on a business trip for the pharmaceutical company I work for when this was released.😂
I also believe self care through other means, herbal or otherwise is way better than medication. Taking one causes affects that you need another to fix, and then another to fix those affects…domino affect can get ugly.
Thank you for sharing all that you are learning. Hopefully it helps others as much as it reinforces the knowledge in my old memory.

[itgetter]

I love this! Will try these out. Thanks very much!

[oreopaksun]

I can't wait to watch in detail when I have a nice cup of something later in the evening! Great idea! Especially since we need indoor activities to do with the massive tangles into which our herbs have grown!
Sorry, Petrina, my drink tonight is a tall glass of chocolate mint tea over ice! But, to your health!
Your recipes are quite flexible it seems; start with the base, like lemon balm for sleepy time tea, or honey and ACV for oxymel, or various anti-inflammatory, antioxydative, high vitamin ingredients and ACV, tweek to personal taste, and voila! I love that!
For the fire cider, last bit of instruction: after 4 weeks of fermentation, you said "drain" and mix with equal parts honey before taking. Sorry, can you break that down a bit more? Do we just drain off and save the liquid? Or can we take a few tablespoons of the cider liquid and mix with honey in a smaller container when we are ready for a dose? Seems a bit of a shame to throw away all the beautiful fruits and spices, but then you don't want the solids to go bad. Should the fire cider be refrigerated?
Thanks for all the great ideas to safeguard our health with the plenty from our garden! (And a use for those beautiful turmeric roots I just replanted....I did not have any use for fresh turmeric, just the powdered stuff, but the plant is so pretty!!!)
I mostly used my garden herbs as aromatics in cooking, but yes, ginger and lemongrass tea concentrate with honey has been used to fight colds and sinus infections. And, I keep a jar of ginger fermented in honey in the refrigerator for medicinal and culinary goto (I think it IS distinctly alcoholic after a couple of months but still has that ginger quality).

[cheryldotson]

Thanks…l Am growing my own herbs and medicinal plants this year. I have purchased bulk medicinal dried leaves, seeds, and roots on line last Fall and made my own homemade tinctures. Mullein is my favorite! I will be collecting Dandelions…leaf flower and root this spring also. Always love to learn new recipes or ideas for use. I Loved seeing how you collected and then air dried flowers until you had enough for use. 🙏🏻❤️💕

[lindarichards]

Great video! I love that you do these videos on what to do with our garden harvests and the home made remedies and tinctures are so interesting. I had never hear of tinctures until I saw your other video on it recently.
Would to love to see some preserving videos too!
I just got a dehydrator that came with no instructions or recipes so I am trying to figure it out through trial and error.
Love your videos! Thanks.

[burself]

Loved it!!! Thank you for sharing this recipes. They are so helpful, I'm gonna try them🎉
I've been using a mixture of onion and honey and adding cinnamon, ginger and clove for when we start with some cold symptoms and it helped so much!!

[Genshin]

I have always said, prevention is better than the cure

[KEENDARLING]

Wonderful recipes, I have the bee balm and been looking for a recipe to use them - thanks

[arturoarche]

Thank you very much for such wonderful tips and herbal remedies. I would like you to make an herb growing video, I do not know if you have made it yet. Please include information about growing bee balm. I know there is an annual variety that I might be able to grow here in zone 13. The perennial one I might try growing it since many perennials do surprisingly thrive here despite the fact there is no cold. Many just need a dry period. An example is asparagus long thought to need a long cold dormant period to thrive, it grows very well in spite of not having a cold period at all. Dormancy can be induced by a short dry period or even just by hard pruning in some instances. It is possible to get really good harvests every six months just by letting it dry out for three to four weeks. Then you cut all the fronds and water it heavily with added fertilizer. The spears will come out in abundance. After about a month or when the production of spears begins to slow down, let it grow for another six months and start the cycle all over again. It is an intensive method and needs a lot of organic fertilizer but the results are very good. The plantings can be staggered so that asparagus is available year round. Something that is impossible to do in colder climates with freezing temperatures in winter. The spears are not perhaps as thick as supermarket or store bought ones but quality is very good and of course you grow them yourself. Nothing can be most satisfying than beating the odds, the plants may not last forever but you can sow them every year and in two years they will be productive. They generally last four to five years sometimes even more with really good care. The constant warm weather makes everything grow faster. The variety UC 152 F2 is very heat tolerant. Gardening is an experiment and many wonderful results can be had if one is willing to try new things. If for any chance, one fails in something, then learn from mistakes and try again. Thank you for such a wonderful channel. It is one of my preferred ones. I always learn a lot from you. Have a nice day!

[sewpretty]

I have made fire cider before and I did also leave out the jalapeno pepper. What is the name of the pepper you used? Love these ideas for health.

[chichiflash]

Can you, please, provide the information on how to secure the honey you used? Thanks.

[HappyRunMe]

Do you think spotted bee balm will work for this? It grows all around my property wild and I’ve harvested and dried the flowers recently (I have an air drying rack) and I’ve read it’s beneficial from a foraging standpoint but not sure for what. The flowers look very similar to what you have here with the many layers of petals on top of each other like you described. I would love to try the oxymel. I regularly make an anti-allergy tincture and an echinacea tincture as well as a fire cider but would love to add this to my cold and flu remedy arsenal. ☺️I rarely get sick anymore now too since incorporating herbal remedies into my life. Next year I’m going to grow stevia again and make my own stevia glycerite. I just have the dried and powdered leaves from growing it last year which I’m not as fond of using to sweeten my tea. I like the extract better. I’m still learning but just the few that I’ve been using have been super helpful. Now I’m going to try this sleepy tea as well! I already have those herbs too. 👍🏻I’ve also started making my own capsules with herbs for PMS and a few other things I wanted help with in a more natural way. It’s been very effective. I also learned I wasn’t steeping my teas long enough (15 minutes really does the trick for me). Such a fun and useful skill to learn I think. FYI my entire career was in IT which I got into while training to be a surgical technician and nutritionist. Small world. ☺️

[TR-Mead]

I see that 82nd Abn coin behind you, so I suppose I trust you. 😉😎

[dione]

How many days can you store the bee balm in the fridge?