Healing with Herbs in General.

The medicinal and healing properties of leaves and flowers and roots can be harnessed to use as natural healing products.

Natural substances from these roots and flowers can be used in their original raw form. Even easily recognizable herbs such as rosemary from the garden can be used to make an infusion.

Hemp is often used with alcohol to make a tincture. (We create using CO2 nowadays but that isn’t realistic in a home environment). Later in the series will show you how to make one or two products using hemp as your herb.

Other treatments and remedies are made from extracts of other plants and herbs and are generally freely available from health food stores and chemists and the like. We generally call this range of products herbalism.

Herbalism

Though many drugs are actually based on herbs there’s recently been a resurgence of interest from public in the use of plants in their natural form, This rise in interest is for many reasons; the environment, sustainability, safety., Some might be some concerned about the side effects and possible addictive nature of some of the prescribed drugs and people are looking for a safe alternative for those things that will help with the conditions that they have. people in general are more interested in where their foods and medicines come from and how they are made.

This has naturally led to a lot of the interest in hemp due to its wonderful health properties.

Herbalism means to create the type of treatments to individuals rather than just a one size fits all. With hemp a lot of these treatments are created to boost in your own immune system and help your body help itself rather than rely on synthetic medicines.

You can also take these herbs and remedies in a variety of different ways so it’s not all just shoving the pill down your gullet every day. We will talk about a few of these methods over the course of this series.

The types of disorders that respond well to hemp remedies are digestive complaints, even serious problems like like Crohn’s disease, skin problems, insomnia, and of course joint problems like arthritis.

Herbal preparations

The most common types of products that people prepare at home or infusions decoctions, tinctures, poultices and skin creams; we will touch upon a few of these throughout the series.

An infusion is made in a very similar way as a pot of tea in fact herbal infusions are referred to as tea’s. Granjacia actually used to make tea bags with our hemp flowers until Spain stopped us selling them as a food item.

Concoctions are made instead of infusions when roots or the stems or you know the woody parts of the plants are used because this active ingredient is hard to extract from simply pouring water onto herbs and instead the herbs are boiled and simmered in water and then strained.

Most infusions and decoctions are usually taken internally but you can also use them in a bath or as a foot spa or as a shampoo even.

Tincture is more suitable for hemp because the essential oils in hemp don’t dissolve in water very well so we would use alcohol. Some people prefer tinctures to infusions because they’re more palatable and they’re quite quick and easy to use.

Compressing and poultices are usually applied to the outside of the body as they’re more often used to treat conditions such as headaches, fever, colds and sometimes skin conditions; although we will tend to use a skin cream or balm.

An ointment, balm or CBD skin cream usually perform a protective healing layer on the skin and can also be used as beauty treatments as well as for treating those skin complaints.

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