Tincture, Infusion, Decoction: Choosing the Right Extraction for the Plant in Front of You
Pick up a piece of dried valerian root. Smell it. That wet-earth, almost rotten funk is valerianic acid, and it does not care how politely you ask it to dissolve in water. You can steep that root in a cup of boiling water for twenty minutes and get a pale, faintly bitter tea that carries … Read more