Spring cure with wild herbs


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The first field herbs, forest herbs and meadow herbs of the year were already eagerly awaited by our ancestors and served as a welcome addition to the menu after the deprivation-rich winter season. By the way, they supported the excretory organs with their powerful, healthy ingredients, livened up the winter-tired organism and thus facilitated the transition to the new season. This has not changed until today, because the green powerhouses are still available to us in rich selection: in your own garden, in the meadow, in the forest, so wherever wild herbs have a chance to survive. Ursel Bühring, the director of the Freiburger Heilpflanzenschule has put together a multi-week herbal treatment program for MY BEAUTIFUL LAND, accompanied by a base treatment to deacidify the body.

Ursel Bühring

Ursel Bühring is the director of the Freiburger Heilpflanzenschule

QUESTION: How does acidification develop and why does it make sense to combine the herb with a base cure?
URSEL BÜHRING: Our body fluids, ie blood, stomach acid, and also the intestinal mucosa, have a certain pH value. These values ​​differ considerably, and that's a good thing, because only then can acids be transported and excreted. Normally, this is called a balanced acid-base balance. However, if an unhealthy diet, stress, alcohol, nicotine, lack of or exaggerated movement leads to increased acidity, it must be balanced with alkaline foods (for information: acid is spoken at a pH of 1 to 6.9, a pH Value of 7 is considered neutral and values ​​of 7.1 to 14 are called basic).

QUESTION: How is hyperacidity noticeable?
URSEL BÜHRING: Many think of heartburn. But that's just one of many possible effects. Common symptoms of hyperacidity include fatigue, listlessness, headaches, back problems, and skin problems. Chronic hyperacidity can also cause arthritis, osteoarthritis, high blood pressure, kidney disease and gallbladder disease.

Cutting wild herbs

Fresh herbs for herbal teas: dandelion, ribwort, yarrow, sorrel, stinging nettle and hanging birch are particularly suitable

QUESTION: How are the excess acids neutralized and what role do herbs play in it?
URSEL BÜHRING: Using base-rich foods such as green vegetables, potatoes, lettuce, sprouts, mushrooms, pumpkin seeds, almonds, many fruits and of course herbs. Wild herbs and garden herbs have many minerals and trace elements, with sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium and iron playing an important role in the neutralization of excess acids. If the body does not receive enough bases with the daily food, the body's own mineral depots will be attacked in the long run: bones, cartilage, tendons, teeth and hair.

QUESTION: Are wild herbs ideal for detoxification, especially for their minerals?
URSEL BÜHRING: Yes, but not exclusively. In addition to their high content of minerals and trace elements, wild herbs have valuable essential oils, vitamins, mustard oils, bitter substances, tannins, dyes (flavonoids), soaps (saponins), mucilage, salicin, the starting material of the well-known aspirin, and much more. In short, a very efficient mixture of healthy and medicated substances. In particular, liver, bile, intestines, kidneys, bladder, skin and musculoskeletal system benefit from a "spring cleaning" with wild herbs and alkaline drinks. By stimulating the detoxification organs, the metabolic end products (also called slags) deposited in the connective tissue are mobilized and increasingly excreted. This improves the acid-base ratio and vitality. After a few weeks you feel like newborn.

herbal juice

Fresh herbal juice with banana, dates and lemon

Herbal juice with banana, dates and lemon

Ingredients: a handful of dandelion leaves, ribwort, nettle, yarrow, yaw and chickweed, 3 dates (or 1 tablespoon of raisins), a banana, strawberry if you prefer, juice from an organic lemon, 1/2 liter of water.
Preparation: Wash fresh herbs briefly and dab them dry.Cut into thin strips and place in a beaker together with the small cut dates, the remaining fruit, lemon juice and water and finely puree with the hand blender.
Application: Keep the juice cold and drink throughout the day in small sips.

The herbal cure is based on three pillars

Herbal apple juice

Fresh herbal juices taste great when combined with fruit

QUESTION: What are your recommendations for a multi-week herbal cure?
URSEL BÜHRING: Set your spa program on three pillars.

1. tea blends and soda-rich drinks. Drink a wild herb tea blend daily for about six weeks. For this daily heavily diluted juice spritzer without carbon dioxide or thin nettle broth. This "neutral fluid" supports the kidney. For a balanced acid-base balance, prepare "Kükaleiwa", a base-rich potato, cumin, linseed, and water-based meal regularly (daily or twice a week) for three to six weeks.

2. Fresh plant juices. In this way, you provide your organism with the complete range of action of the herbs in their natural form. These juices taste delicious if you make them yourself and combine them with the fruits of your choice.

3. Wild herb dishes. They complement the cure in the most delicious way, because wild herbs are rich in vitality and rich in aromas and open up a whole new dimension of healthy enjoyment.

Nettles as a drink

Nettle drink

Nettles can be eaten both as a drink and as a vegetable

Ingredients: a large handful of young nettle leaves and stinging nettles, 1 liter of water.
Preparation: Briefly rinse the stinging nettles and pat dry. Put in a saucepan and pour boiling water over it. Let it draw for ten minutes and then pour through a sieve. Incidentally, you can prepare the blanched herb in a similar way to spinach, or mix it with spinach.
Application: The diuretic and metabolism-stimulating nettle water to drink throughout the day, in the morning a quarter to half an hour before breakfast and as a last drink in the evening. Store in the refrigerator and warm slightly before drinking. For flavor enhancement, you can add freshly squeezed lemon juice to taste.

Fresh from the meadow: wild herb tea

Ingredients: 20 grams each of fresh nettle leaves, dandelion leaves, birch leaves, yolk leaves and daisies.
Preparation: Briefly rinse off herbs and pat dry. Cut one portion of this herb mixture into small pieces and pour 1 tbsp of boiling water per cup. Let it rest for ten minutes, then drain.
Application: Morning, noon and evening a cup of freshly prepared and drink. The remaining herbs can be stored in freezer bags with zip-lock for several days in the refrigerator.

Vegetable juice Kükaleiwa

The vegetable juice Kükaleiwa (short for cumin, potatoes, flaxseed and water) helps with persistent hyperacidity

Kükaleiwa effectively supports the fasting cure

The vegetable juice owes its name to the ingredients cumin, potatoes, flaxseed and water.
Ingredients: 1 to 2 tablespoons caraway seeds, fennel seeds and flaxseed (whole), 500 grams of raw potatoes, 1 liter of water, a handful of stinging nettles at will.
Preparation: Peel potatoes, cut into cubes. Rip off stinging nettles, pat dry and cut into strips. Put together with caraway seeds, fennel seeds and linseed, potatoes and a liter of water in a saucepan and simmer gently for 20 minutes. Then strain.
Application: The base-rich vegetable potion helps with acid stomach and persistent hyperacidity. Distributed throughout the day, drink several cups warm, the first quarter of an hour before breakfast, the last before bedtime.

Herbal juice with apple and buttermilk

Herbal juice apple buttermilk

Not only delicious but also healthy: herbal juice with apple and buttermilk

Ingredients: a handful of fresh herbs, for example ribwort, stinging nettle, young yarrow leaves, sorrel, greed, chickweed, dandelion and young birch leaves, an apple or a carrot, a cup of buttermilk or kefir.
Preparation: Lightly pat the freshly collected herbs to give the little animals the opportunity to go for a walk. If the plant parts are dirty, they are washed briefly and dabbed with the kitchen towel. Put the herbs together with the apple (or the carrot) and the buttermilk in a beaker and puree with the hand blender.
Application: Keep the juice cold and drink a glass slowly three times a day.
Read more Worth knowing about wild herbs as medicinal plants in the latest issue of Mein schöne Land.

Spring cure with wild herbs

FAQ - 💬

❓ Can wild herbs be used in cooking?

👉 A few wild herbs are used in cooking, but most are considered medicinal and can be made into tea, syrups, tinctures, and other medicinal preparations. The wild herbs below have a wide variety of medicinal uses, ranging from supporting digestion to alleviating pain.

❓ Can you grow healing herbs in your own garden?

👉 Wild herbs are a great addition to your garden raised, or mail ordered, herbal collections. Add these beneficial wild plants and herbs to your collection this season, and have fun foraging in the wild. My book Homegrown Healing From Seed to Apothecary will help you grow healing herbs in your own garden.

❓ What herbs are good for cold season?

👉 Mullein is a useful antispasmodic and expectorant herb to keep on hand for cold season, as it’s a go-to herb for lung health. Tincture the leaves and dry some for tea to have ready to relieve chest congestion and coughs. Beautiful, fragrant elderflowers make their appearance right around the solstice.

❓ Where can I buy herbs?

👉 You can find many of them at natural food stores or online. The top source for herbs is Mountain Rose Herbs, which sells extremely high-quality herbs and herbal products. You can also get excellent herbs through Starwest as well as on Vitacost, Amazon and other online retailers, including small enterprises on Etsy.

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