I recommend measuring the herbs into individual sized portions to make 1 gallon of tea. This is because you need to make it every 2 weeks. If it gets older than that it might get moldy. There are places that sell you the tea mix in a pound or large amount but the problem with that is that some of the herbs are very fine and others bulky and when you throw them all together like that and then try to measure out a half a cup you are not going to get the right mix. (Hope I made that understandable)
Recipe for 1 gallon Burdock root (cut) = 1/4 cup Sheep Sorrel (powdered) = 3 Tablespoons Slippery Elm (powdered)= 1 Tablespoon + 1 Teaspoon Turkey Rhubarb (powdered)= 1/2 teaspoon I use bottled spring water but some people do use the distilled water. Procedure Measure and mix all the herbs up. Get the water boiling before you add the herbs. Let the herbs cook at a slow boil with the lid mostly on for ten minutes. Stir it up and keep the lid on and let it sit for 12 hours. (This is the extraction part) After 12 hours (I usually let it sit overnight and then bottle it in the morning) heat up the mixture again to a slow boil and turn it off. After it cools a little, then you can strain the mixture and bottle it. I strain it once into a big container, and then strain it again when I bottle it. You don't want to get too obsessive about straining. Dark brown bottles are recommended. You can heat the bottles in the oven for a few minutes at 175 degrees to sterilize them. If you don't have the brown bottles use whatever you have and keep it in a brown paper bag till you can get brown bottles. When you want to take the tea you can measure out 1/4 of a cup of Essiac and 1/4 cup of bottled spring water and heat and drink. During chemo sometimes this is all my husband would be willing to ingest. I had him drink it 3 times a day. It gently detoxifies the toxic soup and dead matter that the chemo and cancer has created. He would bounce back to normal within a couple days in between chemo sessions. Essiac is good to take even if you don't have Cancer. I drink it all the time and it gives you strength. Helping someone overcome Cancer is a big job and requires a lot of work. It is great to take with any illness and will help you recover faster because it is detoxifying all the garbage. Another thing I would recommend is Enzymes which are garbage eaters and help you get rid of the toxic soup also. When my husband had Cancer we used whatever alternative things we heard about that we knew would be basically harmless. He did a lot of other things. Took little bowels full of supplements a couple times a day. He did eat the cottage cheese and flax seed oil too. I order my herbs from Mountain Rose Herbs. Their website is www.mountainroseherbs.com and number is (800) 879-3337. They only sell high quality organic herbs. When you are going to go to all that trouble you don't want to get poor quality herbs, you only want the best so that it will work. They are based in Oregon. Takes about a week for me to get my orders. If I was dealing with someone really sick I would get a bottle already made from the health food store while waiting on the shipment. It does take some time and trouble to make, but once you get used to doing it, it is not too bad and you will be glad in the end that you went to a little bit of trouble because it really makes a difference. Hope that helps someone. Best of luck. Paula
