hey guys Josh from super survivor and today I just want to go over how to make a simple decoction and infusion herbal tea blend the reason I want to go over this is because this has helped me in my healing journey I've worked with my doctor to kind of find herbs and make tea blends that are helpful for my gut and my my whole body and to support it and there are a bunch of different herbs you can use you have to do a little bit of research and find herbs that are may be helpful for your specific situation but I'll put a list with herbs below ones that are good for your gut ones that are good for adrenals and other different issues that you're dealing with so you can make a nice blend so what a decoction and infusion blend is is really so a decoction is any of the harder herbs like ginger root licorice root burdock root any of the harder herbs and a decoction is when you basically simmer those harder herbs on low heat for a longer amount of time so like twenty to thirty minutes you can simmer those herbs to really extract the medicinal value out of them so that's the first step and then the second step is when you infuse softer herbs after that to make a really nice blend of tea so these are herbs like peppermint or other leaves other other herbs that have essential oils in them so in this method I'm going to show you how to make a decoction and infusion so first of all I have my herbs here I have licorice and burdock root and then I have a blend of passionflower raspberry leaf and lemon ball in this mix this is an overall a good digestive and adrenal support mix and I found it very helpful and the reason why I wanted to show you this method is because you can customize your own blends order individual abs kind of mix them up in bags and then steep them and really seek them well for a longer period of time we really get a medicinal value T because even a lot of loose leaf teas that you get some of them are very strong and very helpful they can relieve symptoms but sometimes having a custom like stronger blend is really helpful as well so I want to show you this simple method so that if you're interested you can order your own herbs blend them up and make your own high strength blend so first step is taking your harder routes so in the decoction and infusion method you want to decock the roots first because it takes longer and yeah you just want to do that part first so I'm just going to take one tablespoon here of the burdock and licorice I'll put that down for a second and I'm using four cups or one liter of water and I do this because it makes enough for the whole day so I can have four cups of herbal tea with this method so I use one liter of water I pour it in a tea pot just over the stove here so I'm going to pour the water in you can do this really any any pot that goes over the stove or you can simmer it on low heat so any really anything even a glass you know a pan or whatever you have that works to simmer herbs over heat so the first step I'm gonna do here is just just insert the harder herbs that licorice and then I'm just gonna make sure they're kind of evenly distributed just wiggle it around a little bit and then the next step is just to turn the burner on low heat so I'm just gonna do three on my stove and then really the thing you have to keep in mind with tea is that really making any tea whether you're doing it for a longer period of time or a shorter period of time it's really just a simple process sometimes it can seem confusing because you know some different types of herbal teas tell you to do them for different periods of time or you know infuse them for different periods of time but at the end of the day it's really just steeping herbs and water and extracting the medicinal value out of them so for this method I put in the roots first I'm gonna set my timer for 20 minutes you can do this on the phone or I have just a little timer here that I've used myself so the burner is on three I'm just gonna let those roots kind of simmer and that's gonna allow those medicinal properties to extract out of it and so you know step one take your water I do a liter or that on your on your stove on a you know a pan or I'm using a tea pot here just putting the herbs in I mean you can do that you can do any method in a pan or whatever works for you just just steep to simmer the herbs on the soap so I'm going to let that sit for 20 minutes and then the next step is just to take take this teapot off the heat and I'm just gonna insert you know a couple tablespoons of my softer herb mix and just let that infuse so that second part is an infusion and then infusion you don't simmer it on heat you just let the herbs you know steep in in water you're not actually boiling then so this method is really two steps taking your harder roots that you have mix in a bag taking your you know entering them in DIC haunting them which is simmering them for 20 minutes then the second step is taking your water and your herbal mix off the burner and then infusing your softer herbs for about 15 all right so the roots have steep for twenty minutes now and the timer just went off so I'm gonna pull this off the burner for this next step and then now I'm going to infuse the lighter or the softer herbs into the mix it's cool because you can tell the the liqueur which is the tea water we call the liqueur you can see that it's you know a lot of those medicinal components have extracted into liqueur because it's darker now resembling the roots that put in so now I'm just gonna put two tablespoons of the softer herb mix that I use and this is passionflower lemon balm and raspberry leaf and these each have you know help hold medicinal value to them like I said doing this method is really for customizing your own herb blend and learning a little bit more about different herbs and what you know what they can be beneficial for so I've made kind of my own custom blend and I'll put kind of herbs below this but it's a really good way to customize your own high strength blend a specific to you look like so I'm just gonna put one more scoop here and then this is off the burner remember because we're just infusing in this second step you only simmer you only decocked tougher herbs so I just let it mix around a little bit evenly distributed set my timer for 15 more minutes just let this infuse for 15 minutes and then after that it's as simple as taking a larger cup because I'm using you know a liter of water some have a larger amount of tea wicker and up for these this 15 minutes is up of infusing the next herbal blend I'm just gonna pour it through the strainer and do a larger cup and enjoy plastic here is just simply stringing it into a larger cup so I'm gonna take my pot I'm just gonna grab my strainer and me is a larger just plastic cup to store this tea so just pour it through the strainer and I'm going to do a little mic up as well then I usually just get that all the juice out of the herbs and that's it that's how you make a decoction and infusion custom herbal blend and this is very high strength then berry soup