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Family Favorites
Red Moon Herbs has a new webpage with customers’ family favorites. These selected Red Moon Herbs extracts, salves, and dried herbs for infusion are family favorites for many customers who incorporate these remedies into day to day health maintenance for children and adults alike. Includes Herbal First Aid Kit, Green Salve, Naturally Healthy Babies & Children, and many more. Visit our Family Favorites page!
| FAQ for families How can I figure dosages for children? The suggested dosages on the labels are for an average adult, around 150 lbs. For a child the dosage is divided accordingly. For example a 30 lb child would take one fifth of an adult’s dosage. A 25-50 drop dosage would become seven drops for a 30 lb child. For babies, dosages may be as low as 1-3 drops. Extracts are best taken in water, tea, or juice. What about the alcohol? If you are concerned about the alcohol you can put the extracts into a cup of warm tea; since alcohol has a lower boiling point than boiling water, alcohol is released in the steam. However, many parents are comfortable with their children taking alcohol-based extracts, as the amount of alcohol is minimal -- a dropperful (25-30 drops) has about as much alcohol as a ripe banana! |
Making Garlic Elixer
by Carmen Lescher
Apothocary Manager
“Garlic and vinegar have been prized for thousands of years for their amazing healing powers. Alone or in combination, these foods are powerful medicine.”
So starts the first chapter of Garlic and Vinegar: Nature’s Healing Twins by Julia Charles. At Red Moon Herbs one of our favorite products is our Garlic Elixir, a tangy, pungent, yet slightly sweet combination of garlic, apple cider vinegar and honey; a delicious way to nourish and stimulate your immune system. We buy our garlic and honey from local farms to make this tonic for sore throats, sinus congestion, colds and winter blues.
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Since the garlic harvest season is fast approaching we’d like to share our Garlic Elixir recipe with you. As you stroll through your local farmer’s market this summer, keep an eye out for garlic and honey to brew up some zesty Garlic Elixir. |
Red Moon Herbs Garlic Elixir RecipeMakes: 1 quart; for smaller batch use same ratio Prep time: 30 min + 6 weeks brewing time Ingredients:
Directions: Break apart several heads of garlic into individual cloves (leaving the skins on is fine) and roughly chop with a knife or minimally chop in a food processor. Fill a quart jar with chopped garlic, should be approximately two-thirds full. Mix together 3 parts vinegar to 1 part honey. If your honey is too thick to mix, warm it in a saucepan over low heat until it becomes liquidy thin.
Tend your brew every couple of days for the first week, then once a week after that. Poke it with a spoon to release air bubbles, then top it off with the vinegar. After 6 weeks, strain out the garlic and enjoy! |
Pour the honey-vinegar mixture over the garlic until the jar is full. Use a plastic lid or cover the mouth of the jar with wax paper before securing the lid (the vinegar tends to rust metal lids).Q: "I made a batch of Garlic Elixir and when I checked it the next day all the liquid and garlic had turned deep blue! What happened and is it still safe to eat?" A: Garlic contains sulfides that react with copper compounds found in some utensils and water. This reaction will cause your Garlic Elixir to turn blue. It may be hard to avoid, since you probably don’t know which utensils have copper compounds or whether your water supply carries it. However, don’t be alarmed, even though it may look like a science experiment we know people who eat it anyway! |
