Infusion: To make an infusion simply take boiling water and pour
it over the green parts of the herb you are using. make several
cups and keep in a tight jar. It's best to use a glass pot and
before you use the infusion strain it into a glass. If you are
curing a cold take while hot, but not more then 4 cups a day.

Decoction: This method of extraction is to remove the medicine
from the roots or other woody substances, requires boiling the
barks, etc, in a glass pot for about 10 min. then straining into
a covered jar. If there are green parts with the wood boil these
starting with cold water. Make about 2 cups and store as you
would an infusion.

Extract: Use about twice as much palnt or herb to a few cups
water as you do for an infusion. Keep the water cold and in a
glass pot. let the vegetable matter sit in the water for the day
before straining and using.

Ointment: Mix one part powder with three parts petroleum jelly
after it'sbeen heated and melted. When mixed and cooled the
ointment can be used on your skin.

Poultice: Boil herbs or bark. Then either wrap the bark around
the spot you are treating or take a cloth and dip it into the
liquid and put it around the sore. Poultices are good for chest
complaints or sores or bites and other intrusions on the limbs.

Please remember to take caution before using any herbs.
Use them at YOUR OWN RISK.
See the links below for specific recipies.