sorry to burst your bubble i know you're expecting kimberly however i'm gonna do
the first half of this video and she's gonna come in in a second so living on a homestead
uh our main goal is to live off the land as much as possible and be independent as much as possible
and that includes your medicinal side of life and next to me here i have is what we call
a common mullen plant and these are very uh beneficial to your health in many ways
um today what we're going to be concentrating on is on the respiratory side however you can also
use these uh bulbs here for um fishing as well i'm not gonna get into that because uh we might get
some censorship on that but look into these bulbs and uh you'll see what i'm talking about but today
what we're gonna be talking about is the leaves on these plants here so on this common mullein here
the leaves that you're going to want to pick is on the plants that have the stem now if
the stem is not on the plant i do not pick the leaves because they have not reached maturity
and the way you'll know is uh if it's not reached maturity it won't have the stem and those are
usually only a year old so anything with the stem is usually two plus years old and that's
what you're gonna want and you're just gonna pick up uh pick the leaves that you have off of these
and uh now the common mullein it's good for many things it can grow up to seven
feet tall actually so this is a fairly small one now you can also help with ear infections with
these uh with these plants they're also a potent disinfectant if you can get the oils out of it
uh a great bacteria killer and uh basically you all you need is leaves off these plants and uh
what i'm gonna do now is pass it over to kimberly these are the model leaves that andre has picked
off that one of the plants outside and i'm going to show you guys how i make tea with them making
tea is pretty simple you literally have to boil water but there's just a little bit more process
that goes into these ones so first things first uh usually i will put my water on to boil in my
cuddle um you can see that i have my kettle here um i don't have it on my stove today
because i don't have the fire going so i just turn on my gas stove and have that going on high
usually it takes about five minutes to boil uh just depends on on
how much water is in there so for these you don't want to throw these in to your kettle
uh you don't want to throw them in whole i just rip them up usually pieces like this size is okay
and i've got six mullen leaves here i usually only use one or two per leaf i can maybe use
three this time make it a little bit stronger uh that's something that you you'll want to consider
if you are making mullen tea out of leaves you want to make sure that you are aware of the
potency or how strong it is the more leaves you have obviously the stronger it is
one thing that i found this is really helpful for and it's become my new
morning drink instead of coffee or or regular tea is helping me with my asthma this is something
that can be used as a preventative which is why i drink it every morning or as a reactive so
when i'm having an asthma attack i will actually drink tea it does take a couple minutes to boil
it's not as easy as just reaching for my puffer but i find that this really really helps with
both preventative and reactive in terms of my cardiovascular and as a preventative medication
it helps me run a lot further with my cardio in the morning so i will rip all of these up these
are the pieces uh that i have for my tea i'll wait for the water to boil and once the water is boiled
and i'll show you guys this once the water has boiled i'm going to drop these in and let it steep
for about 10 minutes but that's your first part of your process and then you're just waiting for your
water to boil so my kettle if you can't hear the noise is now steaming that means that it is done
my water has now reached a boil so what i will do
at this point and you have a choice uh you can you can pop the lid off here
what i will do usually is i will drop these mullen leaves into the kettle and let them steep
just give them a little shake and i'll put the lid back on just loosely and let it steep like that
you do have the option um if you wanted to of boiling the water with the mullen leaves in it um
that is something that i tried however i find that when i boil the melon excuse me when i boil the
water first uh and then i have the mullen leaves uh afterwards it just allows for a little bit more
potency because if you have the mullen leaves in there while you're boiling them all in or while
you're boiling the water it tends to take the take some of the nutrients out and it's just not as
strong so i find that boiling the water first and then adding the mullen leaves as i did here really
helps in terms of the potency of it and the taste as well it just tastes a lot stronger instead of
like flavored water uh so once that's done once i have my melon leaves in there i wait for about 10
minutes to let it steep and then i would pour it into my cup so it's been about 10 minutes
um and at this point i am going to just pour my tea and and that'll be it so when it comes out
you have a couple options now i choose because i don't mind having
leaves in my tea but what you can do is strain it there are some leaves in this one and that just
kind of lets it sit there and have the extra flavor there so that's kind of the difference
between having a tea bag in your tea versus not having a tea bag uh if you don't want
the leaves in your tea as your tea bag then what you can do is just strain them out or just take
them out before you happen to pour your water but that's it it's pretty simple um tea is not hard
to make but this has become my new coffee in the morning and i found myself using it instead of my
puffer lately which is great um because for asthma it's uh it's a very good very good preventative
medicine as well as reactive thanks for listening guys and i'll catch you in the next video you