Iron Tonics
Good sources of dietary iron include: watercress and other green leafy veg, sprouted grains and seeds, raisins, eggs, molasses, soya, parsley, lentils, kidney beans, sardines, figs, dried apricots, almonds, ginger, wholemeal bread. Take cider vinegar, one tablespoon with each meal, to aid absorption.
Iron Tea
Ingredients
Nettle, Raspberry leaf, Dandelion leaf, Hawthorn flowers, Comfrey, Mint.
Iron Tonic
Apricots
Ingredients:
- 1Kg unsulphured dried apricots
- 1Kg molasses
- 3 Litres red Wine
- 5ml/Litre tinctures of Ginger, Gentian, Saw Palmetto, Yellow Dock, Damiana, Nettle tops.
- 0.5ml/Litre tincture of Capsicum (optional)
Method:
Molasses
Cover the apricots with water and simmer for 6 hours. Add molasses and simmer for a further 2 hours. Cool, and liquidise in a blender. Add red wine, stir for 5 -10 minutes until pourable. Add the tinctures. 1 Kg apricots makes about 4 Litres tonic. Bottle it up in 500ml airtight bottles and keep refrigerated once opened.
Dosage:
5 - 10 ml 3 times a day. 30ml per day is said to provide 2mg of absorbable iron.
Uses: Anaemia, lethargy, general tonic and during pregnancy.
Comments
Hey Max,
i have made the iron tonic today,it was sticky fun! there’s so much of it..i made half the quantity from recipe above,however i made a mistake puting to much tincture 100ml aprox in the brew ,do you think it will be ok? or i may have to dilute it
also ,how long will it keep in the fridge?
Thank you so much for your help.
Edna
Hi Edna
If you used all the tincture I geave you and only made half the quatity in the recipe, then you’ve put 40ml extra tincture in, which won’t make much of a difference at all - and it should still taste pretty good. Let me know!
It will keep for at lease six months if you keep the in the fridge with a lid on.
Hope you enjoy it
Max