The Natural Blood Filter
If you’re an average human being, you probably have a high amount of toxins flowing through your body at any given moment. Avoiding toxins is challenging, as they can be found both inside and outside your house, in your food, and on your clothes.
Since it’s nearly impossible to avoid all toxins, natural or chemical, you need to consider helping your body filter out toxins naturally. The most convenient and effective way to naturally filter your blood is to incorporate medicinal herbs into your daily routine. You can use specific herbs from your garden or ‘weeds’ from the front lawn.
Turning plants like dandelion, burdock, or milk thistle into a tea is easy and delicious while actively collecting the toxins in your body by directly filtering the kidneys and liver, effectively detoxing your body. There’s no telling how many toxins are stuck inside of you that need a little coaxing to get out.
You’d be surprised at the relationship between humans and these plants that will help you. Your blood is the highway of life. Every nutrient, every drop of oxygen, every immune cell travels through it. But it can just as easily carry toxins, inflammation, and microscopic threats to every organ you have.
Thick, dirty blood forces your heart to work harder, slows healing, fogs your brain, weakens immunity, and quietly wears down your organs over time. In the worst cases, it leads to blood clots, strokes, heart disease, and organ failure. Keeping your blood clean isn’t just “nice”, it’s survival. And the fastest way to do it is with the right plants.
You can’t see your blood getting dirtier. You won’t feel the damage until it’s late. But you can stop it right now. A trustworthy plant book guide taught me every plant that purifies blood naturally. From flushing out chemicals to dissolving clots before they become deadly. I’ll just speak about 2 of them below. But you’d be curious what other spices and herbs you should take.
Stinging Nettle (Urtica dioica)
Stinging Nettle is a plant that most people would never touch; rightfully so. However, if you prepare yourself properly and harvest it without directly touching the plant with your bare skin, you’ll be able to benefit from the immense medicinal properties of the leaves and root.
In stinging nettle, there are the chemical compounds alkaloid, flavonoid, lignan, norlignan, secolignan, sesquiterpenoid, sphingolipid, sterol, and triterpenoid; these all have medicinal benefits. The acetyl choline, formic acid, histamine, and serotonin are present in the trichomes and are believed to have some responsibility in the painful reaction when touched.
Because of these chemical compounds in stinging nettle, it’s been found to be an effective analgesic, anti-infectious, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antiproliferative, anti-ulcer, hypoglycemic, hypotensive, and immunological stimulatory.
These biologically active compounds provide stinging nettle with properties that help prevent cardiovascular disease, reduce free radical generation, and improve overall heart health. When stinging nettle is consumed, it triggers a release of nitrogen oxide by endothelial cells in our body, it activates potassium channels and has a negative inotropic effect. When this happens, our blood vessels dilate, which reduces blood pressure and increases blood flow.
While this happens, the acids (toxins) are being neutralized due to stinging nettles’ alkalinity. Also, stinging nettle acts as a diuretic. This effectively detoxes your blood by collecting toxins through increased blood flow, eliminating them with alkalinity, and flushing them from the body with increased urination. The astringency of stinging nettle also helps prevent blood diseases.
So yes, you can make your own nettle tincture or harvest it for the recipe below… but please, don’t take it from near roads. I’m not just talking about dog urine, I mean something far worse: the invisible film of chemicals, pesticides, exhaust fumes, and oily dust that coats every leaf in a thin, toxic layer. You do not want that in your body.
Even deep in nature, you still need to be careful. Wild nettles sting, a lot, and the most potent ones will make you pay for touching them. I’ve learned that the hard way. But here’s the shortcut… I stopped stinging myself like a fool when I discovered Nicole Apelian’s stinging nettle tincture. She does all the hard, messy, dangerous work, I just get the pure, potent benefits.
And the price? Honestly, it’s so affordable it’s almost what I’d pay for the raw nettles at a market, without the risk or the pain.
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Dandelion
Dandelion is another plant people have stigmatized; the beautiful, tall yellow flower with long, fancy-toothed leaves that form a basal rosette is commonly ripped out of lawns and tossed away as a weed. What people might not know is that dandelions have been considered an elixir of life in many traditional practices since before the seventh century, amazingly.
With the carotenoids, flavonoids, inulin, magnesium, organic acids, polyphenols, potassium, and vitamin C, the roots, leaves, and flowers of dandelions provide the nutrition our bodies need on a daily basis to remain healthy. Specifically, the leaves and flowers contain HCAs, hydroxycinnamic acid derivatives, which are polyphenols responsible for the hypoglycemic, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory properties.
HCAs have also been reported to prevent neurodegenerative diseases by inhibiting the amyloidogenic transformation of proteins. Apigenin and luteolin derivatives are flavonoids in the leaves, and they also have potent antioxidant effects and hypocholesterolemic properties.
The roots of dandelion contain sesquiterpene lactones, sterols, and triterpenes, including beta-sitosterol, cycloartenol, stigmasterol, taraxasterol, and taraxerol, which give it antidiabetic abilities. When dandelion is ingested, it affects the liver by increasing bile production.
It increases bile production by causing the gallbladder to contract, which releases stored bile that is high in choline. This action makes dandelion a tonic for the liver and proves its beneficial to treat liver, kidney, GI, and skin diseases.
According to Chinese medicine, dandelion is used to dig up and clear the body of negative emotions, anger, and depression while also relieving feelings of jealousy, oversensitivity, and resentment. Ayurvedic medicine uses dandelion to purge the body of accumulated waste and toxins.
Most people see a dandelion and think “weed.” Some know it’s good for the liver. But here’s the truth: if you don’t know exactly when to harvest it, which part to use, and how to prepare it so its compounds actually reach your bloodstream… you’re throwing away free medicine. And in a crisis, when shelves are empty, doctors are out of reach, and every plant you find might be the difference between sickness and survival, that mistake can cost you dearly.
In The Lost Remedies Academy, you’ll learn to identify, harvest, and prepare plants like dandelion at their peak potency, so you get every drop of healing it can offer. You’ll know how to turn the root into an anti-diabetic decoction, the leaves into a liver-cleansing tonic, the flowers into a remedy for skin and emotional health… and you’ll know which lookalikes to avoid so you don’t poison yourself by accident.
This isn’t about knowing a plant’s name. It’s about knowing its secrets, its dangers, and the exact steps to make it work for you. Not just for dandelion, but for dozens of powerful plants hidden in plain sight.
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Nettle Dandelion Tea for Blood Detox
The synergy of dandelions’ detoxing of the liver, kidney, and gallbladder, and stinging nettle’s ability to increase blood circulation and urine, turns the body into a powerhouse detox machine that will clean you out in no time.
Because of the effects of the medicinal properties these plants contain, pregnant and breastfeeding women should avoid this recipe. If you are allergic to plants in the Asteraceae family, this recipe should also be avoided. If you have stomach acidity, peptic ulcer, or hypotension, you should avoid this recipe as well.
To make this recipe, you will need a mug, a spoon, a bowl, and an empty tea sachet. You can enjoy this recipe hot directly after steeping for a short period of time, or you can also enjoy it cold the next day after steeping overnight. Allowing the ingredients to steep longer gives the tea more potent medicinal benefits.
Nettle Dandelion Tea Recipe
Ingredients:
- 1 teaspoon of chopped dried or fresh Dandelion Leaves
- 1 teaspoon of dried or fresh Stinging Nettle Leaves (or 40 drops of Stinging Nettle Tincture for a faster, more potent dose)
- 1 teaspoon of dried or fresh Rose Petals
- 1 teaspoon of dried or fresh Lavender Buds
- 250ml of Boiling Water
- 1 teaspoon of Honey (optional)
Instructions:
- If you’re starting with fresh, dry the dandelion leaves, rose petals, and lavender buds, keep the stinging nettle leaves fresh
- When dry, mix together the dry plant ingredients in a bowl to create an even blend
- Take one tablespoon of the dry blend and add it to the tea sachet
- Using gloves or a tool, put the fresh stinging nettle leaves in the mug
- Add the tea sachet to the mug and pour in boiling water
- Let the tea steep for 5 minutes, remove the ingredients, add honey and enjoy!
If you’ve ever swallowed a pharmaceutical pill… eaten fast food… drunk tap water… used non-organic vegetables… breathed city air… cleaned your house with chemical sprays… or even worn clothes washed with scented detergents, then toxins are already in your body. Right now.
You can’t stop your exposure, that’s impossible in today’s world. But you can constantly flush out the buildup before it turns into disease. When toxins stay in your blood, your liver, your gut, and even your brain, they quietly chip away at your health… shortening your lifespan, aging you faster, and leaving you more vulnerable to every illness.
That’s why I keep The Forgotten Home Apothecary within reach. It’s packed with step-by-step detox recipes, not just for your blood, but for your liver, kidneys, skin, lymphatic system, and even your lungs, using plants you can find, grow, or store at home, including:
- Colon Detox Shot – flushes waste and wakes up digestion.
- Heavy Metal Detoxifier Smoothie – pulls mercury, lead & other metals from your blood.
- Liver Tea – cleanses and protects your liver, your main toxin filter.
- Purge Elixir – dandelion & burdock to clean your blood and support weight loss.
- Dandelion Lemonade – supports gallbladder and digestive detox.
This is not a once-a-year cleanse. This is a way to protect yourself for life.
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