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OFFICINALIS
Flos MalvaeLOT 24-0730
Cultivated
Batch
LOT 24-0730
Net
50 g
Unit price
€18.40 / 100 g
Origin
Wendland, Lower Saxony
Sourcing
Cultivated
Plant part
Flos · Flower
HarvestJun · Jul · Aug

Loose tea

Mallow Flowers

Malva sylvestris L.

Barely any flavour — this herb is about texture, not taste.

€9.2050 g
€18.40 / 100 g
1

In stock 16

Deep violet petals that brew an extraordinary blue-grey, and turn pink the moment you add lemon. Like marshmallow root, the mucilage is heat-sensitive: brew it warm at most.

Traditional use

Traditionally taken for a dry throat and a hoarse voice, often alongside marshmallow root.

Constituents

  • 01Mucilage
  • 02Anthocyanins (malvin)
  • 03Tannins

Drawer

Airways — Mucilage and volatile oils for the chest and throat. Also pulled for Digestion.

Preparation60 °C · 30 min

Preparation

The preparation is half the drug

This drug wants 60 °C and 30 min. Water hotter or a cup left standing gives you a different drink, made from the same herb.

The leaflet below is the one that goes in the box. Unfold it for the steps and the timer; the cautions stay in view either way.

Package InsertFlos Malvae · Loose tea
Dose
2 tsp (≈ 2 g)
Frequency
3× daily
Water
60 °C
Steep
30 min

Steps

As printed on the box · 4 in sequence

  1. 01

    Measure

    Two teaspoons of dried flowers.

    2 tsp ≈ 2 g
  2. 02

    Pour

    Hand-warm water at about 60 °C — hot water flattens both the colour and the mucilage.

    200 ml · 60 °C
  3. 03

    Steep

    Thirty minutes, then strain.

    30 min
  4. 04

    Observe

    Add a drop of lemon and the blue turns pink. It is a pH indicator, and a fair test of a good batch.

Steep time

Live timer · 30 min · 60 °C

Ready

30:00

30 minutes is a long draw, and nothing here needs watching. Start it, set the glass aside, and come back — the count keeps running while you do something else.

Cautions

Read before use

  • May slow the absorption of other medicines — leave a gap of an hour either side.
From the same drawer

Kept beside it

Herbs shelved for Airways, ordered by how much of this one’s indication they share.