Hi Danica,
Thank you for your questions.
In terms of dosing and deciding how much of each herb to put in a formula, there are a few considerations here. One is, as you’ve mentioned, what actions you might want to highlight. Having a bit more of that herb in the formula (still within it’s dose range) can be beneficial. Other considerations are the persons constitution, what symptoms they are expressing, whether they are needing higher or lower dosing (peoples sensitivity to plant medicine varies) and synergy of formulas. Formula creation is a mini course on it’s own really, but there are methods of creating a synergistic formula where we consider things like ‘the lead herb’, supporting herbs, balancing herbs, and driving herbs or synergisers. This would also impact how you dose each herb in a formula. Here is a link to discussion and description of formula making that I like: https://www.gingertonicbotanicals.com/blog/guide-to-herbal-formulating/
Formula making is an art, and can take a while to really get in the flow and develop your personal approach, but the above method with primary, supporting, balancing and or synergisers is how I like to create my formulas and work out dosing for each plant.
2. The detox tea dosage: It actually says in the notes, work up to 3 cups a day. And you can take this tea for quite a long time really, a month or so. One can continue to drink dandelion and nettle tea for longer if desired.
You also asked about whether tinctures should be created separately first then made into formula, yes. We recommend all plants be made into tinctures separately, then you would measure these tinctures out into a tincture formula using your dosing charts and ratio strengths of each tincture, so you know how much medicine you are getting.
With warmth,
Benna