Learn Spanish (Latin America): Toma este remedio de hierbas y descansarás mejor. - Take this herbal remedy and you will rest better.

This is a common colloquial structure taught in this lesson: an imperative command (Toma) followed by y and the future tense (descansarás). It means the same thing as a traditional conditional sentence like Si tomas este remedio, descansarás mejor (If you take this remedy, you will rest better), but it sounds more conversational and encouraging.

The lesson mentions we can use the present indicative here too. Would y descansas mejor work in this sentence?

Yes! Saying Toma este remedio de hierbas y descansas mejor is perfectly natural. Using the present tense instead of the future just makes the result sound a bit more immediate or guaranteed, which is very common in everyday spoken Spanish.

Why do we say remedio de hierbas instead of using a direct adjective like herbal?

While the adjective herbal does exist in Spanish, it can sound a bit clinical. In everyday Spanish, it is much more common to use de plus a noun to describe what something is made of or its nature. So, de hierbas is the most natural way to express the concept of an herbal remedy here.

If I wanted to use the formal usted with this structure, what parts of the sentence need to change?