Be Your Own Herbal Expert – Pt four
In the first lessons of yours, you discovered a way to “listen” to the messages of plant’s tastes, the way to make effective water based herbal remedies, as well as how you can distinguish safe nourishing and tonifying herbs from the find out more by clicking here (please click the up coming document) dangerous stimulating and sedating herbs.
In this particular lesson, you are going to learn how to how make herbal tinctures. You will make tinctures from fresh and dried roots as well as from fresh flowers and leaves.
You then are going to collect the tinctures of yours to an Herbal Medicine Chest and start to use them. Shall we start?
TINCTURES ACT FAST
TINCTURES ACT FAST
Tinctures are alcohol based plant medicines. Alcohol extracts and concentrates a number of properties from plants, including their poisons. Alcohol does not acquire significant amounts of nutrients, for this reason tinctures are being used whenever we desire to promote, sedate, or perhaps make use of a poison. (Remember that nourishing herbs should be utilized in water bases such as infusions and vinegars.)
The concentrated nature of tinctures allows them to act quickly. It also makes them perfect for a first aid kit or perhaps herbal medicine chest: a little goes a long way.
I’ve dozens of tinctures in my medicine cabinet. But these’re the people I have with me when I travel; they are the ones I don’t leave the house without. This is my traveling herbal medicine chest.
MAKING DRIED ROOT TINCTURES
MAKING FRESH ROOT TINCTURES
MAKING FRESH LEAF AND FLOWER TINCTURES
St. Joan’s wort
Motherwort
Skullcap
Wormwood
Yarrow
DOUBLE AND TRIPLE TINCTURES
Grow POISONS
TAKING TINCTURES
USING YOUR TINCTURES
EXPERIMENT NUMBER ONE
EXPERIMENT NUMBER TWO
EXPERIMENT NUMBER THREE
Further STUDY
State WORK