Comments on: How to Make Herbal Tinctures

By: Carletta Benson

Carletta Benson — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 16:25:43 +0000

In reply to Chris Martin. I want to find a picture of a plant that’s green and it’s sticky. It’s kind of like a Lynn thing and use it as a tincture when you boil it. What does it look like?

By: Jamie Larrison

Jamie Larrison — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 07:20:13 +0000

In reply to Jeanne. The end of the article states "For children, pregnant women, or those not wanting to consume alcohol, it can be poured into a hot liquid like tea to evaporate the alcohol before consuming."

By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 03:08:01 +0000

At the end of the article it said:
NOTE: Alcohol can be evaporated before use (see below).

I couldn’t find any information below on how to evaporate off alcohol before use. Would you please tell me how to do this? Thank you.

By: Jamie Larrison

Jamie Larrison — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 07:29:26 +0000

In reply to Megan.

Boiling it would also evaporate the medicinal compounds so it’s not recommended. If you don’t want to use alcohol you could make a glycerite or herbal vinegar instead (though they’re not quite as effective). https://wellnessmama.com/remedies/glycerite-tincture/

By: Jamie Larrison

Jamie Larrison — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 01:35:26 +0000

In reply to Daniel. That might be too cold for them to effectively extract the herbal properties. The idea is to not have them in places where they'd get really hot, like in direct sun, a car, above the stove, etc.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 19:34:23 +0000

when making tinctures, can you put them in them refridgerator during the curing / extraction process instead of just a cool dark place?

By: Chris Martin

Chris Martin — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 04:42:40 +0000

Hi Katie

I was surfing through the internet for a while just to get in-depth information about the topic you wrote about and it really helped me to know more about herbal tinctures. I must say that this one is well-written and almost everything is covered in here. Keep sharing such blogs further as well. And kindly let me know how can I subscribe to the Newsletter. Thanks.

By: Megan

Megan — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 16:14:06 +0000

Can I boil this after it is made to get alcohol out of it? I want to take this daily and am a school teacher and don’t want to have alcohol in it.

By: Jamie Larrison

Jamie Larrison — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 05:04:38 +0000

In reply to Marci. You could but the powdered herbs are very hard to filter out and you would need to use a little less of the powder than the cut and sifted herb.

By: Marci

Marci — Sat, 20 Nov 2021 17:17:46 +0000

If I can’t find the dried herbs, can I add powdered herbs to the tincture along with the dried herbs I can find? Seems vodka would keep anything in it preserved but just checking.

By: Marci

Marci — Sat, 20 Nov 2021 17:14:28 +0000

In reply to Lisa. I think anything in vodka would not mold or go bad.

By: Paul Iida

Paul Iida — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 12:49:08 +0000

In reply to Eddie. 80 PROOF as she wrote is 40% alcohol. So that should be OK to use the vodka that is available in your store. That is pretty standard.

By: Molly

Molly — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 03:45:51 +0000

Hi Katie, I know you’re busy but I’m planning to make some tinctures for my family and I’m dying to know the amount of water to use? I dont want to cause the tinctures to spoil from too much water. I’ll be doing pint jars with 80 proof vodka. Should there be enough water to cover the herbs? Should there be any water at the bottom of the jar or should it just be enough to be absorbed by the herbs?

By: Eddie

Eddie — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 09:40:10 +0000

Hello
Your artcile is so detailed about how to prepare a proper tincture. Thank you! I have one question though.
I leave in Malai and our local stores are not selling 190% proof alcohol (like everlast). On my side, I am trying to prepare the tinctures as much as closely to the recipe. I have many herbalism books which suggest certain volumes for the alcohol mentstrum. As an example for the Calendula Officinalis the recipe is 1:5 (w/v), 70% alcohol.
Our local stores sale only 35% – 40% alcohol drinks (like vodka). Is there something that I can do for that? Like divide the alcohol and volume menstrum by 2 so my final output of the above recipe is 1:2,5 (w/v), 35% alcohol? Or I just have to stick to the folk method?
I really would be grateful for any advice because that matter is a little bit confusing to me!
Thank you in advance,
Eddie.

By: shannon

shannon — Sun, 01 Dec 2019 20:10:39 +0000

what’s a good tincture recipe to make for STD.

By: Nuwa

Nuwa — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 20:22:46 +0000

Hello,
How do I know my homemade tincture is made well and contains the minerals I was hoping for? Is there any way to test it.
Thanks for your website it is helpful.

Nu wa

By: Jacqueline west

Jacqueline west — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 06:55:53 +0000

In reply to Kristin West. Interesting how are you liking it

By: Marissa

Marissa — Sat, 24 Aug 2019 11:44:05 +0000

Pomegranate tincture and syrup are 2 of my favourites
I use the fresh fruit slightly dried for these and also the dehydrated then powdered peel as both a tincture and to add to foods
Had some excellent results with these for urinary problems like crystals in water, intestinal worms and cholesterol

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sat, 10 Aug 2019 20:44:29 +0000

I am so confused. Are different erb tinctures done different ways? I have a friend who says 80-100 proof, because the alcohol and water ratio are 50/50 and that’s a good thing, someone else recommends everclear, but i heard that has too much alcohol vs. Water and now you’re saying to use boiling water then use alcohol. I would think if there’s too much water it could go bad??

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 17:17:56 +0000

In reply to Courtney. I read you should not add water as it can create mold.