July Tinctures

[Fixit]

Was just thinking about last months little projects . I was getting some herbs set in tinctures . This was something i had not done in a few years but stock was running low . So here a list of wate i did last month.

Rosemary
Vinca Minor
English Ivy
Rose of Sharon
Blackeye Susan
Mountain Mint

The last 4 may all be mixed into a jug of homemade Lemon Balm Wine for cold and flu season .
The first 2 are for a friend with memory issues .

 

[CrealCritter]

Was just thinking about last months little projects . I was getting some herbs set in tinctures . This was something i had not done in a few years but stock was running low . So here a list of wate i did last month.

Rosemary
Vinca Minor
English Ivy
Rose of Sharon
Blackeye Susan
Mountain Mint

The last 4 may all be mixed into a jug of homemade Lemon Balm Wine for cold and flu season .
The first 2 are for a friend with memory issues .

+1 for rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis L.).

Jesus is Lord and Christ

 

[Mini Horses]

Do you grow plantain & comfrey? Elderberry?

What needs do you want your tinctures to treat/address? . Do you have a goal in mind?

 

[Fixit]

Comfrey i grow . Plantain and elderberry i wildcraft . I am one of a few people around here that people ask herbal questions of . So a good bit of what i do is just to have stock on hand .
To put it another way . There is a group that meets here on Friday morning at 7am . We talk politics , health , homesteading and prepping . For 3 years now i present a plant and talk about its uses . My rule is the plant must be native , a invasive or a common import that does well here . I give its eatable , medicinal and other uses . In 3 years i have yet to do a repeat .
So many resources so little time .

 

[Mini Horses]

I like the "meeting" idea. Are you still in TN? I believe that's where you were a few years back.

I grow bocking4 and have both elderberry & plantain wild grown on farm....along with many other wild grown things for homeopathic use. Notice how many OTC items are being added with various herbs now? Yeah, hundreds of years and they feel a need to collect $$ on nature.

Do you have a method for plant oil extraction?

 

[Fixit]

Yes, still in Tn. Herbals in OTC's waxes and wanes with other trends. One of the reasons I included English Ivy was that i found that about 80% of cough OTCs in Germany have it . No plant oil distiller but i do have a cane press that i use in some projects . An example would be that i ran Jewelweed through it last year. Then took the juice and mixed coconut oil and bee's wax to make a salve .
Last week i got asked why i had never talked about the uses of blackberry. So this morning i did blackberry which means among other things i talked about diarrhea and hemorrhoids'. Most of them have learned to just let me pick my plants .
Mullein and Chamber bitters have not done well here this year.