In this lesson, you will learn how to how make herbal tinctures. Then you will collect your tinctures into an Herbal Medicine Chest and begin to use them. Tinctures are alcohol-based plant medicines.

In your first lessons, you learned how to "listen" to the messages of plant's tastes, how to make effective water-based herbal remedies, and how to distinguish safe nourishing and tonifying herbs from the more dangerous stimulating and sedating herbs. It is simple, safe, effective, and free. You will make tinctures from fresh and dried roots as well as from fresh flowers and leaves.

Alcohol extracts and concentrates many properties from plants, including their poisons. Alcohol does not extract significant amounts of nutrients, so tinctures are used when we want to stimulate, sedate, or make use of a poison. Be Your Own Herbal Expert - Pt 4 Herbal medicine is the medicine of the people. Our ancestors used - and our neighbors around the world still use - plant medicines for healing and health maintenance.

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