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Tincture Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Tuilelaith / All my dishes 1 year, 11 months ago Here's a recipe on how to prepare your own herbal tinctures. A tincture is an extract from herbs made by alcohol. I use vodka as it has little if any taste. You can however use a simple spirit that you can buy at your local super market in most... More Prep:20m Servings:1	Tuilelaith
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Ingredients

Fresh herbs to do the job you want done

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Cough Tincture

Fresh or dry Thyme, Sage and Hyssop

Alcohol from 40% to 90% Vol.

It is best to make this in the summertime, when all the herbs are fresh but you can make it also from dried herbs any time in the year.

The combination of thyme, sage and hyssop is not only good against cough but also has other possible uses.

For example: sore throat, gingivitis, digestive problems, too much sweating, meteorism and weak menses, right like us women care if our menses are weak!

Externally you can use it against skin inflammations, wounds and insect stings.

Directions

First cut the herbs in small pieces.

Fill the herbs into a jar until half of the jar is filled.

Pour the spirit into the jar.

All the herbs should be covered.

Close the jar and put it at a warm place.

Let it stand for 10-40 days.

Shake it about once a day.

After the waiting time the tincture is ready.

Now you can filter it.

You need a second glass that should be bigger than the first glass.

And you need a filtering paper or cloth, I use a coffee filter.

Cover the second glass with the filter.

Pour the tincture through the filter.

The tincture is the liquid going through the filter.

When the most liquid is poured out of the jar, you could put the jar with the herbs upside-down on the second jar, to make sure all the tincture flows into the second jar.

Put the jars in a cool dry place and let them stand for several hours.

Take a dark bottle and a small funnel.

Pour the tincture through the funnel into the bottle.

Fill as much bottles you need for filling all the tincture.

Now all the tincture is filled into the bottles.

Label the bottles with content and date so you always know what is inside and how old it is.

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damiadedannon 1 year, 11 months ago said:
I would LOVE to hear of more herb combos and their uses!!!!

tazoncaffeine 1 year, 6 months ago said:
Excellent info. I've read directions in books that were not this clear.

cherylannxo 1 year, 2 months ago said:
I do a lot with herbs, including tinctures. I prefer alternative medicines to pharmaciuticals. You deserve a 5. Thank you for sharing...Cheryl

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