ah-HA moment! Tincture dosage sizes - Dr. Christopher

It has never failed to frustrate me when going through Dr. Christopher's works & literature that his listed "drop-sized tincture doses" are SO small (compared to Dr. Schulzes reports that the old time herbalists used teaspoon+ size doses)...and we know Dr. Schulze "ramped it up" to make up for bodies being far more compromised than in Dr. Christopher's time.

I finally figgered it out! (YAY ME!)  I was just looking through The School of Natural Healing and saw this:

Tincture  30-60 drops (1/2 - 1 fluid teaspoon) 3-4 times daily (this is the dosage he recommended for Burdock tincture...but check out the "drops = teaspoons", which is consistent throughout his writings).  I never noticed before that the amount of drops is totally inconsistent with the "drops = teaspoons" of our current drops/dropper size.

WHOA!  ...in today's "drops & dropperfuls", 30 drops = equals a scant 1/4 of a teaspoon, NOT 1/2 a teaspoon (1 dropperful is approximately 30 drops with our current droppers).  Dr. Christopher (apparently) had MUCH larger "droppers" that yielded MUCH larger "drops". 

One teaspoon (out of our current droppers) is FOUR DROPPERSFUL...which is 120 drops, not 60 drops.

SO, whenever we see Dr. Christopher's recommended dosage and it's written "by drops". we need to use TWO drops to equal his original dose recommendation (and almost always, we need to 'ramp it up', per Dr. Schulze).

Healthiest of blessings,

Unyquity