Echinacea tincture instructions... Re: mine too!

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22echinacea+tincture%22+%22Natural+Healing+%2...


There are a LOT of people on the forum that have made their own, and everyone has shared lots of tips (link above).

All you need is organic, dried, c/s Echinacea Angustifolia root (c/s stands for cut & sifted); organic, dried, c/s Echinacea Purpurea root, 100 proof vodka (cheap works just as good as expensive) and glass jars with tight fitting lids (most use canning jars).

You can get the herbs at Pacific Botanicals (best, because they grown their own Purpurea... but PB sells in minimums of 1# for each selection). Or Mountain Rose...which sells in smaller sizes.

Options:
--add Echinacea Purpurea seed from P/B
--add FRESH Echinacea Purpurea root from P/B (must check the website to see when the next harvest is, and call in advance to place "temp order". Then they call you the day they harvest and ship it the next day. Fresh roots must be shipped via Overnite UPS or 2nd Day UPS...so it's pricey to do this even though the herbs are reasonable). You must tincture them immediately or store them in the freezer (you could add them to a tincture in progress).

Fresh Echinacea roots are 'hard as rock', so it's VERY difficult to chop them and very hard on equipment to macerate them (they might harm a typical blender, but the VitaMix seems to handle them).

Our Echinacea tincture is made with both types of dried root and either the seeds or the fresh root (or both). But most folks on the forum use only the dried roots...and they still have a tincture that is FAR more effective than 95% of the tinctures in the world!

Tincture ON!

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