What is a Tincture? Tinctures are alcohol based solutions prepared from fresh or dried botanicals. Tinctures are easily assimilated, convenient and can extract a wider range of medicinal properties than dried herbs and capsules.

Why do tinctures taste so bad? Most of the tinctures that we make do not have the most pleasant taste. This is because herbs can be very strong tasting and it seems that the ones that work the best, taste the worst. The most painless way to take them is to place the drops in an ounce of water and just gulp it down. If desired, you can follow it with some juice to clear your palate.

Why is there alcohol in tinctures? Alcohol extracts a greater amount of medicinal properties than just water or glycerine. Many herbs are very resinous which makes them not water soluble and are only able to extract into alcohol. Plus the alcohol keeps the product good and potent for 5-10 years.

I don't like to ingest alcohol, is there a way to get rid of it? The alcohol in a tincture can be evaporated out by adding the drops to almost boiling water and swirling until cool.

Will this work if I'm a recovering alcoholic? In that case, it is best not to take our tinctures. Even though most of the alcohol will be gone, there will still be some lingering taste.

I want to give my children tinctures but they hate the taste? The way that I have gotten children to take the tinctures, is to first evaporate out the alcohol. Then you can either have them gulp it down or put it in a small amount of juice. I always offered my children a chewable vitamin C after taking the tincture as a treat.

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