That’s a lot of Herbal Tinctures | The Beekeeper’s Apothecary |

i'm matching the inside of the uh the apothecary the cabinets oh and you're matching that um yeah we're totally matching our apothecary yeah that was not planned now we have got about 60 or more tinctures that we're gonna start setting up today and we got a lot of work that we need to do so we're gonna take you guys with us and show you how we set a tincture [Music] so we already have a good bit already tinctured and stored in these beautiful amber colored bottles and i do want to say thank you to david for sending us an abundance of amber bottles between the little dropper bottles or even the bigger amber bottles definitely helps us out because we have quite a bit of herbs and that was such a lovely lovely surprise and completely appreciated between my mom and i we both were really just blown away with that kind gesture that you did so thank you david for helping our apothecary grow and from the looks of what it looks like now towards what we started it is definitely growing so my mom and i are going through and we figured this would be the easiest and best way is to start at a which is all up there and then work our way all the way down to z right now my mom and i are starting to look through our herbal medicine book which i will show you guys really quick this is probably one of our favorite books but it's medical herbalism and this is written by david hoffman this is our main textbook that we we use but it's nice because it breaks down in your materia medica and it recommends exactly what to do with the herbs not all herbs need to be tinctured some we enjoy with tea so much more or decocting or some are actually better in oil because they're topical use correct so we're kind of going through and as we go through our list and as we go through alphabetical we are going to go ahead and plan on tincturing um what we have now the menstruum that we're going to be using primarily is 100 proof alcohol [Music] right and we do have a couple of other uh proofs stronger so i have some everclear here which is 190 proof some of the herbs that require a higher alcohol content and i'm also as soon as they start popping up they're one of the reasons why i was really excited to store up the higher proof alcohol is because we've got some indian pipe mushrooms that pop up ridiculously here and so last year i missed my opportunity to harvest in wild craft and tincture so this year i'm spending i'm setting a bottle aside specifically for that so let's start with astragalus and make it here's some anise yep and ooh andrew graphis this is the king of bitters and artemisia annua which is um sweet annie also a lot of people call that one sweet annie we're also going to go ahead and do some american ginseng as well this one because we're building up our inventory and we are limited with the amount of alcohol that we actually have my mom and i have decided to go ahead and start using pint-sized jars just to build up our inventory so that when we start seeing clients we'll have something ready and then as we go we're gonna add more and we're gonna actually start to tincture more but this is i feel like this is probably the smartest way to work our inventory well we have a lot we have a lot of tincture to grow right so this will allow us to to get the higher quantity variety versus the higher quantity by single so we are going to do a one to five ratio for this because this is dried herb so i am going to go ahead and plan on i want to see where two ounces gives us versus because we're using pint-sized jars so it would be two ounces of american ginseng by weight to 10 ounces to 10 ounces of our menstruum which is this is uh 75.5 pure and so now this is 10 ounces which is 300 milliliters correct and the biggest thing that i want to see is to make sure that it covers the ginseng all the way and it does that would be a one to five ratio weight to volume next we're going to do a little bit of astragalus as well which i really love the way that the struggle smells it definitely has like a smells like peanut butter so this one needs to be at least 40 alcohol so we should probably you can i can do my hundred proof yep that works and it's the same thing one to five so one to five because it's dry 300 milliliters to 10 is 10 ounces and i've got two ounces of astragalus biggest thing is we just have to make sure all of the herb is covered and there's a little bit coconut but i'm going to shake it and kind of get an idea 100 proof alcohol is equivalent to 50 alcohol and then you have the what is this one the the 151 proof is 75.5 and then the strongest is the 190 proof which is 95 alcohol for one of the tinctures that we did earlier i did the milky stage oats and i actually used the hunter proof which is the 50 vodka now you can go less than that if you want the more mineralizing effect but we chose to do the hunter proof which is a little bit stronger because we wanted to actually have more of the medicinal properties when it comes to like your nervous system your nervous and how it hits your body i will probably be putting up some tinctures of the milky stage oats that we just pressed out and that will be on our etsy shop and a whole description of how you can use milky stage oats as a tincture and just how awesome it is i think next year we're going to probably end up doing three gallons yeah we did a lot i love milky soup okay done with that one make sure that you put what you're tincturing your ratio which we're using the one to five ratio and what percent of alcohol you're using and then of course the date that is very important because these are gonna set for 30 days and then we're going to go ahead and strain them out and get them stored in their gorgeous amber bottles but let that start doing its thing this one had it l m n o p now every day we're going to shake these once a day and keep them in a dark pool area so here's one that i wanted to kind of talk about really quick this is corn silk and you can get it dried this is dried organic corn silk um but if you are growing your own corn or you come across some really good quality corn take the silk and you can actually use that especially if you have any issues with kidney stones over the summer i actually did have a kidney stone come this summer when corn is in season and you have a good source make sure to save that silk you can dry it out you can tincture it as well if you are tincturing the fresh corn silk make sure that to switch out your ratios instead of a one to five ratio you're going to do a one to two ratio with your with your alcohol but this is dried corn silk and it definitely looks a little different than what you would see but corn silk tincture definitely helped me out a good bit we haven't shown the process of getting all of our tinctures set only a few here and there because we're on a kind of a time crunch and let me show you what we've done so far these are all the herbs that we have set in tinctures these are all dried so this is a one to five ratio lemongrass was kind of interesting i wasn't 100 sure if we should tincture it or not or add it into a tea but my mom was reading in one of her books and she said that it's so actually lemongrass has been shown to have positive effects for headaches and they're having a fever kind of helps that fever a little bit and then for your lungs it's actually a mucus like a spectrum yeah like an inspectorate i'm going to bring it out so we figured why not add it into one of the tinctures yeah and now we are kind of working on a few of our mushrooms that we are starting to set up as tinctures so back over the summer uh we came across and dehydrated some really pretty oyster mushrooms that was my first one i know so i dehydrated them and we've been holding on to them and so what we're going to do is start the tincturing process now this process for mushrooms um is a little different than the 30 day set put some alcohol in it shake every day yeah keep it in the dark cool area for storage but the mushrooms require a double extraction process so we do the same ratio in uh a one to one to five in alcohol and you let that set for 30 days same thing like the other ones then you separate so what but it's that process where you take the strained mushrooms and then you put it into water and you let it boil and simmer down to half its amount and then you blend the strained boiled water with the alcohol that's already tinctured they already tinctured mushroom that so we're gonna start the process with the oyster mushrooms and then also we're gonna go ahead and do that lion's mane mushroom that i i freeze dried we don't have to do it i want to do it it's better to just do it the mushroom portion of this video is going to be a part 2 in about 30 a little over 30 days yeah so i'll make note of that and we will show you how we do a double extraction we just did the oyster mushroom and then i went ahead and did the reishi and that is also going to be a double um a double extraction process in a month not beautiful now we're doing it we're gonna break out the like we're gonna break it oh i'm so sad actually i'm really not that sad i'm actually kind of excited was the lions made mushroom that my son found [Applause] i might hold um i might do i'm gonna see if it fits in a quart or a pint [Applause] wow look still in like perfect condition so i think that crazy i think you're gonna need to be the bigger one yeah i think i am so you want a zero it should already be zero i know we need this as a tincture and um there's a lot of really good medicinal benefits to lion's mane and right now one of the top recommended herbs that we are seeing and we are discussing with other people especially with people who have been sick recently um and have experienced that the brain fog has been really bad and lion's mane has a wonderful um benefit to help assist that so um between lines main capsules um but we're gonna we're gonna tincture this one i just think that this is crazy this just looks crazy i am definitely excited about this freeze dryer yeah and having just the ability to be able to do this what what we're doing push down i'll tell you what i'm looking forward to that because to help with the mental clarity and and um yeah just it's going to be awesome it's going to be awesome [Applause] i just love how it ended up look it looks beautiful i mean it's like how many months ago i found this in november and we freeze-dried it how much does that weigh does it weigh almost we are at 1.5 do we have i'm gonna mush it because i want to get as much alcohol to be able to cover it and i actually do have i have my dehydrated lens [Music] i got it okay oh that's a great comparison between the dehydrated exactly so i just real quick so this is dehydrated this is the hydrated lion's mane you see it's all like not very pretty um versus the freeze-dried lion's mane um which is amazing and nutritionally the freeze dryer maintains all the nutritional benefits of anything that you do as if it was fresh correct it's exactly like if it was fresh versus oxidized which isn't bad hydrated is not bad we might need a little more because that i set up for one you know what i wonder if i should we might do a science experiment you want to do a smaller one let's do the dehydrated let's try keeping the dehydrated separate from the freezer and then seeing what that what that affects okay so why not let's just we certainly can it's gonna suck it all up yeah it's gonna rehydrate it oh that goes on here milky stage oats and vodka so my sister came to play for a little bit and i put the camera down because of course we went and had some dinner but like legit look at what my mom and my sister are both wearing like they are literally wearing we are matches the cabinets i do well there's two cabinets and one shelf it's about appropriate i think we all knew that we were going to be in the apothecary today so we are like color coordinating like vanna white anyways so we got a total of how many 76 76 tinctures yes 76 tinctures set today you do not want to see what our trash can looks like with all of the empty booze bottles abc store is gonna say something hi just i'm pretty sure they know my first name they probably do but not for cookies we literally ran out of alcohol and i am not one to go to the abc store out that often so when i do and i have to buy and walk i'm like please don't judge me please don't judge me i was judged you were judged so we set 76 um tinctures and then some of them were gonna actually end up doing the uh double extraction method in a month and we will show you guys that my sister we're sending her home with some of our milky stage oats tincture which i will kind of show you guys that because i have it hidden right now because i still have to get a couple of bigger amber colored jars but this is what it kind of what it looks like after it's already pressed out so definitely pretty awesome and we are going to be putting some of that on our etsy shop for you guys as well because we have an abundance of it but right now we are going to make up a really awesome tea blend for my sister that's going to be an adaptogen um t-blend this is going to help with her adrenal fatigue and just kind of he's going to be good so we picked sheep you picked cacao we can put some burdock oh yeah cacao news astragalus root smell that i want you to smell that every time she tells me to smell something i'm very very cautious just so you guys waste it no what do you think it smells like peanut butter i know that's what i think so i wonder if this is the peanut butter treat i you know what i don't know there's a tree that my sister there's a tree that my sister and i actually grew up playing with as kids and we always said that it smelled like the peanut butter tree i don't know i think it is i'm not gonna look at it i'm gonna look and see that's a root it's a root we'll see but it's like peanut butter we're gonna do some cacao nibs um tulsi a little bit of a luthro root we're going to add some burdock root some licorice root a little bit of rose buds some cinnamon and then yes i already did show you guys the astragalus if this turns out to be a yummy delicious blend i think that we might have to put this on our etsy shop for you guys as well i think you might want to put a little bit of oat straw in there some ultra would be good that'll be really filling okay let's do it and that this can be a breakfast tea it could be yeah because this is like a get up and show the mood yup this will be a good warming good energy definitely the tulsi is going to be really really good so i think we're going to get this team blended and then um you're on nine nine cheap ones okay anyways i hope don't invite me to come play you know you want me to come play this is what we do thank you guys so much for being a part of our tincture making we're going to spend some family quality time together but i hope you guys i hope you guys enjoyed this and as always don't be afraid to get your hands dirty and learn something old bye bye guys bye you

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Published: Tue Feb 22 2022