Medicine Making Techniques

Making Weight-to-Volume Tinctures: Ratios, percents, & ounces (oh my!): One of the most comprehensive, easy-to-understand guides on the internet

Keeping Tinctured Herbs Submerged: 8 troubleshooting ideas for when your herbs won’t stay submerged in the tincture

Oxymels: Love in the Medicine: Benefits & instructions for making delicious honey-and-vinegar medicines

Infused Honey, Syrups, & Elixirs for Winter Colds: Medicinal properties of honey, PLUS winter cold recipes

Infused Honey with Rugosa & Multiflora Rose: Make and use flavorful–and fragrant!–rose honey medicine

Energetics: How to Choose Cold & Flu Relief Herbs that Work: Understand herbal energetics-your medicines will work better!

Frozen Yogurt Infusions: Toddler Magic: Transform remedies into frozen yogurt, a great trick for sick kids!

Herbal Ice Pops for Sick Kids: Make herbal remedies into anti-dehydration, tasty medicinal treats

How to Make Herbal Teas: Understanding infusions versus decoctions, and how to make each

Homegrown Tea: Tea can be the perfect entry point to Home Herbalism, as well as a continued part of your herbalism journey.  Here is an expansive guide on selecting and crafting tea at home.

Infused Herbal Oils: Make and use infused herbal oils, plus how to select your ingredients

Herbal Steams: Combat dry winter air to help decrease our bodies’ susceptibility to germs

Preserving Mushroom Medicine: Homemade recipes for the often-overlooked medicinal mushrooms

Herbal Ice Cubes: Preserving Water-Soluble Magic Beyond the Growing Season: Preserve fresh summer-growing herbs that don’t make good tinctures!  Especially great as a cocktail garnish, in tea, or the bathtub. 

Iced Tea & Ice Cubes: Summer Medicines: Preserve herbal teas beyond summer in the form of a cool treat, cocktail garnish, or tea

Folkloric Tinctures: Make these easy, completely non-mathematical medicines in minutes

Infused Vinegar: Make delicious medicinal herbal vinegars  

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