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I was trying to remember if I had ever made an infusion with dandelion, but I don't think so. But you can make tinctures with the dried root or leaf - just don't use as much plant material, and chop it up well. I fill the jar about 1/4 - 1/3 full of the plant material and then pour in the alcohol or...

Even before the thread on Chaga reminded me of it, I'd been hearing about double extracts - mixing an alcohol tincture with a water extract. I gather that the point is to extract all the goodies that water gets as well as all the goodies that alcohol does, and to get the benefit of long life from th...

Thank you both. I have not tried re-using it. Interesting. Chaga does give up her goodies to alcohol though. Not completely, but more than enough to be very useful! Well, then, I will try a tincture. I came across one piece online (quite a while ago and I don't know that I could find it again) that...

Rule of thumb I think in general is to sniff them - if they smell good they may have magically kept some of their virtue and be worth infusing. Otherwise, I'd compost them.

Sorted by "post count" is a good rough idea of who is more active. (not to say folks who do not post do not Also read this often, of course!). If you look at individual profiles you can also see when somebody was last on the site, which will show if they're still here and reading even if ...

Interesting. My journey to menopause lasted at least ten years - which means that my periods got more and more irregular for ten years and then stopped. Then after six months I had a little spotting one month, and then it was all over (and that was 11 years ago). I'm not sure what "changes in e...

I don't have much experience with Chaga but I have a chunk of it in my possession, that I harvested last September. I bang off a small piece of it and add it when making soup stock. I have read that it doesn't give up its goodies to alcohol, so not good to tincture that way - can anyone speak to tha...

Glass jars are good. I keep mine in a dark place as well, and cool is better than warm in my experience.

Marshmallow root is really good for stomachs that need soothing. I make a syrup of it, about 1 part honey to 2 parts strong marshmallow infusion, and keep it in the fridge; take a couple of teaspoons any time your stomach gets acid or whatever. I make 8 oz at a time because there are only two of us,...

I use dried Motherwort to make tinctures - you just don't put as much in the medium as you would with fresh. And the medicinal uses are the same. You could make infusions of it as well.