Tincture Making 101: Learn to Make a Fresh Plant Tincture of Comfrey Root Using Ratios!
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If you are new to making herbal extract tinctures, this is a great video to watch! Herb Nerd's founder Colleen has worked in medicinal herb labs for many years and wants to share this process with you in a fun and clear way so that you feel confident making precise and potent herbal extracts. FREE Medicine making content like this is hard to find, so please show your support by LIKING 👍🏾 this video and SUBSCRIBING to our channel.
🎞 IN THIS VIDEO: This 16 minute video will walk you through the process of making a fresh plant tincture step by step. Follow along with Colleen as she harvests, cleans, chops, and makes fresh comfrey leaf and root tincture. Unlike making a FOLK tincture, which involves pouring vodka over herbs, this video takes a deeper dive into using math, specifically RATIOS, to produce your tincture.
🧠 A bit about ratios:
We herbalists use WEIGHT to VOLUME (w : v) ratios in herbal medicine making, meaning that we use a kitchen scale to weigh the total amount of herb we are using for our extract, and then multiply that number by our volume to determine how much menstruum (alcohol solvent) to use. We measure our herb weight in GRAMS (g) and our menstruum/alcohol volume in MILLILITERS (ml). When making FRESH plant tinctures, we herbalists typically use a ratio of 1:2, for DRY plant tinctures, we go for anywhere from 1:3 to 1:5.
👉🏽 Here is an example:
For FRESH Plants, we use a ratio of 🌿 1:2 🌿 thats one part herb weight to two parts menstruum/alcohol. So, if you weighed your herb and it weighed 50 grams you would MULTIPLY that by 2 (50 x 2) to know your menstruum/alcohol volume = 100 milliliters of alcohol. Ta-da!
Still confused? Feel free to ask questions in the comments.
A bit about the menstruum ALCOHOL:
For the most precise tincture making, we herbalists DO NOT USE VODKA. It is preferable to source a high strength alcohol (95% ethanol/190 proof) and dilute it to the % alcohol strength you want.
Here is a great source for organic high proof alcohol, we like to use 190 proof organic cane:
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There are a few herb books out there that have helpful charts listing herbs and the best strength alcohol to use to extract their desirable constituents:
📕 The Herbal Medicine Maker’s Handbook by James Green
www.botanicali...
📘 Herbal Constituents: foundations of phytochemistry by Lisa Ganora
herbalconstitu...
📙 Herbal Medicine From the Heart of the Earth by Sharol Tilgner
youaretheheale...
In this video, we keep our alcohol at full strength (we call this 100% alcohol), as the water content in the comfrey root will dilute the alcohol significantly. You could drop the % strength down to 75/80% alcohol and then you'll extract more of the water soluble mucilaginous molecules in your extract. As long as your final alcohol % is above 25% ethanol, you should be golden. You can check your final alcohol strength after pressing your tincture using an alcohol hydrometer.
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I trusted the Comfrey Poultice when I broke my foot. I could feel the tingling as the little bone knitters went to work. Thanks for the Vid
so cool, although it sucks you broke your foot...what a cool way to work with the plant and see it heal!
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Hope all is well with you, I know you just brought a new life into the world, I hope and pray your family is in sound mind and body. Looking forward to more content and upcoming courses! Thanks for all that you do!
Thanks for saying so! I am suppressing the desire to talk plants and make videos as my daughter has very different plans for my days :) but they say the time flies so I am trying to stay present and just journal all of my herb nerd ideas 🤓🌿 take care ❤️
Loving your videos...just found them today.
👋🏼 hi Cyndi! Glad you found me and are enjoying the content! Welcome 😄
Great video by the way!
lol I"m one of those who thinks "I'll remember what this is.."
Thank goodness for our noses though! More often than not i can figure out
what the tincture is. Thank you, great video- i've got my comfrey loving live
so I will take advantage of that using your video information.
Great video and so easy to follow. I've been making and using comfrey products for a long time and wanted to make comfrey cream (I usually make salves). Wasn't sure whether I could use my usual comfrey infused oil as the tincture and this sounds much, much better. I have so many family members and friends who have benefited from comfrey when nothing else worked and cannot wait to try this. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and know that it is appreciated so very much.
Thank you so much! Comfrey is the best!
where do I find the toner making video. I'm so glad I found you
Have you made that facial product series? I would be stoked to see that. 😀
Thank you for this video! It is very helpful. I will subscribe and check out your website.
thank you!!
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Wow, I just found my FAVORITE CHANNEL EVER!
Can I just say I love you, you had me at hello.
I'm definitely growing some in containers from on.
I say thank you to my plants as ai harvest them it was nice to see you talk to the plant as well, you don't usually see others do that.
Is everclear good for the alcohol at full strength?
Awe you’re the best!!!! Thanks for your sweet comment, and for taking to plants 🥰 🪴
Yes you can use everclear although it isn’t full strength so the math gets wonky.
For times in store in listening and watching Kristen Wiig
Yes! Label...label...label
Me Too!
In Arizona we dont have fresh Comfrey. Can I use dried Comfrey?
What ratio should you use with dried plant materials?
anywhere form 1:3 to 1:5, 1:3 being more concentrated medicine
interesting about the vodka mixing background, but isn't one way to avoid that is to dry out the plant material first from the water and then mix it later ?
yes, that would be a dry plant tincture, and the ratio of herb to menstruum would be 1:5
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@@HerbNerdSchool how is the baby, all good ?
thanks for asking! She's super healthy and happy :)
Curious if you educate or mention "energetics" in your online courses?
It is a part of my herbal vernacular for sure, but none of my videos go into too much detail on the subject. I am, however, putting together a seasonal herbalism series where I’ll be covering energetics as a foundational principal of herbalism 👍🏽 I’ll be adding class sign up info to my Instagram and website very soon so stay tuned!
Hi, I tried to do it as you described but you never specified the recommended Vitamix speed. Mine resulted in the root bunching together and becoming a sticky ball, not mixing with the alcohol (97%) at all. It became essentially like a sticky, rubber, mass. Any reason for this? Any recommendations?
wow, ya the blender speed shouldn't be the issue. and you did the 1:2 ratio? Maybe you used dry comfrey root (?) in which case you would do a ratio of 1:5...
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Also, 95% may be too high…I know, it’s what I said in the video, sorry but comfrey mucilage is soluble in water, so try adding more water to dilute your solvent, hopefully this will break up the mass.
Hello! I've tried the recipe. I used 110 g fresh root with 220 ml 95% ethanol. But instead of blending it, I grated the root. When i poured in the menstruum, the grated pieces of root stuck together in one big strong clump. Is that normal? :(
Do you get a lot of rain? My root may not have been as hydrated as yours. The mucilage in comfrey root can be intense, and grating it made that mucilage very available to the solvent. It may just be looking for water? Add some water and bled it up in a blender and see if that helps.
@@HerbNerdSchool Thanks for the quick answer. Yes, the roots were very wet. The problem is that I don't have a blender. If I shake the jar really hard, the clump starts do break down, but there are parts that stay above the surface ( I used a very big jar - above 1 litre). Is it wise to pour more ethanol to cover it, rather than water?
@@borqnaplashkov4385 as long as you shake it everyday you’ll be fine.
@@HerbNerdSchool Ok : ) Thank you!
where can I buy this alcohol? can it be purchased locally?
The Organic Alcohol Company in Oregon, organicalcohol.com/organic-cane-alcohol/
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can you make it with vodka, if you use dried root?
yes, that works well
Also, wanted to make you aware of the Intro to Handmade Herbal Remedies course opening next week on our site: www.herbnerd.com/intro-herbal-remedies-sales-page