Herbal Medicine Making Kit Download Link - Learning Herbs

Herbal Medicine Making Kit
you are using standard mason jars, put the paper
towel or cloth on and hold it down by using the
screw band part of the lid (this will help prevent
molding). Stir your oil every day for the first few
weeks. After six weeks, decant the oil just like you
decanted the tincture. Store your oil in the same
jar if you like, but with a closed lid. Store out of
direct sunlight. You usually want to use oils within
a year. Every fresh or dried herb has its own personality,
but this is the basic formula.
Lavender was also part of
your salve, and its virtues
are discussed on video on
HerbMentor.com.
• The cold method of oil making is preferred because
the oil stays more stable when it is not heated. In
other words, heated oils have a greater chance of
going rancid sooner. This is not an issue in this kit
because you made such a small amount of salve.
But if you were making a larger volume of oil or
you knew your oils or salves would be sitting longer,
use the cold method. You can increase the
life of your salves and oils by adding vitamin E to
the oils. This is wise to do if you use the cooking
method in the future for larger amounts of oil.
• In this kit, I pre-measured the wax for you. The
ratio is ONE CUP (volume) of oil to ONE OUNCE
(weight) of bees wax. SO, that’s 1:1…easy! In
this kit, you made 1 cup of oil, so I enclosed one
ounce of wax. This is why the oil volume was so
important in step 4 of the salve making. If you
make three cups of herbal oil into salve in the
future, then simply use 3 ounces of beeswax.
YOU DID IT!
So far, you completed the Herbal Medicine Making Kit.
Congratulations! Now, you have the choice of either
stopping here and moving on to your next project in life,
continuing on to HerbMentor.com.
My flowers are a well known
ear ache remedy and my
leaves are helpful to the lungs.
Who am I? Find out in Roots
and Branches...AND... there is
even a video on HerbMentor.
com.
NOTE: The Nourishing
Herbal Infusion lesson,
which uses the nettles,
is located on the DVD
that came with your
kit.
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