Herbal Tinctures - I've been making mine using herbs and pure vodka as a base bu!


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Herbal Tinctures - I've been making mine using herbs and pure vodka as a base but can you add water?

I usually make up my tinctures with 4oz herbs to 1pint high grade spirit [usually vodka...hic! ] but in the Bartram's Herbal Encyclopaedia I have just got it says that you can make up a perfectly good tincture using a mix of 25% alcohol to 75% water.
Does anyone do this and what are the results?
Do the tinctures keep for as long with the reduced alcohol content?
I'm about to make a new batch and would like to try and get an answer before I try this new method so would be grateful for any help you can give.
Very much obliged
Lisa-Dawn


Answers:

yes it works. Personally I think you should make them as needed, half the thing with holistic medicine is the freshness.




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