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I don't know anything about Misty Meadows, hopefully others will.

As for the Japanese Knotweed - yes, mix it with water - it doesn't have a pleasant flavor. The water will tone it down.

I did my J/K with just enough water to be a mouth full. I chugged it down and then immediately followed it with another chug of plain water.

Then came the scrunching up of my nose and URGH sound and a shiver through my body that I had gotten it down the hatch.

Only to be repeated again later......

No, it shouldn't matter how much water you take it with.


Oh you will taste it when you're up to one full dropperful x3 or more tinctures. Believe me.

I'm telling you guys, if you plug your nose with something, as silly as it looks I'm sure everyone has done that with tissue to keep it from dripping.

If you do that, it doesn't taste near as bad...You can barely taste it at all, imo. Smell is very much connected to taste.


ETA:, you don't have to mix it with water, but such tiny amounts are easier to drink down if they're added to something and don't linger on your tongue.

I add my tinctures to about 2 tablespoons of whatever I happen to be drinking at the time. Including lemon water.

Post Edited (julymorning) : 1/20/2017 5:48:19 PM (GMT-7)

To each their own ..byron white formulas are like 9 things all at once ...i am doing th kitchen sink and jumped in at 20 drops 2x a day ...some feel it at 1 drop

trav - misty meadows is cashing in from your exp and name with your ct ....after we get our herbalist certs we could make a ticture for the people too lazy to decoct and pick up the $lack

1000 Daisies - I don't think sitting for a minute will remove alcohol - maybe it you heated the water (to warm) first and left it longer - like 10-15 minutes some alcohol would dissipate.
I've read mixed information about that though.

I started digging into the issue of reducing the alcohol in tinctures, and the information is not promising. First of all, heating up the tincture will change the properties of the plant material - remember, in most cases, during the tincture making process, the herbs and alcohol are never heated.

Once heat is administered, it can change the properties of the herb - for example, let's take Avena sativa - a tincture I make at home and have used for many years, and have experimented a bit with. If I take it in cold water, it has a more of an extended release to it - but take it in hot water and the effects are usually felt immediately. For avena sativa, it's harmless to do this, but we also are not talking about adding it to boiling water, as that would lower it's effectiveness.

The alcohol is part of what extract certain plant constituents (water extracts different constituents), and by boiling off the alcohol, you will change the tincture and what it does in some instances, because you will be (if nothing else) boiling off some of the water extracted constituents - but very little, if any, of the alcohol will be affected.

To support this, here are two sites I've found, so you can determine for yourselves:
www.camillefreeman.com/2011/12/alcohol/

www.ochef.com/165.htm

If a person truly wishes to avoid the alcohol, the only choice is to use glycerite tinctures, where no alcohol is used.