Strength of alcohol for each herb?

LaurieLovesLearning

Different herbs require different strengths of alcohol to make a proper tincture, so I read. This suggestion seemed to go beyond the topic of fresh vs. dried herbs. Does anyone have a chart or something?

Torey

This is a link to Michael Moore's pharmacopeia. It is considered a "standard". Its being used in the herbal pharmacy course I am taking at the moment.

https://www.swsbm.com/ManualsMM/HerbTinct3.txt

Most other pharmacopeias are available as books or as downloads but aren't free.

Torey

Here is another tincture chart. This was originally from the Portland Herbal School.

Tincture-Making-Chart-Scott-Kloos.pdf

annbeck62

@torey thanks for the information and @LaurieLovesLearning thank you for bringing up the question. the herbal course I took did not bring this up at all. I haven't been making any adjustments when making tinctures....

judsoncarroll4

What @torey said!