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At The Herb Shop, our ingredients are gathered from organic and/or whole
food sources. Some are even wildcrafted. From these ingredients, some
tinctures may be made to benefit from the concentrated natures of the
herbs desired for a particular use. Whether the product you're looking
for comes from Western herbalist traditions such as holistic,
homeopathic, or folk medicines, or the Eastern traditions such Ayurvedic
or Traditional Chinese Medicine, the following may help to define a
tincture from other preparations from herbs:
Tea: any of various infusions (by steeping in hot or cold water)
prepared from the leaves, flowers, etc., of other plants, and used as
beverages or medicines.
Tincture: an extract of an herb in an alcohol solution. Also a solution
of a nonvolatile substance (e.g., of iodine, mercurochrome). Solutions
of volatile substances are sometimes called spirits.
Spirits: A solution of a volatile substance, although that name is also
given to several other materials obtained by distillation, even when
they do not include alcohol.
Elixir: A preparation containing an active ingredient that is dissolved
in a solution that contains some percentage of ethyl alcohol. These were
commonly the "patent medicines" of the 19th and early 20th centuries,
the universal panacea — made by the "snake oil salesman." The term is
sometimes used today to describe preparations that have a rejuvenative
effect, even though there may be little or no alcoholic content. |
