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Flower Essences ~ Make Your Own Tinctures (Part I) - Page 2


© T. Darlene Cheek
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Feb 15, 2001


The plants for flower essences must also be picked at exactly the proper time of day. No, this isn't as much of a pain in the behind as it sounds like. Simply scout out your area that you are going to pick your plant from the day before you plan to do it. For sun remedy plants, you want to pick them on a sunny day with no clouds. Any bright day is good for boiling remedy plants. The best time of day to pick most of the plants is in the morning between 9:00 a.m. and midday. You want to pick the plants just after the dew has started to dry but before they have become "sun-exhausted."

Each plant also has a season that it is at its very best:

Sun Method

Early Spring ~ oak, borse, olive, vine

Late Spring ~ water chestnut, water violet

Summer ~ rock water, mimulus, agrimony, rock rose, centaury

Late Summer ~ scleranthus, wild oat, impatiens, chicory, vervain, clematis, heather

Fall ~ cerato, gentian

Boiling Method

Eary Spring ~ cherry plum

Spring ~ elm, aspen

Late Spring ~ beach, chestnut bud, hornbeam, larch, walnut, Star of Bethlehem, holly, crab apple, willow

Early Summer ~ red chestnut, pine, mustard

Summer ~ honeysuckle, sweet chestnut, wild rose

The Sun Method:

You will need ~

  • A bottle of spring or mineral water
  • A plain glass bowl
  • 3 fl oz amber dropper bottles
  • 1 1/2 fl oz brandy
  • Natural, unbleached filter paper (coffee filters do fine)
  • Pen & Label

    Pick your flowers at the moment they dry from the dew, but aren't sun touched. Put the flowers in the bowl of water, covering the entire surface. Use a twig to arrange them, not your fingers. You want to place this bowl directly in the sunlight for 3 hours. Then remove the flowers with a twig and filter the liquid.

    Pour 1 1/2 fl oz (50ml.) of the water into the 3 oz bottle, filling the rest of the way with brandy. Shake and label "flower essence mother tincture" and date.

    This mother tincture will prepare many bottles of tincture over the years. This recipe will make up to 6 of the diluted tinctures. To make the individual tincture, put 2 drops of mother tincture into a 1 fl oz (30ml.) dropper bottle, and top with brandy. Then take 2 drops of the individual tincture and add it back into the mother tincture bottle.

    The Boiling Method:

    You will need ~

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    2.   Feb 16, 2001 3:53 PM
    In response to message posted by Rosee:

    To me, this is the perfect therapy for gardeners - grow the flower, pick the flower, s ...

    -- posted by mastiffs2005
    1.   Feb 16, 2001 3:22 PM
    I'll be waiting for the next article for sure Darlene. This sounds like something me and my sister-in-law will have fun doing for sure! That picture of Deb's is just gorgeous too, just love it. ...

    -- posted by Rosee



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