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- From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey)
- Newsgroups: misc.health.alternative
- Subject: Re: echinacea
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 01:06:02 GMT
- Organization: NASA Langley Research Center and Reptile Farm
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- In article <1992Dec22.213953.28375@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu> patty@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu (Patty Haley) writes:
- >
- >I meant closer to the lines of #3, except that the echinacea is not
- >in alcohol. Some companies can only compress (or whatever it is
- >that they do) the echinacea through an alcohol base, which is why
- >they tell you to put it in hot/warm water before taking (so that
- >the alcohol will burn off). The liquid echinacea that I use is
- >concentrated, so only 5-7 drops are needed.
-
- Well, the basic idea with making a tincture is that everything soluble in
- alcohol (and that includes a large number of compounds) goes into solution
- and you use the solution, discarding the woody residue.
-
- I assume that the stuff you are referring to uses a similar solvent, and
- then they evaporate the solvent. I don't know exactly what is being
- referred to here, but I assume that a process like that would leave a
- fairly thick, tarry substance behind which would be a lot more concentrated
- than the tincture.
-
- Personally, I don't mind just taking a tincture... after all, a few drops
- of ethanol aren't going to hurt you any.
- --scott
-