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- From: patty@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu (Patty Haley)
- Subject: more on echinacea
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.140759.20699@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu>
- Organization: Johns Hopkins Univ. Welch Medical Library
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 14:07:59 GMT
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- Scott Dorsey writes:
-
- 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
-
-
- Yep, the substance is thick, no doubt about it.
-
- But, even if you don't mind "a few drops of ethanol" (I sure do), why
- would you want to pay for about 70% echinacea and 30% alcohol. The
- "pure" echinacea I get costs the same as the bottles containing the
- echinacea/alcohol mixtures. Besides, the concentrate is more powerful.
-
- -Patty
-