Questions about Making herbal preparations

[Guest guest]

Can anyone point me to a good reference with instructions for making

herbal preparations (salves, creams, lotions, etc)?

 

Also, if I am going to start to experiment with making my own

products, are there are pieces of equipment that are must have? And

one last question, where is a good source for things like carrier

oils, beeswax, and other raw materials?

 

Thanks-

Adam

[Guest guest]

These two books will answer your questions and get you started.

 

James Green: The Herbal Medicine Maker's Handbook: A Home Manual

(Paperback)

 

Richo Cech: Making Plant Medicine, of horizonherbs.com

 

-Paul

 

 

, " Adam Schreiber "

<chinesemed wrote:

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> Can anyone point me to a good reference with instructions for making

> herbal preparations (salves, creams, lotions, etc)?

>

> Also, if I am going to start to experiment with making my own

> products, are there are pieces of equipment that are must have? And

> one last question, where is a good source for things like carrier

> oils, beeswax, and other raw materials?

>

> Thanks-

> Adam

>

[Guest guest]

Thanks Paul - I will check them out.

 

 

, " pdgamache2 "

<pdgamache wrote:

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> These two books will answer your questions and get you started.

>

> James Green: The Herbal Medicine Maker's Handbook: A Home Manual

> (Paperback)

>

> Richo Cech: Making Plant Medicine, of horizonherbs.com

>

> -Paul

>

>

> , " Adam Schreiber "

> <chinesemed@> wrote:

> >

> > Can anyone point me to a good reference with instructions for making

> > herbal preparations (salves, creams, lotions, etc)?

> >

> > Also, if I am going to start to experiment with making my own

> > products, are there are pieces of equipment that are must have? And

> > one last question, where is a good source for things like carrier

> > oils, beeswax, and other raw materials?

> >

> > Thanks-

> > Adam

> >

>

[Guest guest]

Adam,

Besides the two books Paul mentioned, which are great, I'd recommend you

find a copy of Complete External Therapies of Chinese Drugs by Xu Xiangcai from

Foreign Language Press. It has quite a selection of recipes for specific

medical conditions ranging from surgical and post surgical to trauma and ortho.,

to dermatology. It's organization is a little cumbersome but it does lucidly

explain the techniques for preparing a variety of extracts and preparations with

Chinese herbs. A prominent reason this would be a useful complement to Cech and

Green's medicine making books (which I love and use all the time for Western

herbs) is that it deals with the tools you are trained to use.

What the two Western herbals don't have is a lot of information about the

solubility of Chinese herbs and/or constituents that might be associated with

them. So as a Chinese practitioner you may wind up trying to use techniques

that aren't relevant to the plants you have in your pharmacy. I know several

eager herbalists who spent a lot of time and money making a complete TCM

tincture pharmacy only to find out that they didn't get the same results they

could expect with decoction or powdered extracts without getting their patients

intoxicated if at all. That being said there is a really neat article by Jake

Fratkin floating around the internet somewhere about making percolated tinctures

of custom herbal formulas for patients to increase compliance. This is a great

technique with which you can make a stronger tincture with dried herbs in a day

or so.

Take a peek at our website if you like. We are offering a two day

medicine making class in Santa Cruz county May 10, 11 that has been approved for

CEU's for Ca. L.Ac.'s. Feel free to contact me off list if you have questions.

 

Regards,

Benjamin Zappin

www.fiveflavorsherbs.com

 

 

: chinesemed: Sun, 6

Apr 2008 16:21:39 +0000 Questions about Making herbal preparations

 

 

 

 

Can anyone point me to a good reference with instructions for makingherbal

preparations (salves, creams, lotions, etc)?Also, if I am going to start to

experiment with making my ownproducts, are there are pieces of equipment that

are must have? Andone last question, where is a good source for things like

carrieroils, beeswax, and other raw materials?Thanks-Adam

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Here, dig this:

 

http://www.drjakefratkin.com/pdf/mae.pdf

 

 

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Apr 2008 16:21:39 +0000 Questions about Making herbal preparations

 

 

 

 

Can anyone point me to a good reference with instructions for makingherbal

preparations (salves, creams, lotions, etc)?Also, if I am going to start to

experiment with making my ownproducts, are there are pieces of equipment that

are must have? Andone last question, where is a good source for things like

carrieroils, beeswax, and other raw materials?Thanks-Adam

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Thanks for all of the info Ben - I will check it all out. Should

keep me busy for a while!

 

 

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> http://www.drjakefratkin.com/pdf/mae.pdf

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makingherbal preparations (salves, creams, lotions, etc)?Also, if I am

going to start to experiment with making my ownproducts, are there are

pieces of equipment that are must have? Andone last question, where is

a good source for things like carrieroils, beeswax, and other raw

materials?Thanks-Adam

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> Can anyone point me to a good reference with instructions for makingherbal

preparations (salves, creams, lotions, etc)?Also, if I am going to start to

experiment with

making my ownproducts, are there are pieces of equipment that are must have?

Andone

last question, where is a good source for things like carrieroils, beeswax, and

other raw

materials?Thanks-Adam

>

Also check out

 

www.edenlabs.org/

 

Great little extraction units. They have home units for about $350.

I have a Pro unit and it works GREAT!!

 

dr.w

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[Guest guest]

One thing is to also pour a little grain alcohol over the pot of herbs and sit

overnight, then add water and boil/reduce. The alcohol breaks down the cellulose

and increases the availability of the constituents. And the alcohol is gone from

the end product.

 

waldropeww <dr.w.w.waldrope wrote:

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> Can anyone point me to a good reference with instructions for makingherbal

preparations (salves, creams, lotions, etc)?Also, if I am going to start to

experiment with

making my ownproducts, are there are pieces of equipment that are must have?

Andone

last question, where is a good source for things like carrieroils, beeswax, and

other raw

materials?Thanks-Adam

>

Also check out

 

www.edenlabs.org/

 

Great little extraction units. They have home units for about $350.

I have a Pro unit and it works GREAT!!

 

dr.w

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[Guest guest]

If you are planning to make herbal preparations, I suggest doing a fairly

extensive study first. Each herb has an optimum extraction method, alcohol

percentage, etc. Resins are processed differently from aromatic leaves or

mushrooms or various types of roots. It is easy to make mediocre herbal

preparations, but it is no simple matter to make excellent preparations.

 

I would highly recommend the David Winston Center for Herbal Education,

which will take you in detail through optimal extraction percentages, what to

look for in the herbs, when to harvest, whether to process fresh or dried, and

thorough discussions of which extractions are better for what conditions.

_http://www.herbalstudies.org_ (http://www.herbalstudies.org) He has an on

site

and simultaneous online course which will be starting up in September, but

you may still be able to get in. He will becoming out with a 600 page materia

medica next year that has been in development for over 30 years. He

apprenticed with Dr. Eng in NYC, a Chinese family tradition practitioner with

additional martial arts medicine and learned to do all the pao zhi, is a noted

Cherokee herbalist trained from childhood, is one of the leading authorities

on

eclectic medicine, and according to a prominent doctor of Ayurvedic medicine

knows more of those herbs than most Ayurvedic practitioners in the US. He

runs Herbalist & Alchemist, one of the two top rate tincture companies. If the

few hundred Chinese herbs covered aren't the ones you need, then you will be

prepared to extrapolate from the others. I took it after my MSTOM, and

found it extremely worth while, eventhough I had been following him for years

before OM.

 

 

Karen S. Vaughan, L.Ac., MSTOM

Registered Herbalist (AHG)

Creationsgarden1

253 Garfield Place

Brooklyn, NY 11215

 

(718) 622-6755

 

 

 

 

 

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