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TABLE OF CONTENTS Making Fresh Plant Tinctures Physician in the Kitchen Abrah Arneson ...................................................................................................3 Dr. Marisa Marciano .......................................................................................38 Giving Back - it’s good for your soul Female Health Treatment Protocols: Penelope Beaudrow........................................................................................4 Diagnostic Laboratory Analysis Botanical Sanctuary Medicinal Herb Walk - Bev Maya ......................................................................................................... 40 Featuring “at risk” and “at watch” plants Penelope Beaudrow........................................................................................4 Herbs for Epidemics William Morris ................................................................................................. 41 Mindful Movement Practice Angela Bewick ...................................................................................................5 Strategic Plant Choices for The Magic, Mystery and Medicine of the Yew tree Sustainable Agriculture Chanchal Cabrera ............................................................................................ 6 Sarah Orlowski ................................................................................................44 Oneirogens: Herbs and Dreams Earth Wisdom - Communicating Victor Cirone....................................................................................................... 8 With Plant Spirit Session 1 and 2 Nature’s Pharmacy: Practical Gudrun Penselin .............................................................................................46 Phytochemistry for Medicine Makers Virtual Herb Walk Evelyn Coggins ...............................................................................................10 Gudrun Penselin ............................................................................................48 Sex, Drugs & Evolution - The Potential And The Pitfalls Of The Psychedelic Renaissance Trans-inclusive Care for Herbalists Chad Cornell .................................................................................................... 13 Ember Peters ...................................................................................................49 Herbal Medicine For Children Building An Accessible Herbal Practice Colleen Emery ................................................................................................ 17 Ember Peters ................................................................................................... 51 Fermentation And Seasonal Changes Reproductive Health - Treatment Protocols and Colleen Emery ................................................................................................22 Diagnostics with Menstrual Chart Tracking Herbs for Sexual Health & Wellbeing - A Krista Poulton .................................................................................................53 traditional medicine look at sexual vitality Medicinal Mushrooms: A Brief History Dr. Tiffany Freeman .......................................................................................23 Robert Rogers ................................................................................................56 Adrenal Health With Botanicals Michael Friedman .........................................................................................24 The Prickly Medicine of Prickly Ash Tamara Segal ..................................................................................................58 Sit Here! Relaxing Into Foot Soaks Jennifer Gawne ...............................................................................................24 Seaweeds: Nutritional and Medicinal Information Introduction to Ukrainian Folk Herbalism Angela Willard .................................................................................................58 Dionne Jennings .............................................................................................25 Interesting Mechanisms of Herb Sovereignty For City Folk: How Herbs Really Work Urban Medicine Gardens Terry Willard .................................................................................................... 61 Dionne Jennings .............................................................................................27 COVID 19 Panel ......................................................................................65 Plant Medicines in Addictions Therapy Patrick Kooyman ............................................................................................28 Sustainability and Ethical Harvesting Panel ..............66 2 Making Fresh Plant Tinctures medicine in plants increases Understanding the Medicine in the Plants Abrah Arneson CHT RH • Alkaloids – higher in the sun, younger part of a plant What is a fresh plant tincture? • Volatile oils – disperse in the sun A water/alcohol extraction of the medicinal constituents from • Hips – stronger after frost plants freshly gathered, not dried. • Resins – stronger with cold nights Why some herbalists don’t like fresh plant medicine? • Roots – spring or fall Some feel they are unstable due to the unknown water • Flavonoids – stronger in the sun content in the fresh plant. • Water – weakens medicine If using dried plants to make your tincture consider all the Steps to Making Fresh Plant Tinctures variable in the creating effective plant medicine. • Offer the plant a gift and ask if it is a good time to make • How are they dried? medicine with it. If it says no, accept the answer and ask again • Where were they grown? another day. • How were they harvested? • Pick correct part of the plant and garble: removing bugs, • Who harvested them? eaten or diseased parts. Wilt for 24 to 48 hours if the plant is carrying a lot of water Why make fresh plant tinctures: • (mucilage). • Teaches you about the plants you use and the medicine they Decide on the ratio of alcohol to water in the menstruum make. • while considering the water content in the plant and the • Cost effective constituents you wish to extract. • Strong medicine: you can dose lower. • Put herbs in a blender. Don’t put too many in. Work slowly. • Bioregional medicine: good for the planet. • Mix your water and alcohol in a separate container. • Understand the source of your medicine. • Pour the menstruum over the herbs. Traditional Method of Making Fresh Plant Tinctures • Pulse the herbs until chopped, not mushy. Note: You are not 1:2 95% HO making a smoothie. 1:2 means: one part herb to 2 parts alcohol. • Add more plants matter. For example: • If the blender is struggling to chop the herbs, add more 100 grams of herbs to 200 mls of alcohol menstruum. 350 grams of herbs to 700 mls of alcohol • Once you have blended all your herbs. Pour into a jar, put the 95% HO means 95% alcohol (HO). (This is the way Canadians lid on and label. measure alcohol. I am confused by the American system that uses “proof” to measure the percentage of alcohol. • Record what you did in your medicine making book. (3 ring binders work well.) Challenges with these recommendation for fresh plant tinctures Example of the Blessed Thistle Notes: • Taste and smell of the alcohol September 28, 20 Tincture F.F 75% HO • Reduced compliance 500 mls HO 95% • Amount of the plant needed 125 mls H2O . • Amount of alcohol needed 625 mls Total menstruum • Cost Yield 600 mls Note: Leaves were mucilaginous and sticky. Key to Making Fresh Plant Tinctures Wilted for 24 hours. Plants make their medicine in relationship to the environment they are living in. +++ bitter taste In 2-3 days, press your herbs and bottle. Record your yield. Considerations Be sure to: • Full Moon Weakens – aerial parts Smell and taste your tincture. • Full Moon strengthens - Roots • If it smells and taste like the original herb, you have a good • New Moon Strengthens – aerial parts • tincture. • New Moon weakens - Roots It is a good idea to also feel the herb in your body. • Dry weather or raining weather (you want to harvest your • medicine during dry weather.) I wish you all the best on your medicine making journey. • Soil – what kind of soil supports a plant in making medicine? • Sun – Does the sun strengthen or weaken the medicine? • Cold nights (not frost) – Often as nights become colder, the 3 I had no idea when we first started planting that our efforts Giving Back - it’s good would turn into our own botanical sanctuary! We are thrilled for your soul to say that since 2015, we have been Botanical Sanctuary Member of United Plant Savers. Our mission is to protect Penelope Beaudrow native medicinal plants and their native habitat while ensuring GIVING BACK - IT’S GOOD FOR THE SOUL an abundant renewable supply of medicinal plants for generations to come. Our future goals are simple, to increase For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering the number of “at risk” plant colonies annually. It is my dream together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of that years from now someone will carry on my work with the scattering abroad. ~Edwin Way Teale plants, nurturing and loving our botanical sanctuary as much as I do. Until then, I will continue to pour my hearts love into Deep within my soul I have a love of plants and nature so deep this land, giving the only way I know how to. that they are a part of me, not knowing where one begins and the other stops. A constant yearning to be out of doors; see NOW