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Was asked to prune a Mahonia (Oregon grape) earlier in the week so it's time to make some #berberine tincture. It tastes like total crap but like most bitter things its very good for your liver. 😁

You want to snap the twig and extract the cambian later below the bark. Pop it in some vodka or in this case I am using polish spirit leave it for month or so to extract and your good to go. It will stain everything more yellow than Coldplay so just be aware of that too.

You can get berberine from Berberis and other plants too but I find it much easier to get the berberine rich part out of a mahonia.

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Chako Chino 2y ago

Hey Henry, do you make witch hazel tinctures? Or do you know a good source of information on how to make one?

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Henry 2y ago

Unfortunately I have never made a witch hazel tincture. I dont even have a witch hazel tree here, had one at a customers house but it wasn't very happy and died in a drought. They are quite slow growing and therefore rather expensive trees, which is why it wasn't replaced.

If you look at pfaf there is medicinal information about it not really a recipe but if you can't find anything more useful than that I would do something similar to the mahonia strip some bark off and put it in some vodka.

https://pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Hamamelis+virginiana