How To Make Easy Medicinal Tincture Using Hibiscus & Honey

Welcome back to my channel. This is Dr. Taj of Sappy Life Wellness, where healing is your birthright. Today I'm going to show you my favorite methods of medicine making called tincturing with using honey. I'm going to show you exactly how I make my homemade medicine using hibiscus and honey. Let's go ahead and get started. All you need is your favorite herb, honey, a pot and a glass dish and water. I don't like to mix too many different herbs. I traditionally, I like to stick with just one for each tincture. It's because I like to truly develop a relationship with each and every herb that I use. Like I said in a previous video, with plant medicine and spirit medicine, it really is a, a divine and spiritual connection that one has with the plant that the healer or the shaman has with the plant. And there are just certain plants and roots and things that I'm absolutely just drawn to, or that I may have a dream about. And I would love to keep it a bond and a relationship with that particular plant as I work with it on myself or my family, or when I'm making, uh, tinctures and plant medicines for others. Once the tincture is complete, you can always mix afterward. You can always make whatever mixture combination or put a few drops of one and 3 drops of the other into one formula if you like. Today I'm going to be using one of my favorite herbs, which is actually not a herb, and that is hibiscus. You might be more familiar with hearing about hibiscus as a tea, One of my favorite drinks. I'm gonna get a little closer. Very fruity yet sour, pungent flavor. So a little goes a long way. Great to use hibiscus if you want to detox gently and naturally. It energizes the body, nourishes the cells. It impacts gut health in a very positive way. It's known for its antibacterial properties, anti-inflammation. Many use hibiscus for liver and lung support. Okay, so next you want to use honey. I use a locally raised honey from an organic honey bee farm. You want to minimize the amount of pesticide or insecticide that would be present in your medicine or in your tincture, of course that would totally defeat the purpose of making the medicine in the first place. I'm going to show you exactly how I make my homemade medicine using hibiscus and honey. Let's go ahead and get started. Start with a, a large pot and add maybe like a couple inches of water in here. So I have about 2.5 inches of water and put your, uh, temperature on low. As you can tell from the steam, my pot is already nice and heated. And so next I'm going to go ahead and take the glass, a glass bowl, and use it as a double boiler. So just place it right on top. And so what this does, it just allows for the heat to distribute evenly and, um, a little slower so it's not so intense. I'm going to use 3 parts menstruum, which would be the honey, to 1 part herb, which would be in this case the hibiscus flower. I'm gonna go ahead and start with the hibiscus. I'm using a 1/3 cup. Generally, when I make my tinctures, especially if I'm using a different menstruum like alcohol or vinegar, um, the herbal part, the medium, I would normally grind up. I would normally grind this all up, but with hibiscus, it's very pungent. It's easy to extract the constituents from it, so it's not necessary to grind it up. Go straight into the, into the boiler bowl with my hibiscus. So next we're gonna go ahead and add our honey. You can now give it a stir. Typically use a stainless steel utensil. So you want to make sure that the temperature of the honey does not rise above 110 degrees, because if it does, it denatures the— it denatures the honey. You don't want to lose all those beneficial properties that the honey gives for us. We're going to leave this uncovered for 2 hours. Again, just be sure that you're checking the temperature. So if it is teetering a little too close to the 110, then you can just reduce your heat, or if you need to cut it off for a little while just to keep, keep it below the 110. I also want to add that make sure that you refrain from any moisture getting into your combination because moisture will encourage bacterial growth or mold and will completely ruin your mixture unless you're going to store it in the refrigerator. And adhesive labels for marking, um, what your— what type of tincture it is and the date that you made it. Okay, so now it looks like everything is ready, nice and red like I like it, and we are good to go. Now I'm going to show you how to extract menstruum, which will be your actual tincture from the hibiscus. You're gonna need a glass container with the lid. I like to use with the airtight seals. You can always use canning jars, but make sure that it's a food-grade glass that has a lid with a seal on the inside of it. We're going to use a cheesecloth, which looks like this. So I'm just going to cut a piece. I like to use cheesecloth because it's very porous and you should be able to get most of your menstruum extracted. My little helper here, and so she's going to assist me and hold the camera while I pour and extract. You do want to make sure that, that everything is still nice and warm because the viscosity of it will be a lot looser. A lot looser, making it easier to extract, of course. So just be sure that you're safe, that you're not holding hot bowls. I had mine on the warm zone, and I— on my stove, that's the warm zone, so the top is not hot at all. When you lift the bowl off, just keep in mind that there's going to be some evaporation, some warm water evaporating out. So just be careful where your oven mitts or whatever you need to stay nice and safe, okay? Press. Have everything filtered, so I'm gonna just slowly pull it out. And as you pull the cheesecloth out, you can give it a squeeze. Medicinal tincture, hibiscus tincture. So you want to make sure it's nice and cool before you, um, put the lid on. And there you go, just like honey. You just take a teaspoon daily, or add it to your favorite drink. Just store this just as you would store honey. I'm so excited for you. Doesn't it look just— it looks so appetizing. Nature is just beautiful, man. Okay, this hair down's been up all friggin' day. It's heavy too. Very, very, very excited because this is just a level of reconnecting with the divine spirit and nature. This is a, um, a step towards self-healing. This is a step towards higher reverberation. Anyway, congratulations! I am so, so, so happy that you've learned how to make your own herbal medicine. So you are officially free. You can free yourself, you can heal yourself. But no, seriously, this looks so appetizing. Nature is so good to us. Like, don't get me started because I will geek out on all things nature. Any questions about medicine making, natural health, labs, all things natural, whatever it is holler at your girl, and if I can help you, I will. If I can't, I'll point you in the right direction. If you want to learn more about getting to the root of your health issues once and for all, learn a way to set your life on the right course and start transforming like today, click on the link in the description box where you can book your next wellness session with me, yours truly, Dr. Taj, and I'm signing off. Peace and blessings. The light in me bows to the light in you.