Small guide for extraction with alcohol

Glycerine preparations and vinegar alcohol and vinegar by steeping, herbal extract from water-soluble active substances, the essential oils (aromatic) and partly oily substances, resins and alkaloids.But these preparations have other advantages:

• thanks to the disinfectant qualities, whether the alcoholic is enough, the preparations are stored for very long.Many of these preparations even mature and improve over the years.
• You can prepare large concentrations of active substances, so that the volume of storage and transport remains contained.
• The easy mixing of ingredients alcohol allows naturopathic medication immediately and individually.
• Monotinture can easily be prepared in the kitchen, is giving the task to the pharmacist.If necessary, the market provides homeopathic "mother tincture" of rare medicinal plants.

These preparations require labor and craft, but to ensure against a certain independence from the health institutions, pharmaceutical companies and others interested in the profitable market.It 'a real autonomy by not less effective health pharmaceutical industry, except for the rare (and important) pathological exceptions, where the pharmaceutical industry has its use (to resize).

• Dyeing and dyeing mother (Tinct.; Ø, TM)
• Alcoholic maceration (dyes)
• Percolation alcohol (tinctures)
• Maceration glycerol (glycerine tincture, Tinct.glyc.)
• Maceration vinous, medicinal wines (wines)
• Macerazione acetosa, aceti medicinali
• Manufacture of fermented (wine) medicines
• Fabbricazione di distillati medicinali

Some recipes consisting of Tinct.and TM(TincturaMadre) should completely redo the calculation.To those who are not skilled in this area, Council refrain from such tests.We are professionals that is a great sin rarely found and even fewer young pharmacists, pharmaceutical companies who are dedicated to preparing Tinct.off.Fortunately, we can work with Dr.Luca Milesi Pharmacy San Provino Agno (Italy), who are still dedicated to this noble task and prepares us for most of the dyes that we need.It would be desirable, the fact that other therapists are requested this service in order to be able to maintain long and low-cost.Not least it is also an economic discourse: TMs and Tinct.off. cost approx.about the same price,because the grass does not affect cost much (alcohol and job performance). As you lower the dose in Tinct.off. also significantly reduces the price for the medication.
The dyes are not difficult to find substitutes only the TM but also extracts (Extr.fluid.; Spiss. Droughts.).
"Conversion of quantities of active substances in different preparationsreparations

Example 1: a recipe to replace the original Tinct. Using 's Extr.fluid It takes approx.25-30% of original amount.Example 2: You mean the change in a recipe? Original Tinct., Using the TM, Ø.It takes approx.2-3 times the original amount. "

1. Alcoholic maceration
2. Percolation alcoholic

Alcoholic maceration (dyes)[tincture]{tinture}

Preparation of dye
Extracted through maceration, alcohol-free plant of soluble substances into the water (hydrophilic) and soluble in alcohol.In steeping, the procedure does not alter cold (or little) the molecule of the active substances and does not cause even evaporation of essential oils.Also alcohol is a good "antibiotic" and makes the most inert of microorganisms contained in herbs (disinfectant) as well as preventing their proliferation or through their mitotic spores (preservative).Thus, the dyes are remedies that are preserved well and long, even during the early years (stored in the dark and cool) improve in quality as a good brandy.
The dyes are made with fresh or dried plants.
To get a Security Council regarding the dosage production "lege artis" made according to the pharmacopoeias and guarantees exact content of the active substances, especially regarding herbs "strong" and "poisonous" (eg Rauwolfia, Strofantus, Belladonna, Scilla, Convallaria, etc.)..Prepare "cottage" or "artisanal"

• If available, I recommend one made with fresh herbs, because it is more full of substances, although less concentrated.
• If there is no possibility of them fresh, or if you want to use the remains of plants collected during the previous year, you can do with the tincture of dried herbs in a workmanlike manner and the result is more concentrated.
• Of course you can mix these two products (recent and dry) but in this case you must pay attention to the calculation of the proportions in the assay.

The alcohol use must be:

• Spirits intended for consumption.The pharmaceutical alcohol rectified food are expensive (because of taxes) while others (external use, spirit firewood) are very cheap (because tax-free).To prevent cheating, the non-food containing a substance schifosissima and emetic, making it impossible to swallow.
• I personally use spirits as vodka (wheat), gin (juniper), grappa (grape), slivoviz (prunes), kirsch (cherries), obstler (apples), sometimes even brandy (grape), whiskey (corn), Calvados (apples).Being a little manic in respect of spirits, try to marry well the virtues of the plant with the virtues of spirits (eg gin and antirheumatic herb).In case of doubt or if I like too the distillate for use in "medicine", using vodka, taste inert distillate considered "clean" with few pollutants.
• For plants dried " siccum "use a distillate with at least a grade of 30%.
• For fresh herbs prefer a higher grade (eg 45%), because their water content dilutes the distillate and thus lowers the strength.Below a certain grade (approx. 25%) decrease properties "germicidal" and "preservatives".
• For the plant resin (eg hemp) are preferable to dissolve better grades high in resins and mucilaginous plants (eg, sage, mallow, althea) macerate is better in low grades.
• If necessary, you can also dilute the alcohol with high-grade distilled water, stirring constantly adding (after prior calculation) drinking water and not on the contrary, so that the preparation had numbed).

The proportions between plants (fresh or dried) and alcohol "lege artis" are prescribed in farmacopoee (pharmaceutical and homeopathic HAB).Usually handmade using the following proportions:

• Homeopathic 10% weight alcohol (relato weight of dried plant) of plants recently (mother tincture, TM, O);
• Craft: 250g of fresh herbs out of 5 dl of distilled or "ground cover plants with alcohol."To maintain the most stable possible product concentration should, for each plant, follow the same method;
• Craft: 120gr of dried herbs to 5 dl distillate.

Here's how to prepare plants for maceration content:

• Weight herbs and I note the mass in grams;
• Chopped fresh herbs with a knife on a wooden board, if the grass is woody, to facilitate maceration, chopped finer;
• The dried herbs or minced finely crumble (if the wood mill with the electric coffee grinder) to facilitate maceration, then the humidifier with a nebulizer (like iron) repeatedly, the mix and let stand piled: thus absorb moisture and swell.Thereby saving is alcohol that otherwise would be thrown after filtering.Only with these conditions by soaking in the jar.

Cover with alcohol Close and shake Allow to marinate Filter Squeeze Bottle & Label

Once the vase filled with herbs for alcoholic maceration, add the distillate weighed or measured and close tightly.Apply now labeled with the personal data portion
You put the pot in a warm place, sunny and not visible to the passage: so you do not forget to shake at least once a day.After at least two weeks (okay a month or two) there shall be filtering and bottling.
Before filtering tools are prepared:

• Balance and needed to write and calculate;
• Do not shake the jar for a few hours (as well settle the contents);
• Piece of cloth (gauze) for separating coarse;
• Basin for the content of the filtrate;
• Coffee strainer;
• A bit of gauze on the bottom of the colander;
• Content ground: to put on the floppy cotton gauze;
• Container to receive the content of the filtrate;
• Distilled to correct the amount of waste and cleaning;
• Funnel, labels and bottles to bottle the remedy.

Procedure (complete) is seen more or less in previous photographs.Personally after a first pass filtered weight.Then I determine the "loss" and add this amount of alcohol poured on the ground and squeezing juice again to reach approx.the initial weight of alcohol.Following is from the dye bottle and label.
Alcoholic percolation
The handcrafted and partly for the preparation of pharmaceutical industrial dye is "trickle":

• A trickle tubiforme is equipped at the exit of a mesh / gauze and a bed of sand that slows the flow and serves as a filter;
• From above the tube is filled with grassy material prepared (chopped, weighed, wetted);
• You add alcohol weighed;
• After the due time of maceration adjusts the dispenser so as to collect the dye into the basin below (about one drop per second);
• A transaction completed weigh dyeing and corrects the concentration of the leachate by adding the missing alcohol, possibly according to the analysis of pharmacological active substances.

Full details for the materials used and procedures are laid down in national or in the European farmacopoee (PhEu: European Pharmacopoeia).
Leaching as well as being faster than the maceration is sometimes still used by pharmacists because it also allows to perform the first step in the manufacture of extracts, as Extr.fluid., Compared with tinctures are approx.five times more concentrated (resp. 10 times relative to TM tinctures or Ø).

Glycerine macerate
(Dye glycerin) (Tinct.glyc.)Is prepared as the alcoholic tincture with the difference that the material consists of glycerin solution (chemically a type of alcohol, an ingredient in various tissues of animals and plants) and water.The advantage is that the glycerine dyes are less aggressive in the gastrointestinal tract (mucosa)[mucous] that the alcoholic ingredients.However, melt a little less good of alcohol resins and lipids.Are often used for the preparation of such gems as eg Poplar(Pioppo?)

I should point out that these guides have been copied directly from the site PFORSTER.CH Sg.Peter Forster and translated with google.translate!
Not continuous with the addition of preparations of ganja, because for the moment can not, if someone speaking English or someone who is more capable, then so be it forward.
Thanks for reading!

continuation is in this thread, I was able to translate it for now:https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=161223

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