Greetings friends,
As many of you know, I have been studying herbal medicine and doing an internship with a local herbal pharmacy. It is going really well and feels like coming home. In trying to figure out how to fund the making of about 40 different kinds of tinctures it occurred to me that the same system that works for community supported agriculture might work. The query that presents itself is how would that work and be the most beneficial and cost effective for everyone involved. I need your illumination to help figure this one out, so any ideas or concerns would be considered and appreciated.
The vision is that these would be all organic or wild crafted herbs in organic grain or grape alcohol made with a combination maceration and cold percolation method. The expensive part is the organic alcohol. After doing quite a bit of research it seems organic grape alcohol would be best. It is great for people with allergies to corn and also extracts more of the medicinal properties of the herbs (according to the studies I found). There is a local Oregon company that produces small batch organic alcohols which will be perfect. The cost for a gallon of grape alcohol is about $150. That may sound pricey but if you consider regular old generic grain alcohol (which inevitably contains genetically modified corn)is 13.95 a fifth it's only about double for the best quality stuff you can put in there. I don't think that's unreasonable at all but considering I'll need about 10 gallons before its all said and done, this is a costly endeavor.
How can you help? Put your noggin to the grindstone and help me figure out a way to put this together so a small group of people can put in a lil cash and get a selection of tinctures for their use. This could be done a few ways, like people who buy in get to select a number of tinctures based on their buy in. Or everyone who contributes gets 5-10 basic tinctures covering basic immune system boosting, blood cleaning, energizing, etc. I dunno how to put it all together really. Help! Have no desire to develop this into business, but I would like to make affordable herbals for anyone I can.
Whether or not you are interested in joining such a project, your opinion and ideas would be very beneficial. If you thinks its a bad idea: I want to hear why. Anything that might help flesh this into something workable. Thanks for taking the time to read this and give it some thought. May your holiday season be blessed with peace, prosperity and of course, good health.
Love.
2 comments:
My friend uses a lot of homeopathic medicine for her children. Perhaps she can help with ideas. I know she is pretty swamped with her Autism site (http://www.autismsalutes.com/) , but this has her name written all over it.
My other concern would be getting a specific list of the medicines that people can get made with the money invested? If you can show people it's worth their $ they are more willing to part with it.
I am interested in following you on this path, currently growing a few new herbs and testing tinctures with lotus. You can do 9 gallons for $900 here http://www.alcsol.com/ordering/content_pricing.html, and I would be interested in talking with you more about a tincture co-op.
We met a man in San Diego who makes great glass distillery equipment without metal contamination for under $400 for creating oils and essences as well. Can you point to resources that provide more insight on how to use tinctures, oils and essences to their best benefit?
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