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Here I’m in my clinic, about to drain and press a batch of Thyme tincture. Thyme is expectorant and helps to loosen phlegm from the lungs. It has an antispasmodic action which acts to relieve coughing, very useful if coughing is preventing good sleep. It’s also directly antiviral and antimicrobial. Thyme has a myriad of other medicinal properties.
Culpeper gives a sense of how widely Thyme can help us with our health. He says of Thyme: ‘It is a noble strengthener of the lungs, as notable a one as grows; neither is there scarce a better remedy growing for that disease in children which they commonly call the chin-cough, than it is. It purges the body of phlegm, and is an excellent remedy for shortness of breath. It kills worms in the belly, and being a notable herb of Venus, provokes the terms, gives safe and speedy delivery to women in travail, and brings away the after-birth. It is so harmless you need not fear the use of it. An ointment made of it takes away hot swellings and warts, helps the sciatica and fullness of sight, and takes away pains and hardness of the spleen: it is excellent for those that are troubled with the gout; is also, to anoint the testicles that are swelled. It eases pains in the loins and hips. The herb taken any way inwardly, comforts the stomach much, and expels wind’.
I describe my way of making tinctures in my book: ‘Self Sufficient Herbalism’. As herbalists we have many different ways of doing things but I’ve found a way which works very well for me and my clinic. It’s important to know how to make good, safe and effective products from the herbs that we grow. We want to ensure that these beautiful healing plant beings get to those people that need them without a loss in their healing potential. If you would like to know more about the processing aspect of self sufficient herbalism you will find it described in some depth in my book. The link to find out more and to order is below:
www.aeonbooks.co.uk/product/self-sufficient-herbalism-a-guide-to-growing-gathering-and-processing...
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