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Herbal Tinctures Glycerities
Looking forward to prepare an herbal medicine chest for your family? The primary medicines you need to carry are herbal tinctures and herbal glycerides apart from the basic first-aid tools.
Problems faced by all of us regularly can be fast cured with the help of herbal tinctures. Be it bacterial infections, viral fever, muscular cramps, indigestion and acidity, low energy level or high blood pressure, herbal tinctures have solution for all.
Tincture Stimulants
The popularly used herbal medicine tinctures are Echinacea tincture, skullcap tincture, ginseng tincture, wormwood tincture, poke root tincture, motherwort tincture, and yarrow tincture and so on.
These medicines apart from being herbal in nature have alcoholic property and thus act as sedative and stimulant in the body. The tinctures on the other hand are found in the concentrated form. Thus the application of the herbal tincture is swifter and better than that of the application of the natural herb.
Glycerides as essential oils
Herbal glycerides are primarily required to fight back any type of bacterial, viral and fungal infections. These are mainly antimicrobials agents and found as essential oils in the herbal form. To name a few curing glycerides, origanum and monolaurin are most important. These two are essential oils mostly used in antibiotics to inhibit the bacterial growth like Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae and others belonging to the same category.
One very interesting fact about the glycerides is that they come in combination with the antibiotics because where the antibiotics fail; the herbal glycerides compensate the pitfall.
Using herbal formula for safe treatment
Use of tinctures and glycerides has some specifications. If you really want to use them effectively, you will have to follow these criteria through and through.
Healing fever: The treatment for fever in the herbal way is either through Yarrow tincture or Echinacea tincture. Echinacea drops are to be used as per the body weight. One drop for two pounds is the easy formula. And you will have to add these drops after every couple of hours till the temperature is under control. On the other hand the Yarrow drops are to be used at every four hours and that too one drop at a time.
Acute headache: Does the name skullcap indicate towards something? You are right. It definitely reminds you of your skull and thus head. Skullcap tincture is a natural substitute for painkillers without any side effect.
Chronic diarrhea: Curing diarrhea without antibiotics might astonish you. But ask your grandparents and they will nod their head in positive accent stating that herbal tinctures do cure diarrhea and also other indigestion problems.
For diarrhea Wormwood drops rightly dosed is enough with a control over the diet. You will have to give the patient three drops at a time at the interval of one hour. After continuing the dose for four hours, if there is a sign of relief the gap between the medicine intakes will be increased.
In the same way the Ginseng tincture can be taken as stimulant and energizer and Motherwort tincture for premenstrual problems.
Include these tinctures and many more in your herbal medicine chest and keep it always by your side. You never know when you might require them.