How to Make a Yarrow Tincture - What Is Yarrow Good For?
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- It’s yarrow season, she has arrived! In this video I take you to meet her, get rained on, forget to put on my microphone as I rush to the willow trees for cover (you’ll notice the difference in sound quality!), almost fall off the bench, a leg falls off the bench, I run out of vodka and Midnight the cat almost knocks over the camera!
During this video yarrow taught me to go with the flow, be in the moment and have a good sense of humour! But find out all the other amazing medicinal qualities she has and how you can make her into a tincture to have her healing ability in your medicine cabinet all year long.
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Hello Selena!! I just harvested my yarrow and a funny story for you. I used my electric dehydrator to dry out her leaves so I could store them properly and i side my tiny house with the windows closed, I accidentally created my own sweat lodge! I thought why am I sweating like this? 🤣🤣🤣 Well, of coirse it was the oils in the yarrow leaves as they escaped into the air.
I love that story. It made me smile. Thank you for sharing ❤️ Maybe dry them on the lowest heat next time ❤️
@@salenawalker oh it was on the lowest! I just live inside a very small space!! It was my first experience with yarrow and didn’t realize she dehydrates so quickly!! I’ll know next time to either prepare for an experience or open a window!!
I dry all my herbs inside my house in large grocery store paper bags...shake once a day to redistribute the heb...dries well within a week
Wow,
@cinmy friend lisa,does the same dythompson7467
I use it all the time for a multitude of reasons! My favorite yarrow grows high in the mountains near Telluride, Colorado, as it is highly potent. I harvest and dry enough to last through winter. It's a beautiful immune system booster and my favorite go to for cuts, scrapes and scratches, especially if they get infected!. I had broken glass in my foot that became infected and yarrow took it out quickly. Plant yarrow around your yard and it deters mosquitoes and other flying pests
I can feel your passion for the plant in your words ❤️🌱❤️ I agree with every word. I also love yarrow because it’s always available here, all year. But like you I also dry yarrow when in flower to have it throughout the winter ❤️🌱❤️
Thank you!
So glad i found you. My ancestors are from Wales grandparents. Im convinced i was a witch healer in a past life. I got a pk of yarrow im gunna plant them. And ask her to help with mucous microbes gut health..i believe the only reason for alcohol was as tinctures for health
Great connect with you and your ancestors. Thank you for watching 🌱❤️🌱
I could listen to your accent all day!
Thank you for watching ❤️🌱
Omg you are such my HERO! You seem so knowledgeable and mature in your practice, and you speak with such an incredible enthusiasm and genuine love for what you're doin' that it would be hard not to get hooked in right away. Thanks for sharing all of this! 💚
Thank you for watching and taking the time to share your kind words ❤️🌱❤️
No idea why I started sobbing while watching this. Must be an emotional day.
Yarrow on an emotional level is all about boundaries and protection maybe that had an influence ❤️🌱❤️
My brother was ordered by HOA to spray the pretty pink yarrow that invaded his lawn so I pulled it all up by the roots and planted it all over my yard and in pots, now I have enough to make a salve, and I've aready used some to turboheal a stab wound from my dirty garden shears
Yarrow is certainly a turbo healer! For medicine I only use the wild Achillea millefolium and sometimes here in Wales you do get the odd one with a slight pink hue.
You are delightful! Your love for the plant really shines through. Thank you for sharing your wisdom.
Thank you for your kind words. I try to be as authentic as possible in my videos and I’m glad my love for the plants is shining through ❤️🌱❤️
Love your vids! Great sense of natural law, much appreciated. Recognising the spirit and connecting with is so important. I want to share this: two decades ago while hiking in the mtns I punctured my sole so deeply that it became quite infected and within days a streak was going up my leg showing I had a blood infection. I found some yarrow nearby and packed the wound, changing it a few times a day and cleaning out the pus. Within three days the streak had disappeared, a fever I had been developing was also gone and the wound healed nicely. Yarrow indeed is one of my favorite medicines I rely on.
Wow, thank you for sharing that amazing story. Yarrow is certainly one of your plant allies and friends ❤️
Slainte! Osiyo! Greetings and Blessings! And Merry Summer Solstice Salena! Comes to you Shona Susannah from the Pacific Northwest of North America. And yes, I'm a grandmother of Scots Irish/Indigenous American descent. And yes, it's taken me most of my life to be able to even begin the dream of a life in the woods, honor our Mother Earth and my ancestors and the Great All of which we are just a small part. My heart is full of gratitude! And now it's time to go out and gather Sisters Yarrow and Brother (?) Bitter Wormwood.
Diolch am y bendithion 🏴Thank you for the blessings ❤️ Happy gathering 🌱❤️🌱
Hello Salina
Thank you..I really like the way you teach us how to make yarrow tincture!
I’m a beginner. And I watched a lot of video hor to make , t plantin salve or tincture and more . I’m so glad that you e clouded how much to take . Really appreciate. Thank you have a blessed day ..
Thank you for your kind words and thank you for watching 🌱❤️🌱
Thank you so much for showing us how to do this and you are so enjoyable to listen to. Thank you! Bless you!
You are so welcome it’s a pleasure to share. Thank you for watching ❤️🌱❤️
I live next door and its the first time iv'e herd a welsh acent. It's cool man. Just finish picking some yarrow as the oil is highly expensive.
Happy yarrow harvest ❤️🌱❤️ It’s much better to work with the whole plant as well, rather than just the essential oil. As it will contain a balance of medicinal chemical constituents. Just as nature intended ❤️🌱❤️
Happy to find ur channel! Love ur personality and ur awesome accent 😁🥰 and yes, the content as well 😊
Greetings from Finland 😇
Thank you for being here ❤️🌱❤️ Big love to Finland from Wales 🏴
Hello!!! From the Arkansas Ozark Mountains I just found your channel and I love it! Many of my ancestors were from 🏴 ❤️❤️❤️
Waving right back at you to Arkansas Ozark Mountains. Thank you for watching and connecting to your ancestors lands here in Wales 🏴❤️🏴
Great video, thank you for sharing!
Thank you for watching 🌱❤️🌱
Thank you for the video! I've just planted Yarrow this summer. I'm looking forward to making good use of it.
Blessings on your yarrow ❤️🌱❤️ Happy yarrow medicine making ❤️🌱❤️
Great video and vibes. Thank you!
Thank you for watching ❤️
We love you here in Alaska
Big love back to you from Wales ❤️
Ty. Much appreciated wisdom and spirit.
Thank you for watching ❤️🌱❤️
OMG I have tons of yarrow and dried a lot of the flowers! I’ve also been struggling with chronic EBV and long COVID. But I never thought to use her! She kind of jumps out at me when I open that particular drawer so now I’m going to try.
Ahe’hee! (Thank you in Navajo)
Croeso (You are welcome in Welsh) ❤️🌱❤️ Enjoy connecting and working with yarrow ❤️🌱❤️
Your videos are spectacular
Thank you for watching and thank you for your kind words ❤️🙏❤️
Loved all the information. My yard is riddled with Yarrrow and never knew all the amazing things you can use it for.
I do have a question about if it would be safe to use for someone who has Ulcerative Colitis when bleeding is bad. The doctors keep pushing higher and higher steroids but the blood is so heavy in the mornings that it takes hours to get where she can get doing with her day.
I always say the medicine you need appears in your backyard! Regarding your specific question on your individual case - It is very difficult for me to offer advice from messages. As a naturopath I access the whole picture looking at current symptoms from head to toe including physical, emotional and spiritual symptoms. I also explore the clients external world to be able to understand their internal world at cellular level. I would also need to know what your current diet, hydration you consume and details of any medications you take as there could be contraindications. This process takes an hour and half in my consultation and results in me being able to give the client a personal prescription that works with the body not against the body. Focusing on hydration, food, purposeful supplementation / herbal medicine and naturopathic techniques.
It would not be ethical for me to make suggestions without knowing the full picture as this would be prescribing in the same manner as allopathic medicine. Which is very unlikely to be beneficial.
I hope you understand and it makes sense to you. This video may explain it in a different way:
ruclips.net/video/F4iyBUEcWz4/видео.html
Big love
Salena
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Wonderful, thank you ❤❤❤
Thank you for watching ❤️🌱❤️
Thanks, great video!
Thank you for watching ❤️🌱❤️
Thank you for this video. Great information. Would it be ok to move the jar, tip it upside down and all a couple times per week or daily even? Before straining?
Lots of people agitate regularly to make sure the alcohol travels through the herb and add their own energetic touch to it. I don’t tend to do this due to the volume of tinctures I have on the go each time in my clinic. But it is a beautiful practice to do ❤️🌱❤️
I bought some welsh vodka too! ready for tinctures :-) I want to find some yarrow.
Wonderful! Thank you so much.
Thank you for watching 🥰
Really interesting Salena thanls,I look forward to making the tincture, I've made the flower essence to help strengthen psychological boundaries, and I'm guessing that this ties up with your mention ofnysrroe being a doctor plant and it strengthening other plants that it grows by. Do the different coloured yarrows uzed in tinctures have differing properties?
I would go for the wild yarrow which is usually white but you sometimes see some very pale pink ones. I wouldn’t make a tincture from the cultivated bright colour varieties. Wild is always the best for medicine and remember wild doesn’t have to mean not in your garden as quite often we have these green allies (so called weeds) waiting to say hello in our garden 💚🌱💚
Thanks Salena, the white was waving at me yesterday that makes sense and I guess white contains all the colours ✨
So useful - thanks!
You are welcome it’s great share ❤️💚❤️
Hi Salena, Thank you so much for explaining the plant and its beautiful properties. I do have a question for you. I heard you mention you store it for some weeks but, do you wrap it with alumni foil when storing or is it not required for the tincture to be concentrated? Also, can you use any white alcohol or does it have to be vodka?
Once the herb is in the alcohol it will keep for years. I would recommend using an alcohol of at least 40% or 80 proof to ensure it distills the medicinal qualities and preserves the herb x
Store in cool dark place and use 75 % and up voka or best use 100% prove
We have yarrow this year, yay! Would the tincture be good for varicose veins? How many drops and how often per day? Thank you! Love your videos and info!
I would be more inclined to create a yarrow oil and rub it on topically ❤️🌱❤️
@@salenawalker thank you for the info and responding do quickly. 😊💗
With yarrow oil, is it the same process just add oil? Castor oil, olive oil?
What is the alcohol is it wine
No it’s vodka. You want alcohol over 25%ABV ❤️🌱❤️
Can it get rid of kier starmer
I let my yarrow do it's own thing.
For a number of years it grew near the road at the edges of my yard and now it is growing up near the house but not so much near the road at this time.
I love that! Yarrow wants to get closer to you ❤️🌱❤️
Thank you for the video how long can you keep the tincture before it expires?
On my clients bottles I write a five year date but the majority of them will keep indefinitely if they have the right strength alcohol. I always say to my students, you never open a bottle of gin and sniff it and say that's off 😂 Tinctures are the same. There are a couple that go against this rule such as Greater Celandine but in general they keep for years 🌱❤️🌱
@@salenawalker That’s incredible😱Thanks for your response! I’ve battled and defeated a terrible eczema condition and I’ve done many treatments with powders but it’s time I to graduated to tinctures. I’m so glad I found your channel you are so knowledgeable I’m going to watch more and can’t wait to see what other things you show from the herbal king and queendom 😄love from USA 🫶🏼💖. Edit: Can you soak powdered herbs in vodka as well? Thanks!
I plan on eating all of the herb along with the tincture as well, what do you think?
It is very difficult for me to offer specific herbal advice from messages. As a naturopath I access the whole picture looking at current symptoms from head to toe including physical, emotional and spiritual symptoms. I also explore the clients external world to be able to understand their internal world at cellular level. I would also need to know what your current diet, hydration you consume and details of any medications you take as there could be contraindications. This process takes an hour and half in my consultation and results in me being able to give the client a personal prescription that works with the body not against the body. Focusing on hydration, food, purposeful supplementation / herbal medicine and naturopathic techniques.
It would not be ethical for me to make suggestions without knowing the full picture as this would be prescribing in the same manner as allopathic medicine. Which is very unlikely to be beneficial.
I hope you understand and it makes sense to you. This video may explain it in a different way:
ruclips.net/video/F4iyBUEcWz4/видео.html
But I would say it is not a good idea to take all of the herbs at once as you could have a reaction and you won’t know which herb is causing the reaction. 🌱❤️🌱
Does an Individual have to use the Welsh Vodka to Make the Tincture or can any type of Alcohol be used? AND ALSO, can You give us a Video of How You Use/Take the Drops?
You can use any spirit. Generally vodka is used because of the neutral taste. I’ll do a video about how to use in the future. Thank you for watching ❤️🌱❤️
Hello Darling, I love your accent, its quite full. However there's something wrong with th audio of this video. I thought it was a faulty ear bud set, but I remove th earbuds, & it ended up being your audio. Love Brthrn Jeff B.
Hey Jeff. In the description of the video I share that I had to run out of the rain and forgot to put my microphone back on for the second part. The audio still works you may just have to turn it up at this part and you’ll also have the added bonus of hearing the rain in the background. I hope you still managed to watch the video. Big love ❤️
I know that yarrow comes in a few different colors, but it seems that when I see any tutorials about it, they almost always have a picture of the white - do they all have the same amount of potency ? thanks for the tutorial !
The highly coloured types are hybrids and bred for looks rather than medicine. I would recommend using wild yarrow. Sometimes the odd wild yarrow will have a pink hue but generally it is white. The one in this video is wild yarrow. You can also buy seed of wild yarrow and plant it in the garden or in a pot ❤️🌱❤️
You are so funny.
I hope that's a good thing 🤣
Are there any plants for the beekeeper that will help prevent the bees from wanting to sting when working in the hives?
Not that I’m aware of.
Wouldn't making the tincture fresh and not dried cause mold in the tincture from the moisture from the plant ?
You say in your comment that you wouldn’t make a tincture from fresh or dried tincture so I’m unsure what your question is? I make tinctures from fresh plants when they are in season and dried if I run out of the fresh material. No mould will grow if it is in an airtight container with the right percentage alcohol. It would only grow mould if you started diluting it below 25%. I make a note of the quantity of alcohol used and the amount I press out and I never end up with more so I know water isn’t diluting the mixture. I also fill the jar right up to the top with alcohol so if water excreted out of the plant it would burst through the jar and leak and it doesn’t. Hope that helps to clear things up ❤️🌱❤️
Can I still make a yarrow tincture if the plant has started to dry up and die? I missed the prime harvesting time a couple weeks back. Still has flowers and petals.
Not sure what part of the world you are in but here in the UK the yarrow season is quite long and there's still fresh flowers opening here. I wouldn't make medicine with flowers that are drying up and dying. You need to make medicine with the freshest most vibrant looking plants to make vibrant medicine. The other reason to stay away from not healthy looking plants is in case they have been sprayed by anything. Something to look forward to for next year x
How would you use this on veins
It would depend what you are trying to treat and what your goal is. Depending on your own personal contraindications you can use a tincture, powders or capsules internally or make an oil or balm to use externally ❤️🌱❤️
I have heard about yarrow root vs yarrow flower for healing, can you comment??
I only work with all aerial parts. I know some traditions work with the root. I work with both the leaves and flowers for medicinal uses. My instinct is to keep the root in the ground as the aerial parts are super medicinal so there’s no need to dig up. It feels more like the self sufficient way to me and this is the way I was taught ❤️🌱❤️
Thank you!!
Can the tincture help to stop nosebleeds?
It would depend on the root cause of the nosebleeds. But the plant has been traditionally used for nosebleeds in its whole plant form. I personally use the tincture on bleeding cuts to sterilise and stop bleeding.
Is it permissible to add black pepper corns to our yarrow tincture for its anti viral benefits?
It’s your tincture. You are the herbal creator and artist working with the plants. You need to check the plant qualities and contraindications to make sure it works for you. If it was me I would make a yarrow tincture and a black pepper tincture separate so you can experiment with them separately. As you may want different ratios at different times. Black pepper is a super strong one and can be too powerful in many situations. Remember to not underestimate the value of simply adding black pepper to your food and warm drinks ❤️🌱❤️
Thank you. I love you channel
@@ericpalmer7214 Thank you for watching 💚
Do you wash this yarrow before tincturing?
No as you don’t want to introduce extra water into the tincture as it’ll dilute the alcohol.
What kind of alcohol ?????
Vodka would be the best. A spirit around 40-45% ABV.
Thank you@@salenawalker
They can use tons of this stuff in Ukraine in the trenches😢
Anyone else here from rdr2?😂
Yesssss sirrrr
Hello 2022 yarrow is binary not her. jeezz don't let me cancel you!
Thank you for your comment. My intention is always to respect all beings. I may not always get it right but that is my intention. I refer to plants in binary terms as I find it disrespectful to call any living being an it so it is my way of respecting the plant as a living entity. I am assuming you meant to say that you would like me to use non-binary terms. I am totally open to be educated how would you invite me to refer to the plant in this context taking on board that I am being very conscious not to use the word ‘it’. I really welcome your offering of language 💚
Achilea. Pronounced with a k. No different than who it was named after. Achiles.
I pronounce everything wrong. Between my accent and Latin not being my strong point I’ve no chance 🤣Thank you for the clarity.
@@salenawalker its ok. You wont know, if someone does not speak up.
Mine have been hanging for a year can I still use them and store them?
I am assuming you mean drying by hanging. Dried herbs should be away from light and have air flow and away from dust, whilst drying and then stored in the dark in an airtight container 🌱❤️🌱