Making A Witch Hazel Liniment/Isopropyl Alcohol Extraction

Описание: Hello and welcome to Old Ways Gardening and Prepping. 🍀 Would like to welcome you to my overcast backyard. We will be making homemade witch hazel liniment/extraction today which is so much better than what you buy in the store. It is a powerhouse medicinal and so thankful to be able to work with it.

Ingredients that you will need are:

Fresh witch hazel if possible
70% isopropyl alcohol
A container

Witch hazel grows from Nova Scotia down to Florida and west to Minnesota and down to Texas. It prefers wet bottomlands in partial shade to full sun and grows near streams and rivers. Hamamelis virginiana is the Common Witch Hazel that grows mostly in America.

Witch hazel is a astringent, it is anti-inflammatory and a antibacterial. A tea made from the bark and the leaves can be used as a gargle for sore throats and bleeding gums. A tea made from the leaves can be drank for colds, fever, asthma, analgesic properties and coughs. So many things can be healed from this wonderful herbal medicine that we have been blessed with. You can also use it on your skin to treat poison ivy, poison oak, eczema, acne and psoriasis. The list goes on and on on the healing benefits of this little powerhouse, and I hope you will research for yourself on all the other ailments that it can help heal.

A very good link but disagree about the scent of the blossoms. There is supposed to be another witch hazel that is native around Natchez, MS and the Appalachian mountains. As well as one that calls the Ozarks it's home. Which I would love to have one if each of these specimens as well.

https://www.bbg.org/gardening/article...

Blessings,
Teresa

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