How to make propolis tincture - three options for a healing potion for all diseases
It is no secret that beekeeping products are very useful, but perhaps the most valuable of them is not honey, but propolis. This nondescript and tasteless glue with which bees seal the honeycomb is a natural antibiotic, and most often healing tinctures are prepared from it. By knowing how to make propolis tincture, you can provide your family with a natural medicine. This remedy will strengthen the immune system. It will also help to cope with many diseases, from colds to stomach, neurological and even gynecological.
It is better to purchase propolis from beekeepers, otherwise there is a big risk that you will be sold a low-quality product with different impurities for weight. Even if they are not harmful, the benefits from such raw materials will be several times less than from natural ones.
Real propolis tastes bitter, similar in consistency to plasticine, not brittle, with a resinous aroma. The color can be different: grayish, brownish green, brown and even dark red.
The tincture can be made with alcohol, vodka, or water.
How to make propolis tincture with medical alcohol
- Put the propolis in the refrigerator. It will freeze and then it will easily rub on a grater.
- Grind the propolis shavings even more by tapping them with a hammer. Cover it with gauze or a bag beforehand.
- Pour the resulting mixture for 30 minutes with cold water to remove impurities (honeycomb particles, for example). Everything that is not needed - pops up.
- Now heat the alcohol in a water bath along with the propolis so that it dissolves as best as possible, but don't let it boil.
- Let the workpiece cool down, pour into a bottle.
- Incubate for 2 weeks in a dark place.
Alcohol tincture helps with bronchitis, pharyngitis, gastritis, gynecological problems. They drink it, measuring in drops, from 20 to 60 drops once a day, dissolved in milk or tea.
Vodka tincture of propolis
Vodka does not dissolve propolis as well as alcohol, but it is also capable of extracting enough useful substances from it. Such a remedy is being prepared even faster. Just pour 80 g of dry crushed propolis with 0.5 liters of good vodka. After curing for at least 2 weeks, it is ready for use.
Vodka tincture is taken in the same way as alcohol.
Water tincture of propolis
Such a medicine is prepared if alcohol-containing products cannot be used. For example, for children and pregnant women, as well as in the presence of certain diseases:
- gastritis and ulcers in the acute stage;
- hepatitis A;
- autoimmune diseases.
Tincture in water or extract can be 10 or 20%. For the first, you need 10 g of propolis and 100 ml of water. In a water bath, heat the water until the propolis dissolves, but so that it does not boil. Strain, refrigerate and refrigerate.Use it for a maximum of 7 days, the hood is no longer stored. To get a more concentrated tincture, take 2 times more propolis for the same amount of water.