My dried habaneros are non organic and from Columbia as mountain rose has been out of dried chilli bird pepper (from India) for quite some time.
I will use very little of this tincture with my eyebright formula tincture eyewash once both the tinctures are done.
Must I wash the dried habaneros and non organic lower heat dried peppers with bentonite clay? If yes, how do I do it, just soak the dried peppers in a solution of bentonite clay with water for how long? And then wash them thoroughly with clean water and then dry them in the room on pepper towels? I shall have to be so careful because they are supposed to be so hot....
I just want to make sure because I will be adding this tincture to my eyewash and I do not want any problems with my eyes. I intend to use this mixture with my brain formula besides eyebright formula as well but that will be for internal use.
Do I have any other options or forget washing and just tincture the peppers without washing them?
I shall probably do them at the next new moon and may harvest it after 2 weeks. Will also add lots of alcohol to make the heat bearable.
I'm so sorry that nobody has answered you yet, and I certainly hope you are still waiting for the new moon and that you didn't go ahead and soak those dried peppers in the bentonite wash because if you did you've likely discovered that you've got a slimy mess. ;(
When you soak anything that is dried in any kind of liquid that is called rehydrating. What will happen if you soak dried peppers in the bentonite/water mixture is that the peppers will soak up or use the bentonite liquid to rehydrate themselves leaving your peppers full of bentonite clay. You can't ever put anything in a dried state into the bentonite clay wash and expect it to remove the toxins and not soak up the liquid.
I completely understand you wanting to not have problems with your eyes, and just so you know, I would NEVER put anything into my eye that wasn't orgainic, EVER. Hopefully you'll be able to find some organic peppers by the time the new moon rolls around.
...(I'm going to be doing a whole lot of catching up on posts the rest of today/night, and I need to keep them free of chit-chat or I won't even make a dent. So please don't feel my lack of chatty-ness means I'm upset or angry :). I'm SO glad Willowley had a chance to respond :) Onward...
Right now, you can get organic African Bird Peppers at Starwest Botanicals. They also have organic Habanero, but it's not the whole pepper, just the powder (see the Tincture FAQ regarding using powdered herbs to make tinctures).
I would never use non-organic anything in any tincture (in any amount) that I was going to put in my eyes.
Soaking dried peppers (or any other herb) in bentonite/water to detoxify them and then use them for tincturing? I bet you can answer this if you think about it. If you put 4 cups of bentonite/water solution in a bowl and add 1 cup of dried habbies, what happens? The dried habbies "plump up", right? And the amount of water/bentonite in the bowl when you take them out will be FAR less than 4 cups. Where is all the water/bentonite that used to be in the bowl? IN the habbies, right? If you put the water/bentonite saturated habbies in with the alcohol, what does all that water do to the alcohol? Dilute it to less than whatever proof you're starting with...maybe substantially depending upon the amount of alcohol you'd be using and how much soaked into the habbies. That equals potential for mold or pathogens. The bentonite soaked up a bunch of chemical toxins (maybe a lot, especially the bentonite that actually soaked into the dried peppers)...and that would be in the tincture jar, too.
When I first made the Eyebright formula, I purchased a new bottle from Schulze; I had an old bottle (Schulzes) from my m-i-l; and I purchased a bottle from Health Freedom Resources. I did this so I could compare 'heat levels' of those tinctures with the one I was making (because there's no way to know how hot, hot is supposed to be...there are a zillion different gradiations). Do what you want to do (of course), but there is no WAY I would use a tincture made of dried habbies (no matter how diluted) in the Eyebright. Why?
Not only would it likely be too hot to use, but how would one 'test it & formulate it'? First one needs to calculate & measure very specifically to get a bottle that is 'weighted' correctly (4 full parts of the tincture made with 4 herbs and 1/8th part of cayenne tincture). But you're not going to want to do 'test brews' with big amounts, so you'll have to figure exactly how many milliliters you need of each tincture (depending upon the quantity you're making/blending) for the way you'll be bottling it AND the for all the smaller test batches.
You'd measure out what you want for the 4 parts, then add the undiluted tincture in 1/8th of a part...do an eyewash and likely scald your eyes with even one drop per eyecup (no harm done, but certainly no fun). Throw that out and start over. Then make a dilution by taking x-amount of the undiluted cayenne and diluting it to y-dilution (making SURE to notate exactly how you'd diluted it), then mix that in the proper ratios, then go through the eyewash test again. Throw it out, start over and start diluting and calculating again? And do it 'again & again' how many times until you get it "right"? And how will you know what "right" actually is, if you've never purchased/used any from us/Schulze/other? It took us over TWENTY test batches and double/triple that amount of Eyewashes to end up with one that we felt confident using and offering to others.
I'm 100% for empowering people to learn to make their own herbal tinctures & medicines...100%.
--Suggestions:
--FIRST, get a bottle of Eyebright from a reliable source and do a LOT of eyewashes, so that when you're mixing and testing your own, you'll know EXACTLY what it is you're trying to duplicate.
--Do not make ANY tincture from the non-organic dried habbies from Columbia. Either ditch them or use them (cautiously, as they're MUCH hotter than even fresh habbies) in foods.
(I've just updated it and put asterisks after every post that people need to read before starting to make their own tinctures and/or ask questions).
--Always remember...progress IS a process! The easiest and fastest way to progress through the process is to 'start at the very beginning' and build very solid foundations. As 'grown ups', we all tend to want to skip the boring rudiments & basics...but that's what ensures a strong foundation (and that the rest of the progress through our process will be 'smooth sailing').
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