Make Better Medicine: Extraordinary Elixirs! + Solubility & Extraction Bundle

Learn the art and science of making concentrated warm-process herbal infused honeys, and combining them with multiple tinctures to make extraordinary (potent, broad-spectrum, effective) elixirs! PLUS Solubility & Extraction: what you need to know about the principles & arts of herbal chemistry so you can make better extractions & products.

What you'll get when you sign up:

TWO GREAT CLASSES

Make Better Medicine: Extraordinary Elixirs! (& Herbal Infused Honeys) class

  • More than four hours of engaging video from our herbal lab at the farm, with demonstrations of important concepts & methods for making infused honeys & elixirs
  • High-quality audio files you can download & take with you to listen to on your devices 
  • Detailed study guides that follow along with & expand on each video lesson 
  • Complete instructions, worksheets & formulas to download
  • A 75-page course booklet
  • Fun self-assessment quizzes that help keep you on track
  • A lively community forum where you can ask us your medicine making questions & connect with your fellow students
  • Unlimited online access to all class materials (including the forum) & downloads to keep forever!

This class covers:

  • Review of solubility & extraction for herbal infused honeys & elixirs
  • Introduction to elixirs & a brief history of their evolution & uses
  • The healing powers of honey & using honey as a menstruum
  • Step-by-step instructions for making concentrated herbal infused honeys with the warm method
  • Making Aronia berry infused honey demo
  • Principles of elixir pharmacy: planning your project & formulas
  • Step-by-step elixir making process with Bitters elixir demo
  • Calculations simplified: worksheets & final ethanol percentage
  • Elixir Materia Medica & favorite formulas
  • Special demo: Medicine Math calculator for elixirs

 PLUS

Make Better Medicine: Solubility & Extraction class

8 lessons:

1. Why Solubility Matters

2. Polarity & Solubility

3. Polarity & Solvents

4. Solubility: Other Influences

5. The Plant Matrix & Solubility

6. Glycosides, Aglycones & pH

7. pH, Precipitation & Solubility

8. CO2, Organoleptics & Constituents

Each lesson includes a video, a detailed study guide, an audio file to download and a fun self-assessment quiz. You'll also receive a course booklet with additional information on herbal constituents and their solubility, and an illustrated PowerPoint deck. You will have unlimited access to all the materials in this class online, and downloads to keep forever. The class includes a lively forum where you can continue to ask us your medicine making questions!

$199.00 USD

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Would you like to add our Medicine Math Calculator for Elixirs for $99? 

This spreadsheet will calculate everything you need to know to create just the right amount of simple or multi-tincture, multi-honey elixir with exactly the right alcohol concentration (EtOH %). It also gives you detailed information about how much of each herb is present in various doses of elixir.

What you'll get:

  • Programmed calculator spreadsheet with examples from the Extraordinary Elixirs! class, and blank pages for your formulas
  • Video tour of the calculator with details about how to use it
  • Step-by-step how-to guide PDF to download
  • Access to the Make Better Medicine Forum to ask us your questions
  • Note: the checkout sequence is a little odd. If you decide to add the Calculator, you pay for the class first, then the Calculator payment option will pop up. Just check the little box below & keep going ... you'll see :>)