Starting A Home Apothecary: What Do You Need?

You've grown your herbs. You've dehydrated them. Now it's time to start making tinctures, salves, lotions and other items for your home's medicinal apothecary. But what supplies do you need aside from the herbs, plants and flowers?

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Some of the supplies you'll need.

  • Brown glass bottles (with and without droppers)
  • Essential oils
  • Cooking Pots or small slow cooker
  • Glass bowls
  • Glass jars
  • Cheesecloth
  • Wooden stirrers (I use chopsticks or a wooden spoon)
  • Notebook- to keep track of when you've made certain salves, lotions, tinctures or what each one is used to treat
  • Mortar & pestle and/or coffee grinder
  • Scale (one that measures ounces, grams, pounds and kilograms) I paid $10 for the one in the image above two years ago
  • Metal tins or other small containers
  • Beeswax, alcohol 80-proof, carrier oils
  • Labels
  • Measuring spoons/cups

What's nice is that more than half of these items can be found at a thrift store for much cheaper than new.

The pot/small slow cooker, glass bowls, measuring devices, coffee grinder; just to name a few can be purchased second-hand. No need spending a fortune on pots or other items specifically needed for cooking herbs and other plant based concoctions.

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Having a variety of essential oils, harvested and dehydrated herbs and flowers are must-haves to start a home apothecary.

When buying essential oils, check to see which scents are recommended for what ailments and uses.

Don't buy an essential oil scent just because someone else has. Buy what you will use.

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This scale is one of the best investments I've made in the last few years.

I originally bought it to weigh cannabis and its trim for baking, but soon found myself using it for packaging items I sold on eBay and Etsy as well as for measuring items and ingredients to make soap, lotions and more.

It weights things in kilograms, ounces, grams and ounces and even pounds. Definitely worth the money to have on hand.

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I'm too lazy to do all these things. But I really appreciate your efforts. And it seems amazing to see all the details. I hope who have interest definitely gonna get benefits. 🙂

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I really like this idea and make quite a few herbal / oriental medicines myself.

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In China, herbs have always been left behind by ancestors, they can be combined through different characteristics, can treat a lot of diseases, as well as Chinese acupuncture therapy, China is a very old country, if you need, I can provide you with a lot of prescriptions!And the way it's made.

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China has a lot of important information about this.
I live in Korea and have some local doctors I can visit here. We call the natural medicine 'han-yak'

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Oh ha, very creative names, in fact, in China, we often eat food can treat diseases, because they all have their own characteristics

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Boiled water with brown sugar and ginger
Relieve wind-cold stomachache
Relieve menstrual and abdominal pain
Drink a bowl in winter morning and warm all day
In China, girls do this.
Oh, by the way, you can add jujubetimg.jpg

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One day, this will be me! And I know just who I'll go to ask questions to, you! You are so full of knowledge!

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Thanks for sharing your experience with us!
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