Old Ways Gardening and Prepping | Making A Sweetgum Tincture @OldWaysGardeningandPrepping | Uploaded September 2024 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
** Disclaimer: I am not a doctor nor am I a "practicing" physician. Just an herbalist doing what comes naturally for me and my family. If you choose to make this tincture. You are doing it of your own free will. You are a adult that can make their own choices.
Hello and welcome to Old Ways Gardening and Prepping.🍀 Would like to welcome you each out to my yard to forage on this beautiful warm morning. It's that time of year to harvest the beautiful green sweetgum balls (Liquidamber taiwaniana). Since we have had several days of very windy weather it's the perfect time to go looking for them.
You either love the tree or hate it. However with that being said it is a very important medicinal plant as well as the main host tree for usnea. The whole tree is medicinal in many different ways but today I am focusing on the green gumballs. The prickly gumballs are the fruit of the sweetgum tree and a very welcoming sight to see becoming ripe.
So let's delve in to the medicinal benefits of the Sweetgum tree. In late summer and in to Autumn you will start to notice the bright green prickly gumballs laying on the ground. You want to harvest the gumballs with the least amount of brown on them. Once you have enough to make your first batch of tincture you stop harvesting them until you know you have enough for a second batch if you plan on making more tincture. They don't store well and will continue to turn brown so you need to make sure you have enough. The Cherokee and many Eastern tribes knew how important the medicine was from this tree and used it
extensively.
This year where I am living now has been ungodly dry and have noticed that the gumballs are not as juicy as usual. So this is the reason for the 80 proof vodka. If yours is very juicy you will have to use 100 proof so it doesn't ruin the tincture.
The green gumballs, harvested, beaten opened and then put in a jar to cover with vodka. They are very well known and documented of their healing abilities for: antiviral, anti fungal, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-ulcerogenic, antihypertensive, anticoagulant, antihepatotoxic and wound-healing benefits just to list as many as possible. Of course always do your research to make sure it is right for you.
Hope this video encourages you to make your own gumball tincture to add to your medicine. If you have any questions please feel free to comment in the comment section I will answer as soon as possible. Everyone take care and have a blessed day. ❤️🍀🦉
Blessings,
Teresa 🦉
#greengumballs #Liquidambertaiwaniana #homemadetincture #selfsufficiency #oldwaysgardeningandprepping
You can check my merchandise out at the link below. All profit from sales goes back in to helping me buy cattle panels and praying to have a small greenhouse one day.
my-store-b6fd00.creator-spring.com
You can contact me through email at:
oldwaysgardeningandprepping@gmail.com
or
Old Ways Gardening and Prepping
C/O
Teresa Horn
227 County Road 2230
Booneville, MS 38829
Please donate if you can so I can build more raised beds for vegetables and medicinal herbs.
ko-fi.com/oldwaysgardeningandprepping
To send donations to Paypal so that I will be able to buy alcohol to teach how to make tinctures. Will keep the receipts to show exactly what donations are spent for.
My PayPal ID is: @Cedar
My Amazon wish list:
amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2MCQTJKJVF9PH?ref_=wl_share
My Walmart Wish List link:
walmart.com/lists/shared/WL/f6ad1689-d07e-486d-9a33-18daf9b06ed5
My Mountain Rose Affiliate link is:
aspireiq.go2cloud.org/aff_c?offer_id=24&aff_id=33489
Yes I will make a small commission from your order but it will not cost you anything.
My True Leaf Market Ambassador link is:
trueleafmarket.com/?rstr=47595
Yes I will make a small commission and receive gifts for you using my personal link for ordering but at no extra cost to you.
I'm on Instagram as @old_ways_gardeningandprepping. Install the app to follow my photos and videos.
Come join me on MeWe! It's the only social network built on trust, control and love.: mewe.com/i/teresahorn
Wanted to say thank you for making music for those who can't afford to pay for it:
Pretty Little Dog by Shake That Little Foot is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License.
All videos are made and edited by me Teresa Horn.
** Disclaimer: I am not a doctor nor am I a "practicing" physician. Just an herbalist doing what comes naturally for me and my family. If you choose to make this tincture. You are doing it of your own free will. You are a adult that can make their own choices.
Hello and welcome to Old Ways Gardening and Prepping.🍀 Would like to welcome you each out to my yard to forage on this beautiful warm morning. It's that time of year to harvest the beautiful green sweetgum balls (Liquidamber taiwaniana). Since we have had several days of very windy weather it's the perfect time to go looking for them.
You either love the tree or hate it. However with that being said it is a very important medicinal plant as well as the main host tree for usnea. The whole tree is medicinal in many different ways but today I am focusing on the green gumballs. The prickly gumballs are the fruit of the sweetgum tree and a very welcoming sight to see becoming ripe.
So let's delve in to the medicinal benefits of the Sweetgum tree. In late summer and in to Autumn you will start to notice the bright green prickly gumballs laying on the ground. You want to harvest the gumballs with the least amount of brown on them. Once you have enough to make your first batch of tincture you stop harvesting them until you know you have enough for a second batch if you plan on making more tincture. They don't store well and will continue to turn brown so you need to make sure you have enough. The Cherokee and many Eastern tribes knew how important the medicine was from this tree and used it
extensively.
This year where I am living now has been ungodly dry and have noticed that the gumballs are not as juicy as usual. So this is the reason for the 80 proof vodka. If yours is very juicy you will have to use 100 proof so it doesn't ruin the tincture.
The green gumballs, harvested, beaten opened and then put in a jar to cover with vodka. They are very well known and documented of their healing abilities for: antiviral, anti fungal, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-ulcerogenic, antihypertensive, anticoagulant, antihepatotoxic and wound-healing benefits just to list as many as possible. Of course always do your research to make sure it is right for you.
Hope this video encourages you to make your own gumball tincture to add to your medicine. If you have any questions please feel free to comment in the comment section I will answer as soon as possible. Everyone take care and have a blessed day. ❤️🍀🦉
Blessings,
Teresa 🦉
#greengumballs #Liquidambertaiwaniana #homemadetincture #selfsufficiency #oldwaysgardeningandprepping
You can check my merchandise out at the link below. All profit from sales goes back in to helping me buy cattle panels and praying to have a small greenhouse one day.
my-store-b6fd00.creator-spring.com
You can contact me through email at:
oldwaysgardeningandprepping@gmail.com
or
Old Ways Gardening and Prepping
C/O
Teresa Horn
227 County Road 2230
Booneville, MS 38829
Please donate if you can so I can build more raised beds for vegetables and medicinal herbs.
ko-fi.com/oldwaysgardeningandprepping
To send donations to Paypal so that I will be able to buy alcohol to teach how to make tinctures. Will keep the receipts to show exactly what donations are spent for.
My PayPal ID is: @Cedar
My Amazon wish list:
amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2MCQTJKJVF9PH?ref_=wl_share
My Walmart Wish List link:
walmart.com/lists/shared/WL/f6ad1689-d07e-486d-9a33-18daf9b06ed5
My Mountain Rose Affiliate link is:
aspireiq.go2cloud.org/aff_c?offer_id=24&aff_id=33489
Yes I will make a small commission from your order but it will not cost you anything.
My True Leaf Market Ambassador link is:
trueleafmarket.com/?rstr=47595
Yes I will make a small commission and receive gifts for you using my personal link for ordering but at no extra cost to you.
I'm on Instagram as @old_ways_gardeningandprepping. Install the app to follow my photos and videos.
Come join me on MeWe! It's the only social network built on trust, control and love.: mewe.com/i/teresahorn
Wanted to say thank you for making music for those who can't afford to pay for it:
Pretty Little Dog by Shake That Little Foot is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License.
All videos are made and edited by me Teresa Horn.
