HV, I have a delicious-smelling herb pulp left over from making the glycerite. It was a good experiment. Anyway, I wonder if there is something I can do with this pulp. I'd cook it again, except that it's full of dried reconstituted peel, and I don't want the taste to go wonky. Which it might, correct? Also, the milk thistle...enough is enough there too, perhaps.
Is there anything I can do with it besides putting it in the compost? (maybe give a bit to my potted plants, mixed in their soil?
I am water fasting right now, so I can't eat it, in, say, some sort of smoothy--although it begs for that.
I can also see a place for a sort of tonic 'candy', with some slippery elm added, maybe some mollasses-but that might be too much iron.
Should I just let it go?
It was quite a lot of herb, close to two cups by volume.
Glycerite fills a reg. size tamari bottle.
By the way, it smells heavenly. I put quite a bit of cinnamon tincture in there, and mixed with the three roots
and the peel, the cloves and coriander. mmm.
Let's see. You can eat it for the fiber. Or it would be good for the plants. Or the only other thing I can think of it to add a a little potassium nitrate to the moist mix then press it in to little cones and dry for an incense.
where does one get potassium nitrate?
Ebay or other places online unless you have a feed supply store nearby.
HV, this delicious pulp from the mixture I now am calling "temple" tonic (..the body is a temple for the holies...)
and the incense idea sent me off to do some research. I discovered that *makko* is the preferred incense ingredient;
coincident with that, charcoal without saltpetre. Bamboo, etc. I didn't know such things were available, so this has been a wonderful discovery.
Interesting, never heard of makko powder before. Expensive though. Potassium nitrate is a lot cheaper, I think a couple of dollars per pound. It is used in some incenses to make sure the plant material smolders properly.
I usually burn smudge herbs such as white sage, black sage, pitcher sage, hummingbird sage, juniper, osha', copal and sweetgrass.
Here is a lovely site for anyone interested in incense, and incense-making. Particularly interesting to me, are some of the very ancient blends, such as "God's Smile". :-) And their recipes for pellet or loose incense, using dried fruit soaked in wine, and honey are so generously offered. I like that.
http://www.scents-of-earth.com/inincen.html
Thought you might (also) like to take up a new hobby.
That's alright, I have more than enough to try and keep up on already. My primary hobbies right now are working on synthesizing gemstones, and back to meteorite hunting now that it has cooled off.
Ah, smudging suits where you live. Up here I crave the complex warm spices and resins, esp. in winter
Smudge with cloves and cinnamon sticks.
--though I have some really nice copal my mother brought from Mexico.
Smoky.
Would love to hear an update on how go the opals.
I have to get out and check on them. I had forgotten about them until earlier today when the subject came up with someone I was talking to. Such a long wait though. Rubies should be a lot faster so I need to get working on that now that I have everything I need to make them.
what if you run energy on the opals? or is that too forceful?
probably
Hmmm,,,, That would be an interesting experiment. I have heard of people healing fractures in stones doing this even though I have never actually seen it. But the silica is highly piezoelectric so could respond to the energy. Same reason I left the opals outside sealed tightly in a pressurized jar. I figured the heat would increase the pressure then it would drop as it cooled. Pressure also induces a piezoelectric effect just as electrical currents do. So it stands to reason that this may play a role in their formation naturally under the earth from changing pressures. Although opals also form from bamboo sap and in the edges of hit springs where they are not subjected to the pressures. This is why different experiments are needed. Maybe I will make another batch and give that I try. Thanks for the idea.
I'm just learning how to run energy--been teaching myself over the last few days--but I remeber doing this, spontaneously, when I broke my wrist some years back. By the time I went to the hospital--under a friend's suggestion, the bones were almost healed, although the MD had to force my wrist flat to x-ray it. He said it ws a clean break that looked to be mending. Just getting that x-ray hurt more than the break.
It is good to practice, makes your ability to run the energy easier and stronger. But you don't need to go hurting yourself to find practice subjects.
Great to hear how well you did though. Keep up the good work.