Placenta Tincture

[AzariaJordan]

I have no idea where to post this so hope this is an ok place...

I have happily spent the evening figuring out how to best preserve and utilize a placenta. It's been frozen for a few months (next time will use fresh - it's a bit odd to be working with it so far from the birth and so...lifeless). Anyway, I am clear on drying and making into capsules, and have also made a homeopathic remedy, which was highly interesting.

I would like to make a tincture as well...do I just preserve in alcohol and store in a dark place? What part to what part or does it matter? Hmmm...anxiously awaiting your ideas! Thank you!

[MsBlack]

I have to wonder--tho I don't really know for sure--if a tincture would be the wrong way to go about it. I can't help but think that the alcohol would not be good for preserving the integrity of the hormones in placenta--might destroy them altogether--and that's the part you want, the hormones (as I understand it).

Making use of materials for medicine must be done in a way that will both extract and preserve the required properties. Tea/infusion/decoction is only good for properties, for instance, that are water soluble--if you are hoping to get a property that is oil soluble, then you won't get it by putting the substance in water. And so forth. Maybe you need to figure out what you hope to get out of the placenta, and then find out if those substances are water soluble, oil soluble, whether alcohol would change/destroy them, and so forth. Not sure how you would go about figuring this out...but if it's hormones you're after, since these are made up so much from fats I would think they are oil soluble. But I can't say whether or not an alcohol tincture would be able to extract them from placenta at all, or whether it would preserve or destroy them.

Interesting idea tho--I hope you'll let us know what you find out!

[teachinmaof3]

http://www.unhinderedliving.com/placentaessence.html

That's the stuff I was going to make with my last one. We didn't have the extra money for the booze though.

Maybe you could email the owner of that website and ask her?

[AzariaJordan]

MsBlack, I appreciate the questions you raise. I hadn't even thought about those very valid points, and don't really have the background knowldge either. Well, at least not yet...after this first foray into alchemy with placenta, I can honestly say I am hooked. Fascinating, and there is so little info out there! Thanks for the link teachinmaof3 - very helpful!

[MsBlack]

You're welcome--

I just looked at the placenta essence recipe. It looks to me to be more or less a homeopathic or flower essence kind of recipe--NOT so much attached to the actual chemical properties of the placenta, but an attempt to capture the 'essence'. The way I understand or view 'essence' is kind of like the spirit properties of a thing--working at an etheric rather than physical level of the person. If this is what you are looking for, then it does not matter about whether alcohol will extract or preserve the chemical properties or hormones of a placenta. My earlier questions would only apply to trying to get the actual chemical properties from the placenta, to get a physical chemical effect on the body.

Interesting recipe and concept! I would be happy to hear from any who have used it. I am a fan of flower essences and homeopathics....

[Charmie981]

I like this recipe because it will keep long enough to be used in menopause, which is what I'd like to use my placenta for. I think I'll bookmark it and make placenta tincture after this baby's born.