allies: tinctures 3:20

ok
so
i'm back to this format, for now
i have a process, whenever there's anything
that's like a known unknown or whatever
i need to feel like i've got some kind of handle on it
so, tinctures

yeah i think you heard me right
i'm immune boosting

we're all doing out semi-crazy stuff now
and i have dayquil and nyquil and tussin
but what i felt like i needed
was tinctures

in my mind
first i approached it more like medicine
the feathercatcher apothecary
i had used their immune bosster at christmas time
and i didn't get sick until after christmas
and it might not even have been really sick
it might just have been exhaustion

so i ordered more of that
and i ordered the frunutta zinc + c
the kind of vitamin that melts under your tongue

that was when i was still working
and wasn't thinking the zombie thing
[here i'm mostly using this so no one finds this on a search]
so just the same thing i would do to try to avoid flu

but now
when i realize it zombies
i needed more
and
it wasn't just important what herbs
it was important from where
and from who

does that make sense?

so i found the one from eugene
nourish wholeness
and she won
i feel like i could feel her energy through the interwebs
she won out over rootgirl
who had a much slicker product
which wasn't what i wanted right then
i wanted full on made-with-love-ness

i got
elderberry elixir
mullein tincture
elecampane tincture
and
burdock fresh root tincture

they are much less professional than any tincture
i've ever had before
i'm not meaning that in a bad way
the elderberry and the burdock are full on thick
and you can't taste the alcohol
like i'm wondering if i should be refrigerating them
but the fridge is full
full!
besides
if i put them in the fridge i will never take them
idk why
but there is ample evidence from the past

the burdock also has bits in it
it's kinda freaky

the elecampane is clear and alcohol-y
and actually really strong i think
i've had this cough
for like a year or two
because the allergies are so bad
there is a constant nasal drip down the back of my throat
but
i've been using cough drops since
idk, november maybe
i had to get sugar free though
because regular cough drops have too much sugar
or something
they make my teeth hurt

anyway
i've been taking this stuff prophylactically
but
you're not supposed to take much elecampane
and i haven't been taking much
but
i have been taking enough to cause
my body to be trying to expel

i am the worst at coughing stuff up though
so
it's a little irritating
but
i'm getting there

the mullein
is somewhere in between
it's thicker than the elecampane
but not chunky or anything


so
i'm taking those
but
somehow that still didn't feel like enough
so
i've ordered more
and now i've really got to stop
i decided
i needed a propolis tincture
i wanted that before i even knew about the zombies, i think
and i gave in
so rootgirl has a propolis tincture
i ordered that

i needed some kind of mushroom tincture
and i "needed" something from
wildroots so that dovetailed nicely
in an oregon reishi tincture

but
then
i had to have keetnafarms
i ordered usnea
which turns out to be the same thing
as old man's beard
which i already have from feathercatcher
so
oopsie
but energetically
different place, right
feathercatcher is from new mexico


rootgirl is from ukiah
wildroots is from portland
keetnafarms is from alaska

ideally
i'd like to have something from maine
or newfoundland
i've never been there
but i feel very connected to it somehow
but
the seaweed is from maine

that's gonna have to be enough
no more tinctures
no more