What will warm you in the winter cold, take away a runny nose and sore throat if a cold starts? Of course, tincture on honey, cooked with your own hands! Home-made drinks of this kind not only taste good, but also bring invaluable benefits to the body. Due to its antiseptic qualities, the main beekeeping product saves from infections, and diluted alcohol (as well as vodka or moonshine - depending on what we take as a basis) enhances the effect. We offer some of the best honey tincture recipes. All drinks are prepared by the classic method of infusion.
The foundation is important
The quality of tinctures on honey at home primarily depends on the alcohol component. It can be selected from three positions:
- Store vodka, but only good, from trusted manufacturers.
- Alcohol, food or medical, diluted with water to the desired percentage. Moreover, dilution is a separate story. It is necessary to pour alcohol into water, and not vice versa - so as not to cause turbidity and heating of the final product. And use water either bottled, soft, or distilled.
- Cognac from inexpensive options. True, it is impossible to vouch for the taste of the obtained tincture on honey - the taste shades of cognac can also be felt in its bouquet.
As for the use of moonshine, this decision is somewhat doubtful. Even if it is well cleaned, fusel oils and other foreign matter make moonshine unsuitable for the manufacture of therapeutic drinks.
Honey component
It is advisable to introduce a product of linden, flower variety or buckwheat into the homemade tincture of honey, and fresh. But candied honey will do. Experienced "priors" use this trick with might and main, buying up last year's products, which are much cheaper. The only condition is not to heat the honey so that it does not lose its beneficial qualities.
The color of the resulting product will be determined by the applied honey component. And the shelf life of the drink is up to three years.
Bitter Honey tincture
In principle, this is a peppercorns cooking. It stimulates the appetite, in the cold it warms the body well. Traditionally served with fried potatoes and hot meat. At the beginning of colds, it is used to treat them.
To prepare you need a liter of vodka, three full spoons of honey, a pair of pods of hot pepper from red varieties. For piquancy, it makes sense to introduce cloves and peas.
In washed and dried pods, cuts along. Seeds are not removed. All of these components are placed in a glass container and poured with vodka. The container is closed with a lid, carefully shaken and cleaned in the dark and cool for a week. Every day, the tincture of “Bitter Honey” must be shaken. After aging, it is filtered through gauze. If the product is unclear, filtering using cotton wool is recommended.
Altayka on grasses
Tincture is in demand in the northern zones of the country, has a pleasant smell and mild taste. The list of components includes an alcohol base (half a liter), 1.5 tablespoons of honey, a teaspoon of dried thyme, lemon balm and oak bark. Coriander in seeds and bison are taken in half volume - 0.5 tablespoons.
All ingredients are collected in a jar, it is shaken several times and left to infuse for two to three weeks. Temperature conditions - room, light - dimming. Shaking is carried out every 3-4 days. Before decanting, the jar needs to be transferred to a cool room for 2-3 days.
Honey tincture: ginger recipe
A drink considered truly masculine. The finish is long. Tincture eliminates an anguished cough, helps digestion. Because of its stinginess, it is recommended that the “medicine” not be used on an empty stomach.
A 50-gram (based on 0.7 liter alcohol component) piece of fresh ginger is rubbed on a medium grater. He is sent to the bank along with 100 grams of honey. In principle, this is the end of the list of essential ingredients. However, for taste elegance, you can still add a small pod of chili and pieces of ten juniper berries. The drink will be infused in the dark for 14 days. Periodically (at least once every three days) the jar is shaken. Screening is carried out using a cotton-gauze filter.
Honey + Lemon + Garlic
If you are thinking how to make a tincture of honey, you can use this popular recipe. Alcohol aroma almost completely leaves lemon in combination with honey, and garlic gives the drink a pronounced taste and pungency. Folk healers recommend such a remedy for cleansing blood vessels.
The medium-sized lemon is washed well (using warm water) and wiped dry. Citrus cut into not too small slices directly with the skin. Juice is squeezed out of it, and the flesh with the skin is chopped quite finely. Three garlic cloves are chopped into pieces and mixed with lemon cake. You can suppress, but then the garlic taste will prevail. Honey needs a full spoon. A liter of vodka (moonshine, diluted alcohol) is combined with honey and shaken until smooth. Then the mixture is poured into a jar of lemon and honey.
The initial preparation of tincture on honey is a day or two, without light and cooling. After that, it can be consumed, but the ingredients are not removed from the liquid. So the taste of the drink every day will be different, brighter and more saturated.
Therapeutic tincture
Only high-quality vodka and correctly diluted alcohol are suitable for it. Moonshine is allowed to use only perfectly cleaned and only in the most extreme case.
The alcohol component requires half a liter. A lot of honey is needed - as much as half a kilogram. Still need aloe leaves, pieces two or three, depending on their size. Moreover, they must be cut from a plant that is at least three years old. Moreover, only the lower leaves are suitable, they contain the right amount of active substance.
The process of preparing a healing tincture on honey is quite lengthy. First, the leaves are thoroughly washed, thoroughly wiped, wrapped with paper and put into the freezer for a week. This step is necessary to soften the raw materials.
You need to defrost the leaves gradually, naturally. Then they are dried again and finely cut. The cut is folded into a jar, honey and vodka are poured there. After mixing, the neck of the vessel is tied with gauze. You can’t close the lid, the tincture should “breathe”. She will stand for only three days, in coolness and darkness. Then the medicine is filtered, liquid from the leaves is squeezed into it.
Tincture helps with colds. It should be stored in a jar with a ground lid, and taken - a large spoon three times a day before meals. Usually a three-day course of treatment is sufficient.
Interesting option
We examined many ways how to prepare a tincture of honey with various additional components. But juices were not included in their list. Meanwhile, based on them, you can prepare a wonderful restorative composition, which can also be useful in the complex of antianginal therapy.
We need carrot and beetroot juices in a volume of a full glass, lemon and cranberry juices will need half less, 0.5 cups each. A glass of liquid honey is added to them; better to take lime or may. The fixing and stabilizing ingredient will be pure medical alcohol, which is poured into 100 milliliters. After stirring, the tincture container is refrigerated for five days. The only difficulty is the need to shake the drink every few hours, at least five times a day. The main secret of this tincture lies in the fact that juices need freshly squeezed. In-store options for a therapeutic effect will not give. However, it is unlikely that you will find pure beet juice on the shelves of supermarkets.
For therapeutic purposes, the drug is taken three times a day, be sure to sit at the table for two months. For adults, the dosage is a tablespoon, for children over five years old - a teaspoon.
And remember that self-medication, even exclusively by natural means, can harm the body. Before you deal with it, you should consult a doctor. If he is against it, tinctures can be used just to cheer you up on holidays.