Thanks to Dan, Kasper,
and Everyone of the ideas on Cayenne
Why is everyone so against a little alcohol? A little alcohol is good
for you. Cayenne tincture should be made with alcohol. You can make it
yourself with 80 proof vodka and cayenne or fresh (hot) peppers.
The Everclear I had in stock was 180 proof ( 85 % ). I had to purchase
one more bottle, $ 15.00 per fifth. All they had was 180 proof.
In July a few friends picked all their excess peppers and gave them to
me. I placed them in a greenhouse in metal pans for about 10 days. The
idea was they would grind or chop better if dry.
I chopped the complete batch. They were still too moist and sticky to
grind into a powder or very small particles.
I simply placed this into pint jars and covered with Everclear.
The jars were about 65 to 70 % full so I covered with the Everclear.
A few days later the pepper material had swollen up a bit so I made another
pint jar for a total of 4. About then I read something about 50 % alcohol
so I added about 2 ounces of distilled water instead of more Everclear.
I also read brew times that ranged from 15 days to 60 days.
More confusion. I also talked to a few people that has made the Tincture
and got different data.
I left the jars on the cabinet and did in fact shake them several times per
day.
After near 30 days, I did not detect the strength I wanted. At this time, I
added 1 heaping TBS of Cayenne Powder to each jar.
At a later date, about 45 days, I still did not detect the strength of the
bought Tincture so I added another heaping TBS of Cayenne powder.
The total time is approaching 60 days now. The strength is getting better.
In the absence of an instrumentation test, I add a specific number of drops
to 4 ounces of water and compare the taste and heat to the bought Tincture.
The taste of the tincture I am making is not as strong in flavor as the
purchased Tincture, but the heat and bite is getting close.
I am thinking of straining and bottling one pint after 60 days and may
leave the other 3 pints another few weeks.
I still feel my alcohol per cent is a bit high even after adding a few
ounces of distilled water.
I may have done a few things differently if we had this thread two months ago.
The cost of the Health Food Store Tincture is about $ 120.00 per
gallon. The cost of the home brew Tincture is about $ 6.00 per pint,
mostly the cost of Everclear.
Any ideas, suggestions, or criticism are welcome.
Next time, I may use all cayenne powder. It is very reasonably priced.
Wayne
If
fresh peppers, cut them up and put in blender container, fill empty
space with vodka and blend (just enough vodka to cover). Put in a jar
and shake up every day for a week or so and then strain. You can do the
same thing with the ground dried cayenne but you may need to use a
different gage for filling with alcohol (add vodka to cover and go above
the cayenne by one third of the volume for example, I mean add more
vodka). Make it strong. Just don't be drinking more than a couple of
droppers full at a time, or more than a shot... ;-))
One MD (David Williams) is recommending drinking one or two cups of
Irish coffee at the first sign of a heart attack...
Richard Schulze (I think it was) recounts a story of an herbalist
throwing a pinch of cayenne in his own eye at the start of a lecture to
prove that cayenne wouldn't harm the eye. It didn't. With this in mind
and some experience using lesser doses of cayenne in an eyewash I
decided to test the theory. I threw a large pinch of cayenne into my
eye. I really wished I hadn't for about 20 minutes, it really hurt.
After that the eye was perfectly fine.
Half vinegar and half alcohol is used to make a tincture of lobelia.
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Kasper [mailto:edkas...@pacbell.net]
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 10:46 PM
To: silver-list@eskimo.com
Subject: RE: CS>Cayenne
Thanks Julie. I make a cayenne extract with my kombucha distilled
vinegar (2% acetic acid). I use 180,000 HU. It has a tendency to fall
out of suspension and has to be shaken.
Even with the low percentage acetic acid it doe not seem to attract
mold, but long term storage may be a problem.
Tabasco Sauce uses vinegar and vinegar is extremely healthy for you
especially compared to alcohol. I have also made kombucha mushroom tea
using cayenne and comes out really spicy.
Tabasco is hotter and tastier but it is a different pepper.
Lots of peppers are hotter than cayenne - some over 1,000,000 HU, so
IMO, I don't think Tabasco would work. I seem to know a lot of folks who
gobble down really hot peppers daily and they seem to have the same
problems as the rest of people who don't eat hot peppers so cayenne must
have special attributes otherwise Dr Christopher, Shultz, and others
would have used even hotter peppers or simply Tabasco sauce.
One thing I am leery of is the claim that cayenne scan/should be used in
the eyes. I trained police for years in the use of pepper spray, as a
matter of policy (and group
pressure) I had to be pepper sprayed and it did knock me down with for
what I thought was a long recovery time.
Police pepper spray is simply capsicum oil (cayenne pepper) and water
and pressure. maybe I should practice up for the coming events.
In your opinion what would be the difference if one used vinegar instead
of alcohol ?
Ed Kasper LAc. Licensed Acupuncturist & Herbalist Santa Cruz, CA.
-----Original Message-----
From: julie martin [mailto:wolfp...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 7:17 PM
To: silver-list@eskimo.com
Subject: RE: CS>Cayenne
Ed,
the two bottles i have are from different companies. one says
"neutral grain spirits (38%), distilled water." the other says
"extracted with 95%grain alcohol and distilled water." i also keep the
powder on hand to make a hot tea with, which after you get used to it is
pretty good. i try to buy the freshest available and the highest heat
units.
i would use the powder for any cut to stop bleeding and would reach for
any form of cayenne before i took nitro.
julie
> I was just wondering if you cayenne extract was an alcohol based
>extraction or what solvent was used,
maybe
vinegar? any ideas?
Ed Kasper LAc. Licensed Acupuncturist & Herbalist Santa Cruz, CA.
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