Weaver Business Academy

Weaver Business Academy

Herbal Preparations & the Home Apothecary

Health & Wellness 4 hrs 49 min

How herbal preparations are actually made — water, alcohol, vinegar, oil, wax and sugar — taught from the chemistry up, so you can make one nobody ever showed you. Ten modules, fifty-six lessons, every number in the course traced to a published source.

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Course Contents

56 lessons - 4 hrs 49 min
What Extraction Actually Is 6 lessons
  1. 1 Why a Recipe Is the Wrong Thing to Learn Video - 5 min Locked
  2. 2 The Plant Is a Container of Chemistry Video - 5 min Locked
  3. 3 Like Dissolves Like — the One Rule Underneath Everything Video - 5 min Locked
  4. 4 The Seven Families You Will Meet Video - 6 min Locked
  5. 5 Choosing a Menstruum: a Decision, Not a Tradition Video - 5 min Locked
  6. 6 Fresh or Dried, and Why It Changes the Arithmetic Video - 5 min Locked
Water — Infusions and Decoctions 6 lessons
  1. 1 What Water Takes and What It Leaves Video - 5 min Locked
  2. 2 Hot Infusion — Leaves, Flowers, Aromatics Video - 5 min Locked
  3. 3 Cold Infusion — Mucilage and the Things Heat Ruins Video - 5 min Locked
  4. 4 Decoction — Roots, Barks, Seeds and Time Video - 5 min Locked
  5. 5 The Overnight and the Long Steep Video - 6 min Locked
  6. 6 Strength, Strain and What to Do With What Is Left Video - 5 min Locked
Alcohol — Tinctures and the Arithmetic 8 lessons
  1. 1 What Alcohol Buys You Video - 6 min Locked
  2. 2 Folk Method versus Weight-to-Volume Video - 5 min Locked
  3. 3 Reading 1:5 × 45% — What the Notation Means Video - 5 min Locked
  4. 4 Ratios Are a Starting Point, Not a Law Video - 5 min Locked
  5. 5 Proof, Percentage, and the Bottle You Can Actually Buy Video - 5 min Locked
  6. 6 The Dilution Arithmetic, Worked Three Times Video - 5 min Locked
  7. 7 The Band Table You Will See Everywhere — and Cannot Source Video - 5 min Locked
  8. 8 Maceration, Pressing, Filtering, Labeling Video - 5 min Locked
Vinegar, Glycerine and the Alcohol-Free Question 5 lessons
  1. 1 Why Someone Needs an Alcohol-Free Preparation Video - 5 min Locked
  2. 2 Acetum — Herbal Vinegars Video - 5 min Locked
  3. 3 Glycerites — Sweet, Gentle and Weaker Video - 5 min Locked
  4. 4 Oxymel — Vinegar and Honey Together Video - 5 min Locked
  5. 5 What You Give Up, Said Plainly Video - 6 min Locked
Oil — and the Module That Is a Safety Module 6 lessons
  1. 1 Read This Before You Make an Infused Oil Video - 5 min Locked
  2. 2 What the Food-Safety Literature Says Video - 5 min Locked
  3. 3 Where Traditional Practice and Food Science Disagree Video - 5 min Locked
  4. 4 Moisture Is the Whole Problem Video - 5 min Locked
  5. 5 Solar, Low-Heat and Rapid Methods Video - 6 min Locked
  6. 6 Straining, Storing and Knowing When to Throw It Out Video - 6 min Locked
Wax and Fat — Salves, Balms and Ointments 5 lessons
  1. 1 What a Salve Is and What It Is For Video - 5 min Locked
  2. 2 Wax to Oil — Hardness Is a Ratio You Choose Video - 5 min Locked
  3. 3 Beeswax, Candelilla and the Vegan Question Video - 5 min Locked
  4. 4 Melting, Pouring and Setting Without Grain Video - 5 min Locked
  5. 5 Water in a Salve — Creams, Lotions and Why They Are Harder Video - 5 min Locked
Sugar and Honey — Syrups, Elixirs and Electuaries 5 lessons
  1. 1 Sugar as a Preservative, Not a Sweetener Video - 5 min Locked
  2. 2 Making a Syrup From a Decoction Video - 5 min Locked
  3. 3 Honey, and the One Absolute Rule Video - 5 min Locked
  4. 4 Elixirs and Electuaries Video - 5 min Locked
  5. 5 Shelf Life, Refrigeration and Fermentation Video - 6 min Locked
Dry Preparations — Powders, Capsules and Pastilles 4 lessons
  1. 1 Grinding, Sieving and Particle Size Video - 5 min Locked
  2. 2 Powders Lose Potency Fastest Video - 5 min Locked
  3. 3 Capsules — Sizes, Filling and What Fits Video - 5 min Locked
  4. 4 Pastilles, Lozenges and Herbal Honeys Video - 5 min Locked
The Apothecary as a System 6 lessons
  1. 1 Light, Heat, Air and Time — the Four Enemies Video - 5 min Locked
  2. 2 Glass, Closures and Why Amber Video - 5 min Locked
  3. 3 Labeling Like Somebody Else Will Read It Video - 5 min Locked
  4. 4 The Batch Record Video - 5 min Locked
  5. 5 Shelf Life by Preparation Type Video - 5 min Locked
  6. 6 Knowing When to Throw It Out Video - 6 min Locked
Quality and Sourcing 5 lessons
  1. 1 Buying From a Supplier You Can Question Video - 6 min Locked
  2. 2 What a Certificate of Analysis Is and How to Read One Video - 5 min Locked
  3. 3 Adulteration and Substitution as a Supply Problem Video - 5 min Locked
  4. 4 Storage From the Moment It Arrives Video - 5 min Locked
  5. 5 Building the Shelf You Actually Use Video - 5 min Locked

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