Maypop Farmstead’s

Herbal Medicine Library

Notes and Disclaimers:

Please consult with yourself and any personal health resources available to you when deciding which tinctures to use and how to take them. While herbs affect all people differently, the tinctures we make available can be beneficial at any dose from a single drop upwards, and are safe for most people at a dose of a whole dropper-full per day. We recommend that you start with a half dropper full daily or twice daily, as needed, and then check in with how your body feels as you adjust your personal dose accordingly. You may also choose to interact with the herb by placing a few drops in a glass of water or juice to help your body to absorb the nutrients from the tincture. All of our herbs are tinctures in grain-free alcohol.

Chickweed Tincture

  • About: Chickweed is also known as “maidenwort,” and is a fresh and cooling herb. "Wort", meaning ‘for’; chickweed represents and is an ally to the youth phase of life.

  • Supportive for: taken orally as a lymphatic system ally and skin nourisher; topical application to disinfect and dry scrapes/burns/zits

Lemon Balm Tincture

  • About: Lemon Balm is rich in essential oils, which makes it abundant in smell as well as antimicrobial

  • Supportive for: taken orally for cooling, calming, and soothing anxieties and stress; can also be used topically to clean scrapes

Motherwort Tincture

  • About: Motherwort is a nurturing and soothing, but well-boundaried herb with beautiful and spiky purple flowers. “Wort", meaning ‘for’; it represents the adult phase of life

  • Supportive for: taken orally to nourish and tend the physical and emotional heart, you can also put motherwort on your heart (chest area) externally

Mugwort Tincture

  • About: Mugwort is also known as "cronewort,” and is a plant that carries wisdom. "Wort", meaning ‘for’; it represents is an ally to the elder phase of life.

  • Supportive for: commonly taken orally before bed for vivid or clearer dreamspaces, you can also put mugwort externally on your forehead and temples for wisdom

Purple Dead Nettle Tincture

  • About: purple dead nettle is often seen as a garden weed, they are in the mint family (square stems) and have beautiful purple petals tucked in their green leaves

  • Supportive for: internally taken for allergy relief and to combat inflammation specifically related to allergies