Making Your Own Tinctures and Extracts - Featuring Cayenne
Holy Shit! Almost exactly repeats the "Cyanne" tincture recipe! I will definitely try it and report findings.
Friday, August 24, 2007
Thursday, August 23, 2007
"Cyanne"
Tonight I found an old Popular Mechanics magazine (from March 1947) that I'd bought over ten years ago at a long-closed secondhand book shop. Leafing through this sixty-year-old publication, I found a piece of old green-and-white striped computer printer paper covered on one side in a cryptic scrawl. It took me a minute, but then I remembered that an old chain-smoking general contractor who had finished the basement of my former house in the early '90's (or maybe it was the tree man from Culpeper who took down some big dead branches from the oak in back around the same time) had written me this recipe for a cure-all that he swore by. It's in All-Caps, which I'll tone down. Here's what it says:
"CYANNE
POWDER TINCTURE
MEXICAN HERBANO (or HERBARO)
Cyanne Peppers (Dry - Powder)
Fill any jar 1/2 to 3/4 full and pour 80 proof vodca over to just 1" above and let set min 14 days, best 28 days. Every day shake 3 times & keep in dark cabinet (Do NOT expose to sunlight!). Best squeezed out on full moon (no kidding!) at end of time using rubber gloves squeeze thru any clean cotton cloth & through away remains leaving only the liquid. CAUTION! This stuff will burn the skin if precaution is not used. It can be taken in a tee, when used on an open cut it will not burn but on an abrasion of the skin will give a harsh burning sensation but the discomfort will only last 15 to 25 min. Afterwords healing affect is grate. Note: when using on an open cut use a medicen dropper and apply internally to the cut (it will not burn) only closing any cut need only a butter fly bandage & steril gauge over, w tape to hold on. Remove bandage in 12 to 24 hrs. YOU WILL BE AMAZED."
Well, I know that capsaicin, the active heat ingredient in chile peppers, has been found to have medicinal properties (or at least they're marketing the supplement that way), so I'm determined to try it. Plus, the vodka --along with the shaking three times and the full moon part-- have me sold. And also just that fact that this resurfaced tonight, after years of being hidden away and with my remembering the only the slightest bit of its origin (pretty sure it was the contractor, who did a good job), makes it seem like a necessary experiment. It even looks cool the way it's written, like it's the real goods.
"CYANNE
POWDER TINCTURE
MEXICAN HERBANO (or HERBARO)
Cyanne Peppers (Dry - Powder)
Fill any jar 1/2 to 3/4 full and pour 80 proof vodca over to just 1" above and let set min 14 days, best 28 days. Every day shake 3 times & keep in dark cabinet (Do NOT expose to sunlight!). Best squeezed out on full moon (no kidding!) at end of time using rubber gloves squeeze thru any clean cotton cloth & through away remains leaving only the liquid. CAUTION! This stuff will burn the skin if precaution is not used. It can be taken in a tee, when used on an open cut it will not burn but on an abrasion of the skin will give a harsh burning sensation but the discomfort will only last 15 to 25 min. Afterwords healing affect is grate. Note: when using on an open cut use a medicen dropper and apply internally to the cut (it will not burn) only closing any cut need only a butter fly bandage & steril gauge over, w tape to hold on. Remove bandage in 12 to 24 hrs. YOU WILL BE AMAZED."
Well, I know that capsaicin, the active heat ingredient in chile peppers, has been found to have medicinal properties (or at least they're marketing the supplement that way), so I'm determined to try it. Plus, the vodka --along with the shaking three times and the full moon part-- have me sold. And also just that fact that this resurfaced tonight, after years of being hidden away and with my remembering the only the slightest bit of its origin (pretty sure it was the contractor, who did a good job), makes it seem like a necessary experiment. It even looks cool the way it's written, like it's the real goods.
Monday, August 6, 2007
Mullet Recipes
Mullet Recipes: "Source of information:
Results of interviews, photographing, discussion, and editing of all team members of Gold Diggers"
Results of interviews, photographing, discussion, and editing of all team members of Gold Diggers"
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