> Curious how a propolis tincture exerts health benefits? Are not the saps from certain trees known to have toxic properties?
The amount of propolis I use to make a tincture is consistently 10% by weight and allowed to let Brownian motion do it's thing for a minimum of one month, with weekly inverting, in Wray and Nephew Jamaican "overproof" rum, which varies between 126 and 140 proof depending on batch and gets a blue label, or in "Everclear" 189-proof grain alcohol which gets a red label (189, rather than 190, as the 190-proof is illegal in California, Hawaii, Florida, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, and Washington. What a bunch of party poopers!)
I don't think I need to explain any further about the health benefits, do I? You don't need to say anything other that correctly label it as "propolis tincture". The customers will all tell you with great authority about the amazingly wide range of ailments that the stuff addresses. Just smile and nod boys, smile and nod.
As I remember, "Geritol", sponsor of the massively popular "Laurence Welk Show" US TV show in the 1960s, and promoted as an iron supplement for older folks with "iron poor blood", was 12% to 15% alcohol by volume, about the same as most champagne, so we are following in the footsteps of some of early marketing giants.
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