Hi, I am no expert but, YES, you can mix all the herbs or tinctures together to make a formula.  Use everything in equal parts.  If you have 5 ingredients, each one should be measured out the same.  I.E. dry 25 grams each, wet 25cc each (just an example). Once the combination is together – you have your formula.  I too like single herbs but have found it is much easier to take a combination than 5 individual ones. Have a blessed day, Joanne

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Connie Jo mosher

Christie and Joanne – all of the questions and points you both mentioned are in the lessons, but for simplicity, I will reiterate them for you.  If you look at Doc’s formula recipes – you’ll see that all of them contain more than one herb – but not always in equal parts.  The recipe/formula will say things like 2 Dandelion, 1 Echinacea, etc (this is just a random example, not a real formula).  The numbers mean how many parts of that herb to use – he explains all this in the lessons on how to make medicine – but the short answer is that a “part” is any measure you want.  You might want 1 part to be a tablespoon, or an ounce, or a cup.  No matter what you use for your parts – when you have the TOTAL number of parts all added up (say you use ounces and the sum of all the parts is 10 parts = 10 ounces), then use 5 times that amount (in this example, it would be 50 ounces) of vodka or whatever hooch you prefer (generally 40% is just fine).  There are a few “thirsty” herbs that just won’t stay submerged with 5 parts of liquid, and that takes it out of the ratio method and puts it into the folk method.  The negative to folk method is that you can’t ever have two identical tinctures so if the first one was too weak or just right, the next folk tincture of that same blend will be different.  If you plan on sharing or selling, you have to use the ratio method – but that’s another lesson entirely.  Sometimes combining tinctures made of only one herb together with others creates weird ghostly blobs that Doc says probably is not very medicinal at that point.  The way to check it is to only use a tiny amount of each that you want to combine in a clear glass.  Wait a few hours to see if it gets weird.  If not, then you can happily combine in a larger amount.  This is one thing I know, but rarely remember to do!  Hope this helps.

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Viktory

Hello !

Would anyone know how much garlic powder would be in one fresh garlic bulb ? I at the moment have more dried garlic then fresh and want to try out some of the formulas that Dr.Jones uses in his lessons 🙂

Thanks ! Elizabeth

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Viktory

I think its only fresh raw garlic that has medicinal properties. I think Doc says it in at least one of his lessons. It’s been a while since I went through the lessons,  so maybe someone can verify?