Yeah a 1:4 ratio would be a bit difficult. How much did it call to add to their water? If you wanted to keep with her recipe but add more vodka so you can actually get a tincture,, you can just do a bit more math to get it there. I put apple cider vinegar in my chicken’s water to help them with that. What I would do to marry both ideas, take the herbs and soak them in ACV and add that then to the water. I think the technical term for that is an oxymel if you want to look more into that, also Doc talks about that in this lesson here