Masterclass in Creating Healing Vibrational Plant Essences

Explanation of Each Piece of Equipment

• Glass containers
  
  I use cocktail glasses, the reason I'm using cocktail glasses is that their shape means that there will be no shadow created on the essence when it's in the sun as that is the ideal way to make our flower/vibrational essences on a perfect sunny day like today when there isn't a cloud in the sky. Clouds going over the sun are thought to prevent the vibrational essence from being in its purest form so we're using these cocktail glasses but you could use another container, perhaps a glass bowl. We wouldn't want to use crystal-cut bowls glass because the cuts within the glass will create a shadow.

  
  

• Pure water
  I am using distilled water, water in its purest form. Alternatively, you could also use pure spring water and you might know where to locate a local spring that you can go and collect your spring water from, or buy it in a bottle.
  

• An offering for the plant spirit
  I am using sacred tobacco. You could use some corn flour, some flowers that you have collected, or cacao beans (I am also a Cacaoister - I host sacred cacao ceremonies, so I work with cacao beans as offerings as well)

  
  

• Strainer

  After the infusing process, we need to ensure no plant material gets into the final medicine. So we can use a strainer of some kind in case there are any little petals we want to take out of the water. I use little empty tea bags because these are the finest filter that I can work with.

  
  

• Small measuring cups/beakers
  I can pour the flower/vibrationally infused water into it and measure the quantity I need for the medicine-making process.

  
  

• Funnel

  It May help to get the essence easily into the bottles without spilling it. Make sure you get the right size for your bottleneck.

  
  

• Scales

  So that I can weigh out the exact amount I needed instead of using a measuring cup or column. We need to be sure that we're diluting the alcohol and our water 50:50. So you might want to use a set of scales for this purpose.

  
  

• Bottles and droppers (pipettes)

  I use three different sizes of bottles, as we will be making three different strengths of the essence: 100ml, 30ml & 15ml.

  • The mother essence will be stored in the biggest bottle, 100ml.

  • The stock essence in the medium-sized bottle, 30ml.

  • And the medicinal essence is going to be in the smallest bottle, 15ml.

  
  

  And that's the one you're going to take every day so we're diluting our essence three times in total to make it into a homoeopathic vibrational essence with only the intentions of the plant spirit in the final bottle. This is a wonderful thing as well if you're on medication and you have any concerns about interactions with herbs and plants. This is the best way for you to work with herbal medicine because there would be no chemical interaction with your medications.

  
  

• Alcohol 40%

  I'm using vodka because I like pure alcohol and this for me is the purest one I can get hold of. Traditionally Edward Bach used brandy but I prefer vodka. This is a 40% vodka, a lot of the vodkas you'll buy on the market are only around 37.5%. I prefer to work with a 40 vodka because when we dilute it half and half then it's still 20 alcohol and that means that the essence will be preserved really well. Bacteria won’t be able to grow or yeasts and moulds won't be able to grow in the water so that your essence will last a lifetime.

  
  

• Labels & Pen

  I use different size labels for the different size bottles and a waterproof pen. We are going to write down on our bottles exactly what we've put into them so that when we go back to them we don't forget and we're going to put the date on it too so that we can remember the day that we made our essences you may also want to label it with other details like where you actually made the plant essence as well.