Hell yah so cool you made something like this! I dump it out into a coffee filter, I wrap it around a jar and rubberband or clip it to the jar lid and put the material into the filter and let it drain for a long time. Damiana soaks it up pretty good. It gets a bit like sludge from all the powder supplements and I can’t imagine eating it. The alcohol is pretty rough as it is.I can’t remember now but I had read a few different websites say to wait around a month. No idea if it really matters. Although I imagine some of the supplements might need more time to have their essential good stuff pulled out of them by the alcohol (or glycerin whichever you use).
One thing you could do is extract a little from the container you put it in to steep, strain that tiny amount and try to take like one or two doses of it and see how it works. Might not be enough to know in just a day or two of use, but when I’ve taken my tinctures in the past I can feel them start to do something pretty quick even if I don’t take them daily.
Good luck and report back I’m excited to hear how it works for you
Thanks again for this interesting recipe! It hasn’t been a month since I started, so like you said, it might not be ready yet, but I tried a little bit that day. I didn’t notice any effect on my erection or sex drive when I did it, but it was only around 15 drops at the end of the night. I have started another batch on the 11th or 12th but put extra of most of the ingredients, so I’ll have a backup batch to experiment with.
I took some more from my original batch (again, hasn’t been a month, I started that one on the 2nd of this month) and put some into veggie capsules. I took a spoonful of the liquid straight out of the jar & dropper bottled that into the capsules, so what I took tonight hadn’t been filtering (just documenting my lack of following instructions). I did make multiple capsules of it and moreso filled the capsules rather than counting 15 drops, so I took about 1 and a half full capsules of it. At this moment, my fingers feel warmer than usual. However, I did take a small amount of the stuff, taped it around a cup, and put foil over it (again doing things improperly as stated) to allow it to steep so tomorrow I will check and make more capsules from that.
How long do you let it filter when you tie it to the jar? I find this fascinating and feel like this could help tremendously in the future. Are there any other ingredients you’d recommend adding/experimenting with? Apologies if I asked this already but is there a preferred method of consumption between swallowing a capsule or drinking it in water as a tincture? Next time, I’m going to use more of those Thai chili pepper flakes.
Do you have any other suggestions for experiments such as this? Also feel free to DM me if you’d like as I don’t want to commandeer this thread (unless this info is useful to anyone).