Bidens pilosa, also known as Spanish Needle or Cobbler’s Pegs, is a weed here in Australia. What that really means, is that it is an adaptive, versatile every-man or woman medicine. Weed folk tend to address a cultural deficiency, just as it tends to a landscape deficient in certain nutrients and foliage. In this case, Bidens helps with the immune system when under threat from pathogens especially bacterial & viral. It has been used for many decades across many cultures especially in folkloric Indian tribes in the Subcontinent. It may be useful when ticks have been a problem for you, to aid in the immune system repair, and other times when the immune system needs a potent boost.
Please consult your health practitioner and take the time time to do your own research before consuming and plant preparation. Ensure there are no interactions, if you are currently taking medication.
Alcohol extracts are far superior to any other method of extraction. It extracts the most amount of the chemicals compared to any other solvent. It helps the medicine to also diffuse quickly into the bloodstream.
Alcohol is warming and medicine unto itself. To add, it also can esterify vitamins, oils and other medicinal chemicals making them more bioavailable and water soluble.
To be really specific: the amount of alcohol in tinctures is incredibly tiny. Less than you will get from eating a few pieces of bread.
If you are taking 20 drops of a 60 percent alcohol tincture every hour for an acute condition, you will get less than 2ml of alcohol over the course of a day.
If you are taking a general dose of 20 drops three times daily, this is less alcohol than you will get from eating two slices of bread.
If alcohol is a serious problem for you, then consider alternative extracts.
Please store in a cool dark place, out of sunlight, heat & air exposure.
This product has not been evaluated by the TGA for safe internal use. It is sold as a raw botanical product for ethnobotanical research purposes only.
