Tincture Craft
A home herbalist’s guide to making potent herbal tinctures and elixirs with confidence and care
Learn the craft of making potent herbal tinctures at home.
Fresh plants, dried herbs & elixirs.
All taught using clear, repeatable methods you can return to again and again.
Tincture Craft is an in-depth, practical online course for home herbalists who want to confidently make safe, effective and shelf-stable herbal tinctures and elixirs without piecing together vague instructions, converting overseas measurements or wasting precious time and money wondering if you’ve done it right.
Created by Claire Murray, an Australian naturopath, herbalist and medicine maker, with Australian suppliers, measurements, equipment and ingredient access in mind.
Founding beta round:
$127 AUD pay in full
or 2 x fortnightly payments $65 AUD payment plan
Enroll now | Full access to every resource & modules goes live 19th October.
15 beta places available.
Enrolment closes 13 October at 11:59 pm AEST, unless places fill earlier.
(Link takes you to my online course platform for checkout)
A skill that belongs in our hands
If you’re here, you may already be one of the women who loves caring for herself and her family using all things herbal medicine and natural remedies.
You aim to have a good stash of natural remedies like tinctures, teas, balms and homeopathics on hand for when unexpected illness or accidents strike in your home.
You’re into the idea of self-sufficiency, and you’d love to be able to make some of the herbal medicines you currently buy with your own hands in your own kitchen.
You love the empowerment that comes with being able to make and source things yourself, and are maybe already a homesteader, baker, crafter, DIY-er or gardener. You know what it is to tend to and make things with your hands.
You may also look back through time and feel how much practical knowledge once lived with the women, matriarchs and healers within our families and communities. Medicine making wasn’t always something separate from daily life, not so long ago it was a practice very alive in most kitchens, gardens and hands.
Tincture Craft is an invitation to return these deeply useful skills back to your own kitchen table.
To slow down, to make something with your hands and to work with the plants around you.
To learn a simple process thoroughly enough that it becomes part of your household rhythm.
And, over time, to build a beautiful and useful collection of herbal tinctures you can reach for with confidence.
This absolutely isn’t about rejecting modern healthcare. It’s about reclaiming this timeless knowledge and skill that helps you feel more capable in your own home whenever indicated and safe.
And if you’d simply love to learn the practical, fun and enormously useful craft of tincturing, you are very much in the right place.
There’s a gap between loving herbal medicines and knowing how to make them
Women often come to me with a love and passion for herbal medicine, self sufficiency and nature, and have often used herbs in different ways before.
But to then think about making medicines yourself brings up all kinds of questions like:
What specifically is a tincture? An elixir?!
How would I actually make them?
What equipment do I need to be a make herbal medicines?
Where would I source quality herbs & materials from?
What do I do and where do I turn if things don’t work out how the instructions said they would?
There is absolutely a distance between loving and taking herbal medicines, and being able to make them yourself.
Not knowing where to start or to find complete, trustworthy guidance can leave a would-be home herbalist treading water:
interested enough to keep researching, but still waiting for some future moment when it all finally feels clear.
And while there is no shortage of herbal information online, much of it is fragmented:
Instructions can be romantic but vague.
Recipes often leave out the small details that matter.
Static books and videos give you nowhere to return to when you’ve got questions, or your batch behaves differently from the example.
Overseas teachers work with different measurements, alcohol, plants and suppliers.
And currently, AI-generated answers in this area are often riddled with inconsistencies or are just simply incorrect (trust me, I’ve tested it!)
You don’t need another collection of disconnected recipes.
You need a method you understand, practical demonstrations you can see, written guidance you can keep beside you, and somewhere to bring the inevitable questions that arise when you begin making medicine with real plants.
That's where I come in. Let me give you all the info you need to remove the gap between your passion and knowledge.
Tincture Craft is here to be your literal one-stop shop for everything you need to know for getting started on making potent and shelf-stable tinctures and elixirs you can call on with confidence, whenever you might need them.
Imagine opening your home apothecary and knowing: I made this
Tinctures are some of our hardest working herbal medicines because as a shelf-stable liquid, they’re a medicine you can have on hand for years, are convenient to take and quick to absorb.
And while they’re amazing medicines, they’re actually pretty simple to make once you know how.
Imagine looking at a fresh plant from your garden or a bag of dried herbs from a trusted supplier and knowing exactly what to do to turn it into a tincture or elixir.
You’d prepare, macerate, press, bottle, label and store your medicine with care, and you’d know what to troubleshoot if the result isn’t what you expected.
Over time, your shelves begin to fill with vibrant tinctures made for the needs of your own home: using herbs that support your adrenals, sleep, digestion, immunity and everyday first aid.
There’s something quietly wonderful about reaching for a remedy you need at the moment you need it and knowing exactly what went into it, where it came from and how it was made, because you were the one who made it.
Learning to tincture means you gain way more than a bottle of herbs.
You gain a repeatable skill, a deeper relationship with the plants and natural world, control over the quality of the remedies in your home, self sufficiency, plus the confidence in your own practice as a home herbalist and medicine woman for your loved ones.
Introducing
Tincture Craft
The home herbalist’s guide to making potent herbal tinctures and elixirs with confidence and care.
Tincture Craft is a thorough, self-paced online course teaching you how to make fresh plant tinctures, dried plant tinctures and herbal elixirs - no fancy equipment needed.
You’ll be guided through the theory and the doing:
the herbs and equipment to gather,
ratios and alcohol strengths,
the differences between fresh and dried plant material,
step-by-step demonstrations,
pressing and filtration,
storage, labelling,
safe home use and practical troubleshooting.
Rather than learning one recipe you can only copy, you’ll understand a clear method you can adapt and repeat across all suitable herbs.
You’ll receive the whole learning library when the beta course opens which is several hours of short, subject-by-subject lessons and demonstrations, accompanied by a beautifully designed 60+ page instruction manual.
You have lifetime access to the course and its resources.
You’ll also have access to our dedicated medicine making community forum for 12 months, where you can ask questions, bring any troubleshooting, share your tinctures and progress, support other medicine makers and receive guidance from me as you put the process into practice.
I’ve designed the delivery of this course so you can learn, gather your materials and make your first tincture in a rhythm that works for your real life.
Founding beta round:
$127 AUD pay in full
or 2 x fortnightly payments $65 AUD payment plan
** Pricing for this beta round only, will increase for future rounds.
Enroll now | Full access to every resource & modules goes live 19th October.
15 beta places available.
Enrolment closes 13 October at 11:59 pm AEST, unless places fill earlier.
Please join this beta round if you’re happy to work your way through the material and resources, aim to make a tincture or elixir to test the process, give feedback about your experience, and provide a testimonial if you find the course useful.
(Link takes you to my online course platform for checkout)
What you’ll be able to do
By the end of Tincture Craft, you’ll be able to:
Identify when tincturing is an appropriate preparation for a herb, and when another form may be better.
Source good-quality herbs and the basic tools and materials needed to begin in Australia.
Prepare a clean, organised and safe medicine-making workspace using largely familiar kitchen equipment.
Make fresh and dried plant tinctures using a repeatable maceration process.
Understand how the process differs between fresh and dried plants and why.
Weigh your herbs, calculate your required ingredients and confidently use vodka or pure alcohol to make a tincture
Turn a tincture into an elixir using honey.
Press and filter the finished product, bottle your tincture and minimise avoidable waste.
Label and log each preparation properly so you know exactly what you made and can repeat, change or improve on it next batch.
Store your medicines well and understand the factors that support preservation and shelf life.
Recognise common problems involving unexpected yield, fermentation or microbial contamination and know how to respond.
Approach dosage, herb suitability, contraindications and interactions understanding your scope as a home herbalist.
Most importantly, you’ll have made the leap from thinking (or dreaming!) about medicine making to knowing how to do it with your own hands.
Everything Included Inside Tincture Craft
Six practical learning modules
Several hours of teaching and demonstrations, divided into focused lessons so you can learn in manageable pockets of time, easily find your place and return to a particular concept whenever you need it.
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A 60+ page illustrated instruction manual
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A downloadable reference covering the core theory and processes taught in the videos, with clear instructions and medicine-making records you can print or complete as you work. Keep it beside you in the kitchen instead of trying to remember a calculation from a video.
Step-by-step medicine-making demonstrations
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See the details that flat written instructions often leave out: how the plant is prepared, what the mixture should look like, how the equipment is handled and how the method moves from raw herb to finished medicine.
Equipment and supplier guidance
Whilst this course is open to anyone worldwide, being Australia my instructions and supplier recommendations are created for the reality of making herbal medicines in Australia: metric measurements, alcohol suggestions and places to source herbs, jars, bottles and equipment locally.
With so many medicine making resources coming out of the US, this course is a win for everyone else using the metric system!
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Logging and labelling resources
Use the provided template to record ingredients, ratios, method, dates, observations and yield, allowing each batch to contribute to your confidence, rather than disappearing into an unlabelled jar at the back of the pantry.
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Twelve months of community and question support
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Access a dedicated community forum where you can post written questions, photographs or voice memos as you learn and make. It is here you can ask for help with your calculations, method, herb suitability or an unexpected batch and also support and cheerlead other home medicine makers as they learn. I will usually respond within 24 hours, with a maximum response time of two to three days across weekends.
After the first 12 months, you may purchase additional access if you would like to remain in the forum and continue receiving support.
Lifetime access to the complete course
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The library isn’t released week by week. All modules will be waiting for you when the beta course opens on 19 October, allowing you to learn and make at your own pace. You’ll retain lifetime access to the course videos, manual and resources.
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Begin with the foundations that make the practical work easier and safer.
What medicine making is and the role and limits of the home herbalist
Scope, responsibility and knowing when to seek professional care
The essential equipment list, including what you likely already own
Australian suppliers for herbs, alcohol, jars, bottles and other materials
Hygiene, preparation and alcohol safety
General dosage guidance
Labelling and logging your medicines properly
You’ll leave this module with: a clear understanding of your scope, a practical shopping and preparation list, and the foundations for making tinctures responsibly.
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Learn what is actually happening inside the jar, so you are not simply following a recipe by rote.
What tinctures are and how they work as herbal extracts
Pro’s and con’s of tincturing
Fresh versus dried plant tinctures
Understanding plant-to-menstruum ratios
The differences between using vodka or pure alcohol.
The calculations used throughout the course
Choosing plants that work well as tinctures
Preparing to make your first batch
You’ll leave this module with: a grounded framework of tincturing, and the key theory that will help you understand the tutorials to come.
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When and how to harvest a fresh medicinal plant
A list of common herbal medicines to grow or access fresh locally
Calculating, preparing and combining your key ingredients
Caring for the tincture as it steeps
A complete practical demonstration
You’ll leave this module with: the knowledge and confidence to turn an appropriate freshly harvested herb into a properly prepared tincture.
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Selecting and sourcing good-quality dried herbs
Understanding how dried herbs behave when tincturing
Calculating, preparing and combining your key ingredients
Caring for the tincture as it steeps
A complete practical demonstration
You’ll leave this module with: a method for making tinctures year-round, without relying on access to a living plant.
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Bring honey into the process to create a beautiful, palatable herbal elixir while keeping preservation and potency in view.
The difference between a tincture and an elixir
Choosing when an elixir is a good fit
Working with honey
Making both fresh and dried plant elixirs
Balancing taste, extraction and preservation
Avoiding fermentation and other preventable problems
You’ll leave this module with: a clear method for creating herbal elixirs using fresh and dried medicinal herbs
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Troubleshooting when things haven’t gone to plan
Learning from variations and adjusting future batches
You’ll leave this module with: a framework for troubleshooting and refining your craft over time.
The Curriculum
These are the methods I actually use
Tincture Craft is not a set of generic instructions pulled together from books, blogs or random tutorials.
Every method inside has been formulated and refined through my own education and hands-on experience as a Bachelor-qualified naturopath, herbalist and medicine maker.
These instructions I have taught across multiple sold out tincturing workshops, and are methods I have tested, adjusted, repeated and tweaked until I am sure they’ll be 100% reliable for you to learn from.
Tincture Craft is embedded with my hard-earned wisdom that only comes from actually making medicine, and all the feedback, details and refinements the herbs give me every single time I make a new batch of medicine.
So instead of having to discover every lesson through your own mistakes, you’ll be guided through road-tested methods designed to help you create tinctures that are safe, effective, potent and shelf-stable when prepared as instructed.
There is room here for the beauty, tradition and connection of herbalism, but never at the expense of clear information.
I want you to understand both the heart of the craft and the practical reasons behind what you are doing.
Meet Your Teacher
Hi, I’m Claire Murray,
Naturopath, herbalist and medicine maker.
I qualified with my Bachelor of Health Science (Naturopathy) in 2012 and have worked across many aspects of the profession since, spanning clinical practice, technical support and writing, practitioner education and presenting, workshop facilitation and medicine making.
In 2018/2019, about seven years after finishing a very biochemical naturopathy degree, where I touched almost no living plants throughout the entire four years, I experienced something of a grassroots renaissance in my own life and career.
I immersed myself in medicine making, growing and identifying medicinal plants, plant-spirit meditation, astroherbalism, medical astrology and traditional Western herbal energetics. In many ways, I began learning herbs again from the literal ground up, rather than rote-learning and memorising them as words on a page.
Nothing compares to knowing a herb because you have grown it, or touched, tasted and smelt it.
It was during this time in my vocation that herbal medicine truly became alive for me. It enraptured me and connected me with nature, the passing seasons, and the Earth in a way it never had before, and continues to today.
This feeling and experience are why I create resources like Tincture Craft. Herbalism can be a doorway into connecting with, caring for and being nourished by our wonderful Earth, and I want more women to experience that connection through the practical work of their own hands.
In addition, herbal medicine was always a medicine of the people, and by losing these skills of medicine making in our communities it’s increasingly becoming reality that people can only access herbs through expensive supplements or working 1:1 with a practitioner. This isn’t available to everyone and nor should it need to be. Everyone has the innate right to connect with the plants and look after the health of their own body and loved ones, and relearning these skills is a way back there.
Tincture Craft is designed to give you the kind of explanation, demonstration and ongoing support I would have loved to find in one place: thorough enough to trust, simple enough to use and rooted in an Australian context.
Testimonials
Below is feedback from attendees of my tincturing workshops run across 2026, where I taught the method I share with you in Tincture Craft:
Is Tincture Craft for you?
You will feel at home here if you:
Are a complete beginner who wants one thorough, trustworthy place to start.
Love herbs and natural remedies but have mostly purchased finished products until now.
Want to build practical skills for supporting yourself, your family and loved ones when home care is safe and appropriate.
Are interested in homesteading, self-sufficiency, growing herbs or making things by hand.
Want to build a considered home apothecary and reduce the cost of regularly buying finished tinctures.
Value both traditional herbal knowledge and clear, responsible guidance.
Are a naturopath, herbalist, nutritionist or student who has learned herbal medicine in theory but was never taught how to make actual medicines.
Are a qualified practitioner who prescribes tinctures but has never learnt how to make them yourself.
Want Australian suppliers, measurements and ingredient guidance rather than adapting every instruction from overseas.
No prior medicine-making experience is required. General kitchen skills, a willingness to learn and a love of the plants are more than enough.
Tincture Craft may not be the right fit if you:
Already make tinctures confidently and are looking primarily for advanced or commercial manufacturing methods.
Want training in percolation, concentrated 1:2 tinctures or medicinal-mushroom double extraction. These are not taught in this course.
Want a professional qualification or training that allows you to practise as a clinical herbalist.
Intend to manufacture products for commercial sale. Tincture Craft is designed for personal, household and educational use, not commercial compliance or production.
Avoid all use of alcohol. Alcohol is central to the extraction and preservation aspects of tinctures.
Are seeking a course that diagnoses conditions or provides personalised medical treatment. This is practical education, not individual healthcare.
What you need to take part
Equipment:
You don’t need a laboratory or specialist tools to make tinctures!
Depending on your set up, you may have most of the equipment already in your kitchen, or much of it is easy to source from op shops etc.
For the actual tincture itself, you’ll need a fresh or dried herb and some kind of alcohol - whether than be vodka or pure spirit.
The introductory module explains what is essential, what is optional and where you can source it, so you can gather items over time rather than buying everything at once.
Time:
Allow several hours in total to move through all of the modules.
The hands-on process for making a tincture will take anywhere from 15 minutes to more than an hour, depending on whether you are harvesting and preparing a fresh plant and how slowly you want to move as you learn.
Because the course is self-paced, you can divide the lessons into manageable sessions and make your tincture when your materials and capacity align.
Founding beta enrolment:
Join Tincture Craft
$127 AUD pay in full
or 2 x fortnightly payments $65 AUD payment plant
** Pricing for this beta round only, will increase for future rounds.
Your enrolment includes:
Six self-paced learning modules
Several hours of focused teaching and practical demonstrations
Fresh plant tincturing method
Dried plant tincturing method
Elixir method
A 60+ page downloadable instruction manual
Printable logging resource
Twelve months in the dedicated question-and-support community
Lifetime access to the complete course library from 19 October 2026
Enroll now | Full access to every resource & modules goes live 19th October.
15 beta places available.
Enrolment closes 13 October at 11:59 pm AEST, unless places fill earlier.
NOTE:
This introductory price reflects the collaborative nature of this first round:
Please join this beta round if you’re happy to work your way through the material and resources, aim to make a tincture or elixir to test the process, give feedback about your experience, and provide a testimonial if you find the course useful.
(Link takes you to my online course platform for checkout)
Questions? The FAQ’s:
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Yes! Tincture Craft begins with the foundational concepts, equipment and terminology before guiding you through each method step by step. You do not need prior medicine-making knowledge, only a willingness to learn and put the process into practice.
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No. You can learn using herbs you grow, responsibly harvest or purchase. The course includes guidance on sourcing quality herbs in Australia and teaches both fresh and dried plant methods, so you can choose what is most accessible to you.
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Most of what you need is likely already in a well-used kitchen. More specific equipment is optional. A blender is recommended for the method I teach but is not essential. The course explains what you need before you begin and provides supplier recommendations.
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The course discusses working with accessible clear alcohol such as vodka as well as pure alcohol diluted to an appropriate strength. You will learn how and why these approaches differ, but either can be used.
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No. At this time Tincture Craft focuses specifically on alcohol-based tinctures and elixirs. If you avoid alcohol completely, this course may not be the right fit.
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There is basic guidance on herbs that are indicated and commonly used in tincturing. The central purpose of the course is a medicine making skill rather than teaching on herbal information or materia medica. I suggest some resources you can refer to if you’d like to deepen or continue your learning on the herbs specifically.
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Yes for sure. The practical skills are designed for making herbal preparations for personal and household use where appropriate. The course also covers scope, safety, general dosage guidance and when further care is needed. It does not replace individual advice from a qualified healthcare professional.
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There are more than five hours of lessons and demonstrations, divided into shorter subject-by-subject videos. You can watch these at your own pace. A hands-on batch might take around 15 - 60 minutes to prepare, depending on the herb and whether you are harvesting it fresh.
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No. The beta is designed as a self-paced learning library rather than a weekly live course. You can ask questions in the dedicated forum as they arise and will usually receive an asynchronous response from me within 24 hours, or within two to three days across weekends. If the beta group’s questions show that an optional live session would be useful, I may schedule one; however, live calls are not a guaranteed part of the course and you will not need to attend one to receive the full training.
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After purchasing, you will receive confirmation and your enrollment details. The complete course library opens for beta participants on 19 October 2026.
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You will have lifetime access to the course videos, manual and resources. You will have access to the dedicated community forum and asynchronous support for 12 months. If you would like to remain in the forum after that, additional access will be available to purchase.
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You absolutely can find individual recipes and demonstrations online. Tincture Craft is for the person who loves to be guided by an experienced teacher, and who doesn’t want to spend time sorting, checking and stitching together different resources and pieces of information. It brings the full process into one considered Australian resource, explains the why behind the method, gives you both visual and written instructions, and provides somewhere to ask questions when things don’t unfold exactly like the example or how to take your foundations further as you gain more experience.
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No. Tincture Craft is practical education for personal and household medicine making. It does not qualify you to practise as a naturopath or herbalist, diagnose or treat health conditions professionally, or manufacture herbal products for commercial sale.
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I want you to feel clear about what you are joining, so please read the course description, inclusions and suitability information carefully before enrolling. Change-of-mind refunds are not provided. If you are genuinely dissatisfied with Tincture Craft, contact me so we can discuss your experience and an appropriate resolution, which may include a refund.
Bring the medicine back to your kitchen table
There will always be another book to read, another herb to research and another recipe to save for later. But confidence in medicine making doesn’t come from collecting more fragments of information. It comes from understanding a sound process, trying it with your own hands, asking questions and letting experience gather one bottle at a time.
Tincture Craft gives you a place to begin, and a method you can keep.
You can learn to take a fresh plant from the garden or a dried herb from your cupboard and transform it into a vibrant, useful medicine.
You can know what went into it, how it was made and why each step matters.
You can build a home apothecary slowly and intentionally, save money over time, deepen your relationship with the plants and help keep practical herbal knowledge alive in your family and community.
Not because you need to become entirely self-sufficient or have an answer for everything, but because there is profound value in knowing how to make something useful, beautiful and health-giving with your own hands.
If that is the kind of knowledge you have been longing to reclaim, I would love to welcome you into the founding round of Tincture Craft.
Tincture Craft Founding Beta Round:
Six modules | Hours of teaching | 60+ page manual | Lifetime course access | 12 months of question support
$127 AUD pay in full
or 2 x fortnightly payments $65 AUD payment plan
Enroll now | Full access to every resource & modules goes live 19th October.
** Pricing for this beta round only, will increase for future rounds.
15 beta places available.
Enrolment closes 13 October at 11:59 pm AEST, unless places fill earlier.
(Link takes you to my online course platform for checkout)