Guest guest Posted March 14, 2011 Report Share Posted March 14, 2011 until now I have used bulk herbs from 1St Chinese Herbs; I'm happy with their product and service. I just checked some herb sources, and the local supplier for Chinese herbs has good prices and saves me the trouble of ordering overseas (potential customs trouble and delay). But most of the herbs are in 'cut-and-sift' form, not powdered. I'm planning to use these herbs for ingestion, not for making tinctures etc. for which cut-and-sift is not a problem. I guess powdering is not simple, you need something like a coffee grinder or maybe there are special devices for this? I wonder about potential problems of keeping the powder fresh and free from bacteria once it has been grinded down, and potential cleaning of the equipment (probably something you don't want to do for your daily dose of herbs). From what I know the big suppliers have special equipment for this and they package the powdered herb under nitrogen, so it stays fresh for a long time. Does anyone have experience with this, and good suggestions for how to do it yourself? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 14, 2011 Report Share Posted March 14, 2011 > > I can't comment on how to do it yourself but I'd like to add a comment. > Recently, I wanted to purchase Yellow Dock from 1stchineseherbs and the > only form available on their website was cut-and-sift. I contacted them and > for no charge, they converted it to a powder form. This process only took a > day. > > " Does anyone have experience with this, and good suggestions for how to do > it yourself? " > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 14, 2011 Report Share Posted March 14, 2011 I HAVE NOT TRIED THIS MYSELF, BUT AM THINKING: VitaMix. This is an expensive - life long investment piece of highly efficient kitchen ware that pulverizes and also grinds. It does many other valuable things as well such as making whole food beverages from RAW foods. Otherwise, I guess that a Coffee Grinder would do the trick with most dried flowers and roots...depending on their individual contents. I am looking to purchase the VitaMix however as it is an " all in one " Good luck, On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 11:30 AM, knot_weed <tek0nik@...> wrote: > > > until now I have used bulk herbs from 1St Chinese Herbs; I'm happy with > their product and service. > > I just checked some herb sources, and the local supplier for Chinese herbs > has good prices and saves me the trouble of ordering overseas (potential > customs trouble and delay). But most of the herbs are in 'cut-and-sift' > form, not powdered. I'm planning to use these herbs for ingestion, not for > making tinctures etc. for which cut-and-sift is not a problem. > > I guess powdering is not simple, you need something like a coffee grinder > or maybe there are special devices for this? I wonder about potential > problems of keeping the powder fresh and free from bacteria once it has been > grinded down, and potential cleaning of the equipment (probably something > you don't want to do for your daily dose of herbs). From what I know the big > suppliers have special equipment for this and they package the powdered herb > under nitrogen, so it stays fresh for a long time. > > Does anyone have experience with this, and good suggestions for how to do > it yourself? > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 15, 2011 Report Share Posted March 15, 2011 coffee grinder  works great lymeover > > > until now I have used bulk herbs from 1St Chinese Herbs; I'm happy with > their product and service. > > I just checked some herb sources, and the local supplier for Chinese herbs > has good prices and saves me the trouble of ordering overseas (potential > customs trouble and delay). But most of the herbs are in 'cut-and-sift' > form, not powdered. I'm planning to use these herbs for ingestion, not for > making tinctures etc. for which cut-and-sift is not a problem. > > I guess powdering is not simple, you need something like a coffee grinder > or maybe there are special devices for this? I wonder about potential > problems of keeping the powder fresh and free from bacteria once it has been > grinded down, and potential cleaning of the equipment (probably something > you don't want to do for your daily dose of herbs). From what I know the big > suppliers have special equipment for this and they package the powdered herb > under nitrogen, so it stays fresh for a long time. > > Does anyone have experience with this, and good suggestions for how to do > it yourself? > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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