{"id":89,"date":"2026-08-06T03:49:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T03:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-homeopathy-shop-pro\/2026\/08\/06\/what-a-mother-tincture-is-and-when-you-would-want-one\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T03:49:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T03:49:40","slug":"what-a-mother-tincture-is-and-when-you-would-want-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-homeopathy-shop-pro\/2026\/08\/06\/what-a-mother-tincture-is-and-when-you-would-want-one\/","title":{"rendered":"What a mother tincture is, and when you would want one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mother tincture is where everything else on our shelves begins: plant material macerated in alcohol and water, pressed, filtered, and bottled undiluted. Every potency of that remedy is made from it.<\/p>\n<h2>How it differs from a potency<\/h2>\n<p>A 30C has been diluted and succussed thirty times. A mother tincture has not been diluted at all. They are used differently, dispensed differently \u2014 by the drop rather than by the pillule \u2014 and priced differently, by volume.<\/p>\n<h2>When people buy them<\/h2>\n<p>Usually on a practitioner&#8217;s instruction, or for topical use where the tincture is the preparation being asked for. If you are not sure which you have been told to buy, the label will say: ours read \u201cmother tincture\u201d in full, never an abbreviation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The undiluted starting material every potency is made from \u2014 and a different thing from the remedies beside it on the shelf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[26,36],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-potency-guide","tag-guide","tag-tinctures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-homeopathy-shop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-homeopathy-shop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-homeopathy-shop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-homeopathy-shop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-homeopathy-shop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-homeopathy-shop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-homeopathy-shop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-homeopathy-shop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-homeopathy-shop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-homeopathy-shop-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}