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Gummies are everywhere right now, and we get the appeal. But here’s the reality of getting herb in your body: it can take six to twelve gummies to equal the plant content in about 3 mL of liquid extract — before accounting for the sugar, the gelatin, the flavoring.
Tinctures are optimized for the herb. (Read the study below)
Every major herbal tradition has used liquid plant extracts as a primary delivery format. They’ve endured for the same reason they work now.
Liquid plant preparations described in the Sushruta Samhita and other early Vedic medical texts.
Alcohol-based herbal decoctions (yao jiu) used clinically and recorded in early TCM compendia.
Paracelsus codifies alcohol-based plant extractions in European medicine. The word “tincture” takes root.
The European Medicines Agency, Health Canada, and the World Health Organization all recognize hydroethanolic tinctures as standard herbal dosage forms.
Catherine Hunziker — midwife & master herbalist — starts crafting practitioner-grade liquid extracts for mothers and midwives in Boulder, Colorado. Same formulas, same format, still family-run.
Liquid format gives you something fixed-dose forms can’t: room to adjust. Pick the strategy that matches what you’re asking the herb to do.
One full serving in a small amount of water. Repeat as needed. This is the strategy fixed-dose capsules and gummies can’t deliver.
For ongoing support — sleep, stress, digestion. Consistent rhythm gives the body something to settle into.
Adaptogens, nervines, building herbs. Tonic dosing is what herbalists reach for when the goal is gradual constitutional support.
Alcohol, water, and glycerin each pull a different class of plant compound out of the cell wall. No single solvent reaches everything — so we use all three, calibrated to each herb individually. Tap a solvent to see what it captures.
Alcohol is the deepest-reaching botanical solvent. It dissolves the lipid layer of the plant cell wall — that’s where the most concentrated medicinal compounds live. For roots, resins, and bitter herbs, alcohol is non-negotiable.
Every herb in a WishGarden formula is extracted individually, in the solvent ratio that’s right for it — then combined. A resin-rich root and a mucilage-rich leaf don’t want the same alcohol percentage.
Every major herbal tradition has used liquid plant extracts as a primary delivery format. They’ve endured for the same reason they work now.

The earliest written records of liquid plant medicine.
Liquid plant preparations described in the Sushruta Samhita and other early Vedic medical texts — among the world’s oldest written records of herbal medicine.
“Asavas” — fermented herbal liquids — are still in clinical use today.

Alcohol-based decoctions enter clinical use.
Alcohol-based herbal decoctions (yao jiu, “medicine wine”) used clinically and recorded in early TCM compendia. Each formula calibrated to constitutional patterns.
The Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing catalogs 365 herbs — many extracted in alcohol.

The word “tincture” takes root.
Swiss physician Paracelsus codifies alcohol-based plant extractions in European medicine. The Latin tinctura — “a dyeing or coloring” — takes root as a category.
“All things are poison; only the dose makes a thing not poison.” — Paracelsus

Tinctures are a standard dosage form globally.
The European Medicines Agency, Health Canada, and the World Health Organization all recognize hydroethanolic tinctures as standard herbal dosage forms.
Not an alternative — a formally recognized format with monographed standards.

Catherine starts crafting for mothers and midwives.
Catherine Hunziker — midwife & master herbalist — starts crafting practitioner-grade liquid extracts for mothers and midwives. Same formulas, same format, still family-run.
“Whole plant extracts give the body something to recognize.”
Liquid format gives you something fixed-dose forms can’t: room to adjust. Pick the strategy that matches what you’re asking the herb to do.
One full serving in a small amount of water. Repeat as needed. This is the strategy fixed-dose capsules and gummies can’t deliver.
For ongoing support — sleep, stress, digestion. Consistent rhythm gives the body something to settle into.
Adaptogens, nervines, building herbs. Tonic dosing is what herbalists reach for when the goal is gradual constitutional support.
Bitter. Earthy. Bold. That’s not a flaw — it’s the plant’s natural chemistry, the terpenes, alkaloids, and phenolic compounds that make herbs what they are.
In many traditional herbal practices, tasting the herb is part of how the body responds to it. Bitters, for example, support digestive response specifically because the bitter flavor is recognized by the tongue.
New to tinctures? Drop your serving into 2–4 oz of water, juice, or tea. Your palate adjusts faster than you’d expect — most people stop noticing the taste within a week or two.
Depending on the formula, a single serving of a WishGarden tincture contains about the same amount of alcohol as:



The alcohol is there because it’s the most complete botanical solvent available — not as a meaningful dietary source of ethanol. If you’re avoiding alcohol, that context tends to change the conversation.
We started with a midwife. Catherine Hunziker founded WishGarden in Boulder in 1979 — not as a supplement company, but as a practitioner supply for mothers, midwives, and herbalists. The formulas she built then were liquid tinctures. They still are.
Formulated by Catherine — more than four decades of clinical herbal practice. Family-run, multi-generational, woman-owned.
Each herb is extracted individually in the solvent and ratio calibrated to its chemistry. No averaging. No shortcuts.
52% organic. 25% organic regenerative. 63% domestic. We follow plants, not trends — and we know the farms.
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