Dishwater Tincture!

Yesterday morning I decided to clean up my shelf that holds my tinctures, vitamins and natural medicines. I noticed that I had just a tad left of my nettle tincture and figured I'd use it up that day and then be able to use the bottle for something else. I shook it up good and dosed up the dropper, then noticed there was only a bit left beyond the one dropper full, so I ditched the dropper and took a sniff before tossing it all back into my mouth.

The following happened all within the same moment as I chugged it back.. I noticed the tincture no longer had an alcohol smell and instead smelled kinda watery and sweet, I swallowed it down and immediately noticed it didn't taste a thing like nettle tincure and tasted more like.... lite beer....., or worse!!..... OLD FUNKY DISHWATER!!! ACK!!! it all suddenly came back to me... I had used up the nettle awhile ago and had put the bottle to soak in a sink-full of dirty dishes! I remember filling the bottle with the nasty hot soak water and screwing the lid on and setting it on the counter to soak off some nettle crud that was on the bottom of the jar. It must have mistakenly been put back on my tincture shelf where I forgot about it for a few weeks until that moment when I was drinking it down.

UUgh!!!... my stomach is churning just thinking about it again. My sink is usually pretty nasty too, I'm not the most diligent housekeeper and we sometimes take a long time to get to dishes... sometimes more than a day's worth are piled in there. I'm just picturing the concoction I drank being a lovely stew of...lets see... left over salmon with skin dried on dinner dishes, old beans, stale cereal milk, tea leaves, egg drippings, oh geez and the container I use to scoop up the chickens food which sometimes gets forgotten in the coop and possibly had chicken droppings on it. Mmmmm.... Good stuff! BLECH!! I immediately sent down a chaser of thyme tincture and elderberry followed by a good soup with LOTS of ginger and garlic. So far so good! So anyway....what was that I was saying about what doesn't kill you makes you stronger! LOL