Preparation of a HEALING OIL in a cold extract

The material preparation;
I use fresh plants to produce a healing oil in a cold extract. In the picture gallery for illustration is theCOMFWELare the protagonist, moreoverALANTANDCISTUSstill at work. 

I take a large glass (750 - 1000ml) and fill it all the way up to about an inch up to the screw with the finely divided plant (parts are 0.5-1.0 cm in size). Depending on the condition, for example with sclerophyllous plants, bark and roots, I lightly nudge the divided plants in the mortar. I don't do this with flowers and fine leaves. I don't press or stuff there so that there is still enough space for the oil. Then I add the oil.

For the first 2-3 days I leave the jar screwed on and shake it occasionally. The plant material sinks slowly and if necessary I add oil. After 2-3 days I replace the lid with a double layer of kitchen paper, which I fasten with a rubber band. I've tried a few other methods, but this one feels the best to me. That means my oil can breathe, gets AIR. Likewise, I always use

clear glass, no amber glass or similar and put the oils  to a sun-free but bright place. That means the oil gets LIGHT. I have not had any negative experiences in terms of durability. 
From now on I stir the oil every 2 days with a wooden stick (e.g. chopsticks or a sturdy plant stalk that is left over from drying the plants and does not get into my tea blends).Depending on the plant, the oil is ready in 6-8 weeks. I siftthen remove the plant parts and heat the oil to 70 degrees. This makes filtering with a coffee filter easier, as it then becomes more permeable and eliminates one or the other germ.
I bring the plant remains back into nature and don't just throw them in the trash can.

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The subtle preparation:
For me, the most important thing is the loving and respectful work with the plants. For me it starts with the harvest. I ask the plant if I can take something to make a medicine out of it for myself or for others. And as I said, I take SOMETHING, never everything. I collect and harvest carefully and always leave something for nature. The insects. left for the beauty or for another herbalist who also needs the little plant.
When collecting and working, I mostly recite the mantra of theMEDICINE BUDDHAS. which I learned in a ZEN monastery. The plants seem to like it, I feel it purely intuitively and automatically have to smile. 
WHY am I doing this? It has now been proven that plants are sensitive to pain and react to their environment (Rice test: In this test, 2 vessels were filled with rice and water, one placed in a loving environment (light, warmth and loving affection and words). The other was placed in an environment with opposite conditions and within a short period of time grew mold and other germs, while the first vessel remained completely germ-free and retained its original condition of rice and pure water.
As far as this is concerned, I've become so sensitive myself that I rarely, if ever, go out to eat. As far as vegetables or fruit are concerned, I am insensitive and tolerate everything. At some point I asked myself why I could eat the same food and sometimes not, same restaurant, same ingredients... The question was answered when I worked in the kitchen myself and on certain days, on certain days Cooks just got stomach ache, flatulence and diarrhea, as I said with the same ingredients. So I prefer to cook myself, because I don't feel like letting a possibly bad-tempered chef and what he stirs into the food spoil my meal.

TheTAJATA OM - MEDICINE BUDDHA MANTRAdoesn't allow any negative thoughts and so I sing it every 2 days while stirring and nothing gets into the oil that doesn't belong there.

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Excerpt of the text "EVERYTHING vibrates":

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...I do it with love. SHE - love - is the most penetrating vibration and SHE is the one that heals.

No procedure, no matter how complex and unusual, no ingredient, no matter how expensive, will be at our service with all its ability if we do not love what we use and what we do....