Hello, this started out as a thought regarding ginseng and cayenne, but ultimately can be applied to any tinctures.
From experience, is there any difference between taking a dose of a herb mixed into a tincture, and the same herb as a powder in a pill? Presuming quality of the herb is the same between both?
I'm asking since I've noticed growth improvements with Lotus's ginseng/cayenne mix, but was having a hard time swallowing the price of the tinctures. While ginseng tinctures and pills were about the same cost, I was able to find cayenne pills for a good bit cheaper than the tinctures. Again, presuming the quality of the herbs were the same, would there be any reason the pills might have a greater/less effect than the tincture?
The tinctures still have the advantage of being able to mix into a drink instead of needing to take 4 pills a day, but I am curious if they'd effectively be the same, since presumably it's the same herb going into the body at the end of the day.
Asking because while I'm planning on buying MSM in a bulk powder to save on pills, I'm also aware you can buy cayenne and ginseng powder, and while the latter doesn't seem to common and is of low quality, cayenne, even in tincture forms, is to my knowledge simple extract from the cayenne pepper. And you can find a kilo of the stuff for far less than a tiny bit of it in tincture form. If the powder acts the same when diluted, hopefully it'd be a far cheaper way to get the same effect as from the more expensive tincture.