An herbal tincture is an extract of plant material in ethanol, and a spagyric tincture is much more potent since is made using all 3 parts of the plant: plant material (the soul), essential oils and plant extracts/sulfur (the spirit/alcohol) and potassium carbonate mineral (the body/ash from the burning/salt).  Spagyric tinctures also use the spirit of an herb to deliver the physical constituents to one's body. You can find the differences between our products outlined here, as well as how to read the symbols on our labels. In addition, an Initiatic is a substance that provides initiation into one or more of the mysteries. Syrian Rue and Kratom are both intiatics in that they are not used for their physiological effects but for their psychological effects to promote and provide a form of initiation into the spirit mysteries of those particular plants. An initiatic is going to help to contact and make connections with those plant spirits and not necessarily with the phytochemicals or the particular healing intelligence that you would come to know by the phytochemicals and constituents.