One way to preserve herbs for winter months is to make them into tincture. A tincture is extraction of a plants properties into alcohol for the purpose of medicine. In fact it is the traditional method of making medicine. Long before they had asprin, they had willow bark, from which asprin was originally made. Long before they had milk of magnesia, the had magnesium, which was used fro treating ailments. Using nature for medicine is a time honored tradition as natural as using nature for food.
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