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Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favor compared with the products of nature, the living cell of the plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life
T. A. Edison
My love affair with nature is so deep that I am not satisfied with being a mere onlooker, or nature tourist. I crave a more real and meaningful relationship. The spicy teas and tasty delicacies I prepare from wild ingredients are the bread and wine in which I have communion and fellowship with nature, and with the Author of that nature.
Euell Gibbons
Foraging- that wonderful way of gathering free food. I went foraging spruce tips recently. Learn how to prepared and store them for immune boosting tea!
Check out this blog on how to forage Spruce Tips
Medicinal vinegars (Vinegar Extracts) have been around since ancient times and were an excellent way to preserve and dispense herbs before distilled spirits were known about. While the advantages of using vodka or brandy to make your herbal tinctures are many - including greater potency and longer shelf life, there are those who wish to avoid alcohol for personal reasons or cost factors, making vinegar extracts ideal for them to create. Vinegar extracts (also known as 'aceta')
Okay....so you have your herbs. You have a few dry, a few very fresh. How do you get them to be used for medicinal purposes? Sometimes you make tinctures. Now many times you use alcohol for this but you can also use vinegar. Here is a blog that explains that.
Working with The Home Depot on the outdoor and gardening campaign has been fun, and for my last post I am going to be using those wonderful herbs I purchased last week on my shopping spree. I have always wanted to make an herb garden, but with a small yard, 4 children, and 2 dogs, there is not …
Are you like me and have a small backyard and can’t quite do a whole garden? Do you live in an apartment complex? Check out this really neat idea to make a vertical pallet herb garden.
Cold enough for you lately? Missing the warm days of summer? So are we. Luckily, we’ve got a tiny bit of summer flavor captured in a bottle on our spice shelf. Remember the window boxes we planted with herbs and greens last June? We enjoyed fresh basil, parsley, Swiss chard and lettuce all last summer. …
Check out this persons blog about preserving fresh herbs. Step by step tutorial.
Fullness of my backyard
A wonderful geranium and a hosta looks pretty neat in my flower teapot
I even went out and got a White Rosebud Azalea to spruce up my herb garden
My herb garden is looking pretty good for my patio.
My herbs are starting to get bigger
Getting some new soil for my herbs and plants
Moving my herbs around and found this cute baby high chair. Put a Hosta in the middle and my herbs around it
Botanical Name: Artemisia absinthium.
Other Common Names: Absinthe, grand and common wormwood, green ginger, madderwort, old woman, absinthium, ajenjo.
Habitat: Wormwood is indigenous to the temperate climate zones of Europe, northern Africa and western Asia.
Currently it is cultivated commercially in many parts of the world including central and northwestern United States.
Plant Description: Wormwood is perennial shrub-like plant of the aster family (Asteraceae).
The roots or rhizomes produce firm stems which are covered with fine delicate hairs. The leaves are green with a hint of gray and the flowers are yellow that bloom during summer.
The plant can grow up to one and half meters in height or three feet.
Plant Parts Used: The leaves and the flowering tops – collected in July and August and then dried naturally or by artificial means.
Wormwood is thought to improve digestions and stimulate the digestive system which explains this herb´s use as an herbal remedy for gallbladder, liver and stomach ailments. It has been used traditionally as a natural treatment for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), colds, chronic fever, heartburn and to enhance the immune system. To hide its bitter taste is is usually mixed with other herbs like peppermint which has more agreeable flavor. Wormwood is thought to have calming effect and could be helpful to those suffering from epilepsy and muscle spasms and to treat mild forms of depression.
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Botanical Name: Achillea millefolium.
Other Common Names: Common yarrow, carpenter’s weed, knight’s milfoil, noble yarrow, old man’s pepper, nosebleed, staunchgrass, soldier’s woundwort, sanguinary, devil’s nettle, devil’s plaything, bad man’s plaything, yarroway, herb militaris, thousand leaf, thousand seal, field hop, millefolium, ladies’mantle, gandana, i-chi-kao, gearwe, yerw.
Habitat: Yarrow is a hardy perennial that is native to Eurasia and widely naturalized in the United States.
There is some debate as to whether the herb is circumpolar; that is, whether it is native throughout the temperate regions of the world. There is a related species found in America known as wooly and/or western yarrow (achillea lanulosa).
Yarrow can be found in waste areas, edges of railway tracks, lawns, grassy areas, old fields, along fence lines, roadsides and other edges.
It does well in nutrition poor soil as long as it is well-drained. It prefers full sun but will tolerate partial shade.
Yarrow is drought-resistant; however it is susceptible to mildew and rust. It is generally free of disease and insect predation.
Plant Description: Achillea millefolium is a very hardy perennial that in the early springtime sends up a rosette of long, feathery, stalked leaves.
The stem is angular and rough with leaves that are alternate, 3 to 4 inches long and 1 inch wide, clasping the stem. The leaves are bipinnatifid, the finely cut segments giving the herb a feathery look (hence the common name “thousand leaf”).
A fuzzy, hairy flower stalk appears later in the season, with shorter, alternate, unstalked leaves that may be rather sparse. Yarrow is pleasantly aromatic, flowering early summer through early fall with white, or sometimes pink, flat-topped clusters.
The flowers are about a quarter-inch in diameter, with four to six, but generally five ray flowers with three teeth at their tip. The ray flowers are usually wider than they are long, and surround many little disk flowers.
Yarrow blooms for a long time, eventually producing seed heads that remain standing throughout the winter. The basal leaves often persist through winter and may still show green when the snow melts in springtime.
Plant Part Used: Arial parts; stems, leaves and flower.
Yarrow is a traditional woman’s herb, used to ease menstruation. Many herbal sources regard it as a uterine tonic. A number of studies have supported the use of it to enhance circulation to the uterus, improving the tone, increasing menstrual flow and reducing uterine spasms and menstrual cramps. Yarrow is used as a natural decongestant and expectorant having astringent action that is useful in treating nasal congestion due to colds and allergies caused by molds, dust, pollen and dander.Skin conditions such as eczema are treated with an infusion of yarrow.Yarrow is used as a natural anti-inflammatory in the treatment of arthritis and rheumatism. The volatile oil is rich in sesquiterpene lactones, and alkamides giving yarrow its anti-inflammatory activity. The presence of the alkamides may also further reduce inflammation.
Dosage and Administration. Yarrow flowers – 3 g per day as a tea or infusion.
Extract (1:1, 25 ethanol) – 1 to 4 ml three times a day.
Dried herb – 2 to 4 g of infusion or yarrow capsules Could not find product data.
three times a day.
Tincture (1:5; 40 ethanol) – two to four times a day.
Need to learn about the differences in the headaches and muscles aches if I am going to be treating myself and my family correctly.