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This is a great graphic on how weeds – found in your own yard – can be used to help heal sicknesses, burns, sores and other ailments. Check out our posts on food storage and other topics by clicking on the categories tab to the right. You’d be surprised how many weeds you can find in your yard (but hopefully not) that can help heal your body and make you feel better.
Excerpted from Susan S. Weed and natureskills.com
Great info to print out and save. Thanks
April 1st, 2012 at 2:13 pmGreat post! I have a lot of these in my yard. I suffer from migraines. I can’t wait to pull weeds now. Hoping my migraines go away.
April 4th, 2012 at 1:11 amI have acres of chickweed all condensed in my gardens every year about this time! (Feb.-March)
April 4th, 2012 at 9:10 amIf I could sell it, I’d be rich.
When you say to mix with ‘alcohol’ for a tincure, do you mean rubbing alcohol or liquor alcohol? Is it safe to consume rubbing alcohol, even in these small doses?
April 4th, 2012 at 9:45 amNo, you’re right. We wouldn’t recommend drinking rubbing alcohol.
April 4th, 2012 at 9:59 amI wish this were available as a poster! Such good info to keep up all the time!
April 4th, 2012 at 11:10 amI suffer with migraine headaches and would love to prepare the solution. I just don´t know how much alcohol and how much oil. What kind of alcohol or oil?
I want to share with my friends this information, all 10 of them.
Thanks a lot!!!
April 5th, 2012 at 6:45 amTo make a tincture, use 100+ proof alcohol (a clear kind preferably like vodka), and just place 1 parts fresh herbs/weeds and 2 parts alcohol in a clear glass jar. Cover the jar and keep it in a cool dark place for about a week or so (if you are extracting the roots, you need to chop up the roots and let it sit in the alcohol longer). To extract more of the medicinal quality of the plant, shake the jar once every day or two. Strain the liquid out into another container and you got your medicinal tincture.
That’s just about the basics of tincture-making. Alcoholic tinctures can last a long time (some say for 10 years), especially when stored in dark cool places. If you want more information about using herbs and such, try reading Making Plant Medicine by Richo Cech and The Woman’s Handbook of Healing Herbs by Deb Soule.
April 7th, 2012 at 8:01 pmGreat info! Just make sure you don’t use plants that have been sprayed with harmful chemicals or plants that are near areas that have been sprayed. And watch out for plants in areas where pets go potty!
April 12th, 2012 at 4:33 amIs there a know reason for ‘white’ yarrow only? I have never heard of it being restricted and have a boat load of red.
April 15th, 2012 at 1:49 pmFrom our research, it looks like white yarrow’s seeds are a different size and more potent than red yarrow. However, I’d be really interested to test out red yarrow and see how it compares. If you test it out, please let us know. We’d love to hear!
April 16th, 2012 at 9:15 amGreat info. Just a small typo :
April 18th, 2012 at 3:36 amachellia millefolium = achillea millefolium
Great info to print out and save. Thanks
May 23rd, 2012 at 6:35 pmThank you! Is there a substitution for the alcohol? I keep it out of my system, it’s best that way
May 27th, 2012 at 10:38 am100 proof, buy it from the liquor store.
May 28th, 2012 at 7:02 pmI would not use Senecio vulgaris. It might be toxic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senecio_vulgaris#Reputation_for_being_noxious_and_toxic
May 29th, 2012 at 3:50 pmMy grandmother knows these things; time to pick her brain. Great article.
August 13th, 2012 at 4:28 amI have a friend that used to make tinctures with vinegar instead of alchohol. She claimed that they worked just as well. I am quite sure that the recipe was the same except for that.
August 13th, 2012 at 5:32 ami have twigs and leaves from a specific bush that i want to tincture. Should i first boil the twigs and leaves in water for about 15 minutes, then add same amount of alcohol as water to make a tincture from twigs and leaves?
Liz
August 13th, 2012 at 9:33 amUseful information. Just a note for those of you with headaches. I started suffering headaches and my mother becames very ill with severe muscle aches, headaches and lethargy. After 4 months of utter frustration and test after test after test I stumbled on the PG&E SmartMeter posts. Long story short, I had ours removed. Within a week week and a half Mom is her fisty old self and I have no more headaches. Scarey!!! Get rid of yours!
August 13th, 2012 at 10:16 amThe Website to join the free webinar on edible weeds is not correct I couldn’t access it and it said it wasn’t a valid site……
August 13th, 2012 at 12:16 pmEven though these are great ideas, you should also start with a trial dose – i.e. put a few drops on your skin to see if you react to these weeds. If you swell and itch or have a reddening of the test area, don’t use them. ALWAYS have a supply of diphenhydramine on hand as well. (Benadryl is the tm name.)
August 13th, 2012 at 1:31 pmI have been using essential oils and herbs for years, because I have bad reactions to the prescriptions that doctors give to me. I find that they do what they say they will do without the side effects.
Abby: What did you have removed?
August 13th, 2012 at 1:49 pmI can find no article. I find an over-lay of readyStore products over a couple of sentences I can’t read because of the overlay! Sad!
August 13th, 2012 at 9:58 pm“Great info to print out and save.” Yes it certainly would be but there doesn’t seem to be any way to do that!
August 14th, 2012 at 8:18 amConrad, turn on our printer and hit ctrl-P. That will print the page.
August 14th, 2012 at 6:54 pmWheres the info? Theres nothing on the page…. Nothing loaded but the comments.
August 14th, 2012 at 8:07 pmWhen do you take orally and when do you apply topically?
August 15th, 2012 at 8:29 amCan’t get rest of article, just comments.
Abby, what did you have removed??
August 16th, 2012 at 9:23 amGood piece of writing. Will definitely return to get more information.
August 18th, 2012 at 2:00 pmFran & Judy: Abby had her “smart meter“ removed from heer home. Our power company, Pacific Gas & Electric, installed meters that send information back instead of having to be manually “read“, and there have been people that claimed they caused health problems. The only headaches they caused on our household was that the meter shows us using double the electricity we used with a manually-tead meter.
August 19th, 2012 at 8:38 amWhat a wonderful thing weed(s) are!
March 5th, 2013 at 6:02 pmMigaine? You might be allergic to food. Get tested. Or: eat one food and do the pulse test every 15 min’s. for 1 hour.
March 30th, 2013 at 5:45 amSorry, meant Migraine! Got up too early!
March 30th, 2013 at 5:46 amAn old neighbor of mine used apple cider vinegar instead of alcohol – do you have any information about this method?
March 30th, 2013 at 8:54 amI also use mullien for asthma in tincture form, lomatium root in tincture form for flu’s and infections, Hawthorne tincture to strengthen heart muscles. Always keep on hand 100 proof vodka for tincture usage. I keep quarts of tinctures for medical problems hope you all will start as well. Great for preppers!
March 30th, 2013 at 2:32 pm