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Post by Black Hand on Jun 25, 2019 9:47:33 GMT -7
My favorite medicinal plants on a scout is Yarrow. I have used on more than one occasion for a cut, burn or insect bite and had it as tea. Used topically, I take the fronds, mash them to a rough paste between 2 stones and apply to the injury - the paste is hemostatic, analgesic and slightly anesthetic. I have also found it will repel mosquitoes (they can't abide me, but the Lady is quite delicious to them) when the paste is rubbed on exposed skin. www.youcanlearnseries.com/Landscape/Images/YarrowPlant.jpgLink to a Yarrow Salve receipt - montanahomesteader.com/medicinal-yarrow-first-aid-salve/
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Post by hawkeyes on Jun 25, 2019 10:23:22 GMT -7
Yarrow is an excellent plant, wonderful recipe as well.
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Post by brokennock on Jun 25, 2019 22:21:26 GMT -7
Yarrow has long been one of my go to wild plants for all the uses you mentioned. I've made tincture with it and used it for it's bug repellent properties. Even transplanted some to the edge of my yard so I'd always have a known easy source.
I don't get poison ivy but have plenty of friends who do and I often use jewel weed to treat their itchy rashes. Mashed and used as a poultice works while I brew a tea of it and wait for it to cool, then use the tea for repeated cleanings of the affected area. A good friend has his own cottage industry handmade soap business and he makes a soap using it for use by poison ivy sufferers, several people like it enough that they use it regardless if they have a rash or not.
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Post by spence on Jun 26, 2019 13:31:23 GMT -7
I don't use any plants medicinally that I can recall, but I make good use of several as food. Sometimes they can really perk up your menu. A few I can remember:
sour grass (yellow woodsorrel) puffball mushroom morel mushroom wild onion dandelion black walnuts hickory nuts hazelnut pawpaw persimmon mulberry staghorn sumac blackberry
Spence
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Post by Black Hand on Jun 26, 2019 13:40:26 GMT -7
Had a batch of sauteed Dandelions with garlic and red pepper flake just the other day.
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Post by hawkeyes on Jun 26, 2019 15:19:46 GMT -7
Had a batch of sauteed Dandelions with garlic and red pepper flake just the other day. Now we are talking some good eating right there.
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Post by Black Hand on Jun 26, 2019 15:25:48 GMT -7
There is something about the bitter flavor that works well with the garlic - like Mustard greens but without the heat. I have wild mustard growing in relative abundance and I sampled a leaf - peppery. One day soon, I will do the same with them using plenty of garlic...
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Post by hawkeyes on Jun 26, 2019 15:41:02 GMT -7
There is something about the bitter flavor that works well with the garlic - like Mustard greens but without the heat. I have wild mustard growing in relative abundance and I sampled a leaf - peppery. One day soon, I will do the same with them using plenty of garlic... Garlic mustard is a phenomenal addition to dishes like that. I love eating wild mustard raw, to me it has great flavor. On a side note, add some chicory coffee and your set!
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Post by Black Hand on Jun 26, 2019 15:58:38 GMT -7
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Post by hawkeyes on Jun 26, 2019 17:53:11 GMT -7
Yup, we have the same thing as well.
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Post by waarp8nt on Jun 26, 2019 18:07:31 GMT -7
Plants that I have harvested and eaten; Morels, blackberries, cherries, persimmons, hazelnuts, and wild onions. Likely some other stuff, but those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. At the risk of being called crazy, I love to hunt mushrooms, but don't care to eat them...luckily my sister loves them.
Plants that I have harvested for medical purposes; I used to harvest jewelweed as a poison ivy remedy for my dad. It is a common plant in our area that can be found in the bottoms or ditches and is easily identified by its orange flower. Typically the joints are segmented where branch shoots off the base stem of the plant. I would cut out the segmented part and crush it to get the moisture or juice out of it. Dad would apply it to the effected area and the poison ivy would dry up the blisters and heal much faster. He claimed it worked better than anything he could buy over the counter or get at the Dr. Office. We learned about this treatment at a Native American gathering at the damming of the Kaskaskia River (Lake Shelbyville) long before the internet. Jewelweed can be harvested, made into ice cubes and saved for the next year to combat that pesky early season poison.
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Post by Black Hand on Jun 26, 2019 21:00:50 GMT -7
I appear to be one of those people that isn't affected. I remember wandering though the scrub with a friend in California, he got a rash from Poison Ivy/Oak and I got nothing...
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Keith
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Post by Keith on Jun 26, 2019 23:35:10 GMT -7
Yarrow grows in only one place in the forest that I have found so far. Blackberries of course, cats ear, Dandelion, cattail, apple berry, nettles, dock, Lambs Quarters, Plantain, Goonagurra Flowers. That is all I can think of off the top of my head in regards to plants. Keith.
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Post by Black Hand on Jun 27, 2019 4:30:50 GMT -7
Blackberries, Raspberries, Thimble-berries, Huckleberries, Cattail, Wild Asparagus, Service-berries, Hawthorn berries, Oregon Grape, Arrowleaf-Balsamroot (seeds similar to Sunflower), Bearberry, Fir tip tea, wild Mint, Evergreen pitch & inner bark and a few others that I've sampled but not eaten in any great quantity.
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Post by Keith on Jun 27, 2019 16:15:24 GMT -7
I forgot to mention Hawthorn berries, not very tasty on their own, but food, & Rose hips & Prickly Pear, which is a cactus. Very tasty but watch out for the spines! Keith.
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