Common Garden Weeds Can Be Medicines (PURSLANE)

TEN COMMON WEEDS THAT HEAL for Tougher Times. PURSLANE

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Purslane is sold in a tincture
ANOTHER:
Eat it- fresh or cooked. The leaves can be eaten straight off the plant or added to sandwiches, salads, and soups; fresh or cooked. The stalk can be stir-fried, or eaten raw. The flowers can be eaten raw. The seeds can be stir-fried and used as a peppery seasoning. The roots can be used fresh or dried as a substitute for ginger or candied in syrup. (Source: Linda Runyon’s Essential Wild Food Survival Guide)
Personally, I enjoy picking the flowers and seed pods off the plant and eating them fresh in salads or sandwich.

• Quickly stop bleeding. Shepherd’s Purse is high in Vit. K, vegetable protein, potassium, calcium, beta-carotene and minerals. It has been used for centuries to stop bleeding internally and externally. For a quick field application, make a poultice by crushing up fresh or dried leaves to apply to a bleeding wound.
• An herbal tea can also be made to ease internal bleeding. Shepherd’s Purse tincture is often used by midwives to stop excessive bleeding after giving birth. (I actually took two droppersful of an alcohol tincture of Shepherd’s Purse after giving birth to help control the bleeding, per my midwife’s instructions, and can attest to its effectiveness.) Take it orally to treat internal bleeding.

How To Make A Shepherd’s Purse Tincture

A tincture is a very concentrated liquid extract of herbs, and is an effective way to take herbal medicine internally. You can take a dropperful or two straight from the bottle, but if the strong flavor is offensive you may also add the drops to a warm drink and take it that way as well.
Tinctures are usually made by infusing an herb in a strong alcohol base. However, for more sensitive people, especially children, you can choose to use glycerin or apple cider vinegar instead of alcohol. The latter options won’t be as strong medicinally as the former, but they are a good alternative and still work well.
Preserving Shepherd’s Purse in a tincture is a great way to capture the medicinal properties of the plant at the peak of harvest and enables you to reap its medicinal benefits year-round. Prepared tinctures are a quick and effective way to get an application immediately– as opposed to a tea which requires time to steep and cool.
For this particular herb, fresh plants are better than dried. Dried Shepherd’s Purse loses its potency rapidly. Some herbs must be dried before using in a tincture, but not in this case.


Others: Maybe in your garden or backyard? Sepherd's purse, Cleavers, Chickweed, Dandelion, Groundsel, Mallows, St johns wort, Self heal (prunella vulgaris), Usnea (usnea barbata) and number ten is Yarrow. These herbs may not expecially grow in your area's back yard. Yarrow is found in mountain areas more than plains i.e. There are many more. Make sure these herbs are not sprayed and away from car traffic (lead-contamination).
I like their comments from this posts. It gives way to store these herbs in a tincture. One sample, my favorite
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Notes on Lobelia

to use in formulas 

http://shermsorganicnews.blogspot.com/2010/12/history-of-lobelia.html

Lobelia alone cannot cure, but it is very beneficial if given in connection with other measures, such as an enema of catnip infusion morning and evening. An enema should be given even if the patient is delirious. It's important to remember to balance out Lobelia with another or other herbs. It works best this way, but not with a drug.
It will relieve the brain. Pleurisy root is a specific remedy for pleurisy, but it is excellent if combined with lobelia for its relaxing properties. The use of lobelia in fevers is beyond any other remedy. It is excellent for very nervous patients. Poultices of hot fomentation of lobelia are good in external inflammations such as rheumatism, etc. It is excellent to add lobelia to poultices for abcesses, boils and carbuncles. Use on-third lobelia to two-third slippery elm bark or the same proportion to any other herb you are using.

While lobelia is an excellent emetic, it is a strange fact that given in small doses for irritable stomach, it will stop spasmodic vomiting. In cases of asthma, give a lobelia pack, followed the next morning by an emetic. The pack will loosen the waste material, and it will be cast out with the emetic. In bad cases, where the liver is affected and the skin yellow, combine equal parts of pleurisy root, catnip and bitter root. Steep a teaspoonful in a cup of boiling water.
Give two tablespoons every two hours, hot. For hydrophobia, steep a tablespoonful of lobelia in a pint of boiling water, drinking as much as possible to induce vomiting. This will clean the stomach out; then give a high enema. This treatment should be given immediately after the person is attacked. Lobelia is excellent for whooping cough...For an emergency, there is nothing that will as quickly clear the air passage of the lungs as lobelia. A tincture made as follows will stop difficult breathing and clear the air passages of the lungs, if taken a tablespoonful at a time: (Add in lung herbals if you wish) This tincture is also on You Tube (Mt. Rose Herbs)
Lobelia herb 2 ounces
Crushed lobelia seed 2 ounces
Apple vinegar 1 pint or vodka (your only using drops and it will keep longer.)Soak for two weeks in a well-stoppered bottle, shaking every day.
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