Medical Plants

BEFORE USING ANY PLANTS OR TREES FOR MEDICAL OR ANY OTHER USES YOU MUST BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY THEM!

NEVER USE A PLANT OR TREE FOR MEDICAL REASONS OR ANY OTHER REASON UNLESS YOU ARE 100% SURE WHAT IT IS!

Yarrow

· Yarrow has distinctive features about it such as dark feathery like leaves and tiny heads with white or pink flowers.  Use an infusion of the whole plant ( EXCEPT FOR THE ROOTS THEY ARE POISONOUS ) for colds and fevers. Also it can be used to help clot blood faster, or to lower blood pressure.  ( THE HEMLOCK PLANT LOOKS ALOT LIKE YARROW DO NOT USE THE HEMLOCK PLANT BECAUSE IT IS EXTREMELY POISONOUS ONE SMALL BITE WILL BE FATAL. )

Oak Tree

· Extract the liquid from the bark of an oak tree by heating or boiling the bark. Use liquid to clean wounds or rashes.

Garlic

· The bulb of the garlic plant is a very powerful antiseptic, dilute it with water for external swelling or treating wounds. Eating garlic can help prevent and treat colds.

Elm Tree

· Use a decoction of the bark from a elm tree for diarrhea and skin eruptions.

Poplar Tree

· The inner bark of poplars and other trees related to willows can be used just like aspirin for fevers, as a pain reliever, and to reduce the swelling of injuries. During the spring and early summer it is an easy matter to peel the bark from trees, and either chew it directly or steep it in hot water to make a tea. Simply cut into the bark and strip it off since the interface between the bark of the tree and its woody portion is very slippery, you can peel the bark off in long continuous strips. The smell and taste of poplar bark is very aspirin like and I rather enjoy its bitter taste though some people may find it a bit too much. You can chew a mouthful of bark and swallow the liquid if you are in a hurry and don’t mind the taste. An alternative is to simmer about 2 teaspoons of the inner bark in cup of water for ten minutes and let cool before straining and drinking. Three or four cups of this bark aspirin tea can be consumed daily. I have found that young trees are especially potent.