Yes!In my humble opinion we all need to be learning as well as growing medicinal herbs. Not only for us, but also our animals.
Here is a great one that luckily grows naturally around here. Non the less, I’ve also planted it in my herb plots under the fruit trees.
Heal All Herb
Prunella vulgaris
Other Names: Prunella, All-Heal, Hook-Heal, Self Heal, Slough-Heal, Brunella, Heart of the Earth, Blue Curls, Carpenter-weed, Common Self-heal, Consolida Minor, Lance Self-heal, Sicklewort, Woundwort, Xia Ku Cao
Prunella Vulgaris Herb Uses
Prunella Vulgaris is edible and used as a herb. It can be used in salads, soups, stews, or boiled as a pot herb. Heal All has been used as an alternative medicine for centuries on just about every continent in the world, and for just about every ailment known to man, Heal-All is something of a panacea, it does seem to have some herbal uses that are constant.
Recent research shows that application of Prunella Vulgaris is helpful in controlling herpes outbreaks in mice, click here to read more.
List of Links to Prunella Vulgaris Clinical Studies
Prunella’s most useful constituents are Betulinic-acid, D-Camphor, Delphinidin, Hyperoside, Manganese, Oleanolic-acid, Rosmarinic-acid, Rutin, Ursolic-acid, and Tannins. The whole plant is said to be alterative, antibacterial, antipyretic, antiseptic, antispasmodic, astringent, carminative, diuretic, febrifuge, hypotensive, stomachic, styptic, tonic, vermifuge and vulnerary.
A cold water infusion of the freshly chopped or dried and powdered leaves is a very tasty and refreshing beverage, weak infusion of the plant is used as an eye wash for sties and pinkeye. Prunella is taken internally as a herbal tea in the treatment of fevers, diarrhea, sore mouth and throat, internal bleeding, and weaknesses of the liver and heart. Clinical analysis shows it to have an antibacterial action, inhibiting the growth of pseudomonas, Bacillus typhi, E. coli, Mycobacterium tuberculi, which supports its use as an alternative medicine internally and externally as an antibiotic and for hard to heal wounds and diseases. It is showing promise in research for herpes, cancer, AIDS, diabetes, and many other maladies…”
Good. I just forgot to mention that jack-in-the-pulpit is only edible after it's processed. It needs to be dried and heated to neutralize the oxalic acid. It tastes like potato chips.We get purslane growing in our driveway. We have quite a number of the plants on this list growing in our garden, and several others grow wild in our area.
This is it.
Just please make sure you positively identify any wild plant used for food.Looks very familiar! I'm sure I've pulled some of that out of my yard! Gonna have to take closer look...thanks!
Agree 100%. Yarrow is a plant with a huge number of medicinal benefits, yet it can also be confused with hemlock.Purslane looks a lot like goats head. Seeds are small in purslane. Goats head can puncture tires.
Its like knowing the difference between Queen Anne’s Lace and poison Hemlock.
Make sure of your identification.
100%Poison Hemlock and QA lace have different stems.
I made the mistake of sending a dog after some Quail in what I thought was QALace. I just thought the CA version was taller.
He had some neurilogical problems that it took my wife months to diagnose.
Be aware of what things actually are.
Looks like Poison Hemlock or QA Lace. You need to know the stem. PH is red and hairy.
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