Hawthorn is a heart medicine widely used to stabilize erratic heartbeat, moderate high blood pressure, and heal angina and arteriosclerosis (hardened arteries). It’s also popular as a medicine to heal the spiritual and emotional trauma of heartbreak and heart ache. Late spring is the perfect time to make hawthorn medicine with the flowering twigs. To [...]
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How to: Hawthorn Flower Medicine
Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged Crataegus, hawthorn, heart medicine, Tincture on May 5, 2012 | 1 Comment »
How To: Make a Glycerin Tincture
Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged Crataegus, DIY herbal medicine, glycerin, hawthorn, Tincture on March 4, 2012 | 13 Comments »
If you follow First Ways, you know that I usually make medicinal extracts of wild plants using grain alcohol or brandy, but glycerin is a good alternative solvent that agrees well with kids, animals and anyone else who may be sensitive to alcohol or partial to sweet flavors. In the photo above, you see I’m [...]
How Hawthorn Healed My Dog
Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged arrhythmia, Crataegus, hawthorn, heart medicine, herbs for dogs on January 13, 2012 | 16 Comments »
My little mutt, Petunia, likes to curl up around my feet. About two months ago, she was sleeping like this when I noticed that her heartbeat wasn’t going in a predictable rhythm. There was a random spasm in the mix. I took her to the vet, a conventional dog doctor, and he confirmed that she [...]
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