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How to: Hawthorn Flower Medicine

Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged , , , on May 5, 2012 | 1 Comment »

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: Make a Glycerin Tincture

Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged , , , , 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 [...]

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Kinnickinnick: How to Cure a UTI

Posted in Eat Weeds, Urban Foraging, Wilderness Survival, tagged , , , on December 11, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Kinnickinnick, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, also called Uva Ursi, Bear Berry, and Indian tobacco, is a common shrub planted ornamentally outside apartment complexes and homes and a common wild plant found in western and northern America. Kinnickinnick is a diuretic and urinary antiseptic, which makes it an effective cure for acute urinary tract infections. To make the [...]

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