Pictured here is one of my favorite plants, if not my favorite. Broadleaf Plantain.It's a healing plant, vulnerary, useful especially for bug bites and persistent itchiness. Makes amazing balms.Where were you when you realized that plants are god's consolation for the skeeter?Any herbalists ab/out/? any stories of being saved by your wide knowledge of wonderful plants like these?
>>2847968>Where were you when you realized that plants are god's consolation for the skeeter?tracking hares and their diet. hares taught me to forage
>>2847968Yeah plantains are great and common. Make some good poultice. In my area, I've used jewlweed sap to help out with bug bites and stings.I've never been saved by wild plants in a herbalism or poultice way. I have been saved by wild edibles when I was stranded in some mountains (because of my own stupidity).I forage a lot for teas. I have done bergamot, wild mint, and raspberry leaf tea.Sometimes when I hike prairies I look for late-season compass plants. They usually have a lot of resin from bug nicks. I'll spend like 5-10 min getting a nice collection of resin. Then i'll look for some wild Virginia mint. Mix them together and its mint chewing gum for the rest of my hike. In mid-summer I can make a fruit gum with gooseberries, strawberries, or raspberries. In late summer its grapes, cherries, service berries, and some others.I've tried to do puffball mushroom and plantain poultice before but if I have a first aid kit i'm still using a band aid.
>>2848044>>2847968https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpPNswcrvi8Here is a great youtuber for some herbalism.I'll sometimes eat random stuff. Wild parsnips are invasive and burdock is all over my land. They make some good, long lasting root veggies.I've tried some wild teas for colds and they can help but its more just relaxing. I've made birch tar glue for arrows but it can be used in herbalism if you have a really bad finger cut and you're deep in the woods, like surgical glue. Wrap it in a leaf poultice.
>>2847968>Any herbalists ab/out/? any stories of being saved by your wide knowledge of wonderful plants like these?I mostly just impress friends on hikes with knowledge and getting them to try remedies and wild edibles. I also make jams and wines out of wild fruits. This is my last long post though. I'm surprised we don't talk about this more on /out/
I mostly care about wild plants as food, I rarely use them as medicine. I occasionally use plantain as a bandage, disinfectant, odor control, etc.
>>2847968i want to get to know stinging nettle better. ive brushed up against it and the sting of course is noticeable and persistent but feels kinda good in a weird way? ive heard it is good at helping with joint/muscle aches and wonder if flagellating with it might help my chronic ankle tendinosis
Does anyone eat weeds to terpene maxx before taking weed edibles? It seems to get me higher, sometimes almost too much when eating high terpene plants like Goldenrod
>>2850881lemon balm and marijuana are actually a great combo. also dried amanita muscaria skin mixed with marijuana
>>2850883>lemon balm and marijuana are actually a great comboThanks, I'll try that. I don't see that plant often, but Creeping charlie is edible, also mint-related and terpene rich. That shit smells so good when mowing over it.
>>2847968Only saved me money so far, I'm mostly interested in edible stuff, but I also harvest some medicinal stuff for a friend cause buying it is a massive rip-off
