NOT a Weed: STOP Killing This Shockingly Useful Plant
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- čas přidán 6. 07. 2024
- Learn about the surprising benefits of the broadleaf plantain in this video and stop killing this useful plant! Discover how to identify, harvest, and cook with plantain for natural pain relief and inflammation treatment and other types of holistic healing. This video explores the shocking uses of an incredibly versatile yet common plant. I'll cover its medicinal uses (wound healing, cough relief, etc.), its role as a food source (for humans and animals!), and its surprising practical applications like fire starter and natural dye. We'll also delve into the history of the plantain name and its connection to Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet!
Want to learn more about a specific use? Let me know in the comments!
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00:00 Plantain: Weed or Wonder Plant? (Uses Revealed!)
00:55 Plantain: The Misunderstood Weed with Superpowers
01:06 Plantain Everywhere! The Most Common Medicinal Plant?
01:34 Plantain vs Banana: What's the Difference
02:10 The Mystery of the Double Plantain Name (Solved!)
02:24 Plantain, Pepper, Biscuits... Foods with Confusing Names
02:51 Latin origin of the word plantain
03:13 Theories about origin of plantain name
03:46 Plantain in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
04:00 Ancient medical uses of plantain
05:24 Metamucil comes from plantain
05:58 Plantain is edible for people and animals
06:10 Yes you can feed plantain to Rabbits
06:28 Plantain's Hidden Uses: String, Twine & Natural Dye!
06:53 Plantain flower stock can be used as tinder for fires
07:20 Plantain: The Secret Weapon for Healthy Soil
08:03 Plantain: Nature's Multitasking Miracle!
#naturalremedies #herbal #herbalmedicine #permaculture #painmanagement #naturalhealing - Jak na to + styl
I have both narrow and broadleaf plantain. I dug some up from a pasture and intentionally moved them to my yard. Same with Mullien, lambs quarters, and purslane! My friends think I’m a little off. 😂
That is awesome!
I love our "weedy" yard! I'm always finding treasures in there. 🙃 Looking at a big expanse of boring grass is so depressing to me!
Was there a specific purpose? Sounds great by the way
I’m right there with you 😂
I did the same at my uncle's farm. I grow many weeds each year to increase my stockpile of seeds of "wild herbs". Mullein, purslane, Boneset, pokeweed (ya just never know if you'll need to administer it to someone 😮😅) and many more. I had a wild herbs and wild edibles field guide and a plant app to help identify. Yeah, literally everyone i know (Except my neighbor, who saves my sanity) calls me crazy 😂.
I have made a few tinctures and poultices, and freeze dried some, but with so many seemingly simultaneous projects going on..... yeah, I need to start utilizing and incorporating the things I'm growing.
Any who, happy 4th 🇺🇸
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I was a wrangler on a Resort and horses always were getting weird wounds... one day I said to my boss dont call a ver just yet I have a natural remedy! I gathered many plantain plants an ground them well and added warm bran mash then applying to the swelling wrapping well and a in several hours a huge splinter was retrieved from that
dressing! My boss was truly amazed at that !!
I love it!
Sounds like you should be the boss.
Yes. We need to Educate ourselves on all the so called weeds. That are not Weeds.
Weeds are a human invention.
I always wondered about the etymology of the word plantain and why the weird plants in my lawn were called the same name. Thanks for explaining that and all of its amazing uses.
Anything but a banana...😂
for sure!
Growing up in Europe, my grandmama taught me to use this plant for scrapes, small wounds and mosquito bites. It always worked. Since that time, I always have had a respect for it, even in the USA. Same respect, as for dandelions, which are the best cleanser for our liver! I never used chemicals on my lawn and chemical spraying services guys make fun of me, seeing yellow flowers in my front yard. How little they know!
Interesting!
One of my sons would put it in a blender and then in an icecube tray in the freezer. He worked at facility that would bring in classes for outdoor education. If a student was stung he would get a plantain icecube to place on the spot. It worked!
Brilliant me to blessed be x
@@joanneadamovich8114 wow!
Works on Mosquito bites that's a win, win for me.
As a child, we picked it and made salad with clover heads. Please make another video with more uses. Thank you 😊
My grandmother taught me that by folding the leaf a little, you can make a cup to drink water from the spring.
Fun!
First you have to find a spring. :)
That's a neat idea. Buy just wanted to say you might want to boil your water from the spring though, a teacher of ours got a clear glass jar full of spring water so she could hold it up to the light to show us that there were basically almost microsopic creepy critters in the water and that's why you want to boil it first . But thats an awesome idea of your Grand ma 🙂🙏💖
I had an old Italian neighbor friend who’s yard was nothing but ‘weeds’. She schooled me so I wouldn’t harm them, explaining that ALL of her plants were edible and medicinal plants brought here by immigrants (often at great cost). She was 96 years of age and in better shape than me
I love it!
WEED : any plant that is growing where you dont want it... roses are weeds when they grow in a vegetable garden
Or not.
Multiflora rose is a weed most places it grows
Also WEED : any plant that is growing better than your desired crop that you put all the work in for
Rose petals are edible. Wild roses are numerous some places . However Rose hips are a laxative
Roses in a veggie garden are a natural attractant for bees and other bugs which polinate it as well as your garden veggies.
To heal broken bones you make a poultice of comfrey.
Lost it on the internet & could never find again, was that fenelgreek helps heal broken bones. Don't know where I read this. I did use fenelgreek to reduce a hematoma (a huge swollen bruise🔴) & knee swelling.
Narrow leaf plantain does pretty much the same things and my courtyard is full of it. I recommend a video on Lambs Quarters. It’s another amazing plant!
I made a flower bed just for the plantain so it wouldn't get mowed. I'm working through all the uses, and love knowing this beneficial plant is within arms reach. Thank you for taking the time to make this video. I'll be watching for more.
Smart!
Learning about these plants may help people to stop spraying herbicides where their children play.
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I know... It's instantly, spraying poison on your yards, on the ground.
IT can't possibly be good for you.
And what do they think happens after it kills weeds? They think it magically disappears?
Hell no! It remains and continues, seeping into the water table! 😩
Yes, please make additional videos maybe showing what they look like and how to identify the different varieties.
he did show it
@@LisaG-fu9zpOnly the broadleaf up close, or did I miss something? Always doing two things at once
Plantain seed can be used like flax seed as an egg substitute.
I think you put this video up the same day I remarked that plantain seems to have taken over my lawn this year.
...I'm always listening...
Just recently taught my niece about this plant, she eats it all the time now… I’m surprised considering most of the time it’s bitter but the right ones can be sweet
The soils makes a difference and picking at correct time.
be carefully, “all the time” maybe a little too much
Good job, I do have plantain growing in abundance and I knew it had bleed stop properties and was edible. I was not aware of it's many other properties and I'm flabbergasted to learn this. More uses, more wild edibles and medicinals, yes please and thank you.
Thanks for bringing back my childhood memories….i used to pick up the plantain with my grandma…..in the country where I was born it’s called the warrior herb ( approximately translated) since the rebels were using it to heal the wounds…..
My grandfather used to make special tonics etc…
The tea made from the dried leaves is little bit bitter,they were putting teaspoons of honey in it
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And rabbits LOVE this stuff! 😄😄
Aloha! Mahalo for your explanation of the LAUKAHI KUAHIWI. Such a wonderful plant. I recall one time I had a painful boil on my okole (butt.) I ground some laukahi leaves and placed in on the boil for about 4 hrs. At the end of that time the inflamed redness and pain was complely gone. It left a slight 'dip' in my skin in that area. If you leave the poultice on there for any longer than that that you will have a crater in you skin. With Aloha, Keoni
P..S. YES you can eat it and to the comment below CRYSTAL BLUE PERSUASION: 'pigweed' is the common name for many 'weeds' that Da' PIG will eat. I too have eaten other kinds of 'pigweed' par boiled sprinkles with sesame seeds, soy sauce and apple cider vinegar over white rice.
BROKE DA MOUTH!!
lol...I love it!
I am going to search my yard. I am probably weeding and throwing it away. Dad always said a weed is just a misplaced plant. Great information!
Yup
I disagree, a weed is exactly where it needs to be. A weed is a scout, telling us the soil is having an issue. Search, Soil Works LLC. from ND.
Ah, good old lawn cabbage. I used to have fun by making up my own names for plants I didn't know, then I 'knew' them. I don't pull anything out of the lawn, my last one day survey identified 39 non-grass flowering plants species there. Mix that with many grass species and some sedges, and it's pure heaven. No species dominates, it never needs watering or fertilization, it flowers, and it grows slowly. Sorry, typical American, going off about my lawn... Thanks for the video! edit: The first time I ever saw shinleaf, it was blooming in the back yard!
I love it!
I’d love to hear more about ways to eat/prepare it
Thank you so much, I've lived on a small urban greenbelt for over 40 years that I have personally put a great deal of time in maintaining. It's been amazing to me in my retirement years to slowly learn that many 'weeds' that once disgusted me were actually very beneficial plants as you just showed. It's a sad how much practical knowledge we've lost as a culture...
Totally agree!
You can also boil it down to a black paste and smoke it as an aphrodisiac. It take a few hours but it does work! I have 7 kids.
LOL
Rofl
And an ugly wife?
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Lmao!
Great to see you talk on the benefits of plantain. I love this herb, use it for bee stings, spit poultice works like magic. Also infuse it in oil for salves, and make a tincture in combo with calendula for leaky gut as it is an astringent and demulcent .
What a revelation @WineberryHill 🌱 I had _NO_ idea broadleaf plantain had all these benefits PLUS it produces psyllium husks?! I just like the way it looks 🥰
Tastes good too...wild spinich is what I understood it to be. I harvest is all yeR like spinich eat is all winter✌️
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I first learned about plantain being beneficial while watching a season of Alone. A contestant with MS used it as part of a natural treatment
Interesting. Great show.
I learned about this plant a few years ago and I love it! I use it for wounds and bug bites. Works like a charm. Heals wounds in a day or two and stops the bug bite itching in a few minutes and it doesn't start itching again later. Thanks for video would like to see all types to help identify them.
A friend taught me about this plant that my parents called "pigweed." I've been using for cooking for 45 years.
this plant isn't pigweed btw ,but yes pigweed is edible nutrition
@@SuperReznative. But pigs aren't.
Leviticus 11.
@@senatorjosephmccarthy2720 my sin is bacon
I have plantain growing profusely on my property. I always liked it. As a kid, we would snip off the tall shoots, fold the stem around itself and pull the stem through the fold. This would pop the seed head off like a little gun. Much less ominous than the realistic toy guns of today. I also just like walking through it. For the past few years, I have been leaving a large portion of my back yard basically unmowed - only mowing once in the spring, and the second and final time in late fall. The result is a beautiful plot of tall grasses and "weeds" that move with the breeze, attract insects and wildlife, and annoy my chemically addicted neighbors. It's a win, win, win. So glad to read about all the other benefits of plantain that I was not aware of. Really enjoy your site. Thanks.
I appreciate your kind words and am glad you enjoy the content on my channel. Your support means a lot!
At 77YO, I prefer eating weeds to weeding my garden (LOL). Thank you. Very useful info.
Smart!
I guessed you were going to say either plantain or dandelion. I love my weeds. Heart-shaped clover taste lemony.
I wasn't aware five years ago about broadleaf plantain before I pulled up every piece. I am filled with sorrow since, learning of it's properties, and I am grateful there are people like you spreading this information about plants. Keep up the good work! I really enjoyed your video:)
glad you enjoyed it
Aloha. I live in Hawaii and I got bit by something. At first I didn't know what it was. There were 2 marks. Some people said it was a spider bite and some people said it was a centipede. I found out as few days later it was a centipede. I used essential oils initially that were helping but not doing the trick totally. I noticed it was hot and becoming red. I literally had a dream about plantain and told a friend who was studying Hawaiian medicine. She got me some from her friend's yard since her friend did not spray and told me to chew it and put it on top of the bite and wrap it in saran wrap. I laid there for an hour and I could feel the poison leaving the site. I did it a few more times and it did its job. I am so grateful for plantain. It grows on our campus at school and I always point it out to my 2nd graders when we are walking on campus. Mahalo for the video and sharing the many uses!
This plant is very well known and appreciated in ROMANIA , and that's for centuries !... the syrop made of the leafs it treats very rapid (and no later helth inconvenients) the caugh , amigdales and throat infections and in general, all depending on respiratory tract... a wonder of Mother Nature ,i use it also for salads and ,along with another wonder plant : horstail, we prepare an unguent-cream /coconat oil based , realy remedy rapidly treating any joints/articulation pain....
Wow, that's so cool! Nature really does have all the answers, huh? Thanks for sharing this with us!
I am a chronic pain patient and discovered Blue Wild Lettuce on my property. I heard they take two years to come back. I harvested the seeds and now I'm wondering how best to plant the seeds for a good harvest of whatever is the pain relieving element.
Look up the growth cycle and recreate that. If it needs winter then you look up how to cold stratify the seeds
Oddly enough, found out about it this week from an old lady. We have narrow leaved plantain (Wegeirch) here, works the same. My grassy areas are full of it :-). Lots of bugs here too and i react quite strongly to all bites. I'm now gathering to dry and make salve.
That is so funny! When I was a kid my cousins and I played with that all the rime.😮😅 Pretended the leaves were salad , the green seeds, tea, and when they turned brown/black, called them coffee! Even mixed them in water in a play coffee pot, 😮😅❤😂😂
You have got to show us the plant more often up close
I need to learn more about the uses of each weed. You have me hooked on getting to know more about plantain. The videos that have a detailed description of when to harvest, how to prepare, how to preserve, and how to use are very helpful to me. Thank you!
Ok sounds good!
What I've always heard is it grows where there's a lot of foot traffic, thus the name.
Bingo! That's where it grows.
I already researched burdock, but you could do a video on that too!, apparently the roots are edible!, and (i think) the flower-stock shoots!!!.
(might've been another thing don't quote me, but definitely the roots)
i never thought such an annoying velcro-y plant would be...not such a bad thing after all, -now he is tame and in a special spot in my garden playing nice with my kale,
and i am going to be farming both that, and thistle for a frozen veggie mix for when i make soups and fry vegetables, -and since they love to grow ANYWAYS,
in any soil without need for love or protection, it will help greatly in my famine i am experiencing here in canada with the bad economy.
i already LOVED plantain, but i am still happy to see a video and learn more on it, -next year i am going to grow some greens of them in a gravel-garden,
because our driveway...got FILLED with the little baby ones, and the gravel protects them from moisture on the leaves, AND, keeps all the weeds decently out (that i wouldn't want to eat)
ANDDDD, they will not get dirt-splash from rain on their leaves, reducing the need to scrub, and also, making it easier to lop-off all the leaves to eat.
-we can't have our driveway overrun and turning into a lawn, so i have been pulling them out because i am not going to eat walked-on driveway greens,
but, i DEFINITELY am going to farm them in a setting similar, because the leaves are SO many, and SO easy to harvest that way, and they look so clean and fresh,
and without pests as the ones who live without the rocks seem to have.
Oh,darnit! I just pulled up (by the roots) a 32 gallon trash can of 4' high thistle from one bed of pachysandra. I guess I'll be adding THAT batch to my JADAM fertilizer. Knew I couldn't add it to my compost pile, as it had started flowering. What else can I do with it?😊
I had so much plantain coming up around my chicken coop in Oregon that I would pull it and feed it to my chickens. I moved to NW Arizona where there was no plantain so I grew the narrow leaf from seed and bought the broad leaf variety from Azure Standard. Makes me feel at home! They are surviving our hot 100 degree summer so far.
That is awesome!
yep, true. I was at an airport when I saw a small child with significant mosquito bites. I gave his mom some of the salve I made and told her about plantains. Native Americans in my area had it included in a video. Works wonders - I react badly to bites and keep this handy.
Very smart!
Growing up in the Appalachians we learned all sorts of verbosity from elders. Living here again, the memories return. I use plantain in salves . it has great qualities. Also use in salads
Thank you for sharing your memories with us. It's heartwarming to hear about the traditions passed down by elders.
Hi, you should do a video and show really good pictures and close ups of the different plantain type plants they are
true story....my front yard has been grass and weeds since we move in..nothing useful however noticed that dandelion was not growing, then i learned about braodleaf plantain and one day i said I wish i can have this plant in my house...since i was trying to collect it from places were dogs poop and pee was all over the place i never used, failed to bring seeds they never sprout and not even the plant survived... So one day I said " I wish i can have these plant in my home" so winter went and spring came..holly molly my entire side front yard was full of broadleaf plantain...incredible...and when i mean full it was all over the place but only on my side and not in the neighbor's yard...so it was a gift from heaven for sure.
I have this all over my yard, I just threw some away, by my sidewalk, will not be doing that again. I make a tea for my plants with dandelions and dock leaves and roots, and am allowing more dandelions in my garden, for my own nutritional needs, so, now, I will allow this to continue to grow as well. I just learned about the sticky/velcro weed, too, so, come on “weeds” I will let you live here. 😊
Right on!
Good overview, but I would likemore details in how to make things with it.
The plantain in my yard is being crowded out by wild violets 😢 it's lovely out there, but I need plantain to make my "boo-boo salve"!
I have both broad and narrow leaf in my medicinal garden and leave it to grow in some areas anyway. My store cupboard is filled every year with teas, tinctures and ointments and I never need to go near a doctor. I was taught how to select and make all those things as a child growing up in the Highlands of Scotland. Plantain is called Slan Lus there - the healing plant.
It's all over my driveway and patio/yard. I eat psyllium supplements for fiber. Wow! What a great plant! Subscribed.
Welcome aboard!
Great video. Would be nice to see more about each of those used, such as in recipes, etc.
i appreciated that your video was short and packed with a variety of info.
I have a plantain FIELD so I’m thrilled to find your suggested uses!
Awesome!
I guess it was planting before you revealed… But I learned so much from your presentation that I didn’t know about!
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Plantain looks good in a border. We have a wild front garden with trellis to hide all the 'weeds' from sensitive neighbours. We trim (harvest) the grass, nettles and dandelions that protrude from the trellis, but the plantain nestles in and keeps its form nicely.
I have this plant all over my place. I knew about some of it's uses, but I had no idea how useful it was! Thank you!!
I got Ribwort Plantain all over my yard.
Great information. I don't use any weed killer (or anything at all) on my lawn. Everything is green and gets mowed to the same height and that's good enough for me. Now I need to go find this plant.
Thank you for this information. Years ago a friend educated me about lambs quarter which I now eat daily while it’s in season. Now I’ll do the same with the plantain in my yard.
I have narrow-leaf plantain growing in my garden and I didn't know what it was until last year when I started to educate myself on medicinal medicine. The property of drawing out splinters from my hands, caused by gardening is very interesting to me, I have just chewed up a leaf and placed it on my splintered finger, I thought I had removed the splinter yesterday, but unfortunately, I left some in, once I placed this on my finger the painful feeling went in about 30 minutes. I would like to know in more depth what other information you have, so would be happy to watch more on this plant.
Interesting!
I live in the low, hot interior desert area of Metro Phoenix, Arizona. I am not sure if I have seen this plant nearby in our state...and I know many plants. I STILL enjoyed this oustanding info video !! :)
Yes please make more videos on this subject. Thanks!
3:53 helps a broken heart. Yes indeed, there IS such a sickness. It's called "Broken Heart Syndrome". I was diagnosed with it when my daughter-in-law died in 2016 from leukemia. I ended up in the hospital with it.
Nothing less than utterly devastating. She must have been a delightfully special person, for her absence and (savage suffering) to have had such an impact. I ache for you. Our creator remembers her, and has a yearning to bring her back to us soon. (Job 14:14-15)
Wonderful information. It's a lovely plant and I had no idea it was so special and amazing. I am going to check my pasture to see if I have some of it!❤
Loved this! I already knew this plant is edible, now I know so much more! I'm an artist and created a series of paintings about foraged plants. This is one of my favorites.
Glad it was helpful!
You are so informative and fun to watch. Thank you!!!
Thanks for watching!
I knew some of this and it's on my list to research, so, thank you for your timely information!
Glad it was helpful!
I remember it from growing up in New York but living here in central for almost 40 years I never seen it here
Central what, new york or the mid west? I've never seen it in North Texas.
Yes, I would love to learn more about plantain and other plants.
Great info!
I've been waiting for a video about this! For some reason, this year I have an abundance of this plant in my front yard, which I will now pop out of the ground and transplant somewhere in my BACK yard!😊
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks! That was informative and not overly long. Easy to listen to. So interested in going out back this evening to see if we have any. Hope so. What an interesting, helpful plant!
Have fun!
I open the back door of my home & plantain is there growing at my feet. 🙃
I read somewhere in earlier days walking travelers stepping on the plant would carry the seeds on the bottom of their shoes or bare feet where by the seed took root in another spot when it fell or was wiped off.
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Thank you for sharing your information. That plant is right next to my back porch step. This appears as great and versitile as the comfrey plant - deep tap root, chop and drop fresh compost.
Yep, I'm a fan of comfrey for many of the same reasons.
This is a new one for me thanks
Subscribed. Thank you for this information.
I'm glad you found the information helpful!
Psyllium husk is an important ingredient for gluten free doughs, since it replaces some properties of gluten, improving the results 👍
Absolutely educational 😮 thank you
Very good! Most people are afraid to even touch unidentified plants in their yard because they fear that it might be poisonous. I learn something new everyday. As a start, I use an app on my smart phone to identify unknown plants. It is mostly accurate. Thank you for this video.
Great video! I subscribed and will be on the lookout.
Thank you!
Thank you for encouraging the love of weeds! I also love weeds and grow them or let them grow in my garden like plantain, goosefoot/chenopodium album, etc. Most weeds are edible and those you don’t eat can be made into healing salve.
Weeds like goosefoot in summer, three-cornered leeks (an allium) in late winter and spring, JA in late fall and even young stinging nettles and cleavers in spring are all yummy + highly nutritious edibles when cooked. Raw bittercress is common + they taste peppery and delicious as salad and not at all bitter, so unlike its name. Dandelions do not taste great but they are so healthy we give them to our budgies who like to eat them.
The weed we have zero tolerance for however, is invasive ivy. (How I wish people know there are plenty of shrubs and trees that birds love apart from ivy for one, and how easy it is, to kill them with just duct tape and salt water.)
In the U.K. it is an offence to plant, transplant or cultivate Three Cornered Leek because it is incredibly invasive.
I have them in the community garden and I use them to keep the soul moist for other plants. I'm going to try them in my soup or salad. Thanks
Very nice! I had no idea.
Glad you liked it!
The most helpful and fun video of today. Thanks.
Glad it was helpful!
Enjoyed this video
My yard is covered in those plants, the wild rabbits love them .
Sounds about right!
This is really useful. I also really appreciate your garden,and the infrastucture that you have put in your place!That took some time!
Your appreciation means a lot to me. It's been a labor of love building my garden.
Interesting and useful thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Would you show us how to harvest, clean and gather psyllium husk. I would love that video! Thank you.
Thank you for the advice
Thanks for dropping by!
Just remember, just because you want to do all this with this plant, most people won't and don't want to. It's still a weed to them. I love eating dandelion flowers, but my neighbors think I am nuts. Lol
Thanks for sharing. My Gma taught me how to use plantain leaves as a child. Very useful
Very helpful, thanks.
Glad it was helpful!
Great overview on a plant that I’ve noticed throughout my yard and field.
Very good for salads but it's crazy high in oxalates. If memory serves, it tastes like a cross between spinach and mushrooms. There's a bunch in my backyard but I can't eat it due to the high oxalates. It could literally put me in the hospital, like spinach and almonds could.
I had no idea that psyllium husks came from plantain. I figured they must come from a plant called "psyllium".
Thanks for the informative video. A suggestion for educating us on new or wild foods is to describe what it tastes like. Plantain to me tastes much better than most dark green leafy veggies due to the mushrooms flavor. However, I once tried a wild giant puffball mushroom and, although edible and nutritious, it turned out to taste like nature was trying to replicate the taste if sweaty gym socks, not that I have ever eaten those but that's what came to mind at the time.
Off to make a plantain poultice to see if reduces the swelling of my bee sting!
Appreciate your feedback! Stay safe with those wild foods and hope your plantain poultice soothes the bee sting!
Never heard of you or this channel, but I'm glad the ai overlords suggested this channel to me. This video was a wealth of information, with way more uses for mullein than i knew of.
Thank you for your thoroughness.
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Thanks...and welcome!
It works great on poison ivy. I made a poultice for my husband and he said the itching stopped immediately.
This is very interesting. I am going to share it with my sister, who has a small farm.