One of my favorite shrubby trees! They are very pretty, smell wonderful, a leguminous and nitrogen fixing, the flowers have pain relieving, slightly narcotic properties, the who plant helps with allergies and the root even contains DMT (which I don't use)! Mild astringent. Tea is good for indigestion and sore throat.
From the Spring Foraging Cookbook: Fireweed and Forsythia
Fireweed This is a very pretty wildflower that, as the name implies, tends to grow well where there has recently been a wildfire. It has ...
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A couple of years ago, after writing a book on the Christian (mostly Catholic) history of herbal medicine, I was invited to write semi-we... -
As an Herbalist, I am often asked, "Is Herbal Medicine Christian?" The simple answer is, yes. Anyone of any religion, or none...
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My love of foraging began in my earliest memories. Before I could walk long distances, my mom pulled me around in a little red wagon and ...
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