![]() ![]() If you wanted to make a muscle soothing salve for aches and pains, you could use cayenne, arnica tincture and other herbs that warm and soothe.Ĭomfrey: Flowering heads and leaves, you can use the whole plant if you like but this takes some preparation as the roots need to be pounded. The ingredients use in this recipe can be used on broken skin. I prefer balms and salves for simplicity. There are other options available if you prefer, like making a tincture, infused oil, cream or lotion. This has a great cupboard life and is excellent at preserving the medicinal properties of the plants. The salve I make is an oil and beeswax based balm. Summer is the perfect time to turn this wealth of healing plants into a catchall healing salve. That way, if you get an injury in winter when you can’t pop out to the garden to collect some leaves for a poultice, you can still capture all the healing goodness in a salve. It is a known anti-inflammatory and often used for skin rashes, stings and other irritations. Solanum aviculare or Poroporo is a traditional Māori remedy used in the past as a tea for contraceptive reasons. Often the entire plant, roots and all is used for poultices on slow to heal wounds or stings and burns. Like comfrey, plantain is an excellent healing herb applied topically. Plantago major, or greater plantain is much maligned with many gardeners taking great effort to remove it from lawns. This weed is a cooling soothing plant that is good for soothing rashes and stings. The small white flowers are like stars and so it is named. Stellaria media or chickweed is a scrambling ground cover that grows thick and fast in semi shaded areas of the gardens. Historically used for healing cuts, grazes and scratches it is a brilliant herb for cleaning and healing skin wounds. Comfrey is most often used medicinally in salves for sores, stings, strains and sprains.Ĭalendula officinalis, also known as pot marigold, is a cheerful flower plant that thrives in poor and dry soils. However,gardeners often encourage this plan as the leaves are a nourishing mulch and the flowers attract bees to the garden. It can be an invasive weed as it roots deeply and grows large and bushy. Here are some of my favourites.Ĭomfrey or Symphytum uplandica x is also known as boneset or knitbone. Under our noses disguised as weeds, gardens are filled with plants that have medicinal and healing properties. In the case of my garden, much of that growth is weeds. In the peak of summer, the garden becomes lush with growth. ![]()
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