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One of the names that I forgot is bloodroot. I realize that it is a spring plant, that was why I wondered if anyone would be able to find the root to dig in the winter. Maybe it would be a good idea to mark a couple of the plants with stakes in the spring.
BillieLee I guess you are gone by now. I just wanted to know what bloodroot is for and what does it look like. I had to leave for a few hours my husband got home from work and wanted to go to the creek and look for geodes.I just got home. Darlene
Darlene, I am so sorry I typed bloodroot and I should have typed Birthroot. Birthroot is another name for trillium. Billie Lee
BillieLee , that is ok. I was juat hoping you was going to have another herb I had not heard of. I guess you could call it a herb. Maybe a medical plant would be more like it. Darlene
Shirley,
I’m new and right away your sweet flag caught my eye. I’m in Michigan and when a child, back in the 1940s, my best friends dad would go out looking every year for sweet flag, and store it somehow. Her mom was a registered nurse so you would think from this that the sweet flag was a better treatment for what ails you! And now I remember my mother in law using lemon grass and honey to sooth a sore throat. We had a little green plant with bluish/purplish blossoms that was called “heals well” or “heals all” for tea in our yard all summer. I recall making fresh tea for general health from spring wild strawberry leaves. Might not have cured anything but it sure was a nice break from the black tea in the winter.
Love this site and will throw an eye around for the Rice, Turner, Baldwin folks that must be here somewhere.
Daisy
Daisyhalo;
Halo to you too; I might be one of the Rice people you mention – mine are out of VA/KY. I know there are others here with the NC/TN families.
Would mention that I used to live about 85 miles from you in Hillsdale/Albion/Jackson/Brooklyn areas (early 70’s).
Good luck and welcome.
daisyhalo wrote: Shirley,
I’m new and right away your sweet flag caught my eye. I’m in Michigan and when a child, back in the 1940s, my best friends dad would go out looking every year for sweet flag, and store it somehow. Her mom was a registered nurse so you would think from this that the sweet flag was a better treatment for what ails you! And now I remember my mother in law using lemon grass and honey to sooth a sore throat. We had a little green plant with bluish/purplish blossoms that was called “heals well” or “heals all” for tea in our yard all summer. I recall making fresh tea for general health from spring wild strawberry leaves. Might not have cured anything but it sure was a nice break from the black tea in the winter.
Love this site and will throw an eye around for the Rice, Turner, Baldwin folks that must be here somewhere.
Daisy
Daisy,
Welcome to the forum! I have not yet gotten too deep into medicials…just the very simple common herbs. I do grow many for cooking, but have been adding a few medicinals each year. I have a couple herb books and another, which has more medicinal info. It is called Cherokee Plants their uses-a 400 year history.
I have Baldwin’s in my line (also seen as Bolden/Balden) Grayson, VA.
Shirley
While in the arrowhead of Minnesota, I ran across a wonderful book, “Abundantly Wild,” Teresa Marrone. The books has oodles of recipes for collecting and cooking wild edibles (it says in the upper Midwest, but many of these can be found thoughout the US and Canada). The book is sectionalized…the top ten wild foods, fruits and berries, nuts, greens and flowers, mushrooms and roots and starches.
Excerpt:
The top ten wild foods:
1. Ramps (wild leeks)
2. Fiddlehead Ferns
3. Dandelions
4. Morel Mushrooms
5. Asparagus
6. Cattails
7. Blueberries & Huckleberries
8. Prunus Species (Choke cherries, wild cherries and plums)
9. Puffballs
10. Hickory Nuts
The book has many wonderful recipes for these and other wild edibles. I can’t wait to try some of them!
Wow friendly people!! This is a great spot! I am encouraged to send for a few more obits and then post the info I have. A wonderful man I ran into while looking for information on the net, suggested this site. He said this would be THE place for me to look over and he was so right. You people are great and share your info and yourselves.
and this herbal forum is a super idea… I’m a great believer in home remedys.. and I ..
forgot to mention the cone flower! You can use the whole plant dryed for tea. It raises your bodys illness fighting powers and all you do is drink a cup or two of this each day til you.. 1) get better or 2) get to a doctor. You can buy it in tablets but growing your own flowers is better.. They really are pretty too. Something like a pink black eyed susan.. and yes you wash the complete flower and root and hang them up side down to dry and then store in a dry, dry container ’til you need a boost in antibodies. My son will NOT go to the doctor and he does swear by cone flower for flu and colds. He says drinking the tea as soon as you start to feel blah gives the best results. Keep the Faith,
Daisy
Thanks for the nice welcome! I need to get my people together and post them in the proper place.. Meantime.. I sure do enjoy your forums and the nice people here.
Keep the Faith,
Daisy
Welcome to Saponitown, Daisy.
Becky and I grow purple coneflower but we also keep echinachia/goldenseal in capsule form and enchinachia in a tincture also. It’s about all I ever take. It is a drug that the body gets used to if taken too often. It is best used at first sign of cold or infection to boost the immune system. Do not overuse!
great posts, i have been thinking more along these lines in my older age. I am going to go through all the posts and try and mark some down. One i was going to mention and it was covered a little on this last page was blood root. As a kid i would put this on my cuts. I think i understood it would keep it from getting infected. maybe some body knows more about it. have not read all posts yet maybe somebody did. i know as a child there is alot of things in the woods i was shown i could eat but don’t know if they are medicine or just food. wild ramps or leaks, i think one is called may apples, not sure of name but know the plant. indian turnip, swammie, plus alot of wild greens. would love to know more.
Blood root (red puccoon, red root):
Decoction of root in small doses for coughs, lung inflammations and croup, wash for ulcers and sores, steep in vinegar for tetterworm, snuff for polypus, pulverize root and sniff for catarrh (inflammation of mucus membrane), tea with broom sage for cough, and can be used for red dye.
Pocoon is what our people, and others on the coast used to dye their skin and hair. Some say it’s the origins of the term ‘redskins.’ It supposedly was coined at that time and place and was referring to this practice.
Is it hard to get?
Linda wrote: Pocoon is what our people, and others on the coast used to dye their skin and hair. Some say it’s the origins of the term ‘redskins.’ It supposedly was coined at that time and place and was referring to this practice.
Is it hard to get?
Blood root is also refered to as Indian paint, it has a large leaf (kind of like the nasturtium, but lobed) and a single white flower. The root powder can be bought, but is expensive ($100 lb. on one site). It would be much cheaper to either find it in the woods or buy the plant in a nursery. My book has a large photo and it looks as if the plant would be easy to find in nature, especially in spring when it is in bloom.
Shirley
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