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Welcome to Uses For Medicinal Weeds Commonly Found Around Your Home – Part 7! Let’s take a quick look at the medicinal wild plants I have covered thus far. Part 1: purslane, ground ivy, and chickweed Part 2: thistle, wild violet, hairy bitterness, and prickly lettuce Part 3:lamb’s quarters, mallow, stinging nettle, and chicory Part 4: henbit, curly dock, garlic mustard, and amaranth Part 5: daisies, sheep sorrel, and elderflowers Part 6: mullein, yarrow, and horseweed What do all of these wild plants have in common? They can usually be found close to or around your home. Today, I’ll cover the medicinal uses for cleavers, self-heal, and miner’s lettuce. Medicinal Weeds Found Around Your Home Word of caution… As I did in part 1-6, I would like to share with you two articles which include information on safety precautions you need to be aware of when foraging for wild, edible, plants. In my article, Foraging Tips for the 7 Most Common Edible Plants, I share great tips on things to consider and to look out for when you forage for any and all wild, edible plants. Another great article, “Need To Know” Rules When Picking Edible & Medicinal Plants, is written by Mykel Hawke, star of Discovery’s “Man, Woman, Wild”. He also talks about considerations and safety precautions to take when foraging in the wild. I sincerely encourage you to read these articles if you have never foraged for wild and edible plants. Foraging can be a great experience but, safety precautions are a must! Let’s get started! Cleavers (Galium aparine) Cleavers grow in moist/wet areas such as riverbanks, for example. The stems are prickly and have thin leaves. The leaves, seeds, and stem have velcro-like, hook-tipped hairs. The flowers are a whitish-green color and have 4 petals. You can consume the entire plant as a tea which possesses detoxifying properties. The tea is used to purify the liver, bladder, kidney, and blood. Additional health benefits of this tea include: Helps to reduce fluid retention. Helps to clear up urinary infections, urinary stones, and gravel. Soothes the symptoms of arthritis and gout. The seeds make a great coffee substitute. When the seeds are dried and lightly roasted, they taste much like coffee. Cleavers Tea Recipe: 1 cup of boiling water 2-3 teaspoons of dried cleavers (remember, the entire plant can be used/dried) Combine water and the dried cleavers and steep for 10-15 mins. You can drink 2-3 cups of this tea a day. Self-Heal (Prunella vulgaris) This beautiful wild plant has a distinctive flower cluster of purple and white flowers close together. The leaves are opposite of each other and the stem is reddish and square in shape. Full grown self-heal is 1-2 feet in height. Self-heal is considered part of the mint family but, does not have a minty flavor. It received its name because it is considered one of the most healing wild plants. Self-heal is used medicinally for the following: Kidney problems Heart Diabetes Fever Sore throat Laryngitis Diarrhea Tumors Cancer Abrasions, cuts, and bruises Sprains Ulcers The entire plant is edible and can used in salads, for example. You can also make cold water infusions by putting chopped, crushed, or powdered leaves in cold or lukewarm water.  Self-heal can also be consumed as a tea. Self-heal Tea Recipe: 8 ounces of hot water 1-2 teaspoons of dried self heal Combine water and dried self-heal and steep for 1 hour. You can consume 2-3 cups a day. Miner’s Lettuce (Claytonia perfoliata) This unique looking plant has cup-like shaped leaves with a tiny white flower in the middle of each leaf. The entire plant is edible and the leaves can be eaten raw or cooked. The leaves make a great addition to salads, soups, and green smoothies. Miner’s lettuce can also be added as an herb to egg salad. This plant is loaded with vitamin C, protein, omega-3 fatty acid, and fiber. The medicinal benefits of this plant include the following: Purifies the blood Reduces cholesterol Helps to protect the lymphatic system Improves heart function Possesses laxative properties Reduces inflammation throughout the body Here are the top 15 most powerful medicinal plants by facts@WEB:  What weeds commonly found around your home do you use for medicinal purposes? Tell us in the comment section below. UP NEXT: 10 Powerful Medicinal Plants From Around the World Follow us on facebook, instagram, pinterest, and twitter! The contents of this article are for informational purposes only. Please read our full disclaimer.

In an attempt to become a useful person, I told myself at the beginning of 2024 that I would teach myself a new skill every week. This lasted about two inconsistent months. I made butter, learned how to knit and cross-stitch, and even learned to cut my own hair. None of these stuck these skills stuck like making sourdough, the hobby I became the most thankful for. Although making sourdough is not the most challenging cooking task I've attempted, it forces me to work on other underdeveloped skills, most notably patience. My roommate first shared her sourdough starter with me, and I taught myself to make bread through video tutorials online. I'm thankful that it is a simple, inexpensive, yet incredibly rewarding hobby that I get to share with my friends and my family. When it comes to anything kitchen-related, I'm pretty much self-taught (in a bad way). Like many people in my generation, I can cook simple things and follow recipes, but it's not a skill I grew up developing or being particularly good at. Making bread was not on my bingo card, so to speak, especially after the time I accidentally added salt instead of sugar to a batch of cookies I attempted in college. But I learned, and I'm thankful I did. I'm thankful that I don't have to go to the store and buy an $8 loaf of bread made with ingredients I can't pronounce. I'm also thankful that I'm able to give my friends loaves of bread so that they too can avoid buying the $8 loaf from the store with the unpronounceable ingredients. I'm thankful that my dad asked me to make him a loaf of bread for his birthday instead of the much more intimidating task of baking a cake. Although making sourdough is not the most challenging cooking task I've attempted, it forces me to work on other underdeveloped skills, most notably patience. The most difficult part about the bread-making process is called the bulk ferment, which is roughly a 12-hour period in which the dough proofs. If you bake the bread too early, the bottom becomes concave and the texture of the crumb is dense and gummy. Neither quality is desirable for a good loaf, yet they are ones I encountered multiple times. I'm not a particularly patient person. It's easy for me to point the finger at social media for rotting my attention span — and my brain, for that matter — but I've never been a particularly patient person. The phrase "good things come to those who wait" has been the antithesis of my life. But there was no getting around it with bread-making. There were no shortcuts. Believe me, many attempts were made. So now when I give a friend a loaf of bread, I'm able to do so knowing I made it with patience and care and that it would taste pretty darn good. For that, I'm thankful. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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