Backyard Medicine

From the Infinity ∞ Series, Chapter 8 Reviews - Backyard Medicine: Harvest and Make Your Own Herbal Remedies
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Backyard Medicine is a helpful herbal reference book that details fifty herbs (see list below) that commonly grows in nature. It is filled with hundreds of photographs that will help you identify the herb you are referencing. There are also over one hundred herbal remedies and recipes listed with DIY (do-it-yourself) instructions on how to make them. These include elderberry cough syrup, rose hip vinegar for treating a sore throat, chickweed pesto, tinctures and herbal teas.

Chapter 8: Cleavers

Cleavers Galium aparine is a herb that is typically used as a spring tonic for internal cleansing. Early cuttings of the plant are tender enough to eat in salads. Four pages are devoted to this sticky herbal plant, explaining how cleavers promotes the lymphatic flow inside our bodies. There are three photographs and one diagram that details the plant's slender stem, thin leaves, and small four-petaled flowers.

Medicinal purposes given include treating urinary issues, swollen glands, adenoid problems, and earache.

Cleavers Applications

• Poultice--treats nettle rash, sores, blisters, and burns
• Juice--daily supplement
• Ointment--dry or chapped skin
• Tincture--whole body tonic

Other Names for Cleavers

• Goose Grass
• Clivers
• Sticky-Willy

Backyard Medicine Herb Index

1. Agrimony
2. Bilberry
3. Birch
4. Blackberry Bramble
5. Burdock
6. Cherry
7. Chickwood
8. Cleavers
9. Coltsfoot
10. Comfrey
11. Couch grass
12. Curled dock, Yellow dock
13. Dandelion
14. Elder
15. Guelder rose, Crampbark
16. Hawthorn
17. Honeysuckle, Woodbine
18. Hops
19. Horse chestnut
20. Horseradish
21. Horsetail
22. Lime, Linden
23. Lycium
24. Mallow
25. Meadowsweet
26. Mint
27. Mugwort
28. Mullein
29. Nettle
30. Oak
31. Pellitory of the wall
32. Plantain
33. Ramsons, Bear garlic
34. Raspberry
35. Red clover
36. Red poppy
37. Rosebay willowherb, Fireweed
38. Self-heal
39. Shephers's purse
40. St. John's wort
41. Sweet cicely
42. Teasel
43. Vervain
44. White deadnettle
45. Wild lettuce
46. Wild rose
47. Willow
48. Willowherb
49. Wood betony
50. Yarrow

Book Details

Authors: Julie Bruton-Seal & Matthew Seal
Genre: Health & Fitness
Number of Pages: 206
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, 2009
ISBN: 0101602397015

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_{Cleavers is one of a collection of Chapter 8 Reviews from my Infinity ∞ Series (Backyard Medicine is a healing reference book from my personal library.)}

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