- Common Plantain Plantago major
- Habitat: EDF and TGP
- Active Chemical Ingredient: Apigenin
- Uses: stop bleeding and soothe infections and cuts
- Preparation; poultice
- Chemical Structure:
Plantain Uses, Benefits & Side Effects - Drugs.com Herbal Database. (n.d.). Retrieved September 10, 2015
RAGWEED:
- Ambrosia artemisiifolia
- Tall Grass Prairie-sandy woods, meadows, waste places, roadsides, railroads, overgrazed rangeland, and other disturbed areas
- Active chemical ingredient: bisabolol
- Uses: anti-viral/anti-bacterial, cure diarrhea, fever, gas, colds, stomachache, pains, loss of appetite, topical remedy
- Preparation: either create a poultice to relieve swelling and infection and/or crush the leaves and apply the juice to soothe
Ragweed sources: https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/genus/ambrosia/
http://extension.usu.edu/rangeplants/htm/western-ragweed
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bisabolol_beta.svg
http://commonsensehome.com/weekly-weeder-7-ragweed/
No comments:
Post a Comment