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SilverMoon · 04-14-2012, 02:47 PM

Thanks for the thread!!! I have a ton of lemon mint growing in my yard from a formerly contained plant. I want to use it, but not sure how.

This link http://www.essences.com/vibration/es...ncemaking.html
is about making flower essences. I take some herbal essences so I'd love to make some of my own. DancingWithElves made some yarrow essence and gave me a baby jar full of it that will last a lifetime.

This 10 minute video is on how to make herbal tinctures:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dloPF1QDuw

I'd love to find instructions on how to make ointments. I no longer have a book my midwife gave me years ago that had instructions to make plantain ointment using olive oil. I'd love to use the basic recipe to make some arnica ointment since we go through the store stuff so quickly. I have a few purple coneflowers growing in my yard and I'd like to make some echinacea tea or tincture from them.

I have white yarrow growing in my yard and have read that white yarrow has more detailed use than yellow, which is great in it's own right.

Can anyone recommend a good book? Or Jenny, is the book you linked to a good one to have on hand?

04-14-2012, 02:47 PM	#15
SilverMoon Rose Garden It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 17,122	Re: What medicinal plants can I grow and how would I use them? Thanks for the thread!!! I have a ton of lemon mint growing in my yard from a formerly contained plant. I want to use it, but not sure how. This link http://www.essences.com/vibration/es...ncemaking.html is about making flower essences. I take some herbal essences so I'd love to make some of my own. DancingWithElves made some yarrow essence and gave me a baby jar full of it that will last a lifetime. This 10 minute video is on how to make herbal tinctures: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dloPF1QDuw I'd love to find instructions on how to make ointments. I no longer have a book my midwife gave me years ago that had instructions to make plantain ointment using olive oil. I'd love to use the basic recipe to make some arnica ointment since we go through the store stuff so quickly. I have a few purple coneflowers growing in my yard and I'd like to make some echinacea tea or tincture from them. I have white yarrow growing in my yard and have read that white yarrow has more detailed use than yellow, which is great in it's own right. Can anyone recommend a good book? Or Jenny, is the book you linked to a good one to have on hand? __________________ Cynthia "Trust is rebuilt by focusing not on what the other person did or did not do but on critiquing one's own behavior, improving one's trustworthiness, and focusing attention not on words and promises but on actions, attitudes, and ways of being." — Kenneth Cloke and Joan Goldsmith The Art of Waking People Up for the many, many wise voices we've lost married 20 years Mom to: ds1 10/93 dd1 5/95 ds2 5/97 7/96 (twin of ds2) 11/96 Last edited by SilverMoon; 04-15-2012 at 11:19 AM.

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