Plantain ~ One of our MANY Favorite Medicinal "Weeds"

Have I mentioned that I *LOVE* herbs? Well, we all do actually... Kids got out of weeding the garden beds after the youngest found an underground bee colony & got nailed on thumb and arm 🐝🐝🐝 Nothing like a crushed plantain & homemade lavender soothing body butter poultice 🌿 fixed her right up!

If you're ever outside & get stung or bitten, look for the closest piece of plantain, chew it up & apply directly to the skin to start drawing out & reducing inflammation. I was able to pick some just off our porch in the yard & grind it with a mortar & pestle, with a couple drops of lavender essential oil while she had ice on it. Mixed it up with my homemade "Two Hawks Soothing Body Butter" (which we usually just put directly on any bug bits, but she was swelling up!). So that added comfrey oil and shea butter to the poultice & worked beautifully with a little white gauze to hold in place! 🌞 

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