Eczema - Heal Thyself!2024-03-29T04:39:15Zhttp://heal-thyself.ning.com/forum/topics/eczema-1?commentId=2814160%3AComment%3A63216&x=1&feed=yes&xn_auth=noI LOVE THAT YOU SHARED YOUR D…tag:heal-thyself.ning.com,2012-08-23:2814160:Comment:632162012-08-23T17:31:55.134ZPat Robinsonhttp://heal-thyself.ning.com/profile/PatRobinson
<p>I LOVE THAT YOU SHARED YOUR DISCOVERY! :-D <br/><br/>Have you joined "<a href="http://www.learningherbs.com/" target="_blank">Learning Herbs</a>"? It is a huge resource for the budding and advanced herbalist. At $10/month, in a couple of months of intensive reading, it is the best value I have found! <br/><br/><br/>Pat</p>
<p>I LOVE THAT YOU SHARED YOUR DISCOVERY! :-D <br/><br/>Have you joined "<a href="http://www.learningherbs.com/" target="_blank">Learning Herbs</a>"? It is a huge resource for the budding and advanced herbalist. At $10/month, in a couple of months of intensive reading, it is the best value I have found! <br/><br/><br/>Pat</p> My husband has suffered from…tag:heal-thyself.ning.com,2012-08-23:2814160:Comment:633092012-08-23T14:39:42.461ZKristinhttp://heal-thyself.ning.com/profile/Kristin162
<p>My husband has suffered from eczema all his life. I kept hearing about an herb called "plantain plantago" and decided to find it and try to make a skin salve for him. To my delight and surprise, I found fields and fields on some land I have out in the country. I was lucky to be looking in the mid spring which is when it is most abundant.</p>
<p>It was fantastically affective and my empirically minded naysaying husband was really impressed. He said it cut out the itching and seemed to heal…</p>
<p>My husband has suffered from eczema all his life. I kept hearing about an herb called "plantain plantago" and decided to find it and try to make a skin salve for him. To my delight and surprise, I found fields and fields on some land I have out in the country. I was lucky to be looking in the mid spring which is when it is most abundant.</p>
<p>It was fantastically affective and my empirically minded naysaying husband was really impressed. He said it cut out the itching and seemed to heal the patches as well. I ended up using my plantago cream for a million things and have now run out! (adult chicken pox, poison ivy, sunburn, mild kitchen burns, yeast infection itchiness, bug bites, viral rashes and more).</p>
<p>This is how I made it. Having never done it before, I don't know if there is a superior way to skin this cat; but I can tell you this certainly yielded a powerful salve. I took a grocery bag full of whole plants, macerated them in a blender with organic almond oil (batch by batch) until I had it all mixed. Then I fermented the oil with just a splash of organic apple vinegar for 8 weeks in my fermenting pantry. Then I strained the plant material away from the oil. I took this green oil and melted (at low heat) it with pharmaceutical grade organic beeswax. I poured them into tubs and let them cool. They were solid at room temperature. I froze most of it and kept pulling out tub after tub as needed for months.</p>
<p>Next spring I'm going to harvest as much as I possibly can. I'll never go without having plenty of this stuff in my medicine cabinet ever again. I've signed up for a class on using local medicinal herbs. What ELSE is growing at my feet that I could use? I'm inspired my first attempts at herbalism :)</p>