Sheep Sorrel, Rumex acetosella

hair. This encourages thick hair growth and is often paired with rosemary essential oil. Warning: Sage can significantly reduce the amount of milk produced in nursing mothers. Avoid its use when breastfeeding. Recipes. Sage Throat Spray: 3 tablespoons dried or fresh sage leaves, 3/4 cup boiling water, 1/4 cup Echinacea Extract, 1 tablespoon raw honey. Pour the boiling water over the sage leaves and allow it to steep for 30 minutes. Strain out the leaves. Add the Echinacea extract and raw honey. Store in a bottle with a spray top, preferably with a fine mist. Spray in the back of the throat as often as needed. Sage Gargle for a Sore Throat: This gargle doesn’t taste great, but it works! 1 tablespoon dried sage leaves, 1 cup boiling water, 1 teaspoon goldenseal root powder, 5 drops Cayenne Infusion, 1/2 cup apple cider vinegar, with live culture. Pour the boiling water over the dried sage and allow it to steep for 45 minutes. Strain out the leaves and add the goldenseal root powder, cayenne infusion, and vinegar. Gargle with this mixture every hour for as long as you can stand it. Spit out the gargle.

Sheep sorrel is one of the most useful medicinal herbs, and yet many people pull them out or spray them to rid their yard or field of it. Sheep sorrel is also known as red sorrel, narrow-leafed dock, spinach dock, sour weed, and field sorrel. It is a member of the Polygonaceae (Buckwheat) Family. The plant grows as a common perennial in most areas. Identification: Sheep sorrel has small green leaves shaped like arrowheads and deeply ridged, upright red stems that are branched at the top. The plant grows to 18 inches (45 cm) tall at most. It grows from an aggressively spreading rhizome. Sheep sorrel blooms from March to November and are either all male or all female. Yellowish-green male flowers or maroon colored female flowers grow on a tall, upright stem. The maroon female flowers develop into red achenes. It is one of the first species to appear when an area has been disturbed. Edible Use: Sheep sorrel is edible raw as a salad green or as a garnish. The flavor is tart and lemony. It can be used as a curdling agent during the cheese-making process and can be cooked like spinach. Livestock will eat the plant, but it is not very nutritious and can cause problems if too much is consumed because of its high concentration of oxalates. Medicinal Use: Use sheep sorrel leaves as a juice, tea, and powder or capsules. Detoxification: Sheep sorrel is useful for detoxification. It has a diuretic effect and flushes the body when ample water is consumed. It also has laxative effects. For detoxification, use freshly juiced leaves or Sheep Sorrel Tea, though the tea and powder are less effective than the fresh juice.

Gastro-Intestinal Problems, Kidney, and Urinary Tract Diseases, Cysts, Swellings,

and Skin Cancers: For tumors, swellings, cysts, and cancers close to the skin surface, use a leaf poultice. Apply the macerated leaf poultice directly over the affected area several times daily until the problem is resolved.

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Worms: Use the tea internally to kill and flush worms and intestinal parasites out of the system. One cup of tea, taken twice daily Henripekka Kallio, CC by SA 3.0, Female flowfor two weeks ers Sheep Sorrel, does the job. Colds, Flu, and Sinusitis: Sheep sorrel is an excellent treatment for reducing the inflammation and pain that accompanies colds, flu, and sinusitis. The