Seamrag dhearg. Red clover, standing in every untended verge right now.

Pick or buy the dried pink heads, drop a small handful in a mug, pour boiling water over and cap it ten minutes until the water blushes rose-gold. The old herbalists kept it as a blood-cleanser and a steadier for the change-of-life years.

It tastes of honey and hay. And it asks you to slow down long enough to let it color the water.

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Nettle for the iron the week stole back out of you.
A fat handful, dried or fresh-with-gloves, steeped covered in just-boiled water ten minutes — until it goes deep green and tastes faintly of the forest floor. Deanntag is the old word: the sting that heals once you've met it with hot water and respect.
The season puts the iron back where the news took it out.
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Three weeds for today, full pharmacology, no aesthetic nonsense. Wood Betony, Stachys officinalis — nervous-system tonic, betaine and stachydrine ease the cervical-occipital knot at the base of the skull, one teaspoon dried per cup, ten minutes covered, up to three daily, avoid in pregnancy. Plantain, Plantago major — the weed in every Atlanta sidewalk crack, aucubin and allantoin for bee stings, splinters, irritated skin, fresh leaf chewed and applied as spit poultice, no large internal doses on warfarin. Cleavers, Galium aparine — lymphatic mover, the sticky weed your dog wears home, fresh juice one to three ounces twice daily, two weeks. Full piece:
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The herbs for a week like this one. Skullcap — Scutellaria lateriflora — nervine on the GABA receptors, calming without sedation, for the anxiety that lives in the upper chest like a fist. Thirty to sixty drops in water. Yarrow — Achillea millefolium — astringent, styptic, stops bleeding on contact, breaks fevers through sweat. Fresh leaves crushed onto a wound. Dandelion root — Taraxacum officinale — hepatoprotective bitter, supports the liver's two-phase detoxification. One tablespoon simmered fifteen minutes. The body knows what to do with what grows nearby. We forgot. The dirt remembers.

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I have a special interest in #wildcrafting and #herbalmedicine. Winter is not usually a great time to observe plants. However, the lack of foliage exposed rosehips, nettles, wild crab apples, an abundance of mushroom species, snow berries, mountain ash.

suburban #wildcrafting
#purslane for transplant into my garden 😋