Be sure to cut your lavender sprigs when only 2-3 blooms have first opened. It is the bud that makes the dried plant so pretty. If you wait until it is in full bloom, the flowers will fall off and you will be left with a bare stem.
Comfrey leaf and root applied topically as poultice or compress will help heal injuries such as sprains and bruises. Its common name is “knitbone” and was thought to even be useful to heal broken bones.
Tasting something bitter before a meal can aid the digestive process by stimulating secretions in the right order. Try using bitter lettuces, mustards, dandelion, a few drops of tincture of gentian, Oregon grape, golden seal or barberry.
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