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Native American Herbal Healing/ Foraging for Health

 
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Some of my favorite healing healing remedies that I like to forage for are:
Elderberry
Echinacea
Elm Bark
Stinging Nettle
Witch Hazel
Other plants that are supposedly native to North America that I enjoy using but have not foraged for include:
Willow Bark
Feverfew
Sage
Eventually I would like to grow a food forest with native healing herbs in it.
Please share your most commonly used, foraged and grown Native American healing remedies!
 
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Many, (many, many) years ago I hurt myself while out working.  I had no aspirin for the pain, but remembered willow bark was supposed to ease pain.  I cut a small piece of willow and chewed it.  Seemed to work fine.

I have a bit of sage on my new property.  Will look up the what it can be used for.
 
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ohhh there's so many good ones! Oddly I was more familiar with the bounty of the Sonoran desert plants than I am with the our new home plants in the Appalachians. Give it time we shall get to know each other more.

Out west...Phoenix Area
Wolfberry, lycium.
Cottonwood, willow, justica californica, creosote (probably my favorite), sage, chocolate flower, yerba mansa...so many good ones.
 
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Hello there. I'd like to share some stuff with you all. I've planted some tobacco and sweet grass in my community gardens to help remember the tribes came to my area and use those for education purposes. I also got wild onion, Joe Pye weed, purple conflower, wild mint and others for tea and medicine. You heard of white sage before?
 
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There is likely, at the very least, a window where you don't even need to take the bark of willow, just the leaves. I experimented with a black willow nearby to try to see how it was possible people in the arctic are able to eat willow leaves (I read it in a very well researched e-book I found on Alaskan ethnobotony, in which natives were consulted.) That leaf was in my mouth not more than a 15 seconds & my whole mouth started going numb & stayed that way for a good half an hour.
 
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I didn't the willow leaves be eaten. You ever tried to create a wigwam outta willow branches? I'd like somebody to show me how I make a wigwam.
 
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I always heard the bark. Wonder if the leaves have a higher contact of salicylic  acid during spring growth or some time during seasonal transitions.

Ohh please do share more
 
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Greetings! I wish I know how to put in pictures, but don't on this board. How I use sweet flag for medicine?
 
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It was around late spring when I did that. Like, May, I want to say.

And I don't know how to build a wigwam, either. You may have to contact the Anishinaabeg for that.
 
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D! Just left you a private message on Denver area tribes and offering my help to you on tribal crops belonging to these tribes who once ranged in that area. The Utes, Arapaho, Cheyenne, Apaches and Comanches are all native to Denver. One of the crops that I mention is the Ute pumpkin and it look like a gray turban pumpkin. You can find it at Baker Creek or another place. Please let me know if you need anything.
 
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