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This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEP curriculum. Completing this BB is part of getting the sand badge in Natural Medicine.

For this BB, you will create an oil infusion of yarrow leaf or blossom using plant material you harvested. Oil infusion is a method of extracting desired compounds from plant material by steeping the material in warm or cool oil.

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How to Make an Infused Oil

Minimum requirements:
- Make an infused oil using plant material you harvested
- Use yarrow leaf or blossom

To document completion of the BB, provide proof of the following as pictures or a video (< 2 minutes):
- Harvested plant material (either being harvested or just harvested)
- Making the infusion (plant material in oil) with a description of the oil and any other ingredients you used
- Finished (strained) infused oil in its labeled jar

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Jori Love

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posted 2 years ago

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Yarrow grows in all of the paths of my community garden. Usually it just gets mowed down, but since I'm the only one who mows I've been letting it bloom so I can harvest the blossoms. It's hard to find pictures of it being harvested since I almost always have my hands full but I found one photo of the beautiful abundance in my arms. I hung it to dry in a closet and then stripped the blooms into a jar in the fall.

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posted 2 years ago

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Yarrow is flowering! It's a beautiful time of year :-) I collected bunches from my friend's field and made all kinds of medicine out of it! Here is the raw flower being picked, dried, then the added olive oil, beeswax and finished goop in a labelled jar. I added other herbs to this combination to make Dr. Nicole Apelian's All-Purpose Salve. I'm not sure if I can post her exact recipe, but here are the other ingredients used, which you can read off her website: calendula, arnica, plantain, lavender and cottonwood bud. We have already used it many times for bruised ribs, sunburns, cuts and scrapes.

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posted 2 years ago

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I made a peppermint salve a few years ago. It was my very first herbal cure that the family took to. It helped almost everything! Yellowjacket stings, dry skin, small wounds, (even the animals got salve on their booboos XD ). Now, I am making another batch of herbal oils for salves and whatever else I need it for. Yarrow is one of the most powerful germ-killing herb I have and it is rather remarkable. I have used it on cut wounds and they have healed faster and with much less pain and on reluctant healing scrapes and have always been pleased! Yarrow is one of my best herbal friends!

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Nikki Roche

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posted 1 year ago

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To document completion of the BB, provide proof of the following as pictures or a video (< 2 minutes):
- Harvested plant material (either being harvested or just harvested)
- Making the infusion (plant material in oil) with a description of the oil and any other ingredients you used
- Finished (strained) infused oil in its labeled jar

I was told that I could use other plants along with yarrow as long as I didn't submit this same one for other infused oil BBs. I infused olive oil with yarrow blossoms and leaves, plantain leaves, and rose petals.

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Jessica Michell

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posted 4 months ago

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Created yarrow oil in the process of making a salve.

Harvested yarrow from my garden, poured olive oil over it and heated in a water bath to about 110 degrees for 24 hours. Strained it out and labeled the jar.

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posted 3 months ago

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Yarrow-infused oil (to be made into a salve in a next step). I used organic grapeseed oil because it's neutral, reasonably inexpensive and it does wonders for my dry skin.

Harvesting yarrow

Drying in dehydrator, with fabric to avoid contact with plastic tray

Infusing with grapeseed oil (the best for my skin)

40 days later, strain the result

Final yarrow infused oil

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Alexandra Malecki

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posted 23 hours ago

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Opalyn Rose wrote:
For this BB, you will create an oil infusion of yarrow leaf or blossom using plant material you harvested.

Minimum requirements:
- Make an infused oil using plant material you harvested
- Use yarrow leaf or blossom

To document completion of the BB, provide proof of the following as pictures or a video (< 2 minutes):
- Harvested plant material (either being harvested or just harvested)
- Making the infusion (plant material in oil) with a description of the oil and any other ingredients you used
- Finished (strained) infused oil in its labeled jar

I harvested and air dried yarrow blossoms and leaves over the summer. Then I crushed the dried leaves and blossoms, submerged it in 100g of EVOO, and baked at 180degF for 12 hours. I then strained the oil into a labeled jar.

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