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Anonymous 11/6/2025, 11:16:31 AM No.2847968 [Report] >>2848017 >>2848044 >>2848045
True Herbalism
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Pictured here is one of my favorite plants, if not my favorite. Broadleaf Plantain.
It's a healing plant, vulnerary, useful especially for bug bites and persistent itchiness. Makes amazing balms.

Where were you when you realized that plants are god's consolation for the skeeter?

Any herbalists ab/out/? any stories of being saved by your wide knowledge of wonderful plants like these?
Anonymous 11/6/2025, 9:22:26 PM No.2848017 [Report]
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>Where were you when you realized that plants are god's consolation for the skeeter?

tracking hares and their diet. hares taught me to forage
Anonymous 11/6/2025, 11:15:49 PM No.2848044 [Report] >>2848045
>>2847968 (OP)
Yeah plantains are great and common. Make some good poultice. In my area, I've used jewlweed sap to help out with bug bites and stings.
I've never been saved by wild plants in a herbalism or poultice way. I have been saved by wild edibles when I was stranded in some mountains (because of my own stupidity).
I forage a lot for teas. I have done bergamot, wild mint, and raspberry leaf tea.
Sometimes when I hike prairies I look for late-season compass plants. They usually have a lot of resin from bug nicks. I'll spend like 5-10 min getting a nice collection of resin. Then i'll look for some wild Virginia mint. Mix them together and its mint chewing gum for the rest of my hike. In mid-summer I can make a fruit gum with gooseberries, strawberries, or raspberries. In late summer its grapes, cherries, service berries, and some others.
I've tried to do puffball mushroom and plantain poultice before but if I have a first aid kit i'm still using a band aid.
Anonymous 11/6/2025, 11:17:40 PM No.2848045 [Report]
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>>2847968 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpPNswcrvi8
Here is a great youtuber for some herbalism.
I'll sometimes eat random stuff. Wild parsnips are invasive and burdock is all over my land. They make some good, long lasting root veggies.
I've tried some wild teas for colds and they can help but its more just relaxing. I've made birch tar glue for arrows but it can be used in herbalism if you have a really bad finger cut and you're deep in the woods, like surgical glue. Wrap it in a leaf poultice.