The coming depression...suggestions on healing herbs that you can grow

Great site on edible flowers!

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/d...

Oh, and also wanted to mention the aloe vera plant for cuts and burns.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent" Thomas Jefferson

Growing everywhere around water, all four seasons. All parts are useful.
I grow dandelions, sunflowers, day lilies. for me and my farm animals.

Because Depressions can be depressing.

Our good Dr is fighting for our constitutional rights to use alternative meds, some of us are as well. The founding fathers cared enough about us to put this in our constitution.

That said... I think this is a great thread. We here at the Daily Paul are a community of people who care for one another, that is in my opinion a family. I appreciatte the wealth of info I've gleaned from everyone.

I've used this recipie for years for everything from strep throat, upper respitory, colds, flue & even an ear ache. Plus it keeps for years and is yummy on greens and as a meat marinade.

Fill a glass jar 1/3 full of each of the following: onion, garlic & fresh ginger root. All you need to do is wash well & smack w/a knife to lightly crush.

Leave a bit of room at the top for 2 tblsp of ground cyanne pepper or several fresh peppers (I've always used ground). Fill the jar with organic apple cider vinegar (the kind w/the good gunk at the bottom). Keep in a dark closet & shake every day for 2 weeks. Strain & return to a dark bottle. I use small eye drop bottles myself. I refrigerate it, but it can be stored in a celler just as well.

This is so potent that an adult needs only an eye dropper full 3 x a day. A young child about 1/3 of that. I've diluted w/olive oil for ear infections but try it yourself before you use it on your child please. After a few doses you will begin to feel your mucus membranes drying & it's time to cut the dosage down.

It's not real intimacy friendly hehehe... but it's amazing, cheap & very easily found ingredients. This was used for the bubonic plage from what I was told... I don't know if that is fact or not.

Garlic & onion are tremendous antibiotics, the ginger stands alone in natures garden... there is nothing else like it. I encourage everyone to grow some, just a few grams ground into your food can detoxify 20lbs of meat. The day may come when we have to eat things that are not as fresh & sterile as we'd like.

this garden stuff is way off topic. I love herbs and plants just as much as anybody but this is the wrong forum.

There's a million websites for herbs, plants, etc. or just check out one called "I am a bored housewife and I have a shovel and a garden hose. What would you suggest?"

Why don't you start your own Survivalist website although I'm sure there's already tons out there.

Hey, I know, go on McCain's website and ask what we should be planting for the next 100 years after the apocalypse when everything is blown to hell. Meanwhile, we'll be talking about delegates, changing the voting system, the Federal Reserve and oh yeah, news related to Ron Paul.

Yarrow grows nearly everywhere, but if you cannot find it locally or wish to have it handy, it is very easy to grow. Every bit of the plant is useful, and it is anti-whatever comes along, just about. Too many uses to list, enjoy the researching of them yourself!
Nature has provided for us, there will be cures for almost everything that grows locally. I pray I never need atropine, but I know where the belladonna grows.

bugs hate junipers,its good to chew on, its anti-microbial ,and it cleans your breath,teeth and stomache

I can vouch for the Aerogarden. Excellent for someone without a green thumb. Great for those whose growing season is short.
Can grow just about anything with it, from herbs to vegetables.
When it comes to some vegetables they recommend using dwarf varieties.

I hope everyone who can would begin to grow their own food, as a way to take care of one's self as much as possible, and also a way to decrease our dependence on foreign oil providing America with better security.

It's time for us to step over the fool's in government, and begin to lead our country in the direction it should be going, rather than sit around waiting and wondering what government will do for us, in turn immobolizing us to do nothing for ourselves.

Davy C Rockett

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you cannot grow, but you can find it and pick it in the wild: Usnea barbata, it is a lichen that hangs off of trees, and it can be identified positively very easily for amateurs, it is greyish green, and looks like hair, but when fresh, if you pull on the hair like strands, and it breaks on the outside layer, and the inside, white part is elastic and stretches, before breaking you have the right stuff! Look it up on google to see what it looks like. It is so important, because it is anti fungal, anti viral, and antibiotic, and very strong. It is good for pneumonia, anthrax, strep, staph, ear infections, cystitis, and many fungal things. But, it is not solvent in water, so you must use vodka or 1/2 water and 1/2 everclear to make it. Just use 1 oz herb to 4or5 oz. of the vodka or everclear mix and chop herb very fine, shake in jar, let sit in dark place and shake daily for 2 or 3 weeks, strain the liquid, and store in dark glass bottles for up to 8 years. (It is the liquid you use.) This would be a very good thing for emergency, no?

.. preparing, storing and using the hundreds of various herbs is mind-numbingly complex. I strongly suggest getting some references books. Following are the two books I have and I love them:

Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Herbs
http://www.amazon.com/Rod...

Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine: The Definitive Home Reference Guide to 550 Key Herbs with all their Uses as Remedies for Common Ailments
http://www.amazon.com/s/r...

I got them really cheap used on Amazon...

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is good for its calming effect.

I've found chives extremely easy to grow. I'm not sure what they're good for but I love them on my eggs.

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Lisa C.

www.women4ronpaul.com

I been taking this for 4 years and have not been sick..."Not even a simple cold"....You can grow this yourself.

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"Observe the masses,and do the opposite."

pick in the wild. Here are the ones I grow: (well the ones i can think of, it is a blizzard outside right now). NETTLES, my favorite,useful for many things, and SO nutritious, dandelion, yes I take seeds from wild ones, and scatter them in my yard. feverfew,for headaches, echinacea, mullein,for coughs, and the root for incontinence, licorice,for many things, st. john's wort, horehound, best decongestant, chives (for cooking), lovage (for both), cilantro, for cleansing from heavy metals, chamomile,a sedative, motherwort, garlic, parsley , comfrey , rue, spearmint, peppermint, sheep sorrel, strawberries, (for eating the berries, roots for diarreah, leaves for one of best sources of vitamin c. , oregano, winter savory, catnip,for fever, hollyhock (for same thing as marshmallow), lemon balm,for herpes type things,like cold sores, valerian,for relaxing and sleeping, lavender, Then I pick tons when I visit my son's family in the mountains.

grow some cilantro. If you eat a little of fresh cilantro everyday it cleanses the body of heavy metals (mercury, lead,) and is also a very effective natural antibiotic and has been proven to kill salmonella than most over the counter antibiotics.