Edible Mountain: Plant Medicine

[@LVXMagick]

Please do more videos on local herbalism! This is great. Thank you!

[@Life2Love4Life]

In this video is ​Passion Flower Reishi Mushrooms Tea Motherwort Tincture Poke Skullcap Ramps Foxglove Comfrey (knit bone) to heal when there is no infection Yarrow Tincture as an antibacterial wash Honey to heal Yellow dock thank you for the great lesson on plant medicine.

[@maryalice5357]

Lovely voices and delivery. Fragrance is also therapeutic for me. Great Information I have never seen or read before. Nothing as good as watching a master. Thank you to West Virginia Wise Women from Pennsylvania.

[@jojobeanstudio1339]

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[@williamqueen8790]

Love these videos

[@joyceh5162]

Living in Appalachia...WV to be exact, the harvesting of wild plants...medicinal or for food for personal use is not as prominent as it use to be. It's a loss to Appalachians identity. Many in the younger generations won't go out and harvest wild plants or even hunt wild game anymore. There's more to a story than data and numbers. Plants (and game) have periods of growth then decline in population. An abundance of wild game consumes more plants! How would you go about restricting access to these plants? Why and how would you keep people from using their land as they see fit? Most people I know that still harvest ramps are well informed about only harvesting a small percentage so as to ensure future harvests. The harvest season is very short, so what may look like a large amount being harvested at any one time will last that person a year. Besides a 5 gal bucket of freshly harvested ramps once cleaned and cooked down ends up being 1 gal of food.. Community ramp dinners are held to raise money for specific causes and most likely will be the only ramps eaten by attendees because they are the ones Not going into the mountains to dig. What do you hope to achieve here? To create a utopian world where all wild places are protected against human invasion and only a privileged few have access to these natural resources? Or do you want to preserve Appalachia's heritage? And don't say that is what you are trying to do by limiting access to these wild foods so as to preserve them for future generations. The only thing that achieves is a big disconnect from the population to their environment. A Heritage is sacrificed. A way of life is lost along the way. If the strain on the population of these indigenous plants comes from outside of Appalachia...then start there. Take it off the commercial market there! And not off the dinner plates here.