I just helped my mom pack to head back to Alaska. I packed her meds, I filled an entire Cabellas soft sided fish and tackle bag with all her meds, she even had some in her purse. I'm currently saving up for your class so I can get her off all that crap.
My wife's sweet mom came to live with us on 14 different meds. She could hardly walk around, was very confused, didn't know her brothers' names....etc. With the supervision of her doctor we got her off all but two of them. She went through drug withdrawals for several months and then, bingo, she was back. Her mind was bright, she was active, etc....Drugs can be great tools. But they can also be a travesty when prescriptions are piled on with no regard for what's already being taken and without regular assessment to see if they need to be discontinued or changed. Doc Jones homegrownherbalist.net/
@@HomeGrownHerbalist My little mama was a polio survivor. She had bulbar bilaterally. One side to the waist, then it crossed and went down the other side of her body. She was never supposed to walk, but did that and had 4 kids to boot, me when she was nearly 40. Because she outlived most in her condition, western docs didn't know and didn't care how to treat her post polio, aging body. They piled on pain meds. At one point, she weighed 115#, and they had her on 10mg Percocet every 4 hours and a 72-hour fentanyl patch simultaneously. The poor woman was out of her mind and couldn't poop. No pain meds helped. It was in a medically legal marijuana state, and a doc finally prescribed cannabis. It was the only thing that helped her, and we tried it all. We got her off nearly everything. Pain screws up so many bodily functions! But finally, before she closed her eyes one last time (because a med she didn't want was forced), she could manage the pain and knew us. God bless you for taking care of your MIL and letting her see the bright colors again. That's how my mom described coming out of the drug stupors...like going from black and white to seeing bright spring and summer again. She is who helped me plant my first tomatoes, and I want to help others in her honor. We were never close, but I think perhaps I can honor her this way. Thank you again, and God bless.
You don't know me but YOU'RE my new herbal teacher. I'm so happy I found your videos! You are such a great teacher, love the wisdom, reverence and humor
I love learning that it can stimulate or restore hyaluronic acid! I have a lot of problems with connective tissue, joints…all that since chronic tick-borne disease (Lyme). I wondered if hyaluronic acid could help with joint fluidity and asked my chiropractor. He looked into it and, sure enough, studies had been done that showed it makes a difference at about 70+ mg a couple times a day.
lesta reiff, I do not know if it works for an insect sting but I would think using a tincture and crushing the flowers and applying to the area would also be helpful. I do know that plantain leaf helps draw out toxins and have used it on my bites. The sting subsides almost immediately and plantain grows everywhere.
i was just watching your comfrey video, and left a question there... was hoping you was still making vids, as just recently found ya, not long ago any ways... so glad to see a new vid. thank you for these vids... some day hope to be able to afford the class, but till them binging on the vids
I'd love to take a year and just talk to you about all my conditions with you and find out what I could take that's natural instead of all this pharmacopeia. You are the most knowledgeable person I have seen. I simply love your knowledge and personality. I love that you can laugh at yourself too! Blessings to you and yours 🥰
I had some black-eyed Susans show up in a bed where I planted strawberries. The strawberries struggled a bit, but the black-eyed Susans flourished. They have come back every year, I am happy to say. We have echinacea growing, too, but it's not as prolific.
Thank you for these short introductions to the course that I have already paid for. Before I can start my course, I must get my companion of 13 years settled in a permanent hospital care situation but right now the VA is taking care of him and so am I. Thank you from the heart of my bottom for taking my money and waiting for me for the whole rest of my life, unlike that other unfortunate woman whose husband got cancer who signed up for another school. Thank you thank you this little snippet was terrific. The clover one was very interesting, all the clover I’ve eaten over the years has helped me be as old as I am and I can hardly wait to get to a longer commentary I will get over to the library and sit down every day for 2 1/2 hours with you. Then I will get out to my raised beds that I have hired my snowplow man to build, and I will have the best old age summer I’ve ever had. I’m in Maine.
Wonderful news! I just collected about 15 young echinacea plants that went through their first summer up from seeds. They were being removed in favor of fall planting in a public garden. So I put them in my garden and trimmed them back after their last blooms died. I figure if I mulch them over winter, they may bloom next year, and after the 3rd year, I could divide the roots. Hopefully they'll provide blooms and roots for tinctures and herbal tea infusions.
@@cindyrobertson3798 Good point! But I'm a master gardener intern, and was trained by the ones who manage that garden. They use earth-friendly methods, great soil and compost, and only use sources who don't spray mulch. The garden leader saw me keep back the echinacea and smiled, impressed. I only wish I'd brought hand tools on another garden tour he led, because it had lots of camelia sinensis growing that was going to be pulled out. That's a fabulous tea plant! Oh, well. Next time I'll be ready.
Does your herbal book go into more details about how to make and apply these plants? I’m a newbie to herbal remedies and find your videos helpful yet I’m still learning. Thank you!
@@judybuessing5143 My book The Homegrown Herbalist teaches how ti make the various medicines (tinctures, lotions, teas,etc…) and has about 25 plants and what they’re good for. The medicinal weed book is mostly plants with less medicine making. homegrownherbalist.net/search-results/?q=Pj%20books
You have convinced me. I'm starting with echinacea for my chronic sinusitis . (If dissolves venom, it has to dissolve the mucus) Thanks so much for the lecture.
I am a new student enrolled in your school. Love tour content and personality. Have a wicked cold, possibly sinus infection, some coughing. This is day 5. Swapped out my coffee, sugar and creamer for hot tea starting yesterday. Echinacea, Ginger and honey yesterday. This morning, after 8 hrs straight sleep, not normal for me, I woke up with the thought "add mullein and peppermint to your tea". I just happened to have purchased dried peppermint and have harvested mullein over the summer from a little patch on my property it was growing naturally. Just found this video and feel confirmed I am on the right track. Anything else I might add I to my tea regime? Plan to drink a 10-12 oz cup every 2-3 hours again today.
Thanks for the info. I ordered the sting and venom kit over the weekend. Hopefully I'll never have to use it for snake bites, but living in the death-from-snake bite capital ( NC), it will be good to have on hand.
How do you use these plants? Do you dry and make tea? A tincture? An oil infusion? Pulverize dried components and take in a capsule? Or do you make a syrup? I'm assuming you don't just eat the leaves and flowers...or do you?
I hope you are having success with the echinachea. It was one of my very first natural remedies to work with 20 years ago. The root is what I use...digging around a plant and removing a few choice roots. This allows the plant to continue growing. I make a decoction by cutting into half inch pieces and simmering for 15 minutes in filtered water or spring water. Then I freeze small amounts which I can remove anytime of the year as needed. Just warm it up and it's amazing. It's always good to drink for any cold or flu. I've used it safely as a compress on my eye for stys. Make poison ivy disappear within a couple of days. Calms a stinging nettle rash. When my son was small and quite sick..he said "mom..make me some of that root." I boiled water ..poured it over the snow and ice to get a piece of root to make him a medicine. He's a doctor now and we have so many more plants that we have learned to use. Echinachea to me is like Gold ❤🎉
Love your videos, and your pleasant personality, please keep putting them out. May God bless you and yours! I have a friend who simmered the leaves of echinacea for a little bit until the water was near black- she used this on stubborn poison ivy that she was unable to get rid of for like 2 months. Using this strong echinacea leaf tea topically, made the poison ivy finally heal, and quickly!
I watch your videos over and over. How many likes can you get credit for? I’ll give it another like. I planted both of these this fall. Oh, I just learned you have to take this over and over to get it activated in your body.
@@louannhuber2651 Id also add that it does well with a little peppermint or ginger or fresh ground black pepper to help as a catalyst to wake up the body and make it absorb better.
I'm not seeing any new content notifications! I'm glad this one came up and I'll go look after this to see if there's anything new! Great to see you again
I don't know what variety it is, but the most abundant medical in my Holler is Black Eyed Susan. You almost can't find a spot along the road where you can't touch one.
Wow you always enlighten and educate us…thank you as always for taking time to share …school is beckoning to me …with hopes my family will pick up on the CHRISTMAS gift ideas I’m hinting about lol…stay blessed
I wish I had known about echinacea in regards to brown recluse bites. One bit me between 2 toes when I was sleeping and my toes looked like 2 beets. My foot doc prescribed some heavy duty antibiotic that about killed me. It worked but my toes still have a slight darker color and peel every so often.
Is the entire flower head on both the Black Eyed Susan and Echinacea usable in teas or just the petals from these flowers? I harvested some Echinacea this Summer 2022, but I took more of the leaves than petals not knowing the petals have more medicine than the leaves. Rookie error.... :)
Perhaps a silly question, and I know I won't phrase it correcty...do plants raised for medicinal purposes benefit from being planted with certain others? Is there like a root party underground that can make some more potent? Do pollinators cross-contaminate for our good? Can the opposite be true? Is it such a small thing that it is negligible, or are neighbors important in my garden? I have planted medicinals for years, usually don't harvest because life happens and I get perfection paralysis. If that's a silly question, just smile and nod at the slow kid lol.
I have tried to grow echinacea for three years unsuccessfully. This year I realized that it needs to be cold stratified But even then no luck. I have been unsuccessful to find it as a plant. I really want to grow it in our medicinal garden. Any advice? We're outside of Los Angeles California zone 9B.
Believe it or not-i bought a little cup with Echinacea seeds from the dollar store-it had maybe 5 seeds and 2 grew. This is the 2nd year. I lost 1 last winter that was in the ground and the 1 in a pot survived! Keep trying! It took forever for them to germinate. I live north of Seattle.
I read somewhere (sorry dont remember where) that seeds of Echinacea are the most potent part of the plant. I dont know if this is a true but it is a interesting thought to include seeds into our herbal preparatins.
I wanted to buy some from my logical garden centre, the thing is I'm.not sure of they've been sprayed with pesticides. I did try growing from seed but did not succeed. But I'm in UK and especially this year, the weather has been awful 😢
Thank for all the fantastic info ! However, I do have one question - is it possible to use the flowers in a tincture, using either or both of the captioned plants? Look forward to a reply and definitely more videos....
Wonderful information! How would I use my echinacea to make a face cream? The commercial companies put hydraulic acid in a lot of face creams but I'd like to make my own. I'm thinking I'd have to infuse some oil with it then use that oil to make the cream. Tks for any advice on this.
Please tell me everything about the BLACK EYED SUSAN !! I’m researching and am reading that the BLACK EYED SUSAN FLOWERS ARE poisonous!!’?!! I have many plants this year and want to harvest for medicine. Please help me
Dry the flower or root, grind it in a blender and then use it how you like. Make a tea, make a tincture, throw the powder in your morning smoothie... Doc Jones homegrownherbalist.net/
Do the white cone flowers have the same medicinal uses as the purple? I started harvesting my purple cones for a tincture but wasn’t sure if I can use the white to make echinacea.
@@Patters1677 color is chemistry. Medicine is chemistry. I like to stick to the original version rather than the line bred cultivars. There’s no telling what medicinal constituents were bred out of the plant to change the color that much.
@@MFaith777 i use the tincture topically and internally. I combine it with some other good venom herbs. Have a look here for the formula i use. homegrownherbalist.net/search-results/?q=Venom
I have a black-eyed Susan that has a center like the purple coneflower or echinacea and it has orange petals Will that work the same as the traditional black-eyed Susan or is this a hybrid?
Thank you for your valuable videos. Can you recommend an herbal tea for a cat with FIP and it is the wet version. Love learning from these videos especially when you comment on how to use it with your pet.
@Laura Thyme Thanks I have written these all down. I do think finally my cough is starting to get better. I still have bouts with it but I can wake up and feel like I don't have a cough now. I will give them all a try if I continue having persistant problems with the cough.
Are the other echinacea, like pow wow berry and Sonoma , also good as a medicinal ?I have a lot of purple cone flower and black eyed Susan, but I have other areas of my garden where I really don’t want purple.
Thanks doc! Always valuable information! Anything for fire ant bite? I didn't know it bit me and didn't know not to scratch, so my toe got infected....can you advise?
GREAT information as always. QUESTION: Do you know if Echinacea will reduce the toxins from a bee or wasp bite? A neighbor of mine is very allergic and does not always care his epi pen when venturing onto my bee friendly property. Thank you for any information you can provide and God Bless you dear man.
Thank you. Do you think this would grow well in 5B zone with clay soil? I would have to help the clay soil - as I do with all things I play because clay soil is a bummer. :-)
Hi Doc Jones! Love your knowledge and humor! I wanted to know your opinion on freeze drying medicinal herbs? Is this a good idea or will it lessen the medicinal content?
I just helped my mom pack to head back to Alaska. I packed her meds, I filled an entire Cabellas soft sided fish and tackle bag with all her meds, she even had some in her purse.
I'm currently saving up for your class so I can get her off all that crap.
My wife's sweet mom came to live with us on 14 different meds. She could hardly walk around, was very confused, didn't know her brothers' names....etc. With the supervision of her doctor we got her off all but two of them. She went through drug withdrawals for several months and then, bingo, she was back. Her mind was bright, she was active, etc....Drugs can be great tools. But they can also be a travesty when prescriptions are piled on with no regard for what's already being taken and without regular assessment to see if they need to be discontinued or changed.
Doc Jones
homegrownherbalist.net/
@@HomeGrownHerbalist My little mama was a polio survivor. She had bulbar bilaterally. One side to the waist, then it crossed and went down the other side of her body. She was never supposed to walk, but did that and had 4 kids to boot, me when she was nearly 40. Because she outlived most in her condition, western docs didn't know and didn't care how to treat her post polio, aging body. They piled on pain meds. At one point, she weighed 115#, and they had her on 10mg Percocet every 4 hours and a 72-hour fentanyl patch simultaneously. The poor woman was out of her mind and couldn't poop. No pain meds helped. It was in a medically legal marijuana state, and a doc finally prescribed cannabis. It was the only thing that helped her, and we tried it all. We got her off nearly everything. Pain screws up so many bodily functions! But finally, before she closed her eyes one last time (because a med she didn't want was forced), she could manage the pain and knew us. God bless you for taking care of your MIL and letting her see the bright colors again. That's how my mom described coming out of the drug stupors...like going from black and white to seeing bright spring and summer again. She is who helped me plant my first tomatoes, and I want to help others in her honor. We were never close, but I think perhaps I can honor her this way. Thank you again, and God bless.
You don't know me but YOU'RE my new herbal teacher. I'm so happy I found your videos! You are such a great teacher, love the wisdom, reverence and humor
It's interesting that the warm and cool energies match the flower coloring.
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I love learning that it can stimulate or restore hyaluronic acid! I have a lot of problems with connective tissue, joints…all that since chronic tick-borne disease (Lyme). I wondered if hyaluronic acid could help with joint fluidity and asked my chiropractor. He looked into it and, sure enough, studies had been done that showed it makes a difference at about 70+ mg a couple times a day.
lesta reiff, I do not know if it works for an insect sting but I would think using a tincture and crushing the flowers and applying to the area would also be helpful. I do know that plantain leaf helps draw out toxins and have used it on my bites. The sting subsides almost immediately and plantain grows everywhere.
Interesting
i was just watching your comfrey video, and left a question there... was hoping you was still making vids, as just recently found ya, not long ago any ways... so glad to see a new vid. thank you for these vids... some day hope to be able to afford the class, but till them binging on the vids
Good afternoon from Vermont. Hope everyone's day is great!
I'd love to take a year and just talk to you about all my conditions with you and find out what I could take that's natural instead of all this pharmacopeia. You are the most knowledgeable person I have seen. I simply love your knowledge and personality. I love that you can laugh at yourself too! Blessings to you and yours 🥰
Me too. Would love to pick his brain about my issues
I had some black-eyed Susans show up in a bed where I planted strawberries. The strawberries struggled a bit, but the black-eyed Susans flourished. They have come back every year, I am happy to say.
We have echinacea growing, too, but it's not as prolific.
If anyone has neuropathy like me this plant echinacea is a game changer for you try it It's amazing takes 90% of the pain away.
I too have neuropathy and Echinacia really works wonders on it!
@@rachelmoser4422 how are you using it?
@@HomeGrownHerbalist I take it in capsules with a catalyst herb Cayenne. Three Echinacia to 2 Cayenne.
Thank you for these short introductions to the course that I have already paid for. Before I can start my course, I must get my companion of 13 years settled in a permanent hospital care situation but right now the VA is taking care of him and so am I. Thank you from the heart of my bottom for taking my money and waiting for me for the whole rest of my life, unlike that other unfortunate woman whose husband got cancer who signed up for another school. Thank you thank you this little snippet was terrific. The clover one was very interesting, all the clover I’ve eaten over the years has helped me be as old as I am and I can hardly wait to get to a longer commentary I will get over to the library and sit down every day for 2 1/2 hours with you. Then I will get out to my raised beds that I have hired my snowplow man to build, and I will have the best old age summer I’ve ever had. I’m in Maine.
Wonderful news! I just collected about 15 young echinacea plants that went through their first summer up from seeds. They were being removed in favor of fall planting in a public garden. So I put them in my garden and trimmed them back after their last blooms died. I figure if I mulch them over winter, they may bloom next year, and after the 3rd year, I could divide the roots. Hopefully they'll provide blooms and roots for tinctures and herbal tea infusions.
They do pretty well, I had started some from seed and boy they grew!
Be careful of public gardens spray is likely
@@cindyrobertson3798 Good point! But I'm a master gardener intern, and was trained by the ones who manage that garden. They use earth-friendly methods, great soil and compost, and only use sources who don't spray mulch. The garden leader saw me keep back the echinacea and smiled, impressed. I only wish I'd brought hand tools on another garden tour he led, because it had lots of camelia sinensis growing that was going to be pulled out. That's a fabulous tea plant! Oh, well. Next time I'll be ready.
I like knowing I can use black eyed susan. I have plenty of it growing everywhere. Thanks for the information.
I love your Venom and Sting formula. It seems to help anything and everything. Thanks for all you do!
Wish you would include how all these remedies were taken in n the videos. ie..tea. tincture, internal, external..
Does your herbal book go into more details about how to make and apply these plants? I’m a newbie to herbal remedies and find your videos helpful yet I’m still learning. Thank you!
@@judybuessing5143 My book The Homegrown Herbalist teaches how ti make the various medicines (tinctures, lotions, teas,etc…) and has about 25 plants and what they’re good for. The medicinal weed book is mostly plants with less medicine making. homegrownherbalist.net/search-results/?q=Pj%20books
Well your depth today has convinced me to take the step for schooling this fall :))) thanks doesn’t quite cover it
You have convinced me. I'm starting with echinacea for my chronic sinusitis . (If dissolves venom, it has to dissolve the mucus)
Thanks so much for the lecture.
@@alejandrawalker5045 send me an email on your sinusitis. homegrownherbalist.net/contact-us/
I am a new student enrolled in your school. Love tour content and personality. Have a wicked cold, possibly sinus infection, some coughing. This is day 5. Swapped out my coffee, sugar and creamer for hot tea starting yesterday. Echinacea, Ginger and honey yesterday. This morning, after 8 hrs straight sleep, not normal for me, I woke up with the thought "add mullein and peppermint to your tea". I just happened to have purchased dried peppermint and have harvested mullein over the summer from a little patch on my property it was growing naturally.
Just found this video and feel confirmed I am on the right track.
Anything else I might add I to my tea regime? Plan to drink a 10-12 oz cup every 2-3 hours again today.
Thank you very Much Doc Jones for your UA-cam Channel I’m always watching you God bless I have learned A lots for the herbal plants God bless
I learn so much from you. ❤️
I'm interested in the classes you offer, in a video it says that I can have a STUDY BUDDY how does this work?
Absolutely love all your videos & the valuable information that you share with us ♥️ Thank you 😊
I resemble that remark thank you for posting it.
I have to say along with your teaching, I love your laugh have a blessed day.🤣🤣🤣🌿
Awesome video!! Would love to see content regarding herbs in pregnancy!
You are so phreakin' smart!!! Love watching you! Intelligence fascinates me, I can watch it for hours 😂
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. You are a blessing!
I have black eyed susan everywhere. Glad to find a use for them.
Thank you.
Thanks for the info. I ordered the sting and venom kit over the weekend. Hopefully I'll never have to use it for snake bites, but living in the death-from-snake bite capital ( NC), it will be good to have on hand.
How do we ask you a veterinarian question about mastitis in goats
He lists an email on his website. He has said before to email him questions.
@@AuntNutmeg Thank you!
How do you use these plants? Do you dry and make tea? A tincture? An oil infusion? Pulverize dried components and take in a capsule? Or do you make a syrup? I'm assuming you don't just eat the leaves and flowers...or do you?
I hope you are having success with the echinachea. It was one of my very first natural remedies to work with 20 years ago. The root is what I use...digging around a plant and removing a few choice roots. This allows the plant to continue growing. I make a decoction by cutting into half inch pieces and simmering for 15 minutes in filtered water or spring water. Then I freeze small amounts which I can remove anytime of the year as needed. Just warm it up and it's amazing. It's always good to drink for any cold or flu. I've used it safely as a compress on my eye for stys. Make poison ivy disappear within a couple of days. Calms a stinging nettle rash. When my son was small and quite sick..he said "mom..make me some of that root." I boiled water ..poured it over the snow and ice to get a piece of root to make him a medicine. He's a doctor now and we have so many more plants that we have learned to use. Echinachea to me is like Gold ❤🎉
I was just discussing the black-eyed susan with my son this very afternoon, wondering what it might be used for. Thanks, Doc🤗
Love your videos, and your pleasant personality, please keep putting them out. May God bless you and yours!
I have a friend who simmered the leaves of echinacea for a little bit until the water was near black- she used this on stubborn poison ivy that she was unable to get rid of
for like 2 months. Using this strong echinacea leaf tea topically, made the poison ivy finally heal, and quickly!
Thank you for sharing so much of your knowledge. Cant wait to start your school this Winter.
I’m waiting for winter too! I’m really looking forward to it!
See you there, on the web anyway. 🥰
I've heard echinacea can raise your blood pressure. Can you please talk about this.
Thank you for your great information!
I watch your videos over and over. How many likes can you get credit for? I’ll give it another like. I planted both of these this fall. Oh, I just learned you have to take this over and over to get it activated in your body.
@@louannhuber2651 it’s milder than most herbs and benefits from higher and more frequent dosing than most herbs.
@@HomeGrownHerbalist So impressed you responded. And , with the reason you should take higher doses. Thank you,
@@louannhuber2651 Id also add that it does well with a little peppermint or ginger or fresh ground black pepper to help as a catalyst to wake up the body and make it absorb better.
THANK YOU FOR THIS AWESOME INFORMATION.
I'm not seeing any new content notifications! I'm glad this one came up and I'll go look after this to see if there's anything new! Great to see you again
2nd vid of yours I watch today. 👏🏼👏🏼 I wish I knew about it for brown recluse bites. That spider had me upside down for a while.
I have been harvesting for tea in the winter.love it.
What about brown eyed susans?
I don't know what variety it is, but the most abundant medical in my Holler is Black Eyed Susan. You almost can't find a spot along the road where you can't touch one.
Do you use the whole flower, or just the petals?
Wow you always enlighten and educate us…thank you as always for taking time to share …school is beckoning to me …with hopes my family will pick up on the CHRISTMAS gift ideas I’m hinting about lol…stay blessed
Doc, you are a true gem! 💞
I’m looking forward to taking your course this winter!
Thanks Doc 🤗❤️❤️
Would love to see a garden tour of your space!
Yes!
THANK YOU AGAIN!
Can you combine them & take them together?
I wish I had known about echinacea in regards to brown recluse bites. One bit me between 2 toes when I was sleeping and my toes looked like 2 beets. My foot doc prescribed some heavy duty antibiotic that about killed me. It worked but my toes still have a slight darker color and peel every so often.
Here we have a lot of echinacea tennesseensis, does that work as well as the purpura?
Do not use E. tennesseensis. It's listed on the federal endangered list and the non-endangered species work very well.
Is the entire flower head on both the Black Eyed Susan and Echinacea usable in teas or just the petals from these flowers? I harvested some Echinacea this Summer 2022, but I took more of the leaves than petals not knowing the petals have more medicine than the leaves. Rookie error.... :)
Can you suggest any hebs for Bronchiectasis patient
Thank you😊
Thank you for being a teacher
Thanks for watching. :0)
Doc Jones
homegrownherbalist.net/
You are very informative. Thank you for educating us.
and the seed from the echinacea I found that when chewed helps with toothaches
Perhaps a silly question, and I know I won't phrase it correcty...do plants raised for medicinal purposes benefit from being planted with certain others? Is there like a root party underground that can make some more potent? Do pollinators cross-contaminate for our good? Can the opposite be true? Is it such a small thing that it is negligible, or are neighbors important in my garden? I have planted medicinals for years, usually don't harvest because life happens and I get perfection paralysis. If that's a silly question, just smile and nod at the slow kid lol.
My purple cone flower self seeded and blew into a huge patch of it. I have some root and flowers making a tincture now.
What is the name of the chemical that neutralizes venom?
Thank you Doc for all that you do!
I have tried to grow echinacea for three years unsuccessfully. This year I realized that it needs to be cold stratified But even then no luck. I have been unsuccessful to find it as a plant. I really want to grow it in our medicinal garden. Any advice? We're outside of Los Angeles California zone 9B.
Believe it or not-i bought a little cup with Echinacea seeds from the dollar store-it had maybe 5 seeds and 2 grew. This is the 2nd year. I lost 1 last winter that was in the ground and the 1 in a pot survived! Keep trying! It took forever for them to germinate. I live north of Seattle.
I read somewhere (sorry dont remember where) that seeds of Echinacea are the most potent part of the plant. I dont know if this is a true but it is a interesting thought to include seeds into our herbal preparatins.
I need to know be remidy for IBS I assume there's a natural way
Do you have a book on herbal medicines for animals
Can echinecea be added to fire cider wellness shots?
Is the wild black eye Susan just as good to use
Thank you thank you thank you Dr Jones!!! God bless
Thanks for sharing, God's blessings always 🙏🏾 Halleluyah Grace Shalom. New subscriber here
I wanted to buy some from my logical garden centre, the thing is I'm.not sure of they've been sprayed with pesticides. I did try growing from seed but did not succeed. But I'm in UK and especially this year, the weather has been awful 😢
There seem to be a lot of "new" commercial varieies of these plants. Do they have lesser medicinal abilities?
Wondering the same!
Is harvesting time for rudbeckia same as for example for dandelions?
Could I mix the two of them! In a tincture?
I am always seeing one of my dogs help themselves to my echinacea
Thank for all the fantastic info ! However, I do have one question - is it possible to use the flowers in a tincture, using either or both of the captioned plants? Look forward to a reply and definitely more videos....
Wonderful information! How would I use my echinacea to make a face cream? The commercial companies put hydraulic acid in a lot of face creams but I'd like to make my own. I'm thinking I'd have to infuse some oil with it then use that oil to make the cream. Tks for any advice on this.
Do you suggest teas or timctures to promote hyalauronic acid production in general?
I found and bought some echinacea plants but the flowers are orange. Are they the same as far as medicinal and edible?
I’d absolutely love to join the school but can’t afford it even with the split payments😢
Please tell me everything about the BLACK EYED SUSAN !!
I’m researching and am reading that the BLACK EYED SUSAN FLOWERS ARE poisonous!!’?!!
I have many plants this year and want to harvest for medicine.
Please help me
How do you cultivate it and apply the flowers? Chop them in food processor? Make a tea?
Dry the flower or root, grind it in a blender and then use it how you like. Make a tea, make a tincture, throw the powder in your morning smoothie...
Doc Jones
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@@HomeGrownHerbalistthank you so so much for all the info, I was told not to use black eye Susan!.... Boy were they wrong.... I got lots of them. 😊❤
Love learning from Doc Jones. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. 🥰
Glad you enjoyed it
Doc Jones
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@@HomeGrownHerbalist Thank you Doc Jones!! Always! You're amazing & a Blessing.🥰👐💃🏻
1) Is the fall/winter the best time to harvest the root
2) when harvesting the flowers, should it be mainly the petals? Thanks!
When do you pick the flowers? How ypung do they have to be? In my experience, my plants set seed rather quickly....or do you want the seed included?
Do the white cone flowers have the same medicinal uses as the purple?
I started harvesting my purple cones for a tincture but wasn’t sure if I can use the white to make echinacea.
@@Patters1677 color is chemistry. Medicine is chemistry. I like to stick to the original version rather than the line bred cultivars. There’s no telling what medicinal constituents were bred out of the plant to change the color that much.
For spider bites, are you talking taking it internally or topically? For the teaspoon are you talking tincture or tea?
@@MFaith777 i use the tincture topically and internally. I combine it with some other good venom herbs. Have a look here for the formula i use. homegrownherbalist.net/search-results/?q=Venom
@@HomeGrownHerbalist oh good to know- I wasn’t sure if the alcohol in the tincture would sting on top of the bite etc?
I have a black-eyed Susan that has a center like the purple coneflower or echinacea and it has orange petals Will that work the same as the traditional black-eyed Susan or is this a hybrid?
@@srudie color is chemistry. Medicine is chemistry. Safest to stick to the original.
So is the venom medicine just the flower, the roots, both? Through an alcohol tinctures, or water, our just dry?
Thank you!
Thank you for your valuable videos. Can you recommend an herbal tea for a cat with FIP and it is the wet version. Love learning from these videos especially when you comment on how to use it with your pet.
thank you for the shorter videos. I seldom have time to listen to the long ones
do you drink a tincture of echinacea or do you put it on the bite or sting? And can you dry the flowers to put in tea?
Informative video!!
I have a lingering covid cough, do you have anything you recommend for it?
@Laura Thyme Thanks I have written these all down. I do think finally my cough is starting to get better. I still have bouts with it but I can wake up and feel like I don't have a cough now. I will give them all a try if I continue having persistant problems with the cough.
Is echinacea leaf medicinal?
@@debbiejahnke8724 The root is strongest. The flower is also quite good. The leaf is much weaker than the others.
@@HomeGrownHerbalist ok thank you! I collected a little late and missed the flowers. Also fellow vet here. Enjoy your videos.
Are the other echinacea, like pow wow berry and Sonoma , also good as a medicinal ?I have a lot of purple cone flower and black eyed Susan, but I have other areas of my garden where I really don’t want purple.
Thanks doc! Always valuable information! Anything for fire ant bite? I didn't know it bit me and didn't know not to scratch, so my toe got infected....can you advise?
GREAT information as always.
QUESTION: Do you know if Echinacea will reduce the toxins from a bee or wasp bite? A neighbor of mine is very allergic and does not always care his epi pen when venturing onto my bee friendly property. Thank you for any information you can provide and God Bless you dear man.
Do you make a tea with it or ingest it as a pill or do you use a tincture ?
Thank you. Do you think this would grow well in 5B zone with clay soil? I would have to help the clay soil - as I do with all things I play because clay soil is a bummer. :-)
Hi Doc Jones! Love your knowledge and humor! I wanted to know your opinion on freeze drying medicinal herbs? Is this a good idea or will it lessen the medicinal content?
It's fine as long as the dryer doesn't go over about 100 deg. F.
Doc Jones
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Looks like a garden gnome.