NOT a Weed: STOP Killing This Shockingly Useful Plant
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- Опубліковано 22 лип 2024
- Learn about the surprising benefits of the broadleaf plantain in this video and stop killing this useful plant! Discover how to identify, harvest, and cook with plantain for natural pain relief and inflammation treatment and other types of holistic healing. This video explores the shocking uses of an incredibly versatile yet common plant. I'll cover its medicinal uses (wound healing, cough relief, etc.), its role as a food source (for humans and animals!), and its surprising practical applications like fire starter and natural dye. We'll also delve into the history of the plantain name and its connection to Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet!
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00:00 Plantain: Weed or Wonder Plant? (Uses Revealed!)
00:55 Plantain: The Misunderstood Weed with Superpowers
01:06 Plantain Everywhere! The Most Common Medicinal Plant?
01:34 Plantain vs Banana: What's the Difference
02:10 The Mystery of the Double Plantain Name (Solved!)
02:24 Plantain, Pepper, Biscuits... Foods with Confusing Names
02:51 Latin origin of the word plantain
03:13 Theories about origin of plantain name
03:46 Plantain in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
04:00 Ancient medical uses of plantain
05:24 Metamucil comes from plantain
05:58 Plantain is edible for people and animals
06:10 Yes you can feed plantain to Rabbits
06:28 Plantain's Hidden Uses: String, Twine & Natural Dye!
06:53 Plantain flower stock can be used as tinder for fires
07:20 Plantain: The Secret Weapon for Healthy Soil
08:03 Plantain: Nature's Multitasking Miracle!
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I had an old Italian neighbor friend who’s yard was nothing but ‘weeds’. She schooled me so I wouldn’t harm them, explaining that ALL of her plants were edible and medicinal plants brought here by immigrants (often at great cost). She was 96 years of age and in better shape than me
I love it!
@@chuckienunyobiz1882 Love this
Sounds like she was a wonderful teacher and an herbalist.❤
@@ruthl51 all women were/are herbalists - men hunt and women gather (who goes shopping? - tis endemic in our make-up) read eating on the wild side by nina etkin anthropological - pub by uni of arizona - blow your mind ruth about our ways
i let a lot of weeds grow in my yard. for the same reasons. edible or medicinal.
I was a wrangler on a Resort and horses always were getting weird wounds... one day I said to my boss dont call a ver just yet I have a natural remedy! I gathered many plantain plants an ground them well and added warm bran mash then applying to the swelling wrapping well and a in several hours a huge splinter was retrieved from that
dressing! My boss was truly amazed at that !!
I love it!
Sounds like you should be the boss.
That’s just beautiful to hear, i so love plants they seem to speak to me.
This is why I love reading comments cuz there's people that have such meaningful related stories
Who had the splinter?
Growing up in Europe, my grandmama taught me to use this plant for scrapes, small wounds and mosquito bites. It always worked. Since that time, I always have had a respect for it, even in the USA. Same respect, as for dandelions, which are the best cleanser for our liver! I never used chemicals on my lawn and chemical spraying services guys make fun of me, seeing yellow flowers in my front yard. How little they know!
Interesting!
One of my sons would put it in a blender and then in an icecube tray in the freezer. He worked at facility that would bring in classes for outdoor education. If a student was stung he would get a plantain icecube to place on the spot. It worked!
Brilliant me to blessed be x
@@joanneadamovich8114 wow!
Works on Mosquito bites that's a win, win for me.
I have both narrow and broadleaf plantain. I dug some up from a pasture and intentionally moved them to my yard. Same with Mullien, lambs quarters, and purslane! My friends think I’m a little off. 😂
That is awesome!
I love our "weedy" yard! I'm always finding treasures in there. 🙃 Looking at a big expanse of boring grass is so depressing to me!
Was there a specific purpose? Sounds great by the way
I’m right there with you 😂
I did the same at my uncle's farm. I grow many weeds each year to increase my stockpile of seeds of "wild herbs". Mullein, purslane, Boneset, pokeweed (ya just never know if you'll need to administer it to someone 😮😅) and many more. I had a wild herbs and wild edibles field guide and a plant app to help identify. Yeah, literally everyone i know (Except my neighbor, who saves my sanity) calls me crazy 😂.
I have made a few tinctures and poultices, and freeze dried some, but with so many seemingly simultaneous projects going on..... yeah, I need to start utilizing and incorporating the things I'm growing.
Any who, happy 4th 🇺🇸
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As a child, we picked it and made salad with clover heads. Please make another video with more uses. Thank you 😊
@@babsgilbert518 Sounds delicious. I have to tell you this. I once went to a Benny Hinn Evangelistic meeting in Hendersonville Tennessee and people were being slayed in the spirit and appeared to be healed and the aroma in the room smelled strongly of clover I have never forgotten that and when I smell Clover I remember this. It was real believe me.
My grandmother taught me that by folding the leaf a little, you can make a cup to drink water from the spring.
Fun!
First you have to find a spring. :)
That's a neat idea. Buy just wanted to say you might want to boil your water from the spring though, a teacher of ours got a clear glass jar full of spring water so she could hold it up to the light to show us that there were basically almost microsopic creepy critters in the water and that's why you want to boil it first . But thats an awesome idea of your Grand ma 🙂🙏💖
I wonder how many of those are actually bad for you, and how many are beneficial?
Great video. Along a similar subject, I had a rep from an exterminator come to my home two nights ago trying to offer me their services. I kindly told him I wasn't interested, and he asked if we use someone else, or take care of it ourselves. I told him no, that we believe that everything has a purpose, and that as long as the insects aren't hurting us or causing destruction to our property, we preferred to leave them alone.
Nice!
Aloha. I live in Hawaii and I got bit by something. At first I didn't know what it was. There were 2 marks. Some people said it was a spider bite and some people said it was a centipede. I found out as few days later it was a centipede. I used essential oils initially that were helping but not doing the trick totally. I noticed it was hot and becoming red. I literally had a dream about plantain and told a friend who was studying Hawaiian medicine. She got me some from her friend's yard since her friend did not spray and told me to chew it and put it on top of the bite and wrap it in saran wrap. I laid there for an hour and I could feel the poison leaving the site. I did it a few more times and it did its job. I am so grateful for plantain. It grows on our campus at school and I always point it out to my 2nd graders when we are walking on campus. Mahalo for the video and sharing the many uses!
I had this happen to me 2 weeks and since where we rent they spray I had no Plantain. But my neighbor has a ton and I got permission to use it. I could feel the poison leaving the bite. I am sure it was a Brown recluse spider bite. The skin was starting to degenerate and in 4 to 5 days the skin was regenerated! I used a police and changed it 3x a day. I was so excited I am telling everyone! Since I live where we have winter I was wondering if I pick it and freeze it would it still hold it's healing properties? Guess I will try to find out!
I have heard that First Nations people use the seed heads as a treatment for poisonous snake bites.
@@elainesiebel9212you can make a tincture with it. You can dehydrate it, infuse oil with it, then make a salve with it! I have purchased a Plantain tincture at a local Farmers Market, but will also make my own. It's easy, but takes time.
Works on spider bites
@@elainesiebel9212 I think you could dry it easily. Either in the sun or in a food dryer (just never go over 40 degrees in a dryer, in order to preserve all the nutritional and medical substances)
A weed is a plant we haven't found a use for...yet.
you are right, God wastes nothing in all of creation.
I mean, technically a weed is a plant that easily out competes and doesn't play well with other plants and has a tendency to create monocultures and kill off soil diversity.. think wild roses, wild blackberries.
The term weed has nothing to do with it's use, but it's characteristics of growth and reproduction. a plant that grows slow, doesn't produce much seeds and has awful germination rate, has a lot of competition etc, cannot be a weed
A dandylion is considered a weed because of its large amount of seeds, and the misnomer that it creates a monoculture as it's often misdiagnosed as being too much competition for other plants when in reality the soil is top poor for other plants and is perfect for dandylions, give it a year or two and the soil will be poor for it and great for high brix loving plants.
@@Tomana_ I don't know...I think he wasted some skin on some political 'leaders'.....
At 77YO, I prefer eating weeds to weeding my garden (LOL). Thank you. Very useful info.
Smart!
WEED : any plant that is growing where you dont want it... roses are weeds when they grow in a vegetable garden
Or not.
Multiflora rose is a weed most places it grows
Also WEED : any plant that is growing better than your desired crop that you put all the work in for
Rose petals are edible. Wild roses are numerous some places . However Rose hips are a laxative
Roses in a veggie garden are a natural attractant for bees and other bugs which polinate it as well as your garden veggies.
I have plantain growing profusely on my property. I always liked it. As a kid, we would snip off the tall shoots, fold the stem around itself and pull the stem through the fold. This would pop the seed head off like a little gun. Much less ominous than the realistic toy guns of today. I also just like walking through it. For the past few years, I have been leaving a large portion of my back yard basically unmowed - only mowing once in the spring, and the second and final time in late fall. The result is a beautiful plot of tall grasses and "weeds" that move with the breeze, attract insects and wildlife, and annoy my chemically addicted neighbors. It's a win, win, win. So glad to read about all the other benefits of plantain that I was not aware of. Really enjoy your site. Thanks.
I appreciate your kind words and am glad you enjoy the content on my channel. Your support means a lot!
We did that too-shooting the seed heads off after making a loop with the stem-I was waiting for someone to mention that!
Me too. I let the wild things grow.
I can see the benefits of this plant, but I would still be the neighbor who would be annoyed by something like this since if grass and ‘weeds’ get too high, it can attract the wrong kinds of bugs like flies, mosquitoes, ticks and make the bad bug population even worse.
We used to do that with the narrow leaf plantain heads , too! In South Wales, UK, where I grew up. I love picking edible leaves from my yard for a salad. Violets, lambsquarters, plantain, purslane, even hairy bittercress - though it’s a bit fiddly with the leaves being so small.
Yes. We need to Educate ourselves on all the so called weeds. That are not Weeds.
Weeds are a human invention.
I always wondered about the etymology of the word plantain and why the weird plants in my lawn were called the same name. Thanks for explaining that and all of its amazing uses.
Anything but a banana...😂
for sure!
We Also Need to Educate Ourselves to Avoid Inapppropriate Capitalisation.
Narrow leaf plantain does pretty much the same things and my courtyard is full of it. I recommend a video on Lambs Quarters. It’s another amazing plant!
Yes, I love lambs quarters when I was 5 or 6 my Mother would send me out to gather it, It's delicious, I'm 66 now I love free wild food, wild mushrooms, and asparagus both green and white, garlic ramps, berries, thistle, nettles, dandelion greens, I could go on and on, wild plums, elderberry, mulberries I love gathering wild food, canning, making jellies, jams and pies, gathering wild hickory nuts, walnuts,
Yes, please make additional videos maybe showing what they look like and how to identify the different varieties.
he did show it
@@LisaG-fu9zpOnly the broadleaf up close, or did I miss something? Always doing two things at once
I didn’t see it either, only the broadleaf.
I have both broad and narrow leaf in my medicinal garden and leave it to grow in some areas anyway. My store cupboard is filled every year with teas, tinctures and ointments and I never need to go near a doctor. I was taught how to select and make all those things as a child growing up in the Highlands of Scotland. Plantain is called Slan Lus there - the healing plant.
Ah, good old lawn cabbage. I used to have fun by making up my own names for plants I didn't know, then I 'knew' them. I don't pull anything out of the lawn, my last one day survey identified 39 non-grass flowering plants species there. Mix that with many grass species and some sedges, and it's pure heaven. No species dominates, it never needs watering or fertilization, it flowers, and it grows slowly. Sorry, typical American, going off about my lawn... Thanks for the video! edit: The first time I ever saw shinleaf, it was blooming in the back yard!
I love it!
Plantain seed can be used like flax seed as an egg substitute.
Learning about these plants may help people to stop spraying herbicides where their children play.
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I know... It's instantly, spraying poison on your yards, on the ground.
IT can't possibly be good for you.
And what do they think happens after it kills weeds? They think it magically disappears?
Hell no! It remains and continues, seeping into the water table! 😩
Not to mention where people grow food to eat. Neighbors spray herbicides and don't care where it drifts.
Good job, I do have plantain growing in abundance and I knew it had bleed stop properties and was edible. I was not aware of it's many other properties and I'm flabbergasted to learn this. More uses, more wild edibles and medicinals, yes please and thank you.
That is so funny! When I was a kid my cousins and I played with that all the rime.😮😅 Pretended the leaves were salad , the green seeds, tea, and when they turned brown/black, called them coffee! Even mixed them in water in a play coffee pot, 😮😅❤😂😂
Same here! I never knew anyone actually ate/drank this stuff or other things we deemed as weeds as well!
I made a flower bed just for the plantain so it wouldn't get mowed. I'm working through all the uses, and love knowing this beneficial plant is within arms reach. Thank you for taking the time to make this video. I'll be watching for more.
Smart!
I have some plantain growing in with my hostas. Looks like a boarder plant that was intentionally planted there.
Upon discovering the insect apocalypse back after college in 2011 I vowed to never treat my yard with chemicals and to learn my land. All these years later and I’m still learning, thank you.
We are all still learning!
To heal broken bones you make a poultice of comfrey.
Lost it on the internet & could never find again, was that fenelgreek helps heal broken bones. Don't know where I read this. I did use fenelgreek to reduce a hematoma (a huge swollen bruise🔴) & knee swelling.
yes! i heard a story about a "study", or maybe more of an experiment, i dunno, using comfrey on a raw steak that was cut. and apparently meat fibers (for lack of correct word) started to reconnect! now, again, i did not read the study, it was simply something i heard about and am not sure of validity... but i mean, i also have no reason to not believe it... so.....zombie steak anyone?? 😂
@@sunii4264maybe if you use this spelling 'fenugreek' you might have more luck finding your article
Just recently taught my niece about this plant, she eats it all the time now… I’m surprised considering most of the time it’s bitter but the right ones can be sweet
The soils makes a difference and picking at correct time.
be carefully, “all the time” maybe a little too much
@mdascoota4293 be more careful using so called modern medicines aka petroleum based deth meds. All medicines are petroleum based
I have this plant in my yard. Didn't know what it was. When I asked my local "Master Gardeners" I was told it was a forage plant and not good to keep in the yard. I liked the look of it, so I didn't kill it. Now I'm even happier with that choice. thank you for the information on this powerhouse plant.
yep, true. I was at an airport when I saw a small child with significant mosquito bites. I gave his mom some of the salve I made and told her about plantains. Native Americans in my area had it included in a video. Works wonders - I react badly to bites and keep this handy.
Very smart!
Now that I am nearing 80 years old, my skin has thinned, and when I was walking through some rough branches in my allotment garden, they caught my arm and produced a quick rip with a fair bit of blood. For some reason, I remembered that I could use plantain… grabbed some out of the path, chewed it and laid it over the wound. It stopped bleeding and calmed… I did that a couple more times.. My arm healed perfectly, quickly, and without a scar! Thanks, Plantain!
Aloha! Mahalo for your explanation of the LAUKAHI KUAHIWI. Such a wonderful plant. I recall one time I had a painful boil on my okole (butt.) I ground some laukahi leaves and placed in on the boil for about 4 hrs. At the end of that time the inflamed redness and pain was complely gone. It left a slight 'dip' in my skin in that area. If you leave the poultice on there for any longer than that that you will have a crater in you skin. With Aloha, Keoni
P..S. YES you can eat it and to the comment below CRYSTAL BLUE PERSUASION: 'pigweed' is the common name for many 'weeds' that Da' PIG will eat. I too have eaten other kinds of 'pigweed' par boiled sprinkles with sesame seeds, soy sauce and apple cider vinegar over white rice.
BROKE DA MOUTH!!
lol...I love it!
Great to see you talk on the benefits of plantain. I love this herb, use it for bee stings, spit poultice works like magic. Also infuse it in oil for salves, and make a tincture in combo with calendula for leaky gut as it is an astringent and demulcent .
I was always taught that a weed is a plant that you don’t want nor intend to place it. I took ethnobotany in college in Hawai’i. That gave me so much respect for plants and how we use them and need them.
Thanks for bringing back my childhood memories….i used to pick up the plantain with my grandma…..in the country where I was born it’s called the warrior herb ( approximately translated) since the rebels were using it to heal the wounds…..
My grandfather used to make special tonics etc…
The tea made from the dried leaves is little bit bitter,they were putting teaspoons of honey in it
❤💐
What a revelation @WineberryHill 🌱 I had _NO_ idea broadleaf plantain had all these benefits PLUS it produces psyllium husks?! I just like the way it looks 🥰
Tastes good too...wild spinich is what I understood it to be. I harvest is all yeR like spinich eat is all winter✌️
year
I had so much plantain coming up around my chicken coop in Oregon that I would pull it and feed it to my chickens. I moved to NW Arizona where there was no plantain so I grew the narrow leaf from seed and bought the broad leaf variety from Azure Standard. Makes me feel at home! They are surviving our hot 100 degree summer so far.
That is awesome!
I first learned about plantain being beneficial while watching a season of Alone. A contestant with MS used it as part of a natural treatment
Interesting. Great show.
I learned about this plant a few years ago and I love it! I use it for wounds and bug bites. Works like a charm. Heals wounds in a day or two and stops the bug bite itching in a few minutes and it doesn't start itching again later. Thanks for video would like to see all types to help identify them.
One time someone was complaining about all the "toe-knockers" growing in her lawn and I said: "Tgem thar "toe knockers" are known as "plantain." Her knowing what it's formal name was didn't change her attitude about it being in her lawn! Oh well🤷🏻♀️
I never use broad leaf killer chemicals or anything like "weed and feed" because I enjoy having clover, lespedeza, and plantain in my lawn! Prefer it, in fact.
Oddly enough, found out about it this week from an old lady. We have narrow leaved plantain (Wegeirch) here, works the same. My grassy areas are full of it :-). Lots of bugs here too and i react quite strongly to all bites. I'm now gathering to dry and make salve.
I have this all over my yard, I just threw some away, by my sidewalk, will not be doing that again. I make a tea for my plants with dandelions and dock leaves and roots, and am allowing more dandelions in my garden, for my own nutritional needs, so, now, I will allow this to continue to grow as well. I just learned about the sticky/velcro weed, too, so, come on “weeds” I will let you live here. 😊
Right on!
My yard is covered in those plants, the wild rabbits love them .
Sounds about right!
You can also boil it down to a black paste and smoke it as an aphrodisiac. It take a few hours but it does work! I have 7 kids.
LOL
Rofl
And an ugly wife?
😊😊😊😅🤣
Lmao!
I already researched burdock, but you could do a video on that too!, apparently the roots are edible!, and (i think) the flower-stock shoots!!!.
(might've been another thing don't quote me, but definitely the roots)
i never thought such an annoying velcro-y plant would be...not such a bad thing after all, -now he is tame and in a special spot in my garden playing nice with my kale,
and i am going to be farming both that, and thistle for a frozen veggie mix for when i make soups and fry vegetables, -and since they love to grow ANYWAYS,
in any soil without need for love or protection, it will help greatly in my famine i am experiencing here in canada with the bad economy.
i already LOVED plantain, but i am still happy to see a video and learn more on it, -next year i am going to grow some greens of them in a gravel-garden,
because our driveway...got FILLED with the little baby ones, and the gravel protects them from moisture on the leaves, AND, keeps all the weeds decently out (that i wouldn't want to eat)
ANDDDD, they will not get dirt-splash from rain on their leaves, reducing the need to scrub, and also, making it easier to lop-off all the leaves to eat.
-we can't have our driveway overrun and turning into a lawn, so i have been pulling them out because i am not going to eat walked-on driveway greens,
but, i DEFINITELY am going to farm them in a setting similar, because the leaves are SO many, and SO easy to harvest that way, and they look so clean and fresh,
and without pests as the ones who live without the rocks seem to have.
Oh,darnit! I just pulled up (by the roots) a 32 gallon trash can of 4' high thistle from one bed of pachysandra. I guess I'll be adding THAT batch to my JADAM fertilizer. Knew I couldn't add it to my compost pile, as it had started flowering. What else can I do with it?😊
This plant is very well known and appreciated in ROMANIA , and that's for centuries !... the syrop made of the leafs it treats very rapid (and no later helth inconvenients) the caugh , amigdales and throat infections and in general, all depending on respiratory tract... a wonder of Mother Nature ,i use it also for salads and ,along with another wonder plant : horstail, we prepare an unguent-cream /coconat oil based , realy remedy rapidly treating any joints/articulation pain....
Wow, that's so cool! Nature really does have all the answers, huh? Thanks for sharing this with us!
In the middle of a drought, I find myself foraging for edible "weeds" that are far more hardy than my veggie garden plants. I've been eating lots of purslane and plantain weed. Next year I may set aside some space specifically for each to enjoy.
What I've always heard is it grows where there's a lot of foot traffic, thus the name.
Bingo! That's where it grows.
@@lorilockwood4323ours seem to thrive in the shade💚. Def not gonna pull them anymore
Native Americans called this “white mans’ foot” because it showed up when Europeans arrived.
I am going to search my yard. I am probably weeding and throwing it away. Dad always said a weed is just a misplaced plant. Great information!
Yup
I disagree, a weed is exactly where it needs to be. A weed is a scout, telling us the soil is having an issue. Search, Soil Works LLC. from ND.
I have this plant all over my place. I knew about some of it's uses, but I had no idea how useful it was! Thank you!!
Glad it was helpful!
My parents never sprayed their yard. There were too many useful plants in there. Dandelions, both broadleaf and narrowleaf plantain, white clover, lamb's purse, all were harvested for our use. I always weeded our flower beds (we had several) and our garden with a bucket for sorting out the plants we could use from the weeds we couldn't. We even saved the flowerheads from bull thistles to use as a vegetable rennet for making cheese. And, yes, we raised goats for milk, butter and cheese.
I love it!
I'd love to know how you made the vegetable rennet! I have bull thistles aplenty!
Plantain looks good in a border. We have a wild front garden with trellis to hide all the 'weeds' from sensitive neighbours. We trim (harvest) the grass, nettles and dandelions that protrude from the trellis, but the plantain nestles in and keeps its form nicely.
I’d love to hear more about ways to eat/prepare it
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The leaves are very bitter. Not tasty, but very medicinal, especially for topical wound care. The flower/seed heads are mild tasting and can be added to meals tho.
Great information. I don't use any weed killer (or anything at all) on my lawn. Everything is green and gets mowed to the same height and that's good enough for me. Now I need to go find this plant.
I need to learn more about the uses of each weed. You have me hooked on getting to know more about plantain. The videos that have a detailed description of when to harvest, how to prepare, how to preserve, and how to use are very helpful to me. Thank you!
Ok sounds good!
I have a plantain FIELD so I’m thrilled to find your suggested uses!
Awesome!
Growing up in the Appalachians we learned all sorts of verbosity from elders. Living here again, the memories return. I use plantain in salves . it has great qualities. Also use in salads
Thank you for sharing your memories with us. It's heartwarming to hear about the traditions passed down by elders.
I open the back door of my home & plantain is there growing at my feet. 🙃
I read somewhere in earlier days walking travelers stepping on the plant would carry the seeds on the bottom of their shoes or bare feet where by the seed took root in another spot when it fell or was wiped off.
☮️💖🌻
Thank you for this information. Years ago a friend educated me about lambs quarter which I now eat daily while it’s in season. Now I’ll do the same with the plantain in my yard.
Loved this! I already knew this plant is edible, now I know so much more! I'm an artist and created a series of paintings about foraged plants. This is one of my favorites.
Glad it was helpful!
I guessed you were going to say either plantain or dandelion. I love my weeds. Heart-shaped clover taste lemony.
I was convinced he was going to say nettle, since nettle also has tons of uses including as fibres!
I wasn't aware five years ago about broadleaf plantain before I pulled up every piece. I am filled with sorrow since, learning of it's properties, and I am grateful there are people like you spreading this information about plants. Keep up the good work! I really enjoyed your video:)
glad you enjoyed it
You have got to show us the plant more often up close
Good overview, but I would likemore details in how to make things with it.
Great video. Would be nice to see more about each of those used, such as in recipes, etc.
i appreciated that your video was short and packed with a variety of info.
3:53 helps a broken heart. Yes indeed, there IS such a sickness. It's called "Broken Heart Syndrome". I was diagnosed with it when my daughter-in-law died in 2016 from leukemia. I ended up in the hospital with it.
Nothing less than utterly devastating. She must have been a delightfully special person, for her absence and (savage suffering) to have had such an impact. I ache for you. Our creator remembers her, and has a yearning to bring her back to us soon. (Job 14:14-15)
Thanks for these “extra” tips….it’s also used for stomach cancer, my father used it, he knew of its properties and he had no pain because of it and lived way longer than expected!
A friend taught me about this plant that my parents called "pigweed." I've been using for cooking for 45 years.
this plant isn't pigweed btw ,but yes pigweed is edible nutrition
@@SuperReznative. But pigs aren't.
Leviticus 11.
@@senatorjosephmccarthy2720 my sin is bacon
I have narrow-leaf plantain growing in my garden and I didn't know what it was until last year when I started to educate myself on medicinal medicine. The property of drawing out splinters from my hands, caused by gardening is very interesting to me, I have just chewed up a leaf and placed it on my splintered finger, I thought I had removed the splinter yesterday, but unfortunately, I left some in, once I placed this on my finger the painful feeling went in about 30 minutes. I would like to know in more depth what other information you have, so would be happy to watch more on this plant.
Interesting!
And rabbits LOVE this stuff! 😄😄
You got a witness here!😂
Something interesting about 'weeds':
We started a new kind of vegetable garden this year. We didn't hoe, we didn't eliminate any 'weed', we just left it there and covered everything with 20 cm of hay. Then we planted our vegetables into little holes through the hay and the underlying soil.
The result is awesome...
Hardly any watering, as the
soil is covered and doesn't lose its moisture.
Vegetables don't rot at contact with the soil, as they are protected by the hay.
But the main advantage of this method lies in the nutrition of the soil by the biodiversity of the present 'weeds'.
As explained in the video, every plant apports something to improve soil quality, that's why they are living there, it's a continuous exchange of giving and taking nutrients. And the layer of hay adds even more biodiversity, as it contains nutrients and even seeds of a big variety of plants.
So this method should greatly improve your soil quality over the years.
We are just at our first try, but the results are already very encouraging.
If you're interested, go search for 'elementary garden'.😊
Thank you for sharing your information. That plant is right next to my back porch step. This appears as great and versitile as the comfrey plant - deep tap root, chop and drop fresh compost.
Yep, I'm a fan of comfrey for many of the same reasons.
I Have mostly narrow leafed plantain and i learned to use it on my bug bites. It works quite well at stopping the itchyness. I also give it to the chickens to eat with the other weeds we grow in our yard.
Also when the lawnmower was down for a couple weeks, the long flower stems attracted dragonflies who are wonderful predators of mosquitoes.
For sure! I have a baby bunny for the first time in years and it is loving it !
It's all over my driveway and patio/yard. I eat psyllium supplements for fiber. Wow! What a great plant! Subscribed.
Welcome aboard!
I've been waiting for a video about this! For some reason, this year I have an abundance of this plant in my front yard, which I will now pop out of the ground and transplant somewhere in my BACK yard!😊
Glad it was helpful!
Could you show a video on how to use plantain? Like make a few of the ways to use it. Thank you for your videos. I'm learning a lot from you.
Had to chuckle all the way through this one. I will now stop "weeding" my vegetable garden and start properly harvesting it.
I have them in the community garden and I use them to keep the soul moist for other plants. I'm going to try them in my soup or salad. Thanks
I guess it was planting before you revealed… But I learned so much from your presentation that I didn’t know about!
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Just remember, just because you want to do all this with this plant, most people won't and don't want to. It's still a weed to them. I love eating dandelion flowers, but my neighbors think I am nuts. Lol
"If your neighbours don't think you're crazy, you're doing it wrong" - from Jesse at No-Till Growers
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Psyllium husk is an important ingredient for gluten free doughs, since it replaces some properties of gluten, improving the results 👍
It works great on poison ivy. I made a poultice for my husband and he said the itching stopped immediately.
Cool! Good to know!
Yes, I would love to learn more about plantain and other plants.
I think you put this video up the same day I remarked that plantain seems to have taken over my lawn this year.
...I'm always listening...
Thank you so much, I've lived on a small urban greenbelt for over 40 years that I have personally put a great deal of time in maintaining. It's been amazing to me in my retirement years to slowly learn that many 'weeds' that once disgusted me were actually very beneficial plants as you just showed. It's a sad how much practical knowledge we've lost as a culture...
Totally agree!
The plantain in my yard is being crowded out by wild violets 😢 it's lovely out there, but I need plantain to make my "boo-boo salve"!
Would you show us how to harvest, clean and gather psyllium husk. I would love that video! Thank you.
A chewed up mullein poultice definitely works fast on a yellow jacket sting, at least in my experience. I had it held on the sting with a giant. bandaid. I kept sweating and the bandaid fell off 3 times (I was cutting my mother's overgrown backyard)
Every time if fell off, I KNEW and would find it right near me, immediately reapplied a new bandaid, and it worked INSTANTLY. .
Hi, you should do a video and show really good pictures and close ups of the different plantain type plants they are
I remember seeing this all over my grandparents' shady yard. One day I decided to ID the broadleaf weed that's everywhere from my childhood in Pennsylvania to here in the North Georgia mountains. Not an ugly weed at all.
Called plantain because it grows where you walk alot.
I am a chronic pain patient and discovered Blue Wild Lettuce on my property. I heard they take two years to come back. I harvested the seeds and now I'm wondering how best to plant the seeds for a good harvest of whatever is the pain relieving element.
Look up the growth cycle and recreate that. If it needs winter then you look up how to cold stratify the seeds
Wonderful information. It's a lovely plant and I had no idea it was so special and amazing. I am going to check my pasture to see if I have some of it!❤
I have been aware of some of the benefits of plantain for many years. When my daughter was young, she got a bee sting when we were out. There was plantain growing right under us, so quickly chewed some up and soothed her sting. Recently I was on a hike, and needed to relieve my bladder. Thought I had found a good hidden spot, then my skin started stinging like I’d encountered nettles. Did a quick Seek plant identification, and sure enough, those plants I was in was wood nettles, of which I was nor familiar! I didn’t know what to do, but saw some plantain growing along the trail, so thought I’d try it. Chewed it up, and spread it over all the stings, and voila! The stinging went away, practically immediately!
Very cool!
I got Ribwort Plantain all over my yard.
I have had to move back in with my parents due to the recent passing of my husband. My parents are in their late 70s and have used Round up among other weed killers in their yard for literally forever. And they live on a golf course where pesticides are used heavily and often. I can't grow food in their yard and certainly can't make use of any of these wonderful plants due to the chemicals that are sprayed regularly and it is so disheartening. Thank you for all of this wonderful information. I am hoping to live in my own home someday soon and I look forward to harvesting what is my own yard!
Thanks for watching!
Amazing plant! Many properties! First aid kit in a plant! I have used it as an antibiotic, antiseptic, antibacterial, drawing poltice for slivers & skin infections, wonderful for any kind of bug bites or stings including wasp bee hornet & chiggers!!!
I also cultivate it in my gardens! ❤️🙏❤️🥰🤗
You are so informative and fun to watch. Thank you!!!
Thanks for watching!
Very good! Most people are afraid to even touch unidentified plants in their yard because they fear that it might be poisonous. I learn something new everyday. As a start, I use an app on my smart phone to identify unknown plants. It is mostly accurate. Thank you for this video.
Most plants are not poisonous to touch, some are poisonous to eat but are still used in herbal medicine. Big pharma also uses poisonous planrs such as digitalis (foxglove) for the heart and taxus (yew) to treat some forms of cancer. People are becoming afraid of their own shadows these days!
I will tune in for all sorts of videos that teach uses for the various weeds that we mistakenly regard as useless or even a nuisance. There is so much generational knowledge that just doesn't get passed on any longer. Thanks for teaching.
I couldn't agree more!
Plantain also draws out infection. But you must keep the plantain moist for it to work. Chew , apply to infection, cover air tight for 6 to 8 hours, or as needed. Repeat if necessary. I promise it works.
I live in the low, hot interior desert area of Metro Phoenix, Arizona. I am not sure if I have seen this plant nearby in our state...and I know many plants. I STILL enjoyed this oustanding info video !! :)
I remember it from growing up in New York but living here in central for almost 40 years I never seen it here
Central what, new york or the mid west? I've never seen it in North Texas.
Thanks so much for the education about this plant. I have some growing in the back corner of my yard. The bunnies really love it. I actually think they prefer it over my day lilies 😊