Chickweed is Food and Your Health Ally
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- Chickweed (Stellaria media) is an incredible wild plant that tastes amazing and is often used in herbalism. There is no shortage of nutrients in chickweed or what chickweed can do for our health! For more info see the links below.
- Chickweed (identification, distinguishing features, flowers, leaves, height, habitat & edible parts): www.ediblewild...
- Buttered Chickweed Recipe: www.ediblewild...
- Chickweed Salad Recipe: www.ediblewild...
- Nourishing Skin Salve Recipe: www.ediblewild...
- Medicinal Uses of Chickweed: www.ediblewild...
- Chickweed Tincture Recipe: www.ediblewild...
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I love the close camera shots and how you keep still long enough for me to get a good long look. Thank you.
You are welcome !!
I've just discovered this wonderful plant and it grows everywhere on my property ! Love it
I just went on an edible/medicinal plant ID walk last night, so I'm on a new learning journey. This video is super informative! Thank you!
You are welcome!
I was looking for info on chickweed and found you. Thanks and I`m subbed. I have young chickweed growing amongst my peas and radish. I harvest it daily and am dehydrating it for winter. I just chuck it into my vegetables after sauteeing and with the heat turned off. It cooks with the residual heat.
Nice!!! It is an incredible source of free food!!!
Our dog absolutely loves the stuff! He will jump up to get it out of your hand! We have it growing naturally in our yard and every time we take him out to toilet, he goes foraging the stuff.
Smart dog!!!
It's adorable when people say things "purify blood". Don't you just hate it when your blood is so disgusting that you need to purify it with something that already by definition isn't pure or doesn't purify anything except apparently blood.
When you think about the chemicals in so many "food-like" substances people eat, the beverages loaded with syrupy trash, many people need to (sadly) purify!
I work at a nursery and they have chickweed everywhere their seeds get into everything.
Free on-the-job benefits!!!
Thank You I just ate some pulling it up like weeds I graze. how to preserve I haven't drank the tea yet. didn't think about tea or tincture until you. I was was weeding and enjoying eating the chickweed the mosquitos too much couple nights ago very still of the night no automobiles on the one highway no other roads it was quiet I heard billions of mosquitoes too loud in the tent ⛺
You are welcome and thank you for watching!!!
and they are rather yummy. nice green sweetish spinach taste.
SWEET voice! Love the info thanks, I just saw a bunch 3 steps off my patio, so I ate some an hour ago! Never did that before, but Im still here LOL
And thankfully you are here!!!
I have a garden bed that is perpetually filled with chickweed. I might as well use it rather than try to pull it out. I am curious though, is it better to use a tincture rather than just eat the fresh plant? I am not a fan of tinctures as I don't tolerate alcohol very well. I am particularly interested in its ability to aid weight loss, as I am currently trying to lose weight. Could I just eat a few sprigs every time I am outside?
If tinctured you could put a couple of drops into a glass of water once or twice a day and drink the water - - then you don't notice the alcohol that much. You could infuse the chickweed into organic apple cider vinegar...combined the two do very well in helping some people to lose weight!! That way you can use the vinegar on salads or take a shot glass of it a day (in water)!!
@@EdibleWildFood-1 Thank you for the response! The apple cider vinegar might work! I am wondering though, is the medicinal action the same whether fresh or tinctured? I am asking because I have been putting chickweed in my salads, and I'm wondering if that's a good thing to do, or if it might be better to make a vinegar tincture and use that in a dressing.
@@Laura_B__ Eating it fresh is good but it also means our body has to use calories to process it so that we get the plant benefits. This is perfectly ok! But a tincture (or vinegar) means those nutrients will be quickly absorbed into the body. Making tinctures/vinegars take time because active constituents must infuse properly. Six or more weeks must pass to give the alcohol (or vinegar) time to absorb all the active components of the herbs. Be sure to shake it occasionally.) Getting the plant both ways is good, but to capture those constituents allows you to have a "finished product" you can use long into the winter months! I hope this helps!
@@EdibleWildFood-1 That makes perfect sense. Thank you for the explanation. :)
@@Laura_B__ You are welcome!
I’m just finding this video. I have tons of this now! February, southeast North Carolina.
Awesome!!
great video, thank you for sharing your knowledge, in Ohio there is a large Amish community and I homemade private owned soup company. They sell chickweed salve. this year I am wanting to start making my own, why should I buy it, when God gives is the ingredients.
Thank you for this video. Lots of helpful information. Planning to harvest some today.
You are welcome!! I hope you gather lots!!!!!
Very cool. I have alot of this in my yard.
Nice!!!!
Just found some ! Thanks for your works! Amazing ❤
You are so welcome - and thank you for watching!
Thanks for the video and the links. I'll have to investigate my garden to see if I can find some. 🙂👍
You rae most welcome! It can hide at times!! I have seen it popping up through the grass in public parks too!
excellent info and very pleasantly presented , great job and thank you !
Thank you Roman Star! I am so glad you enjoyed it! I appreciate your kind words.
Thank you!
You are most welcome!
Love chickweed. Can't find it after spring in my part of Ohio. I eat it raw. Have not tried a tincture.
Typically it prefers cooler temperatures. Mine grows best in spring and autumn - and I am in Ontario.
Really nice video. Could you tell me how you make the tincture please?
Thank you Sara! I have a free downloadable PDF on my website that will help you! www.ediblewildfood.com/free-wild-food-files.aspx
any skin related benefits ?
draxe.com/nutrition/chickweed/
Is it a good food source for good bacteria?
I heard though that some think there can be a risk of toxicity.
Never heard of that - - what are your sources?
Lots of disinformation out there.
@@karenstephenson7830 A book called Culpepers Color Herbal, it didn't say it was inedible or anything, more just to use caution and to be aware of different varieties.
@@jeffstarrunner1 A lot of the historical herbalists brought us great information and thanks to modern science a lot of what they thought hundreds of years ago has been either proven wrong or correct. This is why it is important when researching old information to cross reference with recent science.
@@karenstephenson7830 It's not all written by culpeper, each herb has a section called "modern usage" and that's where the warning is. Also if you google it that's what the majority of sites say.