April. according to both the Calendar and the archives here. i discovered the healing of the thing i have going on with my toes….which has become a painful winter season challenge to both body and Spirit. For a couple months ? I think? i used the leaves twice a day as poultice and the toes healed completely. Became again, just regular old toes and i quit. Not noting in either place when that was. Went on a while using the herbal salve from the woman i found in Paradise, but though it has everything else, no plantain. And Gum Weed oil. at her suggestion, and then quit that. All has been well until out of the blue…the other day….it all was THERE again. I remembered seeing those green green very healthy plants down by the creek….i think i said something about that here??? They are mature. Not the spring plants of B Garden i'd used and i wondered how they might be for learning to make my own salve but never went forward with that. So on the way back from town today, these leaves. Will try them as poultice again. There's a ton of info on YouTube about making the salve. Time to learn. Like some other things. Time to learn.
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Grace I’m so sorry that you’re having these problems with your feet. It is so frustrating when you have a condition that just when you think you have found relief .. comes back. I’m been dealing with something similar for the past two years and although not in a good spot but having this happen on your feet has to be way worse. I wish I had a magic cure for you but hopefully one of your many friends here will come up with something new that you have not already tried. Sending you gentle healing hugs😘
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I too am sorry that this has returned. Do you know what it is? A seasonal fungus or some type of dermatitis? I wish I knew more about natural healing but if the plantain poultice worked last year, I sure hope it does so once again and that you can find a plentiful source. You are very good about learning so may the salve making go easy for you.
I went to my herb bible, Rodale’s Illustrated Encyclopedia of Herbs and found info that you already know: how the “crushed leaves of plantain can be used for itching from bee and insect bites and stings. The New England Journals of Medicine noted that plantain is also used for the stopping of itching from poison ivy. An infusion of plantain can also be used for the skin, cleansing and stimulating it.”LikeLike
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i think there ARE answers Out There
i keep looking, listening.
For now, the plants help meLikeLike
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the plantain was a miracle. and may be again.
it’s some kind of neuropathy. Just so strange that all
the summer months, it was GONE. ?????LikeLike
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