Herbs are what originally piqued my interest in gardening back in the 70's.
Our number one medicinal over the years has been just a simple comfrey in olive oil and beeswax salve. Never seen anything beat it for diaper rash -a very good all round salve. Sometimes we'd add calendula or goldenseal. But most of our medicinals we gathered wild - coltsfoot, boneset, mullein, and catnip were used on the common cold. A scratchy throat could be put to rest 9 of 10 times with a pinch of goldenseal on fruit juice first thing in the morning. I still have a jar of ginseng roots going back to the early 80s that have soaked in grain, and or scotch for a periodic draught -for general, preemptive medicinal purposes.
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