Our plant allies provide wonderful healing opportunities for many of the common annoyances and problems involving skin issues. Herbal Salves are a definite advantage to have on hand for the home or travel first aid kit. Combining the powerful properties of wonderful herbs such as chickweed, comfrey, and plantain.
Ideal and safe for children and pets as there is little likelihood it will burn upon application and nothing is added that would be toxic if your pet licked it off.
This balm is beneficial for the care of our elderly loved ones who may suffer with skin irritation as a result of trapped moisture or chaffing. Issues they may not like to talk about but no matter what the age, skin is sensitive and needs special care.
Chickweed is Stellaria media which in latin means little star. The little white flowers appear to be made up of five petals but look closer and you'll see each petal has a cleft to become ten little slivers. Chickweed is one of those creeper plants often cursed by gardeners when it "invades" the garden as it self-sows very rapidly. Once the summer heat builds these flower patches seem to just disappear.
Preferring cool, moist soil, this plant is sought out by foragers as a mineral rich salad green.
For topical use, chickweed is often used fresh as a poultice or made into a salve. To use as an ointment, the fresh plant is infused in olive oil for several weeks, after which it can be used alone or combined with other healing herbs. For this salve we added comfrey and plantain.
Comfrey has the reputation of being a living medicine chest. A member of the Borage family, this herb was known as the plant that can join back together what has come apart. Bearing the sign of the planet Saturn, it stands for the joining, hardening energies.
Plantain is another "lowly weed" often at the other end of the gardener's hoe in attempts to eradicate it out of the lawn.
Plantain, or Plantago major, is known as the "Mother of Herbs". Plantain is both edible and a valuable aid for home remedies.
If you discovered this listing in your search, then you are probably already aware of this beneficial plant.
Etsy's rules concerning alternative remedies prohibit explaining the listing or plant properties in any detail. For that, I apologize for the inconvenience, but if interested in further information of the benefits of these herbs and their use in a salve, visit my website:
www.meadowmuffingardens.com
Please be aware that I am making no claims that this salve is a cure for any medical condition. It is a result of information gathered on the benefits of various plants and home remedies. It has not been tested by the FDA therefore has no studies attached to its use, only feedback from people who have tried it. I have no way of predicting how individual cases will react to use of this salve, so please apply to a test spot before regular use. Please read the ingredient list and be aware of known allergies.
Each of these herbs had been infused in cold-pressed extra virgin organic olive oil.
On hand, and which may be added or substituted if short on one or more of the other herbal oils, are chamomile, nettles and yarrow.
Should you have an allergy to any of these plants or have a preference to which are used, let me know and we can substitute.
Herbal Salve is available in a choice of a 1/2 oz 1 oz 2 oz. or 4 oz. size plastic jar.
Cleanse and dry affected area and apply salve as needed.
