Chickweed | Living in Natures Love

by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP – Living in Natures Love Lifestyles @insideawareness.com

Fresh Chickweed

Chickweed can be used internally as a demulcent and externally as an emollient. It typically is made into tinctures, oils, ointments and salves yet it can also be mashed or infused with water for hot and inflamed skin conditions. Chickweed contains astringent properties that is wonderful for hot and inflamed conditions. It is also made into tea for herbal remedies. Why not a flower essence?

Chickweed Infusion for Skin, Bites, Rashes, Itchiness, Painful Joints & Bruising

Add 1 cup freshly chopped (1/3 cup dried) chickweed to 4 cups boiling water and let it sit for up to 20 minutes before adding it to your bath water or cool to apply to skin to sooth bug bits, chicken-pox, rashes, bruises and joint pain.

Chickweed Tea as a Laxative

Steep 1 tablespoon fresh chopped (1 teaspoon) chickweed in one cup of hot water and steep into herbal tea for constipation or ease digestion. Drink 3 to 4 times a day until condition improves.

Chickweed Poultice

Mash fresh chickweed to add to skin conditions such as bruising, bug bits, rashes, boils, chick-pox, wounds and slivers. As the chickweed mash dries it will pull out slivers, poisons and toxins.

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Feldenkrais® Practitioner since 2007, Communication & Empathy Coach since 2004, Art of Placement since 2000

by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP – Living in Natures Love Lifestyles @insideawareness.com

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Chickweed

Also known as: Common, Star or Mouse-ear Chickweeds, Winterweed

Uses: Culinary, Herbal, Tea, Medicinal, Poultice, Topical Skin Products, Detox, Laxative, Digestion, Weight Loss, Decoction, Insect Bites, Rashes

Parts used: Flowers, Leaves & Roots

Preparation: Tea, Tinctures, Vinegar,Oil, Flower Essence, Skin Care, Soap-making, Toothpaste, Mouthwash, Bathing, Shampoo, Lotions, Ointments, Infused Water

Recipes

Symbolizes: Fidelity & Love
Language of Flowers meaning: Rendezvous (coming together)
Associated with: Relationships in a Community, Sacral Chakra
Element: Water
Governed by: Moon

Culinary

Chickweed can be tossed into salads, grilled in butter, added to eggs and used in your green drinks. It is spinach like and can replace it in recipes. Try it in pesto for noodles or spread. It is nutritious and tasty. Chickweed contain high levels of flavonoids, vitamins, and minerals. These nutrients help fight free radicals that cause disease and chronic conditions.

Chickweed Pesto

Health & Wellness

When my children came down with chickenpox I remembered my mother telling me that chickweed would decrease the itching of this condition. I had to go on a hunt in our community to find some. That was the begining of infusing this weed to bath the children. I now pick from a patch planted in our little garden to infuse with water for the cats water. It is useful for cats and hairballs!

It is a healing herb and useful for constipation, wounds, eczema, insect bites, bruises, joints, inflammation and tension.

A cup of Chickweed Tea before meals can slow down the bodies intake of fat so helps with weight loss.