Spider Bite Poultice has a five year plus shelf life and should be kept on hand as part of your household first aid kit.
Puffball Spore (Calvatia booniana) has a drawing, drying and antiseptic effect, speeding the healing of wounds and sores. It is especially effective on sores that weep, such as wounds formed by the venom of Hobo and Brown Recluse spiders.
Kaolin clay is a fine white powdered clay that helps draw toxins from the area of the bite.
Yarrow (Achillea sp.) contains several anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving constituents, such as azulene and salicylic acid it is very effective in the treatment of wounds and open sores.
Mugwort (Artemisia sp. Mugwort has strong antiseptic action as well as tissue soothing properties.
Goldthread (Coptis trifolia) High in berberine, Goldthread has anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties.
Plantain (Plantago sp.) has strong drawing properties to help the Puffball Spore and clay draw toxins to the surface.
Hound's Tongue (Cynoglossum officinalis) has alkaloids and mucilage which speed healing.
This soft-set ointment is lubricating, antibiotic and antiseptic for use around the vaginal area. It relieves itching and irritation due to yeast or vaginal infections. Usnea sp., Laetiporus sp. Usnea, also known as old man’s beard, is not a plant but lichen — a symbiotic relationship between an algae and a fungus. The entire lichen is used. Usnea looks like long, fuzzy strings hanging from trees in North American and European forests, where it grows. This particular species of Usnea, common to our area, is medium-sized tufted shrub lichen, pale yellowish green in color. It is highly branched, bearing numerous short side branches, reinforced by a tough, white, central cord. Usnea grows over trees and shrubs, preferring old growth forest conifers in shady areas.
Usnic acid, which gives usnea its bitter taste, acts as an antibiotic.
Constituents: Usnic acid, mucilage.
Sulphur Shelf (also known as Chicken of the Woods), grows on a variety of hardwoods and softwoods throughout much of North America. The mushroom is a popular edible, and easily recognized by its color, soft texture, and absence of gills. The young rosettes and the tender edges from mature clusters are more palatable than the older, tougher specimens.
The brilliantly colored fungi produces antibiotics and has been noted to consume E. coli upon contact. The fungus is also know to speed healing of burns, both first and second degree.
Extracts of cultures of this mushroom are currently the subject of in vitro scan investigations for antibacterial properties based, in part, upon a long history of folkloric use in the Russian Far East.
Ingredients: Dried Laetiporus sulphureus mushrooms infused in olive oil and thickened with beeswax.
Constituents: N-Phenethylhexadecanamide, eburicoic acid.
Ingredients: Calvatia booniana mushroom spore infused in olive oil and thickened with beeswax.
Constituents: Calvacin.
Lion's Mane enhances cognitive function as well as stimulates the production of NGF (Nerve Growth Factor). It also is believed to promote myelin sheath growth on brain cells.
Lion's Mane is a large pure white fruit body, cushion-like with long pendulous spines; solitary, from wounds on living broad-leaf trees, also from felled trunks; favoring beech. 10-20cm deep x 10-25cm dia. Fruit body: white, cushion-like, upper surface smooth, fertile hymenium on the under surface covering pendulous, elongated conical spines; flesh: concolorous, firm.
Lion's Mane (Hericium erinaceus) is a type of mushroom that has been used traditionally in China and Japan for hundreds of years, and also known as bear's head or monkey's head. Commonly prescribed for stomach ailments and for cancer prevention, this mushroom was once reserved only for the palates of the royal families.
Recently a group of Japanese researchers have patented an extraction process which isolates a NGSF (Nerve Growth Stimulant Factor). They found a compound in Hericium erinaceus which causes brain neurons to regrow, a feat of great significance in potentially helping senility, repairing neurological degradation, increasing intelligence and improving reflexes. Studies also confirm many of its traditional uses, supporting the digestive system, and acting as a tonic for the nervous system.
Constituents: Hericenone A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H, Xylan, Heteroxylan, Heteroglucan, Proteoglycan.
Hydrosols, used for medicinal, pharmacological, and cosmetic purposes, have been dated to use in Egypt over 6,000 years ago. Roots, bark, branches, wood, needles and leaves, even fruit and seeds can produce hydrosols. Hydrosols are the condensate water co-produced during the steam- or hydro-distillation of plant material for aroma therapeutic purposes. Usually the distillation is undertaken is to obtain the essential oils contained in the plant material, but occasionally the distillation is undertaken specifically to produce the plant water that results. Hydrosols contain all of the plant in every drop, just like a hologram. Here we have the water-soluble components, the essential-oil molecules, and the very fluid that was flowing through the plant cells when the plant was collected.
Storing Hydrosols ~ Most Hydrosols will keep for approximately one year if stored in a cool, dark place with very little temperature fluctuation. The refrigerator works fine, if you don't have a cool storage area otherwise.
Constituents: Triterpenes ergosterol, polyporenic acid C, egrosterol, ergosta-7, fungisterol, eburicoic acid, lamosterol, inotodiol, 21-hydroxy-lanosta-7, pinicolic acid.
Hydrosols, used for medicinal, pharmacological, and cosmetic purposes, have been dated to use in Egypt over 6,000 years ago. Ancient Vedic Hindus vaporized floral and herbal oils to soften the skin, sooth the mind, and normalize various glandular activities. The Aztecs enjoyed saunas whose steam carried fragrant floral and herbal vapors from small pools of stone and hot water. Hippocrates described the curative effect of more than 300 plants.
'Flower water' isn't an accurate definition because hydrosols do not come just from flowers any more than essential oils come only from flowers. Roots, bark, branches, wood, needles and leaves, even fruit and seeds can produce both oils and hydrosols. Hydrosols are the condensate water co-produced during the steam- or hydro-distillation of plant material for aroma therapeutic purposes. Usually the distillation is undertaken is to obtain the essential oils contained in the plant material, but occasionally the distillation is undertaken specifically to produce the plant water that results.
Hydrosols contain all of the plant in every drop, just like a hologram. Here we have the water-soluble components, the essential-oil molecules, and the very fluid that was flowing through the plant cells when the plant was collected. It's all there in a matrix of water that is so much more than water, one of the most recognized holographic substances in healing.
Storing Hydrosols ~ The Hydrosols must be put directly into sterilized containers as soon as they are extracted by the still. The sterilized containers should be brown or dark blue glass bottles. Once bottled, the Hydrosols should be labeled with the distillation date. Most Hydrosols will keep for approximately one year if stored in a cool, dark place with very little temperature fluctuation. The refrigerator works fine, if you don't have a cool storage area otherwise.
Constituents: Linolenic and arachidonic acids, prostaglandins, ergosterolm fungisterol, isoergosterone, ergosta-7,22-dien-3-one, lignin, polysaccharides.
Anti-Tumor – The stewed, tinctured Oyster Mushroom releases the pleuran constituents, which has anti-oxidant effects and is believed to be useful for preventing cancers from metastasizing.
HIV – The ubiquitin-like protein from Oyster mushrooms inhibits the HIV-1 reverse transcriptase activity, causing cleavage of transfer RNA. This unique form of ubiquitin appears to govern cell division, inhibiting cells that are infected with HIV. This protein also has antiviral properties.
Liver aid – Oyster Mushrooms show promise in treating tumors affecting the liver. It is also used to help liver function, increasing its ability to filter toxins.
Constituents: 3-Hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductase, pleurotus ubiquitin-like protein, pleiran (B-glucan).
Hericium erinaceus. 50 #00 capsules. Lion's Mane enhances cognitive function as well as stimulates the production of NGF (Nerve Growth Factor). It also is believed to promote myelin sheath growth on brain cells. 2 to 4 capsules daily.
Lion's Mane is a large pure white fruit body, cushion-like with long pendulous spines; solitary, from wounds on living broad-leaf trees, also from felled Abies (fir). 10-20cm deep x 10-25cm dia. Fruit body: white, cushion-like, upper surface smooth, fertile hymenium on the under surface covering pendulous, elongated conical spines; flesh: concolorous, firm.
50 capsules of Sulphur Shelf (Laetiporus sulphureus). Sulphur Shelf, also commonly known as Chicken of the Woods, is a popular edible mushroom that has medicinal qualities, as well. Used for Candida, E. coli, antibiotic.
Antibacterial – Some of our most significant anti-bacterial antibiotics have been derived from fungi, especially polypores. I have found Sulphur Shelf to work well with bacterial infections of the digestive and urinary systems. One dropper of Sulphur Shelf Hydrosol in small amount of water three times daily, or 6 capsule (2 with each meal) if the recommended dosage.
Antibiotic – In recent research, extracts demonstrated antimicrobial activity against a wide spectrum of gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria during agar and submerged cultivation including methicillin-resistant strain of Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and glycopeptide-resistant strain of Leuconostoc mesenteroides. Follow dosage recommended in above in Antibacterial.
Candida – Sulphur Shelf exhibits high anticandidal activity on Candida albicans, as well as yeast infections. Take 6 capsules, 2 with each meal or one dropper of Sulphur Shelf Hydrosol in small amount of water three times daily.
E. Coli – Sulphur Shelf not only produces antibiotics strongly aggressive to Staphylococcus aureus and has been noted to consume E. coli upon contact. I have noted that tincture or hydrosol works better than the capsules for addressing Escherichia coli. Take 1 dropper of the hydrosol every four hours or 1 tsp. of the tinctured Sulphur Shelf.
