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This week's amazing herb: Boneset(Eupatorium Perfoliatum)

Boneset is also called: Thoroughwort-Feverwort-Sweating Plant-Crosswort-Vegetable Antimony-Ague Weed-Indian Sage.

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This is a medicinal herb that has the following kinds of actions:

Diaphoretic, Tonic, Emetic, Alterative,Antiseptic, Cathartic,Febrifuge,Astringent,Stimulant.

Note: Some of the terms used here are of a technical nature; please use the Super Google Herb Search engine to quickly find the exact definition of any difficult term. Doing this will insure a complete understanding of this amazing herb and how to use it.

This week's featured herb has the following uses: To treat fevers, colds, ague, swollen tissues, acute and chronic rheumatism, catarrh, skin blisters and influenza.

This amazing herb grows wild across the United States and is also grown in local greenhouses and herb gardens. It was(and in certain tribes,still is)one of the most powerful remedies of the native tribes in North America used for treating fevers, colds, flus and agues. The herb grows most commonly in meadows and swamps near streams and small ponds. The herb's leaves are joined together around the stem, giving the effect of being run through by the plant itself. The herb is a grayish/green color; the flowers are a pale white. The leaves are wooly-like below and rough above and taper where they are joined to a sharp point. The herb has black colored seeds and are oblong in shape.

There are several methods for preparing the featured herb of the week: Decoction. Herbal decoctions are liquid solutions made by boiling the herb leaves and stem(they need not be dried)in very hot boiling water(the hotter water, the better, in that high, liquid heat releases the essentials of the herb into the water quickly and effeciently). An alternative method for making herbal decoctions is to grind up the dried plant leaves, stem and roots in a coffee bean grinder until a powder is formed, then place the herbal powder in a coffee maker just as you would ground coffee beans; this method will produce a milder version of the herbal decoction. Use 2 ounces of the plant for preparing the decoction; in one pint of water.

For effective relief from colds, flus and fevers, a strong decoction of Boneset is needed. After preparing the herbal decoctions, allow it to cool, but not cold; the decoction should be taken warm. The use of this herb will produce vomiting as a necessary healing function of the herb's curing attributes. As the process proceeds, the herbal ingredient will begin to clense the stomach, excite all secretions,relax constrictions and produce sweating on the body. Taken just at the beginning of a flu, cold or fever attack, this dose is sufficient to break up the attacking diseases. Always take a drink of cold tea after the sweating session is over.

Another method for preparing this week's featured herb is to produce the tea by infusion, this or any other herb may be prepared this way. Infusions are made by pouring boiling water on the plant material(bark, leaves, stem, root) which has been chopped or ground. This mixture is allowed to steep and soak for a short time(like making regular tea). After he mixture has cooled, strain the plant material out of the liquid using a screen strainer. Use from one to four ounces of plant material seeped in one pint of boiling water. Take once every three hours for the first 12 hours then taper to twice a day and once a day and then none as the symtoms subside.

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