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Nothing Left to Do but Self-Medicate

February 12, 2012 Erica M. Davis 6 Comments

Dried mullein leaves.

This is great—not only did I jump off a bush (on my snowboard) in an attempt to skip over some rocks to a mogul that turned out to be solid ice and hear my knee go “crunch,” such that I am suddenly confined to home awaiting an MRI, but I am also coming down with a cold, sore … [Read more...]

high altitude, medicinal cold, Colorado, Denver, elderberry, foraging, Grindelia, medicine, mullein, non-native, Rocky Mountains, sticky gumweed, willow, yarrow

Expectorating with Sticky Gumweed

September 16, 2010 Erica M. Davis 19 Comments

The pungent curly-cup gumweed tincture with which I treated my dry cough.

Sticky gumweed is so distinctive; it’s difficult not to notice when it’s blooming, which in the Colorado foothills ranges from late July through early September.  Also known as curly-cup gumweed or curly gumweed, both the “sticky” and the “gumweed” descriptors in these common … [Read more...]

medicinal Colorado, Denver, expectorant, foraging, Grindelia, gumweed, recipes, Rocky Mountains, tincture

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