More ideas for your salad bowl

                   I thought i should post up some new wild edible weeds, as i myself have been foraging a lot lately and grateful for the rain, its made all the weeds go mad.

  So in my daily salad bowl i usually pick chick weed, dandelion leaves, borage heads, calendula petals, parsley and chicory.

Chicory:

  Chicory is vital for your digestive system, containing inulin, a powerful prebiotic. Prebiotic is a type of bacteria tapped to aid the host, instead of laying ground for disease. FEMS Microbiology Ecology reports, inulin is used for acid reflux, indigestion, heartburn, and helps to reduce acidity of the system inside your body. Chicory is so beneficial to you digestion causing ease.

Chicory is found all over Europe, in fields, grasslands, by rivers in your garden. Look out for the blue purple flower.






Wild Lettuce:



   This weed is not only a lovely addition to your salads, and mimics lettuce, it is a wonderful natural painkiller.

I have fund this herb to be wonderful with easing the pain of headaches. Once i used it to relieve a hangover and was amazed by the fast action healing. When this plant is young, i used the young leaves in my salad. When it has grown to full height, which can be a good couple of meters tall, we scratch the thick stem of the plant, and collect the sticky residue.

 This herb can be made into tea, tincture, or just eaten fresh in salads.

It has been known to treat whooping cough, asthma, urinary tract issues, cough, sleep problems like insomnia, restlessness, menstral problems and pains, helps muscle and joint pains for people with any arthritis issues. Can build strong blood circulation, and ease swollen genitals in men.

It was used by physicians as a pain relief in the 1900's and was substituted for opium to help heal people.

The effects are much milder and have no chemical relation to the actual opium.

It was used then as an aid for sleep and to rest the nerves.

Please use this herb as every other with the most respect. These jewels of healing are long forgotten, but you must always do your own research before trying the effects on serious conditions. I recommend talking to experts in the field of natural medicine before self medicating high doses.

A small herbal company i have been working with recently have a wide variety of dried herbs for medicinal use, for sale online. They have been very successful recently helping to send herbal treatments all over the world to those i need. Rangeing from cold and flu treatments, to alternative smoking blends, teas, a wide range of herbs, some grown here where we live.

If you would like to know more check them out on 

Facebook at : saltadoiroherbs 

                         Herbs of Portugal

Or a google search for Quinta da Saltadoiro in Colmeal, Coimbra

For further directions.

They area on Ebay with a large selection of things to choose.