36 Wild Edibles & Medicinal Plants In 15 Minutes

Hey guys, it's Josh with

wild

trillium

edibles

and today I want to show you 36

wild

edibles

and

medicinal

plants

that can be found throughout the United States. There are many wild edibles and

medicinal

plants

in the United States and most tend to grow correctly. next to each other, so it's a good idea to learn as many as you can because you never know what's around the corner, like right now, for example, we're looking at this big white trillium, these leaves would be edible, no matter what. However, I would not recommend collecting them. the leaves of this plant because this plant is extremely rare at least in Indiana so I wouldn't pick them however it is edible but around me there are all kinds of edible plants like here for example you can see a common green heather in these shoots. here they are extremely delicious these things are delicious raw they are also very good sautéed and with butter my favorite way to prepare them is to sauté them in butter with a little salt and garlic they are amazing that way some other edible plants in the area include knife , you can see its four-petaled white flower here this flower is extremely small there are many spice bushes everywhere here there is Canadian nettle here too of course there is garlic mustard which I plucked there is a cat on the pulpit with its extremely distinctive flower and very unique leaf pattern, we have a type of pink heather growing here, there is also a false Solomon seal within the area and if we go down the stream we will find many violets, especially white violets, you can see the flowers here and you can see the leaves Screwed together, as you can see, these purple leaves are a pretty good size, so between everything I just showed you here you can get a substantial amount of food while searching for mushrooms and not finding anything all that different.

The plants that I just showed you are right inside that area right at the end of my boken so it's a very small area that a lot of food could have been gathered from and here we are just a few more steps away from that and here's this . Really pretty wood sorrel growing, you can see how big these leaves are and again, they're going to be extremely substantial, especially when mixed with all those violet leaves and some violet flowers, you know, cook up some nettle leaves, take some of mustard with garlic. You know, you could leave here with plenty of food.

You know there's a spice bush there. You can make tea from spice bushes and get some food. Something to drink. Right now, we're looking at a raspberry and I can. I say this mainly because it has this kind of almost powdery white coating along the stem, it has its distinctive, it has its distinctive set of three leaves with teeth on the edge of the margins or on the edge of the leaf and of course, like like any other bramble or raspberry or blackberry it has thorns of course there is a dandelion here there is a lot of broadleaf plantain we have a variety of wild lettuce that is getting ready to flower as you can see here it has these little flower buds starting you can say what it is a variety of wild lettuce because of this leaf.

The leaves of dormant wild lettuce are very different and another way to tell is by the milky sap every time you pull off one of the leaves which I always like to pull off. one of the small leaves so I'm not causing much damage, that's one of the best ways I like to test now, this milky sap is actually bitter and toxic if you eat it in large quantities or consume it in large quantities mainly because it contains opiates that must be cooked. Yes, this is called lettuce, but it must be cooked. It is boiled in two changes of water before it can be eaten.

It cannot be eaten raw. However, this plant has a much better medicinal use and it is so. a combinative or a nervous comoditive or a sedative and that's because of the opiates in it, there's also blackberries in here, so there's raspberries, blackberries, dandelion, banana, wild lettuce, all of that right there in that little area, then , if we turn around we find docus curota or Queen Anne's lace, also known as wild carrot, this is an edible plant and literally two steps behind us, below we have quite a lot of red clover, there is also a lot of white clover in the area because it's kind of a Grassy Area between two lines of trees here you can see the leaves of the white clover and there you can see the flowers of the white clover and again, those are also edible.

One of the varieties of mint just across the trail is bee balm. and here you can see the white flowers of the mountain mint just below that on the edge just below that on the edge of that field we have black-eyed susans another medicinal plant if I get closer you can actually see the cone flowers right there, which is Another medicinal plant is poison ivy, which I am not allergic to, so don't be scared, but this is the famous poison ivy with its three different sets of leaves. Here we can see some yarrow flowers that have barely passed their flowering stage.

At this point, but it's still perfectly usable yarrow, you can use it any time of year you find it growing, which is good, I haven't even begun to talk about trees or shrubs, like here we have horn sumac of deer or a variety of sumac, to say the least, there you can see the sumac berries starting to form. Oops, no you can't. There you can see the sumac berries starting to form, so we also have some sumac in the area we are going to. up here and then there will be a trail that will come, this trail will come to a tee and we are going to turn right and on that right we will enter a huge field of more wildflowers.

I'll show you that when I got there, I didn't even get there and I already saw more plants right there. You can see a nettle there. You may be able to see the dock or the species of rumx that grow there. Don't know. I know if it is broad-leaved or curly-leaved, however, it is spring-leaved and edible. There you can see quite a bit of coneflower or coneflower growing right there. There's a lot of that in this field along with bee balm and all sorts of other good stuff. Of course, there is milkweed, as in most clearings, there is always milkweed.

This plant is amazing for bringing in monarch butterflies. It is because of the loss of this plant that we are losing our monarch butterflies in this part of my country. Here you can. I see a hybridization between echinacea and a species of rudabekia that produces this yellow cone cone with black eyes. I don't really know what the name of this plant is, however, I do know that it is a hybrid between echinacea and black-eyed susan or rutabekia, I can tell. Due to its distinctive cone shape and yellow flower petals, we also have wild quinine in this area.

The main reason is that where I am is more of a grassland habitat. I can tell it is wild quinine because of its very distinctive white flowers. and it is very stiff like paper like earth shaped leaves with their very sharp teeth these leaves lay as you can hear they actually sound a bit like paper they also look a lot like paper they are very very thick you can also notice that the leaves are they alternate up and down the stem, so those are the two ways I can tell that this is wild quinine, which was an extremely important medicinal plant in the 18th and 19th centuries and is still an important medicinal plant to this day from today.

Here you are looking at spotted jewelweed or spotted touch me knot and one of the reasons it's called that is because you can see these spots that it has on the inside of its throat. Another name for this plant is jewel weed and that is the name. which most people will know this plant because this plant loves low humidity environments as you can see there are some cattails literally right there so this is a really nice low humidity environment and there are a lot of medicinal plants that are found within these types of environments and the jewel grass will be one of the most prolific that you will normally see, you can see all that orange, all those little orange flowers that are all jewels, there is a lot of jewel grass in here now mixed in with her, there are some mornings.

Glories, there are some single bush clovers and there are some other things mixed in with it, but for the most part it's all jewel grass. Many people now know jewelweed as a medicinal plant to rub on the skin to help relieve itching or burning. of the rash feeling that happens from poison ivy and it helps with that just a little bit, it doesn't cure it, it doesn't really treat it, it just helps relieve the discomfort, that's really what it does and you can see there. jewel grass and literally right next to it we have a bunch of bone plants here, you can see this bone plant, it's just passed its flowering stage, as you can see here, these flowers are starting to die, the leaves have been chewing . by ants as you can see here, however, this is a set of bones and this is another medicinal plant.

This plant was one of the most important medicinal plants in 18th century colonial America, so this plant is extremely important. This plant has historically been used to help treat. broken bones or dengue fever. It can also be used as a poultice on the skin for rheumatism in a drastic short-term survival situation. You do not want to use this plant long term because this plant can cause damage if used for too long. also for too long a period of time and there you can see the distinctive perforation that is caused by this stem through the leaves in the set of bones and another common name for this plant is complete wart, which gets that name because the stem pierces or pierces.

Boneset leaves are a really nice medicinal plant. One of the things I like about Boneset. I like to use it more for colds and flus and to help promote sweating. I like to use it in tincture form, however it can be used. in tea form, but when taken hot it can promote diarrhea or help with bowel movements, which can be good if that's what you need, so keep that in mind if you think about using this plant and then if we give the back, we can see more. bone placed right next to the Canadian goldenrod here you can see this really pretty cluster of Canadian goldenrod flowers.

You can also see some of this morning glory vine growing and twining with it. Canadian goldenrod is well known for its ability to take over fields and is also well known for its ability to cause allergies; However, many people who think they have allergies to goldenrod are actually experiencing allergies to ragweed; However, the pollen of this plant can cause allergies and some people are allergic to it. but this is another great medicinal plant. This plant can be used for fever. It can also be used as an expectorant. It can help with colds. It is a very good plant to know in case you find yourself in a survival situation just because the flowers dry. make a really good tea the fresh flowers also make a delicious tea it doesn't taste too bad another good thing about canadian goldenrod is that it will exist anywhere where there is usually clear or sunlight i found this plant in the middle of the forest where there is only a little bit of sunlight peeking through the forest canopy, I found a Canadian goldenrod growing this plant, in my experience it can grow pretty much anywhere so that's a good thing, so if you're going to harvest some , it probably won't hurt much if I just take some plants, then of course if we look on the ground there is plantain, you can find plantain again pretty much anywhere there is a clearing or anywhere there is grass, of course there is dandelion, both are medicinal and plantain is a mucilaginous plant.

It can be used to eliminate infections It can also be used for insect bites or insect bites such as mosquitoes It is really a good anti-inflammatory Dandelion is a very good anticoagulant Its nutritional salts contain many anticoagulant properties and it is also very good for the heart It contains lots of vitamin A and dandelion root is also an acceptable substitute for coffee and as we continue to go down a little bit further, I have to take a few more steps and here you can see the blue. flowers of large blue lobelia or lobelia syphilitica and that is one of the things that this plant was used to treat syphilis in the 18th and 19th centuries, however it actually did not work very well, it is better to use it instead of lobelia and fleet and lobelia inflata are relatives of this plant and the lobelia in Florida is much more potent so that is one of the reasons why many herbalists recommend that beginners use blue lobelia instead of lobelia and fleet because it is not so strong, but it works. anyway and they can be used for many of the same uses here this blue flower that you see is the blue lettuce flower now this is one of the many varieties of wild lettuce that is produced in the state of Indiana and in the east In There are many varieties of wild lettuces in the forests and it is normally very difficult to separate them from each other, however, during their flowering season they are usually much easier simply because of the color of the flowers.

One good thing about blue lettuce is thatit usually grows quite tall and here's a very medium sized plant that you can see here, it's only three and a half feet, maybe four feet tall at most, whereas if I turn around and you can see this thing, you can see this large blue lettuce plant growing. It might be a little hard to see up there, but it's right at the tip of my index finger. You can see the cluster of flowers. That plant there is absolutely huge. There is your cluster of flowers. I know this can be a little hard to make out on camera, but.

This plant is approximately 10 feet tall, this is one of the tallest plants that grows in the Eastern Woodlands within the Woodlands and is the tallest species of wild lettuce we have here within the Eastern Woodlands. One of the many uses of this plant is some of the medicinal uses. To be used as a sedative, many Native American tribes within the forests and in the United States of America use the dried leaves and smoking herbs and smoking herbal mixtures as sedatives to help calm the nerves. Another good thing about this plant is that you can use it. in the form of a tincture for the same, those are some of the main uses of this plant.

It has others, however, it is best used to help calm the nerves, but the reason it is a sedative is because it contains opiates, so be aware of this and make sure not to use too much for too long a period of time. long because again, those opiates can cause a lot of damage to your body, so be careful with that when you decide to use this plant while it is called Lettuce, these leaves cannot be eaten raw, they have to be cooked because of the opiates in them and the milky latex or the milky sap that this plant has.

You know, if I tear off this leaf here you can see that the milky sap starts to come out and that's why you have to boil these leaves in two changes of water, however, this is another medicinal plant, another medicinal plant that usually occurs anywhere within moist forest land or anywhere within moister land where there are trees, you will usually find this Canadian. sanical this is a great medicinal plant it is really good for inflammation or cuts it is a pain reliever it helps relieve the pain of bruises and bruise marks you can use the leaves you can use the flowers you can use the seed clusters You can use the whole plant to help heal inflammation.

You can even put it in your bath water. This plant works great mixed with yarrow and plantain as long as you make it into an ointment or a pump for topical treatment. This plant works very, very well throughout the entire process. The plants we just talked about reach that clearing, so you can see from a very short distance that there are many plants and a great abundance of medicines available in the swampy areas. Yes, mosquitoes are very bad, but the medicines that are here are sometimes worth it, especially if you really need them, so I thank you all for watching this video.

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