I have been making wild lettuce tea for years. It actually tastes fine! Just add a bit of honey and you're good to go. It didn't help with pain too much, but it does help with period pain.
I transplanted one this year to see if it would grow and I thought it died because it wilted, BUT it did come back. I think it will be totally fine next year.
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I have chronic Lyme. The pain is way past turmeric balls. I rendered wild lettuce in olive oil. Made a super salve with essential oils and the rendered oil. WOW, surprised me how great it is. Now if I can make a giant vat to climb into...lol.
I make syrup with the hard stalks, and powder from the softer parts and make capsules with dehydrated wild lettuce. I did transplanting when plants were very small and 90% of them did extremely well. I make 4 cups of syrup from 1 lb of fresh plant material and add a lemon extract (makes it taste better) and take a couple tablespoons for relief. I am a chronic pain patient, who has taken a variety of meds and i equate wild lettuce to Valium, where pain is dulled away, and will definitely induce sleep. I get at least 4hrs of very restful sleep when taking this. And i ONLY take it when i plan to be in bed. I suffer spinal cord nerve damage with restless leg type symptoms and it works better than any muscle relaxer than I've ever been prescribed. My dose in powder form is from 2-4 tsps.
Wow! Something that ACTUALLY works for restless legs!! THIS is what I've been looking for to finally get off the mild pain medication I take from having rheumatoid arthritis. The trouble is, every time I stop taking it, I have restless legs every night which prevents any sleep at all!! I just keep trying new herbs to keep the RLS at bay, but nothing has worked so far.
@@gardengatesopen I hope it's helpful to you, but as I said my issues stems from spinal cord nerve damage. Although this herb has also helps others with other conditions. My Aunt has fibro and it has helped her as well. So it's worth a try, and also finding the effective dose. Don't give up if a dose doesn't work, just increase with each dose till you find the dose that works for you.
@albanymountainhomestead5844 DEFINITELY worth a good try - or two, or five!! I'm used to chronic pain, it never completely goes away. But just to have something to take the edge off, so to speak, is really all I need. And if stops those restless legs, we'll then! It's a winner! Nobody really knows WHY restless legs happen, so hey, we just keep trying, right?! My rheumatoid started off with 7 years of fibromyalgia. So yeah, used to pain hanging around. Glad to hear it helped your Aunt! Thanks for your comments!! ❤️
Hello, I have nerve damage from a back surgery that went wrong and am a chronic pain person myself. Can’t sleep I have to take Xanax’s ( a bar ) every night just to sleep. I want off of all my medicine if possible. But just not sure on the vodka. Do you know if there’s anything else that could be used, like vinegar or will it take away from the plant ??
@@michellebaker4536 I have dehydrated the the leaves and made capsules (can also be purchased on Amazon). Or I make a syrup where I leav3 the plant material (1lb fresh) and water in a crockpot on low for 4 days, strain, then simmer the remaining liquid down until I have 2 cups of the liquid left, then I dissolve 2 cups sugar and 2 tsp lemon extract into the liquid to make a syrup. A dose of 2-4 tsp is where I find a good level of benefit. I hope this helps...
@@spintarelli Correct! Thanks to pharmaceutical companies that campaigned against natural health care, as quackery. Over time we lost our knowledge and connection to the world of herbs. Thank goodness there are still so many resources available to us, so that we can relearn this valuable lost knowledge. Like everything else, we must seek to find.
I've been looking for it for months, and came across a neighbor that had it growing in her garden. I offered to remove it for free and scored a total of close to 30lbs for free!!!
In my opinion... I find gloves give a false sense of safety. Wearing gloves you can't feel when your hands are disgusting... then, wearers tend to touch multiple different things without thinking. I would rather see someone wash their hands, then touch my food than to be wearing gloves, touch a door handle, cash register, cover their cough or handle money. Honestly, I would listen to comments... take everything into consideration... but, you do you. Plus... Vodka tinctures will not allow any germ pathogens to survive. You, your mom and grandmother are amazing!! Keep doing what you're doing! I'm learning a ton!!!!
@@lindawitt3796 I absolutely agree with you, but with a caveat: water and soap isn't always available, especially if you are outdoors. The gloves DO have their uses!
Глистная инвазия, это заражено всё население. Каловые массы от глистов, есть даже в мозгах каждого человека! У кого-то возможно и ползают себе тихонько, а какого-то и сдохли. Они очень живучи.
Sometimes there are microscopic 'things' in the greenery. I got an infestation on my hand that worked it's way up almost to my elbow. Bright scarlet, sore, and I wanted to scratch my skin off. The doctor gave me several prescriptions but nothing worked. I had to soak my arm in taw bleach every day until it burned too much to continue. If I stopped, it grew again. Even with the bleach, it took months to get rid of. I can take them off if I need to 'touch' to be sure of an identification, but I don't e-v-e-r want to go through that again. It only takes one sub-dermal infestation to make one a believer. Please, do be careful, and wash up hen you're done.
I have used wild lettuce in a tea form and have smoked it as well. The tea is great, it has a mild calming pain relieving effect and definitely aids as a sleep aid. After harvesting it, I tied it in a bundle and hung it upside down to keep the lactucarium in the leaves.
The times I have smoked it, it worked, but I top the plant and then come back a few hours later to collect just the dried latex cap. Beware that it tastes absolutely horrible, so I cut it with something tasty like catnip or mint and also mullen to ease the harshness of the smoke.
I've been living here for 24 years and for the first time ever Wild Lettuce has shown up! I've got 4 plants growing right now on my little suburban lot. They've just now gone to seed, so I'm SURE I'll have a lot more next year! And with having arthritis it's a very welcome gift!
Wild lettuce is biennial so you flower stalks will come up the second yr. I find it helpful to left the lawn go wild so I can see the wild lettuce plants and let them grow.
@albanymountainhomestead5844 We don't mow very often, we don't really need to mow the areas the plants are coming up in. Thanks for the info! That's helpful!
@kristibi7971 Yes, I've heard this too! And for the past 3 years Nature has brought me one "new" plant every year, and it turns out I DID NEED that plant! Coincidence??? I have this theory... (My imagination goes quite rampant at times, so THIS ONE might be a bit off the charts!) But... What if the soil, or I should say ALL the different microbes etc. IN the soil, what if all those things are so perfectly networked that - whenever they come across "something" that lives within their patch is in need of a "fix" - (could be a plant, or an animal) the network puts out a special signal within the soil to "order up" the plant who has the fix that's needed. ? For instance - Me walking around in my patch, and my body naturally sluffs off skin cells. Plus, my hands are touching the soil while gardening. The network within the soil "reads" my skin cells via my DNA, or something. It detects that I'm in need of pain relief. Or it could detect that I have a cold. Just whatever is happening w my body, it can read the signals. So it puts out a signal (probably a chemical signal) which would activate a certain plant seed that would help with the problem it detected, to begin germination. (Bcuz the seeds were probably already there in my soil already, but dormant.) Result - wild lettuce seed is now growing, and now available to me. Which IS just what I needed! Yeah. THAT'S my theory. I know... I know. It sounds really wacky! But that's my brain being it's normal far-fetched self! Really, I just think the soil microbiome is SO much more advanced than we humans are aware of. Truly, I try to keep an open mind. Which leaves me thinking anything is possible!
As always, it is such a joy watching momma and daughter work together and have fun during the process. GREAT information here and I have loads of wild lettuce in my garden.
Thank you ladies for demonstrating the wild lettuce tincture. I AM WILD ABOUT WILD LETTUCE. This plant and Plantain are my favourites. For 5 years I have been doing wild lettuce infused oil. This is to be used as a massage oil into muscles and joints. I went on this journey to help find a remedy that would relieve my mums rheumatoid symptoms. It has helped her at times. But over the years all 4 of my young adult kids love it. It’s the first thing they grab when there are aches and strains from work or workouts. Recently I’ve experimented with turning the infused oil into a salve. And I’ve given it to friends who have arthritic pain. They are giving very positive feedback. I also use wild lettuce as a tea combined with other herbs to disguise the flavour. Wait in interest for when you guys do the decoction and make it into a tincture.
I use St. John’s wort, chilli powder and black pepper. Killer rub for all pain. Add arnica for injuries or dandelion for chronic pain. It’s almost immediate relief. Nerve pain, inflammation, stiffness, lubricant for joint movement. I was addicted to pain meds for over 20 years. Then 16-18 ibuprofen a day for years. This rub now solves my pain problems. No pills needed. Figured this will be a helpful addition to switching up my oils. Ty ladies. ❤
I also make the wild lettuce tincture. I have never made it to sell to anyone, just for my own use/pain. Using the wild lettuce tincture, I was able to go completely cold turkey on the chemical opioids. I was up to 600mg daily and really didn't like the long term damage those pain meds can cause. Had heard about wild lettuce and when I found that we actually had it growing on our property, I figured, why not!? I was careful when I started taking the wild lettuce tincture, to see what my tolerance level was and how much I needed to take to have less pain. I loved the fact that when I'd found out how much I needed to take and how often, I did not have any withdrawal symptoms from kicking the opioid meds! It might be different for others but, I have never gotten "high" from opioid medication, regardless of how high a dose I've been on. That could be why I didn't experience any withdrawal symptoms? I don't know, I'm just happy to be off the chemical crap! What I did notice is that the strength/potency in the wild lettuce can differ from year to year, depending on many factors such as weather, rain, no rain, heat etc. etc. etc. Also if you harvest from places where you don't normally harvest, the soil quality can also affect the potency of the tincture. I'm always careful when I start using a different years batch.
@@monicasdg4140 I have "chronic" back pain. Middle of back, slightly under my shoulder region. I've had many doctors exams and MRI's done and, they for whatever reason, can't see anything on those MRI's that could cause the pain. I've been twice at what is called over here in Sweden a "pain clinic", where they do all sorts of physical tests. Have you standing in various positions, holding arms out, raising and lowering arms in different ways and yes, they could determine that I in fact was in pain... Why? Still don't know but, the weird part is that my mother and sister had the same, in the same place on their backs. 2 of my now adult children, a girl and boy have the same pain. All of us including my mom and sister have/had carpal tunnel syndrom and have had to have surgery for it. Guessing whatever it is, is hereditary??? If I were to guess what it is, I'd say some sort of nerve pain. We all also have joint pain. Not always but, enough to be a pain in the rear... Both my daughter and I make and take the Wild Lettuce tincture and it does work. Not 100% but enough to make it bearable, pretty much the same as the opioid pain killers did.
Wild lettuce was all over my parent's property when my brother and I were children. It's a welcome sight to behold even now. I have fond memories of wild foraging with my mom. My earliest memory was three years old. I carried that tradition on with my own daughter. We received a lot of rain yesterday also. I'm in Maryland. Earlier this week, I added more goldenrod and elderberry to our property. I'll be freeze-drying a variety of herbs from our property this weekend. Transplanting should be easy; I've done the same thing with various plants on our property.
I made some wild lettuce tea and just placed the leaves in a tea ball and soaked it in very hot water for about 30 minutes and add a little honey and it was very good taste. It was relaxing, and my husband and I slept very well that night.
For my dry leaves, I cut the whole plant and hang it on a line in my pantry. Think of how a cut flower will pull as much moisture as it can from its stem trying to stay alive. In the same way wild lettuce leaves will suck the sap out of the stalks as it dries. There is still some left if you don't have much to pick, but we literally have it growing everywhere, so the dry stalks go in my compost. I can't take an NSAIDS by mouth so wild lettuce is my miracle 😊
I just made a wild lettuce tincture yesterday!! First one I harvested and put in 100proof vodka, so glad I did it right! Now I just wait. I am trying to help my husband with chronic pain. Can not wait to see your other videos of wild lettuce. So glad I heartway farms said they learned a lot from you, so had to check you out and glad I did. Diane Hartley
I like to put it under my tongue fresh just pick a leaf off and put droplets of the latex under my tongue it helps with my pain I have severe fibromyalgia.
People need to stop complaining. Especially about gloves are so many other important things in this world. I love your show. You and your mom have so much fun together. I am doing tinctures and natural medication’s and I would love that my daughter would do it, but she’s too busy or not interested.
Becoming a beekeeper has long been a dream of mine, but I was always afraid that it is very difficult. Maybe thanks to your channel I will decide to take care of bees too. Thank you very much for your work😊😊
Just jump in head first like I did! It's so rewarding literally! Even if you're just doing to keep them around as pollinators and not for honey like me! We did it for our property and just to help the bee population!!
I've been wanting to keep bees for a long time now, sadly I can't do it in this neighborhood I live in, but hopefully we'll be able to move and get some land (at least a little) so I can start. I have also worried that it was so complicated and difficult, but you make it seem easy.
I love to watch your videos. You guy's make me laugh so hard. I had my vitamin laugh this morning with your guys. Last year was the first time that I made the thick syrup of wild lettuce and once in a while ate the young leaf. I was dealing with really, really strong migraine last year, I never suffer for headaches that strong, that is why, I started making this remedy, and it really helped me. I made also the tea wirh fresh leaves and it wasn't too bad, the good thing was that it helped me sleep, because every night I was afraid of going to sleep with those horrible headache, chills and burning sensation that I was dealing with. I fell that the plants speak to us, because there years ago, I started knowing about this plant, and did my wild crafting three years ago, brought the wild lettuce (I found three species) the first year I didn't got any big growth, and also didn't want to consume because I found them some in the roadway and some at the park, so I wanted to have new plants growing in my garden in order to consume. So last year I had plenty of new plants, the plant knew that I was gonna need her and spoke to me and I brought her home, and I was ab)e to harvest her when I needed her. My health is much much better this years due to lots of medicinal plants that I grow and consume. I no longer need to take any medicne tha t I was taking last year, about 10 types of medicine that every time I go to the hospital I get new preacriprion, Drs. Didn't even know for sure what was My health problem, so they just kept giving medicine and when they didn't work, they prescibe difeerent ones, one of the medineI was told by my Dr. That I have to take it for 10 years, I even stopped taking that one because I did my research and find out that, taking that medine for a long period of time, It could cause a hearth attack. I found out that I didn't need that medicine, because its been almost a year that I stopped taking it and I feel great, and my blood work it's perfect.
Wow what a story! I have awful migraines and fatigue, and now stomach problems. I'd love to know a few of the other herbs you took in addition to wild lettuce... I'm desperate
@@juliabrown5948 One of my favorite is Dandelion root. I harvest the ones I have in my garden, dry them, roast them lightly and chew a few pieces once a day. I also dry the leaves for tea. I also buy dandelion root tea at Wal-Mart. I drink a lot of green tea, , my favorite is roasted green tea. I make fig leave tea, mulberry leave tea. I make some ferments, kombucha, milk kefir. For the acid reflux I was dealing with due to stress, what really help me was the adaptogens that I take with my morning drink. I get those at the whole food store, they have mushroom type, roots and some are combined with mushrooms and roots, my favorites are chaga mushroom and reishi mushroom, maca roots, stragalus. I hope this helps. Blessings.
Chiropractor! Chiropractor! Find a good one that does more than 3 or 4 adjustments a visit. You will learn a whole other level of why you’re hurting/suffering. Plants and chiropractor have saved my quality of life. No pills or Dr at all ever again! Docs are great for emergencies but nothing else. Just my opinion. :)
When I made my tincture, I didn't have a blender or food processor, but I didn't have one of those wand things and it turned those leaves into a puree so fast and my tincture was like super strong. I also used everclear for my medium so all soluble latex was brought out. I ended up with 1 1/2 gallon of just liquid and my friend fed the mash to his chickens. Nothing wasted.
I must confess I have watch this video 3 times now, and each time I feel like I have gained more knowledge and confidence to try this myself. I could watch you ladies all day! Last year I had wild lettuce coming up all over my garden beds and pulling them up by the roots. This year when they come up I will definitely be making a tincture and drying for tea and smoking.
I have made wild lettuce tea almost daily... Mine is growing in the garden just as yours is. I love it. After made if put in frig to get cold, it's not bad at all after your tastebuds become adapted... it took me about a wk of daily use of 4oz-8oz to completely get over the bitterness.... I drink it now and enjoy.... The tea is absolutely affective for pain and sleep... I can't imagine the tincture being anymore affective. I've been using it since mid spring up to now and it has given me a lot of relief and sound sleep. I bring water to almost boil. if it does boil I put a glass of cold water in it... don't want to cook the lettuce but hot water poured over it in a qt or 1/2gal mason jar to sit over nite until room temp... strain and put in frig till cold then drink as needed... I've mostly taken mine after a long day's physical work in garden, etc. Drink an 8oz glass and that's it.... I'm 78 and it keeps me almost pain free from aches and pains. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. PeaceOut
🙏Thank you for sharing. I've been creating a food forest and had no idea until last spring how many wild plants I had at my fingertips. It started w/ plantain❤I love working w/ nature, not against it. I'm building a chicken coop in one garage and eyeing up another for my apothecary. My kitchen can't keep up w/ my obsession 🤦♀️😂
I wonder what would come of mixing plantain with wild lettuce in a salve for bites, stings, cuts, scrapes, etc. Dandelion and Echinacea root might be good, too. Love your videos and your mom is such a stronghold! She's awesome!
You mentioned what if we didn't have alcohol. During the recent c.v.d shut down I had lot of trouble finding alcohol. To easy my mind, I learned how to make homemade wine and distill it, so I would be able to make my tinctures. I'm such a teetotaler, it tickled my hubby to no end.
Does homemade wine work for tomorrow's? I've looked into making hard cider for that reason, but didn't know if it or homemade wine (I already make kombucha and kefir so it's not a huge leap I guess) would be strong enough for tinctures!
Thank you for sharing with me. I have been wanting to see the full picture of doing tincturing. You guys remind me of my mom and I. I had to laugh. I am new to all of the tincturing and want to buy all that I need to get going. I hope I can get a good stock going like all I saw in back of you. How amazing!! Keep on showing each plant. Im going to check out the other videos.
Hi Im here in Virginia and I’m excited to go out everyday I’n my yard to see what wild plant ,shrub or vine, weed ect I walk up on. 😊 Thank you for sharing your love of natural remedies with us.
Wild lettuce is in my top 3 plants 🥰 My body doesn't like alcohol by mouth, even in small amounts, so although I make a lot a of tinctures for other uses, I don't take much more than a drop or two of a tincture orally and then only rarely. I tell people wild lettuce doesn't work as well for acute pain like a broken bone or a strained muscle as it does for chronic pain. I like a tea and my husband smokes it. I tried the tar balls once and my tummy was NOT happy.
@@gardengatesopen on a bad week I take it every day, sometimes twice. I'll generally have a few days a month I don't need it or only take a small dose.
@@juliabrown5948 I have taken large doses days at a time when something was acting up. It's on an as needed basis. Start small to make sure it agrees with you.
I'm pretty sure all of the wild lettuce on my property is Florida Blue. It has beautiful tiny blue flowers on it, but it does produce the latex. 🤷♀️ I love to hear you and your mom bantering back and forth. It reminds me of me and my mom, who has been gone 24 years. Miss her.
Excellent video! That was the most enjoyable and simply explained presentation I've seen of extracting lettuce. You both are so adorable. What a privilege to see mother and adult daughter working together! It's enviable. 😊
When I am processing heavy woody lower stalks of many plants, I find slitting it lengthwise is helpful and perhaps safer than trying to cut across the diameter. I've used a wooden old clothes wringer to crush them, as well. This treatment seems to help maximize my return. You can scrape the sap off the wooden rollers if you find you are losing a lot of material. Lay some parchment paper or such under to catch all that good stuff!
About transplanting this, an April hail storm damaged my mower and my lawn became a wildflower meadow before it was repaired. I noticed some wild lettuce springing up in 3 places and didn't want to lose it to the mower so I dug them up and stuck in 4" pots. They looked sad for a day or two but they quickly recovered in a shady spot and have now doubled in size. I'm not sure where I will place them but I am glad to have them as I've never seen it in my yard before and want to try tincturing it. I am in now in the midst of an Arkansas summer with heat up to 100 degrees already some days but they seem to be okay in pots, though not nearly as large as some I spotted in my nephew's yard.
I transplant all my plants; I find them in the wild. 1st. Use a sharp pointed shovel. 2nd. Dig a circle around the plant as wide as its leaves, keeping the shovel at approx. a 75-degree angle. 3rd. Gently work the shovel up & down until the plant is lose. 4th. Lift the plant up using the shovel & put it in a pot, or a wheel barrel & take them to where you are going to set them. 5th. Get the plants back in the ground asap. Set them in a hole so the bottom of the plant is above ground. (Water soil first if soil is dry).
One of the things that I add into my herb teas is that I dried blue berries and when I make a cup of herbal tea I add a few dried blueberries to get a better taste, but most of the times I love my tea plain, bitter and earthy taste like one if my favorite is dandellion tea leaves or root tea. This year I will harvest some edible flowers dried them and use them for my tea blends.
I really need to learn to identify these wild plants and be confident in knowing them, because I'm always afraid to pick something that is going to hurt my family. You ladies are so very helpful and knowledgeable. Thank you
There is a book called Botany in a Day by Thomas Elpel.. fantastic book and easy on the eyes, beginner friendly. A lot of people love that book. It helps you understand families of plants. I was afraid at first too, but in the beginning I only worked with the mint family, and then I slowly branched out. You can do it! :D To my mind the only thing I avoid is carrot family because I'm never sure.
Get a plant identification app. Take a pic, know what it is then go researching to confirm it. Super fast way to learn all plants in your area. I did that this summer. I know more about these plants than most that have lived here for generations on our mountain. I have a pharmacy and I know how to use them. 👍👍
Being new to this amazing plant [weed] I added it to ACV [after eight weeks] and took a half nip [at night] like you would take ACV and sparkling water, ordinarily. Then another way was, I chopped the leaves and added them to my stews, and a savoury mince. I live on my own so had no worries about someone having a reaction to it which I doubt that at all! That was about six months ago, now I am patiently waiting for more to grow. Pain med a big tick, and sleep, another big tick. Almost back to sleeping like a teenager lol
I’m so glad I found your videos, you have rejuvenated my interest in herbal remedies. I have a lot of natural resources on my property and wild lettuce I have in abundance. Thanks for sharing you knowledge with all of us. I have my tincture of wild lettuce now started 😊. You ladies are fun to watch with your absolutely natural personalities. Please continue sharing because you’re making a community of smarter and better informed like minded people. Thanks again
I am in my first year of doing wild lettuce. I have a neighbor who also has lots of plant's. We have burn piles for our trimmings from our trees and Bushes. And we both have a great amount of lettuce growing up in the ashes. Without any planting . It is just a thing of nature the ashes seems to be a great environment..
I started to watch your video and I said to my self "I know where there is a plant like that" a nursing home closed about 4 month ago. Sure enough I found some that was large and a few that where small. I had to break the lg ones of at the stem. The small ones came out with the roots intact. As I looked around there where more and more. Thank you for this video. I am subscribing.
I transplanted a wild lettuce this spring. It's been a dry year so it needed regular watering till it took hold, then it's done well:) thanks for all your great videos!
One thing I'd like to mention ... If you are foraging, it might be better NOT to pick beside a very busy road to avoid gathering something that might have absorbed heavy metels from auto exhausts
That is what I was thinking. I-25 North of Denver has TONS of this growing in the middle of the north & southbound lanes. At first I was considering foraging a bunch but the fact that it is in-between a Freeway I decided it is most definitely contaminated. So I am scouring sidewalks and walking pathes.
Also, if you're getting into foraging ... DON'T GUESS!!! Either go with someone experienced or take a good identification book, like a Peterson guide. So very many things have lookalikes, and a mistake could dire. If in doubt, pass it up, or just take a sample to someone knowledgeable. Never take ALL of a patch, wear gloves, and above all ... be safe.
You can make your own STRONG VINEGAR and substitute that for alcohol. Not as good but better than water or oil. Also. Most sites say don’t bother with stems so I processed just the stems separate and got a substantial amount of extract that was just as potent as the leaves. So don’t throw away the stems. I do like processing stems separate. Easier to get the leaves strained. Then deal with stems separate.
SO excited!! Watched your video and then realized we had some right here on our back patio. Determined stuff was poking thru between a block wall and concrete slab. 😳❤️ Rewatching the video again to make sure I do everything right. THANK YOU!!!!🎉🎉🎉
I love watching you two work together in your shop. So much great information and the laughs!!! Thank you for brightening my morning! I think I have wild lettuce I’ll have to go look it very close.
I recently discovered your channel and I love you guys. I watched this in the morning and when I went out to do garden work later in the day I was able to identify wild lettuce in my yard! I was so amazed at the timing of your video and my discovery. I probably would've mowed it over if not for you. I dug them up and am hoping they take to their new home in my herb garden. Keep doing all the good things!
This is great! The 2 of you together as a mother-and-daughter team is fun to watch 😂 My son and I do our channel together as a father-and-son team, and we actually just did our first tincture episode a couple of weeks ago, making a ghost pipe tincture, which is also for pain. I gave a subscribe to your channel in support, and I look forward to seeing more 👍
It is a fantastic, helpful medicinal plant. I also like the fact you put caveats that there are a multitude of ways to extract and preserve and use this medicine. Recently, I have been intrigued by how some herbalists are using hops for pain. The claim is that hops has chemicals that are picked up by cannabanoid receptors to relieve pain. Now, they are doing spray tinctures and even oil based salves. I've never seen a study showing where the active compounds in wild lettuce are fat soluable. The fact most people use water, alcohol, and/or vinegar leads me to believe at least one of the active chemicals isn't fat soluable. Even then, a lotion could be made using wild lettuce tincture and hops oil as a way to dermally treat pain.
Excited to try a tincture for the first time, waiting on them to be ready. I've done the liquid and the tar before and my wice hates that I have the kitchen tied up for a whole day, and I don't enjoy having to keep my eye on the stovetop making sure my liquid doesn't boil.😂
😅 i have to know, where did you get your super fancy bee hats?😊 I checked the Amazon shop and didn't see those 😮 Thank you in advance and thank you for sharing your projects
This is the comment I was looking for. Thanks. I've been on opioids for 15 years and my pain level is very high. Have you found that it helps with intense pain? Or only low to moderate pain?
Thank you for sharing your life, family and knowledge with all of us. Your life is beautiful and peaceful. And full of good times with many laughs. I'm sure your outakes include hours of cackling til you pee your pants. 😂 Keep up the great work, friends. Many out here idealize the same but don't have a channel.
Here is a great article about Wild Lettuce! feralforaging.com/how-to-identify-wild-lettuce/ Feral Foraging does a great job on sharing content!!
I have been making wild lettuce tea for years. It actually tastes fine! Just add a bit of honey and you're good to go.
It didn't help with pain too much, but it does help with period pain.
I transplanted one this year to see if it would grow and I thought it died because it wilted, BUT it did come back. I think it will be totally fine next year.
I'm wondering if I have rendered plant material with water on simmer. Will I need to refrigerate it after bottled? Thanks ❤
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I have chronic Lyme. The pain is way past turmeric balls. I rendered wild lettuce in olive oil. Made a super salve with essential oils and the rendered oil. WOW, surprised me how great it is. Now if I can make a giant vat to climb into...lol.
I make syrup with the hard stalks, and powder from the softer parts and make capsules with dehydrated wild lettuce. I did transplanting when plants were very small and 90% of them did extremely well. I make 4 cups of syrup from 1 lb of fresh plant material and add a lemon extract (makes it taste better) and take a couple tablespoons for relief. I am a chronic pain patient, who has taken a variety of meds and i equate wild lettuce to Valium, where pain is dulled away, and will definitely induce sleep. I get at least 4hrs of very restful sleep when taking this. And i ONLY take it when i plan to be in bed. I suffer spinal cord nerve damage with restless leg type symptoms and it works better than any muscle relaxer than I've ever been prescribed. My dose in powder form is from 2-4 tsps.
Wow!
Something that ACTUALLY works for restless legs!!
THIS is what I've been looking for to finally get off the mild pain medication I take from having rheumatoid arthritis.
The trouble is, every time I stop taking it, I have restless legs every night which prevents any sleep at all!!
I just keep trying new herbs to keep the RLS at bay, but nothing has worked so far.
@@gardengatesopen I hope it's helpful to you, but as I said my issues stems from spinal cord nerve damage. Although this herb has also helps others with other conditions. My Aunt has fibro and it has helped her as well. So it's worth a try, and also finding the effective dose. Don't give up if a dose doesn't work, just increase with each dose till you find the dose that works for you.
@albanymountainhomestead5844 DEFINITELY worth a good try - or two, or five!!
I'm used to chronic pain, it never completely goes away.
But just to have something to take the edge off, so to speak, is really all I need.
And if stops those restless legs, we'll then! It's a winner!
Nobody really knows WHY restless legs happen, so hey, we just keep trying, right?!
My rheumatoid started off with 7 years of fibromyalgia.
So yeah, used to pain hanging around.
Glad to hear it helped your Aunt!
Thanks for your comments!! ❤️
Hello, I have nerve damage from a back surgery that went wrong and am a chronic pain person myself. Can’t sleep I have to take Xanax’s ( a bar ) every night just to sleep. I want off of all my medicine if possible. But just not sure on the vodka. Do you know if there’s anything else that could be used, like vinegar or will it take away from the plant ??
@@michellebaker4536 I have dehydrated the the leaves and made capsules (can also be purchased on Amazon). Or I make a syrup where I leav3 the plant material (1lb fresh) and water in a crockpot on low for 4 days, strain, then simmer the remaining liquid down until I have 2 cups of the liquid left, then I dissolve 2 cups sugar and 2 tsp lemon extract into the liquid to make a syrup. A dose of 2-4 tsp is where I find a good level of benefit. I hope this helps...
GOD is so GOOD! HE has provided so much for our benefit, all we need to do is acquire the knowledge!
I think we had the knowledge and just let it go😢
@@spintarelli Correct! Thanks to pharmaceutical companies that campaigned against natural health care, as quackery. Over time we lost our knowledge and connection to the world of herbs. Thank goodness there are still so many resources available to us, so that we can relearn this valuable lost knowledge. Like everything else, we must seek to find.
He?😂
@@Deploythesoy Yes, HE.
@@dannettepeters1507 they're just pretend to be scoffers. But they don't get the last laugh
I love when she said "It's technically a weed.". My wife chimed in...."So is my pot." 🤷🏻♂️😂
I've been looking for it for months, and came across a neighbor that had it growing in her garden. I offered to remove it for free and scored a total of close to 30lbs for free!!!
Nice! Did you get it by the root? You can transplant and have it on your property 😊
Sweetheart, thank you. I am so fed up with the pain clinic and fighting with the insurance for the he same problems.
Check baker creek sees for lions ear plant, it also has qualities in it for pain. But can only purchase seed not the plant.
Tincture can last for 50 years. Experienced Great Grandma
Thank you
Holy cannoli...50 years. Wow!!!
God gave herbs for the service of man. Great video girls.
Yes indeed. Remember the fourth commandment KJV is reminding us of Genesis 2:2&3!
In my opinion... I find gloves give a false sense of safety. Wearing gloves you can't feel when your hands are disgusting... then, wearers tend to touch multiple different things without thinking. I would rather see someone wash their hands, then touch my food than to be wearing gloves, touch a door handle, cash register, cover their cough or handle money.
Honestly, I would listen to comments... take everything into consideration... but, you do you. Plus... Vodka tinctures will not allow any germ pathogens to survive.
You, your mom and grandmother are amazing!! Keep doing what you're doing! I'm learning a ton!!!!
100% re gloves. U can touch ANYTHING & omg what's the difference?! Right? Washed hands are fine. The glove makers making $$. 😮
@@lindawitt3796 I absolutely agree with you, but with a caveat: water and soap isn't always available, especially if you are outdoors. The gloves DO have their uses!
Глистная инвазия, это заражено всё население. Каловые массы от глистов, есть даже в мозгах каждого человека! У кого-то возможно и ползают себе тихонько, а какого-то и сдохли. Они очень живучи.
Sometimes there are microscopic 'things' in the greenery. I got an infestation on my hand that worked it's way up almost to my elbow. Bright scarlet, sore, and I wanted to scratch my skin off. The doctor gave me several prescriptions but nothing worked. I had to soak my arm in taw bleach every day until it burned too much to continue. If I stopped, it grew again. Even with the bleach, it took months to get rid of. I can take them off if I need to 'touch' to be sure of an identification, but I don't e-v-e-r want to go through that again. It only takes one sub-dermal infestation to make one a believer. Please, do be careful, and wash up hen you're done.
I wouldn't use gloves either
I have used wild lettuce in a tea form and have smoked it as well. The tea is great, it has a mild calming pain relieving effect and definitely aids as a sleep aid. After harvesting it, I tied it in a bundle and hung it upside down to keep the lactucarium in the leaves.
Were the effects the same with smoking? I've made syrup and powdered plant material and use it that way.
@@albanymtnlife I personally didnt experience any benefits from smoking it.
The times I have smoked it, it worked, but I top the plant and then come back a few hours later to collect just the dried latex cap. Beware that it tastes absolutely horrible, so I cut it with something tasty like catnip or mint and also mullen to ease the harshness of the smoke.
Me and the Javelina, deer, and rabbits fight over WL, I’m so jealous of your large bounty🫶🏼😝
So how do you make the tea😊 I'm very curious dealing with life long anxiety and I feel more natural way is best
I've been living here for 24 years and for the first time ever Wild Lettuce has shown up!
I've got 4 plants growing right now on my little suburban lot.
They've just now gone to seed, so I'm SURE I'll have a lot more next year!
And with having arthritis it's a very welcome gift!
Wild lettuce is biennial so you flower stalks will come up the second yr. I find it helpful to left the lawn go wild so I can see the wild lettuce plants and let them grow.
@albanymountainhomestead5844
We don't mow very often, we don't really need to mow the areas the plants are coming up in.
Thanks for the info!
That's helpful!
It is said that plants/weeds show up where needed.
@kristibi7971 Yes, I've heard this too!
And for the past 3 years Nature has brought me one "new" plant every year, and it turns out I DID NEED that plant!
Coincidence???
I have this theory...
(My imagination goes quite rampant at times, so THIS ONE might be a bit off the charts!)
But...
What if the soil,
or I should say ALL the different microbes etc. IN the soil,
what if all those things are so perfectly networked that -
whenever they come across "something" that lives within their patch is in need of a "fix" - (could be a plant, or an animal)
the network puts out a special signal within the soil to "order up" the plant who has the fix that's needed. ?
For instance -
Me walking around in my patch,
and my body naturally sluffs off skin cells.
Plus, my hands are touching the soil while gardening.
The network within the soil "reads" my skin cells via my DNA, or something.
It detects that I'm in need of pain relief.
Or it could detect that I have a cold.
Just whatever is happening w my body, it can read the signals.
So it puts out a signal (probably a chemical signal) which would activate a certain plant seed that would help with the problem it detected, to begin germination.
(Bcuz the seeds were probably already there in my soil already, but dormant.)
Result - wild lettuce seed is now growing, and now available to me.
Which IS just what I needed!
Yeah.
THAT'S my theory.
I know...
I know.
It sounds really wacky!
But that's my brain being it's normal far-fetched self!
Really, I just think the soil microbiome is SO much more advanced than we humans are aware of.
Truly, I try to keep an open mind.
Which leaves me thinking
anything is possible!
@@gardengatesopen Strong like, thumb up to your comment.
Lay person's observations: VALID, much needed and useful!
From experience, as long as you don’t pull the roots, you can even cut it a couple inches up from the bottom and it will regenerate.
It's an annual plant.
It's biennial (where it flowers every other yr) and it will reseed itself @@oztrich24
I mow mine in the fall every year and it always returns. This plant is very hardy.
@@oztrich24biannual
I love seeing mother and daughter working together to make medicine 💗
My daughter and grandson are into it too. We are talking about getting a building built to work together on the ‘pharmacy’
As always, it is such a joy watching momma and daughter work together and have fun during the process. GREAT information here and I have loads of wild lettuce in my garden.
I just ran to the recycling bin to retrieve the A1 Sauce bottle 😅
😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂
Great idea!!
Excellent idea
Now I'm gonna have to go get the soy sauce and coconut aminos bottles I just put in the recycling can about an hour ago 😹
Kombucha bottles are great
Thank you ladies for demonstrating the wild lettuce tincture.
I AM WILD ABOUT WILD LETTUCE. This plant and Plantain are my favourites. For 5 years I have been doing wild lettuce infused oil. This is to be used as a massage oil into muscles and joints. I went on this journey to help find a remedy that would relieve my mums rheumatoid symptoms. It has helped her at times. But over the years all 4 of my young adult kids love it. It’s the first thing they grab when there are aches and strains from work or workouts.
Recently I’ve experimented with turning the infused oil into a salve. And I’ve given it to friends who have arthritic pain. They are giving very positive feedback. I also use wild lettuce as a tea combined with other herbs to disguise the flavour. Wait in interest for when you guys do the decoction and make it into a tincture.
I would like to learn more about your salves
What is your ratio of oil to dry herb and what oil do you use?
Can I have the recipe for you infused oil and salve I would love to make some for my mom and friend with fibromyalgia
I use St. John’s wort, chilli powder and black pepper. Killer rub for all pain. Add arnica for injuries or dandelion for chronic pain. It’s almost immediate relief. Nerve pain, inflammation, stiffness, lubricant for joint movement. I was addicted to pain meds for over 20 years. Then 16-18 ibuprofen a day for years. This rub now solves my pain problems. No pills needed. Figured this will be a helpful addition to switching up my oils. Ty ladies. ❤
I also make the wild lettuce tincture. I have never made it to sell to anyone, just for my own use/pain. Using the wild lettuce tincture, I was able to go completely cold turkey on the chemical opioids. I was up to 600mg daily and really didn't like the long term damage those pain meds can cause. Had heard about wild lettuce and when I found that we actually had it growing on our property, I figured, why not!?
I was careful when I started taking the wild lettuce tincture, to see what my tolerance level was and how much I needed to take to have less pain. I loved the fact that when I'd found out how much I needed to take and how often, I did not have any withdrawal symptoms from kicking the opioid meds! It might be different for others but, I have never gotten "high" from opioid medication, regardless of how high a dose I've been on. That could be why I didn't experience any withdrawal symptoms? I don't know, I'm just happy to be off the chemical crap!
What I did notice is that the strength/potency in the wild lettuce can differ from year to year, depending on many factors such as weather, rain, no rain, heat etc. etc. etc. Also if you harvest from places where you don't normally harvest, the soil quality can also affect the potency of the tincture. I'm always careful when I start using a different years batch.
Thank you.
What type of pain you have? my husband wants to try the tincture for nerve pain, joint pain. thanks
@@monicasdg4140 I have "chronic" back pain. Middle of back, slightly under my shoulder region. I've had many doctors exams and MRI's done and, they for whatever reason, can't see anything on those MRI's that could cause the pain. I've been twice at what is called over here in Sweden a "pain clinic", where they do all sorts of physical tests. Have you standing in various positions, holding arms out, raising and lowering arms in different ways and yes, they could determine that I in fact was in pain...
Why? Still don't know but, the weird part is that my mother and sister had the same, in the same place on their backs. 2 of my now adult children, a girl and boy have the same pain. All of us including my mom and sister have/had carpal tunnel syndrom and have had to have surgery for it. Guessing whatever it is, is hereditary???
If I were to guess what it is, I'd say some sort of nerve pain. We all also have joint pain. Not always but, enough to be a pain in the rear...
Both my daughter and I make and take the Wild Lettuce tincture and it does work. Not 100% but enough to make it bearable, pretty much the same as the opioid pain killers did.
Wild lettuce was all over my parent's property when my brother and I were children. It's a welcome sight to behold even now. I have fond memories of wild foraging with my mom. My earliest memory was three years old. I carried that tradition on with my own daughter.
We received a lot of rain yesterday also. I'm in Maryland. Earlier this week, I added more goldenrod and elderberry to our property. I'll be freeze-drying a variety of herbs from our property this weekend. Transplanting should be easy; I've done the same thing with various plants on our property.
I love this so much! This is how we continue 💛 I think transplanting will be easy as well!
I made some wild lettuce tea and just placed the leaves in a tea ball and soaked it in very hot water for about 30 minutes and add a little honey and it was very good taste. It was relaxing, and my husband and I slept very well that night.
For my dry leaves, I cut the whole plant and hang it on a line in my pantry. Think of how a cut flower will pull as much moisture as it can from its stem trying to stay alive. In the same way wild lettuce leaves will suck the sap out of the stalks as it dries. There is still some left if you don't have much to pick, but we literally have it growing everywhere, so the dry stalks go in my compost. I can't take an NSAIDS by mouth so wild lettuce is my miracle 😊
I just made a wild lettuce tincture yesterday!! First one I harvested and put in 100proof vodka, so glad I did it right! Now I just wait. I am trying to help my husband with chronic pain. Can not wait to see your other videos of wild lettuce. So glad I heartway farms said they learned a lot from you, so had to check you out and glad I did. Diane Hartley
I like to put it under my tongue fresh just pick a leaf off and put droplets of the latex under my tongue it helps with my pain I have severe fibromyalgia.
I do as well... have you ever had any bad experiences doing it that way???...
Terrific. I was reading through the comments for just that info. 👍😊
People need to stop complaining. Especially about gloves are so many other important things in this world. I love your show. You and your mom have so much fun together. I am doing tinctures and natural medication’s and I would love that my daughter would do it, but she’s too busy or not interested.
Becoming a beekeeper has long been a dream of mine, but I was always afraid that it is very difficult. Maybe thanks to your channel I will decide to take care of bees too. Thank you very much for your work😊😊
This makes my heart so happy!
If you have the opportunity to do their Bee workshop, it is amazing. I absolutely loved it.
Just jump in head first like I did! It's so rewarding literally! Even if you're just doing to keep them around as pollinators and not for honey like me! We did it for our property and just to help the bee population!!
I've been wanting to keep bees for a long time now, sadly I can't do it in this neighborhood I live in, but hopefully we'll be able to move and get some land (at least a little) so I can start. I have also worried that it was so complicated and difficult, but you make it seem easy.
@@TheHoneysteadcan u dry and use the dry material as a tea?
I love to watch your videos. You guy's make me laugh so hard. I had my vitamin laugh this morning with your guys. Last year was the first time that I made the thick syrup of wild lettuce and once in a while ate the young leaf. I was dealing with really, really strong migraine last year, I never suffer for headaches that strong, that is why, I started making this remedy, and it really helped me. I made also the tea wirh fresh leaves and it wasn't too bad, the good thing was that it helped me sleep, because every night I was afraid of going to sleep with those horrible headache, chills and burning sensation that I was dealing with. I fell that the plants speak to us, because there years ago, I started knowing about this plant, and did my wild crafting three years ago, brought the wild lettuce (I found three species) the first year I didn't got any big growth, and also didn't want to consume because I found them some in the roadway and some at the park, so I wanted to have new plants growing in my garden in order to consume. So last year I had plenty of new plants, the plant knew that I was gonna need her and spoke to me and I brought her home, and I was ab)e to harvest her when I needed her. My health is much much better this years due to lots of medicinal plants that I grow and consume. I no longer need to take any medicne tha t I was taking last year, about 10 types of medicine that every time I go to the hospital I get new preacriprion, Drs. Didn't even know for sure what was My health problem, so they just kept giving medicine and when they didn't work, they prescibe difeerent ones, one of the medineI was told by my Dr. That I have to take it for 10 years, I even stopped taking that one because I did my research and find out that, taking that medine for a long period of time, It could cause a hearth attack. I found out that I didn't need that medicine, because its been almost a year that I stopped taking it and I feel great, and my blood work it's perfect.
Wow what a story! I have awful migraines and fatigue, and now stomach problems. I'd love to know a few of the other herbs you took in addition to wild lettuce... I'm desperate
@@juliabrown5948 One of my favorite is Dandelion root. I harvest the ones I have in my garden, dry them, roast them lightly and chew a few pieces once a day. I also dry the leaves for tea. I also buy dandelion root tea at Wal-Mart. I drink a lot of green tea, , my favorite is roasted green tea. I make fig leave tea, mulberry leave tea. I make some ferments, kombucha, milk kefir. For the acid reflux I was dealing with due to stress, what really help me was the adaptogens that I take with my morning drink. I get those at the whole food store, they have mushroom type, roots and some are combined with mushrooms and roots, my favorites are chaga mushroom and reishi mushroom, maca roots, stragalus. I hope this helps. Blessings.
Chiropractor! Chiropractor! Find a good one that does more than 3 or 4 adjustments a visit. You will learn a whole other level of why you’re hurting/suffering. Plants and chiropractor have saved my quality of life. No pills or Dr at all ever again! Docs are great for emergencies but nothing else. Just my opinion. :)
It transplants very well. That's how I got my personal plants.
When I made my tincture, I didn't have a blender or food processor, but I didn't have one of those wand things and it turned those leaves into a puree so fast and my tincture was like super strong. I also used everclear for my medium so all soluble latex was brought out. I ended up with 1 1/2 gallon of just liquid and my friend fed the mash to his chickens. Nothing wasted.
Absolutely love listening to you two! Makes me miss my momma! ❤
I must confess I have watch this video 3 times now, and each time I feel like I have gained more knowledge and confidence to try this myself. I could watch you ladies all day!
Last year I had wild lettuce coming up all over my garden beds and pulling them up by the roots. This year when they come up I will definitely be making a tincture and drying for tea and smoking.
Thank you for replying, any relief is better than no relief, and it's natural too which I great ❤
I have made wild lettuce tea almost daily... Mine is growing in the garden just as yours is. I love it. After made if put in frig to get cold, it's not bad at all after your tastebuds become adapted... it took me about a wk of daily use of 4oz-8oz to completely get over the bitterness.... I drink it now and enjoy.... The tea is absolutely affective for pain and sleep... I can't imagine the tincture being anymore affective. I've been using it since mid spring up to now and it has given me a lot of relief and sound sleep. I bring water to almost boil. if it does boil I put a glass of cold water in it... don't want to cook the lettuce but hot water poured over it in a qt or 1/2gal mason jar to sit over nite until room temp... strain and put in frig till cold then drink as needed... I've mostly taken mine after a long day's physical work in garden, etc. Drink an 8oz glass and that's it.... I'm 78 and it keeps me almost pain free from aches and pains.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.
PeaceOut
How much lettuce in your quart jar?
🙏Thank you for sharing. I've been creating a food forest and had no idea until last spring how many wild plants I had at my fingertips. It started w/ plantain❤I love working w/ nature, not against it. I'm building a chicken coop in one garage and eyeing up another for my apothecary. My kitchen can't keep up w/ my obsession 🤦♀️😂
Isn’t it amazing!?!
Right!!!
Today i have 10 trays of wild lettuce drying outside, freeze dryer full and dehydrator full. The harvest this year is off the charts.
Your mom is so cool and wise stay blessed this is a worthy channel
HOW LOVING OUR GODI IS TO HAVE NON ADDICTING PAIN REMEDIES IN EVERYONE'S YARD! THANKS LADIES!!!!!!!
I wonder what would come of mixing plantain with wild lettuce in a salve for bites, stings, cuts, scrapes, etc. Dandelion and Echinacea root might be good, too. Love your videos and your mom is such a stronghold! She's awesome!
I have added wild lettuce with plantain and comfrey..I call it a triple healing ointment…and it works…
@ccrum1127 what do you use for your ointment.
You mentioned what if we didn't have alcohol. During the recent c.v.d shut down I had lot of trouble finding alcohol. To easy my mind, I learned how to make homemade wine and distill it, so I would be able to make my tinctures. I'm such a teetotaler, it tickled my hubby to no end.
Does homemade wine work for tomorrow's? I've looked into making hard cider for that reason, but didn't know if it or homemade wine (I already make kombucha and kefir so it's not a huge leap I guess) would be strong enough for tinctures!
If you have a distiller for making distilled water you can put your wine in that and distill off the alcohol. The alcohol distills out first.
@@tstramel awesome! Didn't know that. More research time.
I love that you let it be washed in the rain. So perfect.
Thank you for sharing with me. I have been wanting to see the full picture of doing tincturing. You guys remind me of my mom and I. I had to laugh. I am new to all of the tincturing and want to buy all that I need to get going. I hope I can get a good stock going like all I saw in back of you. How amazing!! Keep on showing each plant. Im going to check out the other videos.
Hi Im here in Virginia and I’m excited to go out everyday I’n my yard to see what wild plant ,shrub or vine, weed ect I walk up on. 😊 Thank you for sharing your love of natural remedies with us.
Wild lettuce is in my top 3 plants 🥰 My body doesn't like alcohol by mouth, even in small amounts, so although I make a lot a of tinctures for other uses, I don't take much more than a drop or two of a tincture orally and then only rarely. I tell people wild lettuce doesn't work as well for acute pain like a broken bone or a strained muscle as it does for chronic pain. I like a tea and my husband smokes it. I tried the tar balls once and my tummy was NOT happy.
So you consume it every day?
And do you ever need to stop taking it for a while like we need to with some other herbs?
@@gardengatesopen on a bad week I take it every day, sometimes twice. I'll generally have a few days a month I don't need it or only take a small dose.
@lindachandler2293 Good to know!
Thank You!! ❤️
So you take it daily in tea form for chronic pain? I too have chronic pain and my tummy doesn't like large doses of alcohol
@@juliabrown5948 I have taken large doses days at a time when something was acting up. It's on an as needed basis. Start small to make sure it agrees with you.
What knowledge you have! I've got some wild lettuce down stairs and you helped me through it!
I have seen wild lettuce in every state I have lived in. I had no idea it had pain reliving properties. I will most certainly be trying this method.
I'm pretty sure all of the wild lettuce on my property is Florida Blue. It has beautiful tiny blue flowers on it, but it does produce the latex. 🤷♀️
I love to hear you and your mom bantering back and forth. It reminds me of me and my mom, who has been gone 24 years. Miss her.
The lettuce is a wonderful medicine 💊 one of my favorite 😍
Excellent video! That was the most enjoyable and simply explained presentation I've seen of extracting lettuce.
You both are so adorable. What a privilege to see mother and adult daughter working together! It's enviable. 😊
When I am processing heavy woody lower stalks of many plants, I find slitting it lengthwise is helpful and perhaps safer than trying to cut across the diameter. I've used a wooden old clothes wringer to crush them, as well. This treatment seems to help maximize my return. You can scrape the sap off the wooden rollers if you find you are losing a lot of material. Lay some parchment paper or such under to catch all that good stuff!
I just hand-feed it through the top of the blender. Chops it up well and keeps the blender from getting jammed.
Wild lettuce is very easy to transplant. I pulled some by a restaurant and transplanted it in a tube. It's doing great!
About transplanting this, an April hail storm damaged my mower and my lawn became a wildflower meadow before it was repaired. I noticed some wild lettuce springing up in 3 places and didn't want to lose it to the mower so I dug them up and stuck in 4" pots. They looked sad for a day or two but they quickly recovered in a shady spot and have now doubled in size. I'm not sure where I will place them but I am glad to have them as I've never seen it in my yard before and want to try tincturing it. I am in now in the midst of an Arkansas summer with heat up to 100 degrees already some days but they seem to be okay in pots, though not nearly as large as some I spotted in my nephew's yard.
Perfect timing to learn more about this herb and the benefits it offers to relieve pain. Love watching you two!
I made a triple tincture. I used 190 proof vodka. Did it over 9 days. It gas really helped us with our pain.
How long did you let it sit.. im goin to try 190 proof way
@@annemargarethazzard7865 3 days each time
are you sure it's not the vodka helping with the pain 😂
I transplant all my plants; I find them in the wild.
1st. Use a sharp pointed shovel.
2nd. Dig a circle around the plant as wide as its leaves, keeping the shovel at approx. a 75-degree angle.
3rd. Gently work the shovel up & down until the plant is lose.
4th. Lift the plant up using the shovel & put it in a pot, or a wheel barrel & take them to where you are going to set them.
5th. Get the plants back in the ground asap. Set them in a hole so the bottom of the plant is above ground. (Water soil first if soil is dry).
I just love watching you both.....Knowledge AND entertainment. Thank you for helping us stop or slow down on the synthetic drugs. GOD bless
I am very weary of alcohol. Thank you for talking alternatives.
I’ve got mine macerating in vinegar. Some in honey and the other in alcohol. Looking forward to the results.
You guys are just adorable! It's refreshing to see that you're not afraid to admit and talk about how stuff goes wrong!
I love it when you're both together!!😂 You're just so cute together!! So glad Mom is here!
wonderful video. Great that your mom & you work together!
One of the things that I add into my herb teas is that I dried blue berries and when I make a cup of herbal tea I add a few dried blueberries to get a better taste, but most of the times I love my tea plain, bitter and earthy taste like one if my favorite is dandellion tea leaves or root tea. This year I will harvest some edible flowers dried them and use them for my tea blends.
Wild women! I appriciate you!
I love you guys together. Keep it up. I’m learning so much from you.
Thank you very much for this helpful video, ladies!
I have successfully transplanted lots of lactuca. It's easy to grow both in the ground and in pots. Just keep it watered.
I really need to learn to identify these wild plants and be confident in knowing them, because I'm always afraid to pick something that is going to hurt my family. You ladies are so very helpful and knowledgeable. Thank you
There is a book called Botany in a Day by Thomas Elpel.. fantastic book and easy on the eyes, beginner friendly. A lot of people love that book. It helps you understand families of plants. I was afraid at first too, but in the beginning I only worked with the mint family, and then I slowly branched out. You can do it! :D To my mind the only thing I avoid is carrot family because I'm never sure.
@@RunninUpThatHillh Thank you, I will look it up and pick up a copy. =)
Get a plant identification app. Take a pic, know what it is then go researching to confirm it. Super fast way to learn all plants in your area. I did that this summer. I know more about these plants than most that have lived here for generations on our mountain. I have a pharmacy and I know how to use them. 👍👍
Being new to this amazing plant [weed] I added it to ACV [after eight weeks] and took a half nip [at night] like you would take ACV and sparkling water, ordinarily. Then another way was, I chopped the leaves and added them to my stews, and a savoury mince. I live on my own so had no worries about someone having a reaction to it which I doubt that at all! That was about six months ago, now I am patiently waiting for more to grow. Pain med a big tick, and sleep, another big tick. Almost back to sleeping like a teenager lol
For cutting the stocks, are used some of the curved pruning shears, one-handed pruning shears and cut it into three-quarter inch lengths
You both are a joy to watch! I just love listening to what you have to offer those of us who are trying to learn more!
I am also processing chickens this weekend. WE are only doing 50 this year. Thank you for another wonderful video ladies :)
We are too! So exciting.
I’m so glad I found your videos, you have rejuvenated my interest in herbal remedies. I have a lot of natural resources on my property and wild lettuce I have in abundance. Thanks for sharing you knowledge with all of us. I have my tincture of wild lettuce now started 😊. You ladies are fun to watch with your absolutely natural personalities. Please continue sharing because you’re making a community of smarter and better informed like minded people. Thanks again
I am in my first year of doing wild lettuce. I have a neighbor who also has lots of plant's. We have burn piles for our trimmings from our trees and Bushes. And we both have a great amount of lettuce growing up in the ashes. Without any planting . It is just a thing of nature the ashes seems to be a great environment..
I started to watch your video and I said to my self "I know where there is a plant like that" a nursing home closed about 4 month ago. Sure enough I found some that was large and a few that where small. I had to break the lg ones of at the stem. The small ones came out with the roots intact. As I looked around there where more and more. Thank you for this video. I am subscribing.
Thank you so much!!! I love watching your recipe videos.
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I transplanted a wild lettuce this spring. It's been a dry year so it needed regular watering till it took hold, then it's done well:) thanks for all your great videos!
One thing I'd like to mention ... If you are foraging, it might be better NOT to pick beside a very busy road to avoid gathering something that might have absorbed heavy metels from auto exhausts
That is what I was thinking. I-25 North of Denver has TONS of this growing in the middle of the north & southbound lanes.
At first I was considering foraging a bunch but the fact that it is in-between a Freeway I decided it is most definitely contaminated.
So I am scouring sidewalks and walking pathes.
Also, if you're getting into foraging ... DON'T GUESS!!!
Either go with someone experienced or take a good identification book, like a Peterson guide. So very many things have lookalikes, and a mistake could dire. If in doubt, pass it up, or just take a sample to someone knowledgeable. Never take ALL of a patch, wear gloves, and above all ... be safe.
Not only heavy metals, but a lot of road crews will use insecticides .
Can you soak them out with baking soda & warm water and then rinse & dry
You can make your own STRONG VINEGAR and substitute that for alcohol. Not as good but better than water or oil. Also. Most sites say don’t bother with stems so I processed just the stems separate and got a substantial amount of extract that was just as potent as the leaves. So don’t throw away the stems. I do like processing stems separate. Easier to get the leaves strained. Then deal with stems separate.
SO excited!! Watched your video and then realized we had some right here on our back patio. Determined stuff was poking thru between a block wall and concrete slab. 😳❤️ Rewatching the video again to make sure I do everything right. THANK YOU!!!!🎉🎉🎉
I love watching you two work together in your shop. So much great information and the laughs!!! Thank you for brightening my morning! I think I have wild lettuce I’ll have to go look it very close.
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Excited to see the other methods to use this weed. I always heve allot growning. I will start tincture tomorrow. Thank you!
I love your Mom’s sense of humour😊😂
I’m very happy to see this video as I’m a chronic arthritis sufferer and don’t take any pharmaceuticals for pain and wanted to try this first
I recently discovered your channel and I love you guys. I watched this in the morning and when I went out to do garden work later in the day I was able to identify wild lettuce in my yard! I was so amazed at the timing of your video and my discovery. I probably would've mowed it over if not for you. I dug them up and am hoping they take to their new home in my herb garden. Keep doing all the good things!
This is great! The 2 of you together as a mother-and-daughter team is fun to watch 😂 My son and I do our channel together as a father-and-son team, and we actually just did our first tincture episode a couple of weeks ago, making a ghost pipe tincture, which is also for pain. I gave a subscribe to your channel in support, and I look forward to seeing more 👍
Good one Kaylee and Mama!! Thank you!
👏👏👏love the simplicity wow you talk to us❤❤
Just love the two of you, your videos are so fun and informative! I just found wild lettuce and now I know what I can do with it!
Thank you so much, ladies. I can wait to try this.
It is a fantastic, helpful medicinal plant. I also like the fact you put caveats that there are a multitude of ways to extract and preserve and use this medicine. Recently, I have been intrigued by how some herbalists are using hops for pain. The claim is that hops has chemicals that are picked up by cannabanoid receptors to relieve pain. Now, they are doing spray tinctures and even oil based salves. I've never seen a study showing where the active compounds in wild lettuce are fat soluable. The fact most people use water, alcohol, and/or vinegar leads me to believe at least one of the active chemicals isn't fat soluable. Even then, a lotion could be made using wild lettuce tincture and hops oil as a way to dermally treat pain.
Love this mum and daughter team
Very Lovely Young lady. I enjoy your videos. Thank you for your videos. Much love and appreciation. Please keep up the good work.
Love watching you and your mom working together!
Excited to try a tincture for the first time, waiting on them to be ready. I've done the liquid and the tar before and my wice hates that I have the kitchen tied up for a whole day, and I don't enjoy having to keep my eye on the stovetop making sure my liquid doesn't boil.😂
Love making a salve from it. Very good pain relief. I’ll also make one adding yarrow and comfrey.
That sounds lovely! Thank you for sharing this with me!
You guys are awesome. So down to earth and nice. My type of people. 👍
I’ve transplanted a 5 ft tall plant. It died back some but within a month was just fine.
I saw a guy on TH-cam do it in a crockpot initially so it doesn’t come to a boil. He was cooking it down to a tar texture
Enjoyed listening to your chatter.
Your mom is so amazing you’re very blessed baby girl and she’s so funny I love your mama!!!
😅 i have to know, where did you get your super fancy bee hats?😊
I checked the Amazon shop and didn't see those 😮
Thank you in advance
and thank you for sharing your projects
Love the joy in all this good info.
I love wild lettuce! I had so much last year I let all mine go to seed this year. It works very well even if you’ve had to take narcotics in the past.
This is the comment I was looking for. Thanks.
I've been on opioids for 15 years and my pain level is very high.
Have you found that it helps with intense pain? Or only low to moderate pain?
Thank you for sharing your life, family and knowledge with all of us. Your life is beautiful and peaceful. And full of good times with many laughs. I'm sure your outakes include hours of cackling til you pee your pants. 😂
Keep up the great work, friends. Many out here idealize the same but don't have a channel.