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Chickweed is best known for it's ability to cool inflammation and speed healing for internal or external flare-ups. Herbalists often recommend it as a poultice or ointment for skin irritations, skin abscesses and boils. Chickweed poultices are useful for cooling and soothing minor burns and skin irritations, and rashes particularly when associated with dryness and itching.
Fresh chickweed can be eaten in summer salads and can be fed to companion animals to assist in the expulsion of hair balls, and sooth the digestive tract. Chickweed is an effective and gentle laxative. The seeds are food for finches and many other seed-eating birds.
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| Generally considered a safe medicinal food plant- large amounts of chickweed can have a laxative effect. When wildcrafting be careful of herbicide contamination, as chickweed is often found living among hated weeds. |
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Preparation Methods :Fresh herb teas, salad greens, poultice, ointments and salves.
 Remedies using : Chickweed
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Chickweed for :Eye rinse |
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Strain chickweed tea, cool and use it to moisten a clean, soft cloth for a compress to apply to closed eyes, or dilute infusion with saline solution for eye rinse. |
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Insect Bites/Rashes *
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- Flowers: Small, white, on slender pedicels from leaf axils, also in terminal dusters. Calyx (usually) of 5 sepals, much longer than the 5 (usually) 2-parted petals; 2-10 stamens; 3 or 4 styles.
- Stem: Weak, branched, tufted, leafy, 4 to 6 in. long, a hairy fringe on one side.
- Leaves: Opposite, actually oval, lower ones petioled, upper ones seated on stem.
- Preferred Habitat: Moist, shady soil; woods; meadows. Flowering Season—Throughout the year.
- Distribution: Almost universal.
What is the secret of the insignificant little plant's triumphal progress? Like most immigrants that have undergone ages of selective struggle in the Old World, it successfully competes with our native blossoms by readily adjusting itself to new conditions filling places unoccupied, and chiefly by prolonging its season of bloom beyond theirs, to get relief from the pressure of competition for insect trade in the busy season. Except during the most cruel frosts, there is scarcely a day in the year when we may not find the little star-like chick-weed flowers. Netje Blanchan. Wild Flowers worth Knowing (1917)
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 It is a fine soft pleasing herb under the dominion of the Moon. The herb bruised or the juice applied with cloths or sponges dipped therin to the region of the liver, and as they dry to have it fresh applied, doth wonderfully temparate the heat of the liver. Nicholas Culpeper |
 Chickweed water is an old wives remedy for obesity. | |
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