Itch & Ouch All-Purpose Salve
Go out at any time of the year where there isn't snow and you can find Plantain. Spring brings whole swaths of yards all over the continent to be covered in Purple Dead-Nettle. Once the bees have had their fill and other blooms are providing them with food, I gather these in clean, wild areas. As for both, you can eat them, you can use them as a field poultice (chew 'em up and slap them on). These are WONDER WEEDS! Anti-inflammatory and helpful for stings and scrapes, this is the all-purpose salve that lives in every first-aid kit I have (yes, there's one for the house, one for the car, one for the camp, and one for the hike... and I'm sure if I did other things regularly, I'd have one on-hand wherever I did those things too!)
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