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Wednesday, July 7, 2010

wild harvesting arnica flowers

What a wild harvesting party!  The high meadows are loaded with the most wonderful, fragrant arnica flowers this year.  I can't wait to go back for more.

   
Part of the wild harvesting crew. Aren't they beautiful?  The flowers too.

What is arnica?  Available as ointment, tincture, or homopathically for internal, this herb is the most powerful, quick working medicine I know for inflamation, bumps, bruises, and injury pain.  Great for sprains and sore muscles.  The tincture of these flowers kept me from being reported to social services I'm sure when my daughter was young and contantly running into walls and falling down.  I should have just kept a bandage wrapped around her head, that may have helped cushion the blows.  I kept arnica gel on hand.  It almost immediately relieves the pressure, pain and swelling on location.  Not for  use in open wounds.  I will have tinctures ready and available in a few weeks.  You can't get fresher, more potent than that!

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