The juice from Goats Beard is good for constipation. It also helps with gall bladder function.

You can take two handfulls of the leaves, stalks, flowers and roots and clean them with cold water. Boil this in water for about 10 minutes and strain. Drink this with a little honey and it is good for bladder and kidney infections. 

You can also use this tea for cuts, scrapes, wounds to relieve pain.

Do only the roots as stated above and make a tea to drink for heartburn. This tea can also be used for kidney stones.

 Peel the roots, boil them and saute with onions. This is good for colds. 

Make a tea from the leaves and drink to treat colds, headaches, to calm stomach and relieve menstruations cramps. Place crushed leaves on wounds to enhance healing. Chew leaves and place on insect bites to relieve itching.

Mouse Cat enjoying Lemon Balm I have planted under one of the Oaks.

Bone and Joint pain: Make a mild tea by steeping the fresh (or dried) JOINED leaves of Boneset for about 30 minutes. A handful of leaves to two cups of water is sufficient.

Laxative: Make a cold tea from steeping a palmful of leaves of Boneset for 20 minutes and drink as a laxative.

Flu: Steep the Boneset leaves for 30 minutes and drink for colds, flu and fever.
You can add mint to this as well.

*use the upper, unjoined leaves for cold, flu and fever remedies. It is important to know when studying herbalism that one cannot just know this plant is good for that. One must know what part of the plant, when to remove it from the plant and how to remove it, how to prepare it and what route to present it to the body. One herb, like boneset, has many uses, making it the same way, but steeping it for different amounts of time. You don’t want to drink it for the flu and end up on the toilet because you mistakenly made the tea as a laxative!

Rattlesnake Plantain:

Make a tea with the leaves and mix with whiskey for colds and toothaches
*If you have a burn type accident when hiking, chew some of the leaves and place it on the burn, it eases the pain

Good for diarrhea, protects blood vessels, prolongs life, good for colds.

For a sore throat, put one tablespoon of black currant jam or jelly in 1 cup of boiling water and drink it.

Good for the lungs as an expectorant, bronchitis, emphysema, decongestant, dissolves blood clots, kills pain, induces euphoria.

Ten to twenty drops of red hot chili pepper sauce in 1 glass of water a day will help with all of the above and aid in curing colds.

Two teaspoons of jajapeno pepper can help the blood clot dissolvign mechanism in out body. Chili peppers can prevent heart disease and stroke.