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. 

Yucca:

The best part of the Yucca to use medicinally is the root. Pound the root into a mild soap. This is good to cleanse cuts, scrapes, etc or for washing your hair or bathing. Make a poultice of the soapy root for skin rashes, boils and poison ivy.

Violet Toothed Polypore (as seen in photo below)

Polypore’s have great medicinal value and some can be eaten as food (which I will get to at another time). For here I will discuss what they are and the medicinal value.

The Violet Toothed Polypore grows on wood, preferrably dead hardwood. They are a fungi that are decomposers and/or parasites.

This Polypore has medicinal properties of being anti-bacterial, anti-viral, anti-oxidant, anti-tumor and immune enhancing. The best way I have found to use this fungi is to make a tea. You can make a nice invigorating tea from the “shells” and drink this for all of the above mentioned needs. I have soaked these overnight in sterile water and used this water for cuts. It aids in the healing proces and keeps away those nasty bacteria that eat at your flesh and cause horrid infections.