Stomach (nausea/vomiting)

Soothe and upset stomach with Rhubarb tea with 1/2 teaspoon baking soda added to it.

Diarrhea

Boil the bark of a blackberry root and strain. Use this juice to cook rice and serve with a lot of cinnamon and nutmeg. This will cure diarrhea.

Nausea/Vomiting

For nausea and vomiting, mix a cup of strong slippery elm bark tea with 2 tablespoons of honey, 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon and 1/4 teaspoon ginger. Take in small sips until you feel better.

Diarrhea

For diarrhea, dig up some yellow root, boil and drink this. You can also make a tea from red oak bark and/or wild peppermint and drink.

Lemon Balm

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

Lemon Balm

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

Mullein

Mullein:

The best use I have found for this herb, and there are many….
If you have a stomach virus….

Get a handful of flowers from mullein and STEEP them in 2 cups of hot water, strain this and drink one entire cup. This will almost immediately ease stomach cramps.

These flowers make a good sedative for the nervous system and also will ease pain.

Breathe in the vapors of tea made with fresh leaves for congestion.

Elderberry

Elderberry:

Dry the berries and add one half cupful to two cups of hot water and SIMMER for 10 minutes. This helps with diarrhea from a stomach virus if you drink one half cup, cold, twice a day.

Catnip

CATNIP:

Tea dosages:

Fever: One cup of strong tea made by steeping dried leaves for 20 minutes in hot water

Pain: Steep green leaves in hot water 7-12 minutes

Stomach Cramps: double the dose of the herb in one cup of water and simmer, not steep, for 15 minutes

Relaxation: Use the small, tiny leaves just below the flower head, right before it flowers. Dry them in a cool, dry place then steep the leaves for 20 minutes.