Leda Lum's Apotheca and today I want to talk about chickweed and how its helping people
with fat loss and dissolving cysts in any part of your body but in your ovaries and
your breasts and also how it can help you with inflammation and your skin.
Ok you guys so chickweed which I just finished a tincture of and im gonna get some dried
chickweed from Mountain Rose Herbs along with some other herbs and im gonna make an infusion
of, and just for health benefits and dissolving and detoxifying fat out of your body and also
other weird stuff like cysts.
Its a great herb, its really neat.
You can put it in salads, you can make herbal salves out of it.
You can put it as a poultice to remove splinters.
thats very interesting.
you can put like a little of the juice of it, you can juice it to ingest it.
But if you put the juice or the tincture or just a little poultice like with a bandaid
on a splintter, it will actually extract, because its astringent, the splinter out of
your skin.
Isnt that interesting?
There are a lot of uses of it, its great for many different things.
The most interesting Ive found was how its dissolved peoples Polly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome
cysts.
By taking the tincture or the tea or the infusion, they are, they find with an ultra sound they
dont have any cysts.
But its also helping with people dissolving fats and helping with weight loss.
Let me explain that.
Apparently there has been some, there is a study in 2012 where it helps, it may, so its
a little ambiguous, prevent fat from being absorbed and also carbohydrates i guess in
um.. your intestines?
Im not sure how it does that but also helps, its a diuretic.
A light diuretic so it helps you flush water deposits that are stored.
It also helps as an appetite suppressant.
So it would be a good idea to try it if your trying to loose weight and flush your system,
to try an herbal infusion.
Four quarts to Four Ounces of herbs.
So thats kind of a lot, so its very rich.
Im going to make an infusion with a bunch of different herbs, which we will talk about
eventually.
Red clover, nettles, red raspberry, cleavers, oakstraw, violet leaf and linden.
Alternating and also Chickweed.
So you put the herbs in, 4 oz to 4 qts.
And then you pour hot water over it and let it steep, let it sit there, over night.
So your not necessarily cooking.
Its a different sort of extraction from the herbs.
And then your drink that all day.
Its like your tea, You chill it and its your refreshing drink.
So any way lets get back to chickweed.
Alright so its a lymph cleanser, it cleanses your lymph.
They were studying a certain component in it called coumerin, coumerin not cumin.
coumerin that is helpful for asthma and other lymph diseases.
So they are trying to figure out a way to make it into a pill.
Interesting.
Its a great skin cleanser.
It helps clean out your body generally.
But if its cleaning your lymph and working with the deposits and flushing them out, its
definitely great.
It cleans your blood thats how its great for your skin.
Its a great cleanser.
The saponins, the saponins, these are the components within chickweed that are particularly
medicinal.
Rutin, Triterpenoid.
OMG how do you pronounce that.
Triterpenoid saponins.
those are the main ones that are, and the coumerin, with in the chickweed that are so
medicinal.
And they are studying what they do.
So the saponins are kind of like a scrubber, they are like a soapy kind of substance that
helps dissolve these substances out of your body, the excess cysts or whatevers happening.
Its very interesting how its been helping women with ovarian cycsts and there is a lot
of people saying how its helped them with weight loss.
So i think you should invest in a tea or a tincture if you have any of those issues darlings.
Blood cleanser, inflammation of the joints its very helpful with.
It has anti viral properties.
2012 study was researching how it can help with hepatitis B. It cleanses the kidneys.
Its particularly helpful for the lungs, an expectorant for mucous.
Its great because its anti inflammatory and it cleans the lungs, for bronchitis.
Its a light laxative, a light and gentle laxative which is very interesting.
So if you eat a lot of it, be ware.
But I guess thats just part of its cleansing activities.
It very nutrient rich.
Its got a lot of vitamins and minerals and trace minerals with in it.
Some of which are: GLA, gamma linoleic acid, vitamin C, Oleic acid, beta carotene.
And some of the minerals: Iron, niacin, thiamine, zinc, selenium, potassium, and riboflavin.
So its very nutrient rich, even just for that reason as an infusion, put it in your fridge
you can sweeten it if you want as just your refreshing drink would be a great idea whether
your having issues or not.
Just because of the nutrient richness of it.
Its particularly great for itchy sort of inflammation skin issues.
A lot of people make salves out of it.
So its found commonly growing.
It likes low, it likes shade it likes moisture.
So its probably not growing a lot in LA.
Im going to give you a picture of it so you can identify it.
Because its great for salad greens, you can blend it up in your smoothies if it just happens
to be growing around.
If you planted it, its definitely is prolific and it takes over.
Its roots structure will have like one root and many branches.
So its low to the ground, branching out plant.
The stems, they um..
theres little hairs, thats one way you can identify them.
Theres little hairs.
One characteristic detail, the chickweed stem is the direction of the hair.
If you examine the stocks hair, you'll notice that the direction of the hairs change position
at each node.
The node is where the stem attaches to the branch.
The node is the knot like location where the leaves extend out of the stock.
So they switch directions.
Like that.
The flower, they have like a little white flower with five, sort of double...
Ill just show you a picture.
The leaves are round they've got little oval, round with like a little oval..
Any way so if you just happen to have this growing around you could check along the roads
if you kind of rural, or live in Oregon or somewhere where its more lush, its probably
growing there.
So you could make your own, salads and greens, eating it fresh im sure is great.
Um..Or your own salves and stuff.
Otherwise you can order it.
Im going to send you a link to Mountain Rose Herbs which is awesome.
I love that mountain rose herbs.
And make some teas and you could also just get the tincture and drip in under your tongue.
Its used a lot also for animal, animal fead, because its so nutrient rich.
The seeds for chickens, if you have any chickens.
So I just thought that was fascinating how its been helping people with weight loss but
also dissolving cysts.
Its like an internal scrubber.
A little sudsing you up.
So lets get back to herbs darlings.
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And if you've ever had any experiences with chickweed let me know.
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