Building an Herbal First Aid Kit

Building an Herbal First Aid Kit
A beginning list of 20 herbs, and remedies.

Tumeric or Cayenne Powder (to stop bleeding)

Rescue Remedy (for shock and anxiety)

Elecampagne Tincture (remedy for inhaled toxins)

Arnica Gel (bruising, trauma, tissue damage, painful injuries)

Rumex Crispus Oil (bruising, trauma, pain)

Burdock Leaves or Burdock Oil (for burns and scalds and hot pepper contact, open wounds). Not an antibiotic, be sure and clean wound carefully before using.

Nettle Salve (burns and scalds)

Chickweed Salve (eczema and psoriasis, rashes and injuries needing “cooling”)

Jewel Weed Salve (poison ivy)

Catnip leaf or Yarrow flower tincture or oil (insect repellent) (Yarrow also helpful externally to stop bleeding use fresh leaves)

Comfrey leaves fresh or oil (poultice for cuts, bruises, broken bones)

Flax seed (poultice for slivers, removing foreign objects)

Mint teas (soothe upset stomach)

Applesauce (fresh with peel for diahrea)

Oatmeal ground or plain (rashes, skin irritation)

Ginger root decoction (sinus, cold, sore throat)

Osha Tincture (snake bites, poison ivy)

Calendula Salve (simple cuts, rashes, ruises)

St. John’s Wort Oil (externally for herpes, nerve pain, bruising, sore muscles)

Witch Hazel (astringent, varicose veins, hemmorhoids)

Echinacea Tincture (colds, flu, immune system support)

Plantain leaf fresh, oil, frozen infusion (herpes, bug bites, minor cuts and rashes