Burns from fire

TALL GRASS PRAIRIE AND EASTERN DECIDUOUS FOREST

COMMON NAME: Purple Coneflower (Echinacea)

Genus and Species Name: Echinacea purpurea

Season: May through October

Habitat: Moist woods and wooded bottomlands, upland prairies, savannas, pastures, and roadsides

Use: helps fight infection, heals wounds and sores, a tea can be made for malaria, sore throat and toothache, a tincture can be made for rattlesnake bite, rope burn, burns from fire and oil, and sunburn. Applied externally for hard to heal wounds

Preparation: Use one or two teaspoons of petals or leaves dried with one cup of water. Steep in boiling water for fifteenth twenty minutes. Strain out leaves, petals or roots before drinking. For tincture, clean roots and use mortar and pestle to pound roots. Put root in jar with 1:2 ratio of alcohol. Leave for two weeks and strain with cheesecloth when ready. Can be drank straight or diluted. 

Active chemical: quercetin 

Chemical formula: C15H10O7

EASTERN DECIDUOUS FOREST

COMMON NAME: Ninebark

Genus and species name: Physocarpus opifolius

Season: May to July

Habitat: gravel bars, rocky stream banks and bluffs along streams, wooded areas

Use: roots boiled and placed on sores as poultice, lessens pain of boils and burns, anti-inflammatory

Preparation: tea from inner bark is made as a laxative and emetic 

Active Chemical: euscaphic acid

Chemical formula: C30H46O5

EASTERN DECIDUOUS FOREST AND TALL GRASS PRAIRIE

COMMON NAME: Plantain

GENUS AND SPECIES NAME: Plantago lanceolata

Habitat: mostly found in yards, fields and waste areas

Medicinal Uses: The leaves are used for a poultice as an anti-inflammatory and infection fighter, treats burns

Preparation: Chew some of the leaves at release its juices and firmly roll between thumb and fingers. Press the juicy leaves directly on the site of the bite. If necessary, tape the leaves or simply hold them. 

Active Chemical: aucubin

Formula: C15H22O9

(n.d.). Mother Earth Living: Healthy Homes, Natural Health, Green Living. Echinacea:The Art of Tincturing. Retrieved from http://www.motherearthliving.com/plant-profile/echinacea-the-art-of-tincturing.aspx?PageId=4