Bulk Herbs: Chickweed herb - cut

Excerpts from The How to Herb Book

Demulcent, Expectorant, Laxative

• An edible plant, can be used as a vegetable and in green drinks. Rich in Vitamin C and in minerals, especially calcium, magnesium, and potassium.
• Contact healer both internally and externally; thus it helps with pain as it heals.
• Used in poultices, ointments and lip balms. Decreases pain and swelling.
• Tea can be used as an acne wash. Specifically used for skin diseases. Very soothing and healing. Can be used in a bath for sores and rashes. Used for boils and burns.
• Strengthens the stomach and bowels and has been used to stop bleeding of the stomach, bowels and lungs.
• An appetite depressant. Used in many weight loss combinations. Extra Chickweed can be added to weight loss combinations for more weight loss.
• Good blood purifier, taken internally for blood poisoning. Helps carry out toxins.
• Dissolves plaque in blood vessels.
• Dissolves fatty substances, including fatty tumors and removes them from the body.
• Has an anti-cancer agent.

Has been used in the following:

Acne	Allergies
Appetite Depressant	Blood Poisoning
Blood Purifier	Boils
Bowels	Burns
Cancer	Fatty Tumors
Hayfever	Hemorrhoids-bleeding
Obesity	Plague, blood vessels
Psoriasis	Skin
Sores	Weight Loss
Wounds

Excerpts from Nutritional Herbology

Chickweed is one of the most common weeds in the world, native to all temperate regions of the world.

Chickweed is so common because it blooms as early as March and continues blooming throughout the summer. Its seeds are also easily scattered by the wind. Chickweed pollen is a common cause of allergies in the spring, yet the air dried herb very seldom provokes an allergic reaction.

It is a mild herb that is very nutritious, providing large amounts of protein and minerals. The fresh tops are delicious boiled or as greens in a salad.

Chickweed is largely ignored by early herbalists because of its mild action and availability. Its most popular use is as a poultice on external abscesses and rashes, where it removes the heat of infection, draws poisons and weakens infections.

Internally it has been used as a diuretic, eyewash and as an expectorant in throat lozenges.

The most famous folk use of chickweed is an old wives’ remedy for obesity. This is probably due to the diuretic action of chickweed.

The saponins in chickweed are poorly absorbed through the intestinal walls, but apparently increase the permeability of the mucous membranes sufficiently to produce expectorant effects on the throat and increase the absorption of nutrients, especially minerals, from the digestive tract.

Chickweed is also a mild diuretic, but the effect is only temporary as the body produces cholesterin to neutralize this effect after about a week.

Externally the saponins of chickweed help solubilize toxins in abscesses and rashes and help increase the effectiveness of bactericides by increasing the permeability of bacterial cell walls.

Chickweed herb contains mucilaginous compounds that absorb toxins from the bowel, soothe inflamed tissues, give bulk to the stool and increase the flow of urine. These compounds also decrease the thickness while increasing the production of mucosal fluids. Chickweed has been used to treat rheumatism, arthritis, inflammatory skin conditions and obesity.

Chickweed is high or very high in:

Aluminum	Calcium
Cobalt	Iron
Magnesium	Manganese
Phosphorus	Potassium
Protein	Silicon
Vitamin A	Zinc

Peg
January 20, 2011 at 12:40 pm    reply?

Just a quick note...Chickweed is also great for HOT FLASHES AND NIGHT SWEATS!!! Plus, I love how it decreases my appetite. I'm living proof...56 years old and size 4!

Agnes Liew
April 12, 2011 at 10:53 am    reply?

Hi..I need this product. Where can buy it? Im from Malaysia. Now my shoulder have 1 fatty lipomas i need chickweed to eliminate it from my body.

Thank you.