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Here are three plants you can forage for in the fall which can be used to help detoxify blood and liver. You can use these the roots of these plants to make a tea or a tincture which are used by many people to help the body remove toxins.
Common Burdock – Arctium minus
Curly Dock AKA Yellow Dock and Sour Dock – Rumex crispus
Dandelion – Taraxacum officinale
In North America there are three kinds of burdock species. Common burdock, great burdock, and woolly burdock. They are all described as alternatives and burdock root benefits include their balancing effect on the body. They are edible and medicinal and have been used to purify the blood to improve liver, kidney, and the lymphatic system to which can help improve skin conditions such as acne, eczema, psoriasis and more. They have also been used to treat things like rheumatism or pain in the muscles, joints, and connective tissue.
Curly dock, yellow dock, sour dock, or curled dock. The scientific name is Rumex crispus, and you can find it all over North America and Europe. Curly dock is an edible and medicinal plant.
Dandelion is one of the most successful plants around the world with a very wide distribution, and all parts of it are edible. Dandelion also has medicinal uses including helping to cleanse the liver and the kidneys.
*Please consume wild plants at your own risk! Consult multiple reliable sources before consuming any wild plants! This video is for information and entertainment only!*
References
Gray, Beverley. The Boreal Herbal: Wild Food and Medicine Plants of the North. Aroma Borealis Press. 2011.
Kloos, Scott. Pacific Northwest Medicinal Plants. Timber Press, Inc. 2017
MacKinnon, A. Edible and Medicinal Plants of Canada. Lone Pine Media Productions (BC) Ltd. 2014.
Parish, R.; Coupe, R.; and Lloyd, D. Plants of the Inland Northwest and Southern Interior British Columbia. BC Ministry of Forests and Lone Pine Publishing. 2018
Pojar, Jim and MacKinnon, Andy. Plants of Coastal British Columbia including Washington, Oregon & Alaska. BC Ministry of Forests and Lone Pine Publishing. 2004.
Turner, N. J. Food Plants of Interior First Peoples. Royal BC Museum. 2014
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