Ease Those Bug Bites with Easy Herbs

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Summertime means insect bites and stings. Ouch! Take a leaf from

Susun S. Weed's storehouse of natural remedies: Soothe, heal, and

prevent bites with safe herbal remedies that grow right where you

live, north or south, east or west, city or country. The best natural

remedies for insect bites are right underfoot.

 

Plantain, also called ribwort, pig's ear, and the band-aid plant, is

a common weed of lawns, driveways, parks, and playgrounds. Identify

it by the five parallel veins running the length of each leaf.

 

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Thank you.

 

Armen

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I made an awesome tincture this spring that has been a godsend this summer with bugs. I made it originally for poison ivy and it got rid of mine within 3 days, I tried it on a bite and one spritz and no more itch. What I did was fill a jar 3/4 of the way with fresh jewelweed and 1/4 of the way with fresh plantain. I then filled the bottle with isopropyl alcohol, put it all in the blender for a few seconds and then back in the jar. I was intending to let it sit and tincture for 6 weeks, however one week after I made it I got the poison ivy and tried it and it worked. I still have the jar tincturing but keep going into it to use it, or give some away. It seems to work great.I have these little glass spray bottles and I just keep one in my possession at all times so that if anyone I know gets a bite we can stop the itch onsite.

 

Bonnie Rogers

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Hi:

 

As far as poison ivy, I had an interesting experience when young. I got poison ivy, and I was really upset and looking at it and washed it, and then I fell in the mud right in front of the plant. I got mud all over my arm. I didn't care being a kid, and anyway I wak hiking on down the trail. When I got to water again, I washed it off only to find there was nothing there. It seems that mud (maybe the mud from the plant's roots itself) took away the needles that the plant put in me. Since then I have used mud several other times on poison oak and poison ivy. It works great. But you have to put it on the entire area (don't miss any area), and you have to let it dry. It just pulls the little needles out as it dries. Works great!

 

Kay

 

 

I made an awesome tincture this spring that has been a godsend this summer with bugs. I made it originally for poison ivy and it got rid of mine within 3 days, I tried it on a bite and one spritz and no more itch. What I did was fill a jar 3/4 of the way with fresh jewelweed and 1/4 of the way with fresh plantain. I then filled the bottle with isopropyl alcohol, put it all in the blender for a few seconds and then back in the jar. I was intending to let it sit and tincture for 6 weeks, however one week after I made it I got the poison ivy and tried it and it worked. I still have the jar tincturing but keep going into it to use it, or give some away. It seems to work great.I have these little glass spray bottles and I just keep one in my possession at all times so that if anyone I know gets a bite we can stop the itch onsite.