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Sunday, May 30, 2010

My First Creation

My mom and dad came to visit this weekend to celebrate my little girl's 3rd birthday. During their stay, my mother and I made a salve, and (surprising to me) it was unbelievablely easy.

We made a plantain salve which is good for insect bites, burns and sores, which is good because my 5 year old son constantly gets bites from blackflies and they get quite swollen, red and itchy. I placed our newly made concoction on a bite he had, only to be surprised at how quickly it began healing his insect bite (one behind his ear). It's only a touch red but not as swollen anymore. Now this could be a coincidence, so I also placed some of the salve on a cut he had on his finger, and a scratch I got on my hand from helping my husband.

We're all guinea pigs now...lets see how well our newly made "M'shkiki" (medicine) or "organic salve" works!

(Want the recipe? See here:)
http://www.altnature.com/gallery/plantain.htm

2 comments:

  1. Thanks for the link. I'll have to try that if anyone in my family gets bug bites.

    I find that I can ground and draw earth energy into myself in a way that repels mosquitos and other biting insects, and can also put that energy onto others. There's no real ritual to it for me, it's just a matter of focus and intention. But then, I would say that most ritual is merely a technique to create the sort of focus and intention necessary to link the conscious mind to the creative unconscious. I know that in doing that I am depriving the bugs of a meal, for which I beg their pardon.

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  2. I can only seem to get bees to go away by verbal command (most of the time), not mosquitos and blackflies, lol. They just don't listen to me :)

    The link provided also has a listing of other plants than Plantain, and other recipes if you would like try making other things :)

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