[Herbalist] contents of traveling herbalist basket

[Sue Rogers]

On Wed, 30 May 2001 20:19:58 -0400 Gaylin Walli <iasmin at home.com> writes:
>I'd be really curious to know what you currently have in your travelling
>pharmacopea, to be honest. I think back a while ago a number of us
listed
>things that we take with us to events and regularly keep around.
>Iasmin

Well, of the things I take [which varies some by season], these are what
get used the most:

1) salve - beeswax, olive oil, castor oil, other oils, cocoa butter,
comfrey, calendula, St. John's wort, chamomile, burdock, plantain,
sassafras, etc. - good for bruises, sore muscles, cuts and scrapes, sun
burns, rashes, etc, etc

2) cough syrup - honey, lemon juice, brandy, licorice, horehound,
mullein, echinacea, red sage, pleurisy root, coltsfoot, angelica,
boneset, elder, holy thistle, marshmallow, red clover, yarrow, etc, etc -
good for coughs, colds, sore throats, laryngitis, bards and heralds that
are losing their voice.....

3) vinegar for burns and sunburns - with calendula, St. John's wort,
chamomile, etc

4) peppermint and/or ginger for upset stomach

5) sedative - English primrose (primula), cramp bark, passionflower,
scullcap, vervain, chamomile - for stress, children [and autocrats] that
won't go to sleep, etc.  sometimes helpful in spastic stomach/spastic
colon, though at home I would add other things too.

6) raspberry or blackberry leaf - for diarrhea

7) honey locust or mesquite thorns for lancing small infected places
(especially fire ant bites)

8) 10 % chlorine bleach in water with arnica flowers for fire ant bites -
the sooner applied, the better.  the chlorine counteracts the ants
poison, apparently.

9) holy thistle and feverfew - for migraine and sinus headache

Other things in my basket are more for show, like wooden spoons.  At
demos I can give kids small pinches of peppermint or licorice root, and
show off my portable mortar and pestle.  And the dragonsblood is just for
fun (or if I really need ink).  Let me know if anyone wants details of
any of the above...

Suzanna, herbalist, Barony of the Steppes, Kingdom of Ansteorra (Dallas,
TX)

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