This morning I was sitting with an uncle and we saw a bee drinking water. I told him about the bee sting treatment thread which got me thinking....
What are some other natural remedies or plants you use for various stuff.

I know elderberry is commonly used.

I heard mullein leaf is a great decongestant for sinus and lungs.

Uncle was saying dandelion was medicinal bnbit couldn't remember for what

There are substances in hundreds of plants that can remedy scores of ailments.
Way too many to list.

Aloe is in dozens if not hundreds of skin and health related products.

Bryce

Yup alone is a great moisturizer and for sunburns. Some people drink the juice.

Boco that's why I asked what "you use".

Lots of people in the Mediterranean area drink a tablespoon or 2 of olive oil daily.

Sassafras tee is good for something - can't remember what. Used to make it as a kid.

Comfrey is good for wounds, sprains and sore muscles. Horehound made into cough drops for sore throats. Echinacea for flus.

Rub the juice of a mashed up jewelweed plant on your skin if you get into poison ivy

Garlic helps fight the common cold. It also helps with social distancing. Eastern Europeans really like garlic.

Black cohosh for snake bites
Plantain leaves for minor cuts scrapes and insect bites
Yarrow is a natural coagulant... If you get a nose bleed chew on some yarrow leaves and put them in your nose, it stops very quickly.
Lots of other native weeds are not necessarily medicinal but are packed in minerals and nutrients

I make mustard plasters all the time for kids when they have a cough, and I made elderberry syrup this year for colds as well.

Thc, cbd, true grain spirits.????

And there is that stuff from Indians wife makes me take that begins with a t….turimac?

I use cedar tea-as a tonic a couple times a week-it is an immune system booster.

Turmeric is the word. I think.

Diuretic

Willow bark, inner bark, contains salicylic acid aka aspirin.

Honey is naturally antibiotic containing hydrogen peroxide plus other compounds and is good for burns.

Propolis is also antimicrobial.

sassafras is good for high blood pressure

willow bark is a lot like aspirin. can make tea with it for fevers or headaches

The resin from the bark blisters on balsam and porsilds white spruce is a powerful antiseptic Used on cuts and burns in the bush to prevent infection and promote healing.
It can be collected easily anytime and kept in small glass vials at camp.

That's basically what propolis is. Bees gather tree and plant resins to mix with beeswax to seal and stabilize the interior of the natural tree cavity they would normally call home. As such it has antimicrobial properties to prevent further wood decay.

Experiments have shown that bees will collect different resins based upon pathogen. So bees are capable of self medication.

And not just protecting the cavity either. Other studies have shown colonies with a fully developed propolis envelope within the cavity have better survival rates when exposed to bacterial bee pathogens like the foul broods than colonies without a propolis envelope.