After recent blogs about cancer-causing chemicals and toxins, it is time to switch gears toward the upcoming Earth Day on April 22, 2023. Today seemed like a good day to talk about various edible medicinal plants. This blog is dedicated to the adventure, benefits, health, pioneering spirit, and survival skills gained by knowing how to eat flavorful flowers, healthy herbs, medicinal mushrooms, and wild weeds.
Our ancestors grew up with a wealth of wisdom regarding how to farm, find, and forage for a wide assortment of flowers, herbs, mushrooms, and weeds to supplement their meals and also survive tough wars, weather, and winters. Many of these skills have been abandoned or lost over time. Fortunately, many farmers, foragers, herbalists, homesteaders, indigenous people, medicine men, native cultures, preppers, and wildcraft experts have retained the wealth of wisdom to pass the information on to future generations.
In many parts of Europe, people still go foraging for berries, herbs, mushrooms, and medicinal weeds. In many parts of Africa, Asia, Canada, Central America, and South America, people still know how to find and harvest flowers, herbs, mushrooms, and weeds to be used for food and medicine.
The passion and purpose of Morningstar NEWS are to help people with education, information, inspiration, and motivation to avoid health hazards. This information on medicinal plants can help you enjoy additional antioxidants, enzymes, flavors, immune support, and nutrition. If you want to be happy, healthy, and in harmony, it may be beneficial and medicinal to tap into the many flavorful flowers, healthy herbs, medicinal mushrooms, and wild weeds that nature offers and our creator created for us.
Closeup of a rosehip plant. Free public domain CC0 photo.
Flavonoid Flowers
Many carotenoid and flavonoid flowers, rich with antioxidants, have been consumed for centuries to add color, flavor, medicine, nutrition, and spice.
Consider the following carotenoid and flavonoid flowers to help improve your happiness and health:
- Banana flower
- Chamomile
- Chrysanthemums
- Dandelion flowers
- Day lily
- Nasturtiums
- Pansies
- Prickly pear flower
- Red clover
- Rose & Rosehips
- Squash flowers
- White clover
Healthy Herbs
Many healthy herbs have been used for decorations, flavoring, medicinal, nutritional, and seasonings. Consider the following favorable flowers to help improve your health. Herbal supplements may also help you cleanse and detox, supporting your health and well-being.
Many healthy herbs have antibacterial, antiviral, antimicrobial, and anti-inflammatory properties:
- Basil
- Black pepper
- Cayenne
- Cilantro
- Epazote
- Garlic
- Ginger
- Mint
- Oregano
- Rosemary
- Sage
- Thyme
- Turmeric
Medicinal Mushrooms. Free public domain CC0 photo.
Medicinal Mushrooms
Many medicinal mushrooms have been used for flavoring, medicinal, and nutritional value. Consider the following medicinal mushrooms to help improve your health. Medicinal mushroom supplements may also help support your health and well-being. Many medicinal mushrooms have antibacterial, antiviral, antimicrobial, and anti-inflammatory properties
- Agaricus, also called almond mushroom and Brazil mushroom
- Chaga
- Chanterelle
- Cordyceps
- Cremini
- Enoki
- Lion’s Mane
- Maitake
- Porcini
- Portobello
- Reishi
- Shitake
- Turkey Tail
Wild Weeds
Many wild weeds have been used for food, flavoring, medicinal, and nutritional value. Consider the following wild weeds to help improve your health. Some supplements made from wild weeds may also help support your health and well-being.
Many wild weeds also have antibacterial, antiviral, antimicrobial, and anti-inflammatory properties:
- Aloe vera
- Amaranth
- Bean leaf
- Blackberries
- Burdock root
- Cactus
- Dandelion greens
- Gotu Kola
- Hemp
- Mustang grapes and leafs
- Mustard greens and seeds
- Nettles
- Pigweed
- Plantain
- Purslane
- Red clover
- Rosehips
- Seaweed
- Spirulina
- White clover
- Wild onions
“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nettle bush. Original public domain image from Flickr
Call to Action
There are many benefits and reasons to eat flavorful flowers, healthy herbs, medicinal mushrooms, and wild weeds. They can contribute to your health and well-being. This blog is a call to action to consider the wide spectrum of beneficial flowers, herbs, mushrooms, and weeds that can help enhance, protect, and support the health and well-being of you and your family.
- Resources to learn more about flavonoid flowers, healthy herbs, medicinal mushrooms, and wild weeds. Eat the Weeds is a great resource.
- Rituals to add flavonoid flowers, healthy herbs, medicinal mushrooms, and wild weeds can be centered around birthdays, Boy Scouts, camping trips, cooking classes, farmers markets, food clubs, foraging hikes, Frontier Days, health retreats, holidays, potluck dinners, Pow Wows, school projects, travel, and vacations.
- Routines will help encourage you and your family to enjoy flavorful flowers, healthy herbs, medicinal mushrooms, and wild weeds. Think of various themes that will help make flavonoid flowers, healthy herbs, medicinal mushrooms, and wild weeds a part of your routine. “Alone” on the History Channel shows about foraging, homesteading, pioneering, prepping, survival, and wilderness to inspire your sense of adventure to try new things.
Passion for People & Planet
The passion and purpose of Morningstar NEWS are to condense hundreds of hours of reading and research down to two minutes of education, information, and inspiration. This blog serves as an invitation to add flavorful flowers, healthy herbs, medicinal mushrooms, and wild weeds to your complimentary cuisine. This blog shared many new ideas and suggestions to appeal to your sense of adventure and wild side to help you enhance your health and well-being.
“Bark, flowers, herbs, mushrooms, roots, and weeds offer a wealth of wisdom from Mother Nature that has inspired many modern medicines. Why not get yours from the sacred and safe source?” —Michael Morningstar
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