The fruit from them is delicious when you make a jelly! I cooked mine down, strained it, added a little cardamom and cooked the juice down with sugar to make a lovely jelly! It helps cut mucus when you’re sick. Helps with some of the mild asthma symptoms I occasionally have.
Excellent show! Thank you. I am ab- type blood and I really like the viburnum Moschatel family; the corpus collasum is the prize! This year I will focus on elderberry, blackhaw and hobblebush. I like to cleanse my brain with chromium when I can.
I want to add two more snippets of content from my old Meyer's encyclopedia from 1878. There it is said that of the virburnum opulus root in southern Europe they make bird lime and in siberia they make a psychodelic beverage. Today i dug out a piece of root and will try that lime-thing. I will report of the outcome. Doe's anybody know something about lime or beverage? Which substance is in the roots? Any recipes?
Are there any toxic viburnum look-a-likes to be aware of? Is there an ideal time or method for harvesting? I plan to tincture cramp bark for the first time this summer. If you have ever time to make a full cramp bark tincture video, it would be enormously helpful to me and the women in my life. :)
My grandpa told me the story about a toothache he had when young, it even swelled his jaw up, he said a man went into the woods and came back with three different kinds of tree bark and boiled them, he swished it around in his mouth, his mouth went numb and all the pain and swelling went down. Do you have any idea which barks he used? Grandpa didn't know, we're from Appalachia. Thanks, if anyone would know, it would be you.
