I started harvesting and using this last year for burning muscular pain caused by fibromyalgia. I find when used externally the effects last for up to 3 hours (for me). I've harvested and bottled it. Last year I kept it at room temperature and it turned skunky after about 3 - 4 months. This year I'm refrigerating it to see if it will maintain it's potency and not turn skunky.
@@reuben4710 Excellent! I froze some, thawed and used it after about 2 months and it worked as good as fresh. Last fall I harvested 25 ounces of the stuff. This morning I used a bit for burning pain in my lower back - this stuff is now 9 months old and has been refrigerated ... it's just as good today as it was when I first harvested it. This year I hope to harvest 40 - 50 ounces and am anxiously waiting for it to be available hopefully sometime within the next month.
@@margarettabak9521 thanks! Glad it worked. There's a 3km creek on the farm land behind my property and in July it's completely full of cattails. I'm going to try and harvest some this summer.
I heard of cattail jelly in the game CDDA (Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, I recommend it for anyone interested in video games) and wanted to know if it was real, and fascinatingly enough, now I know it is. Very cool, too bad I'm not sure if cattail grow in my country, but it's a fun fact to know nevertheless.
@@TheFloatingSheep Surprised I got a reply so late. Thanks for the info, good to know, might even try looking for cattails at some point in my free time.
Just discovered that if you dry the leaves, then soak them in water and wring out the liquid, you get way more of the slime, and you can run the leaves back under the tap countless times and you just keep on getting more and more, a handful of leaves can easily fill a bottle with slime and as a bonus you get that tea-like smell in it from the leaves, there's probably some benefit to the slime being infused with the nutrients of the leaves but, well, can't verify that just yet.
Do you harvest py by using a spool to scoop out the gel, or cut the cattail strands a d store in a container? How do you know it's not infected by the water it's growing im??? Does it matter ?
i wonder if you could harvest and jar it.. theres probably gotta be a way to do it.. youve sparked my interest, im going to try to figure out a way to store it.. that would be a great resource in a shtf scenario!
