This doesn’t have to be complicated… Wild Lettuce Tincture Making! 

Here is a great article about Wild Lettuce! feralforaging.com/how-to-identify-wild-lettuce/ Feral Foraging does a great job on sharing content!!

Tincture can last for 50 years. Experienced Great Grandma

I make syrup with the hard stalks, and powder from the softer parts and make capsules with dehydrated wild lettuce. I did transplanting when plants were very small and 90% of them did extremely well. I make 4 cups of syrup from 1 lb of fresh plant material and add a lemon extract (makes it taste better) and take a couple tablespoons for relief. I am a chronic pain patient, who has taken a variety of meds and i equate wild lettuce to Valium, where pain is dulled away, and will definitely induce sleep. I get at least 4hrs of very restful sleep when taking this. And i ONLY take it when i plan to be in bed. I suffer spinal cord nerve damage with restless leg type symptoms and it works better than any muscle relaxer than I've ever been prescribed. My dose in powder form is from 2-4 tsps.

I love when she said "It's technically a weed.". My wife chimed in...."So is my pot." 🤷🏻‍♂️😂

GOD is so GOOD! HE has provided so much for our benefit, all we need to do is acquire the knowledge!

I've been looking for it for months, and came across a neighbor that had it growing in her garden. I offered to remove it for free and scored a total of close to 30lbs for free!!!

HOW LOVING OUR GODI IS TO HAVE NON ADDICTING PAIN REMEDIES IN EVERYONE'S YARD! THANKS LADIES!!!!!!!

God gave herbs for the service of man. Great video girls.

I love seeing mother and daughter working together to make medicine 💗

From experience, as long as you don’t pull the roots, you can even cut it a couple inches up from the bottom and it will regenerate.

I have used wild lettuce in a tea form and have smoked it as well. The tea is great, it has a mild calming pain relieving effect and definitely aids as a sleep aid. After harvesting it, I tied it in a bundle and hung it upside down to keep the lactucarium in the leaves.

I just ran to the recycling bin to retrieve the A1 Sauce bottle 😅

Sweetheart, thank you. I am so fed up with the pain clinic and fighting with the insurance for the he same problems.

I like to put it under my tongue fresh just pick a leaf off and put droplets of the latex under my tongue it helps with my pain I have severe fibromyalgia.

One thing I'd like to mention ... If you are foraging, it might be better NOT to pick beside a very busy road to avoid gathering something that might have absorbed heavy metels from auto exhausts

I've been living here for 24 years and for the first time ever Wild Lettuce has shown up! I've got 4 plants growing right now on my little suburban lot. They've just now gone to seed, so I'm SURE I'll have a lot more next year! And with having arthritis it's a very welcome gift!

In my opinion... I find gloves give a false sense of safety. Wearing gloves you can't feel when your hands are disgusting... then, wearers tend to touch multiple different things without thinking. I would rather see someone wash their hands, then touch my food than to be wearing gloves, touch a door handle, cash register, cover their cough or handle money. Honestly, I would listen to comments... take everything into consideration... but, you do you. Plus... Vodka tinctures will not allow any germ pathogens to survive. You, your mom and grandmother are amazing!! Keep doing what you're doing! I'm learning a ton!!!!

I am very weary of alcohol. Thank you for talking alternatives.

I also make the wild lettuce tincture. I have never made it to sell to anyone, just for my own use/pain. Using the wild lettuce tincture, I was able to go completely cold turkey on the chemical opioids. I was up to 600mg daily and really didn't like the long term damage those pain meds can cause. Had heard about wild lettuce and when I found that we actually had it growing on our property, I figured, why not!? I was careful when I started taking the wild lettuce tincture, to see what my tolerance level was and how much I needed to take to have less pain. I loved the fact that when I'd found out how much I needed to take and how often, I did not have any withdrawal symptoms from kicking the opioid meds! It might be different for others but, I have never gotten "high" from opioid medication, regardless of how high a dose I've been on. That could be why I didn't experience any withdrawal symptoms? I don't know, I'm just happy to be off the chemical crap! What I did notice is that the strength/potency in the wild lettuce can differ from year to year, depending on many factors such as weather, rain, no rain, heat etc. etc. etc. Also if you harvest from places where you don't normally harvest, the soil quality can also affect the potency of the tincture. I'm always careful when I start using a different years batch.

Thank you ladies for demonstrating the wild lettuce tincture. I AM WILD ABOUT WILD LETTUCE. This plant and Plantain are my favourites. For 5 years I have been doing wild lettuce infused oil. This is to be used as a massage oil into muscles and joints. I went on this journey to help find a remedy that would relieve my mums rheumatoid symptoms. It has helped her at times. But over the years all 4 of my young adult kids love it. It’s the first thing they grab when there are aches and strains from work or workouts. Recently I’ve experimented with turning the infused oil into a salve. And I’ve given it to friends who have arthritic pain. They are giving very positive feedback. I also use wild lettuce as a tea combined with other herbs to disguise the flavour. Wait in interest for when you guys do the decoction and make it into a tincture.

Wild lettuce was all over my parent's property when my brother and I were children. It's a welcome sight to behold even now. I have fond memories of wild foraging with my mom. My earliest memory was three years old. I carried that tradition on with my own daughter. We received a lot of rain yesterday also. I'm in Maryland. Earlier this week, I added more goldenrod and elderberry to our property. I'll be freeze-drying a variety of herbs from our property this weekend. Transplanting should be easy; I've done the same thing with various plants on our property.

As always, it is such a joy watching momma and daughter work together and have fun during the process. GREAT information here and I have loads of wild lettuce in my garden.

Your mom is so amazing you’re very blessed baby girl and she’s so funny I love your mama!!!

For my dry leaves, I cut the whole plant and hang it on a line in my pantry. Think of how a cut flower will pull as much moisture as it can from its stem trying to stay alive. In the same way wild lettuce leaves will suck the sap out of the stalks as it dries. There is still some left if you don't have much to pick, but we literally have it growing everywhere, so the dry stalks go in my compost. I can't take an NSAIDS by mouth so wild lettuce is my miracle 😊

I transplant all my plants; I find them in the wild. 1st. Use a sharp pointed shovel. 2nd. Dig a circle around the plant as wide as its leaves, keeping the shovel at approx. a 75-degree angle. 3rd. Gently work the shovel up & down until the plant is lose. 4th. Lift the plant up using the shovel & put it in a pot, or a wheel barrel & take them to where you are going to set them. 5th. Get the plants back in the ground asap. Set them in a hole so the bottom of the plant is above ground. (Water soil first if soil is dry).

I would love to see other methods also other than the alcohol.. love your videos

I just made a wild lettuce tincture yesterday!! First one I harvested and put in 100proof vodka, so glad I did it right! Now I just wait. I am trying to help my husband with chronic pain. Can not wait to see your other videos of wild lettuce. So glad I heartway farms said they learned a lot from you, so had to check you out and glad I did. Diane Hartley

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People need to stop complaining. Especially about gloves are so many other important things in this world. I love your show. You and your mom have so much fun together. I am doing tinctures and natural medication’s and I would love that my daughter would do it, but she’s too busy or not interested.

I have made wild lettuce tea almost daily... Mine is growing in the garden just as yours is. I love it. After made if put in frig to get cold, it's not bad at all after your tastebuds become adapted... it took me about a wk of daily use of 4oz-8oz to completely get over the bitterness.... I drink it now and enjoy.... The tea is absolutely affective for pain and sleep... I can't imagine the tincture being anymore affective. I've been using it since mid spring up to now and it has given me a lot of relief and sound sleep. I bring water to almost boil. if it does boil I put a glass of cold water in it... don't want to cook the lettuce but hot water poured over it in a qt or 1/2gal mason jar to sit over nite until room temp... strain and put in frig till cold then drink as needed... I've mostly taken mine after a long day's physical work in garden, etc. Drink an 8oz glass and that's it.... I'm 78 and it keeps me almost pain free from aches and pains. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. PeaceOut

I made some wild lettuce tea and just placed the leaves in a tea ball and soaked it in very hot water for about 30 minutes and add a little honey and it was very good taste. It was relaxing, and my husband and I slept very well that night.

Absolutely love listening to you two! Makes me miss my momma! ❤

Wild lettuce is in my top 3 plants 🥰 My body doesn't like alcohol by mouth, even in small amounts, so although I make a lot a of tinctures for other uses, I don't take much more than a drop or two of a tincture orally and then only rarely. I tell people wild lettuce doesn't work as well for acute pain like a broken bone or a strained muscle as it does for chronic pain. I like a tea and my husband smokes it. I tried the tar balls once and my tummy was NOT happy.

I must confess I have watch this video 3 times now, and each time I feel like I have gained more knowledge and confidence to try this myself. I could watch you ladies all day! Last year I had wild lettuce coming up all over my garden beds and pulling them up by the roots. This year when they come up I will definitely be making a tincture and drying for tea and smoking.

I wonder what would come of mixing plantain with wild lettuce in a salve for bites, stings, cuts, scrapes, etc. Dandelion and Echinacea root might be good, too. Love your videos and your mom is such a stronghold! She's awesome!

wonderful video. Great that your mom & you work together!

I made a triple tincture. I used 190 proof vodka. Did it over 9 days. It gas really helped us with our pain.

When I am processing heavy woody lower stalks of many plants, I find slitting it lengthwise is helpful and perhaps safer than trying to cut across the diameter. I've used a wooden old clothes wringer to crush them, as well. This treatment seems to help maximize my return. You can scrape the sap off the wooden rollers if you find you are losing a lot of material. Lay some parchment paper or such under to catch all that good stuff!

🙏Thank you for sharing. I've been creating a food forest and had no idea until last spring how many wild plants I had at my fingertips. It started w/ plantain❤I love working w/ nature, not against it. I'm building a chicken coop in one garage and eyeing up another for my apothecary. My kitchen can't keep up w/ my obsession 🤦‍♀️😂

You mentioned what if we didn't have alcohol. During the recent c.v.d shut down I had lot of trouble finding alcohol. To easy my mind, I learned how to make homemade wine and distill it, so I would be able to make my tinctures. I'm such a teetotaler, it tickled my hubby to no end.

👏👏👏love the simplicity wow you talk to us❤❤

Hi Im here in Virginia and I’m excited to go out everyday I’n my yard to see what wild plant ,shrub or vine, weed ect I walk up on. 😊 Thank you for sharing your love of natural remedies with us.

Perfect timing to learn more about this herb and the benefits it offers to relieve pain. Love watching you two!

I love to watch your videos. You guy's make me laugh so hard. I had my vitamin laugh this morning with your guys. Last year was the first time that I made the thick syrup of wild lettuce and once in a while ate the young leaf. I was dealing with really, really strong migraine last year, I never suffer for headaches that strong, that is why, I started making this remedy, and it really helped me. I made also the tea wirh fresh leaves and it wasn't too bad, the good thing was that it helped me sleep, because every night I was afraid of going to sleep with those horrible headache, chills and burning sensation that I was dealing with. I fell that the plants speak to us, because there years ago, I started knowing about this plant, and did my wild crafting three years ago, brought the wild lettuce (I found three species) the first year I didn't got any big growth, and also didn't want to consume because I found them some in the roadway and some at the park, so I wanted to have new plants growing in my garden in order to consume. So last year I had plenty of new plants, the plant knew that I was gonna need her and spoke to me and I brought her home, and I was ab)e to harvest her when I needed her. My health is much much better this years due to lots of medicinal plants that I grow and consume. I no longer need to take any medicne tha t I was taking last year, about 10 types of medicine that every time I go to the hospital I get new preacriprion, Drs. Didn't even know for sure what was My health problem, so they just kept giving medicine and when they didn't work, they prescibe difeerent ones, one of the medineI was told by my Dr. That I have to take it for 10 years, I even stopped taking that one because I did my research and find out that, taking that medine for a long period of time, It could cause a hearth attack. I found out that I didn't need that medicine, because its been almost a year that I stopped taking it and I feel great, and my blood work it's perfect.

Today i have 10 trays of wild lettuce drying outside, freeze dryer full and dehydrator full. The harvest this year is off the charts.

I just love watching you both.....Knowledge AND entertainment. Thank you for helping us stop or slow down on the synthetic drugs. GOD bless

You can make your own STRONG VINEGAR and substitute that for alcohol. Not as good but better than water or oil. Also. Most sites say don’t bother with stems so I processed just the stems separate and got a substantial amount of extract that was just as potent as the leaves. So don’t throw away the stems. I do like processing stems separate. Easier to get the leaves strained. Then deal with stems separate.

Excellent video! That was the most enjoyable and simply explained presentation I've seen of extracting lettuce. You both are so adorable. What a privilege to see mother and adult daughter working together! It's enviable. 😊

I have seen wild lettuce in every state I have lived in. I had no idea it had pain reliving properties. I will most certainly be trying this method.

I saw a guy on RU-vid do it in a crockpot initially so it doesn’t come to a boil. He was cooking it down to a tar texture

I have successfully transplanted lots of lactuca. It's easy to grow both in the ground and in pots. Just keep it watered.

I love that you let it be washed in the rain. So perfect.

I always learn something new... can you believe it that I bought wild lettuce seeds but it seemed that my garden was already full of it...

Wild lettuce is very easy to transplant. I pulled some by a restaurant and transplanted it in a tube. It's doing great!

I'm pretty sure all of the wild lettuce on my property is Florida Blue. It has beautiful tiny blue flowers on it, but it does produce the latex. 🤷‍♀️ I love to hear you and your mom bantering back and forth. It reminds me of me and my mom, who has been gone 24 years. Miss her.

Kaylee is beautiful, 💓 will always watch you🤗🤗🤗

One of the things that I add into my herb teas is that I dried blue berries and when I make a cup of herbal tea I add a few dried blueberries to get a better taste, but most of the times I love my tea plain, bitter and earthy taste like one if my favorite is dandellion tea leaves or root tea. This year I will harvest some edible flowers dried them and use them for my tea blends.

When I made my tincture, I didn't have a blender or food processor, but I didn't have one of those wand things and it turned those leaves into a puree so fast and my tincture was like super strong. I also used everclear for my medium so all soluble latex was brought out. I ended up with 1 1/2 gallon of just liquid and my friend fed the mash to his chickens. Nothing wasted.

I love it when you're both together!!😂 You're just so cute together!! So glad Mom is here!

Your mom is so cool and wise stay blessed this is a worthy channel

Thank you so much!!! I love watching your recipe videos.

I really need to learn to identify these wild plants and be confident in knowing them, because I'm always afraid to pick something that is going to hurt my family. You ladies are so very helpful and knowledgeable. Thank you

I’m so glad I found your videos, you have rejuvenated my interest in herbal remedies. I have a lot of natural resources on my property and wild lettuce I have in abundance. Thanks for sharing you knowledge with all of us. I have my tincture of wild lettuce now started 😊. You ladies are fun to watch with your absolutely natural personalities. Please continue sharing because you’re making a community of smarter and better informed like minded people. Thanks again

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I’ve transplanted a 5 ft tall plant. It died back some but within a month was just fine.

I love you guys together. Keep it up. I’m learning so much from you.

Wild women! I appriciate you!

The lettuce is a wonderful medicine 💊 one of my favorite 😍

Recipe for wild lettuce tea. Half cup of extract Half cup of honey 1-2 cups of brown sugar In a gallon or larger pot. Bring almost to a boil (When you see the bubbles) Stir frequently Reduce temp to 7:00 on your dial low/med for five mins. Cool to room temp Put in teajar put in fridge A quarter to half cup a day keeps you feeling great. 😊 Two year of making tea. Also found out last night that extract can be used in your heated vegetable and rice plate. No pain all day.

Just love the two of you, your videos are so fun and informative! I just found wild lettuce and now I know what I can do with it!

About transplanting this, an April hail storm damaged my mower and my lawn became a wildflower meadow before it was repaired. I noticed some wild lettuce springing up in 3 places and didn't want to lose it to the mower so I dug them up and stuck in 4" pots. They looked sad for a day or two but they quickly recovered in a shady spot and have now doubled in size. I'm not sure where I will place them but I am glad to have them as I've never seen it in my yard before and want to try tincturing it. I am in now in the midst of an Arkansas summer with heat up to 100 degrees already some days but they seem to be okay in pots, though not nearly as large as some I spotted in my nephew's yard.

I am in my first year of doing wild lettuce. I have a neighbor who also has lots of plant's. We have burn piles for our trimmings from our trees and Bushes. And we both have a great amount of lettuce growing up in the ashes. Without any planting . It is just a thing of nature the ashes seems to be a great environment..

This is great! The 2 of you together as a mother-and-daughter team is fun to watch 😂 My son and I do our channel together as a father-and-son team, and we actually just did our first tincture episode a couple of weeks ago, making a ghost pipe tincture, which is also for pain. I gave a subscribe to your channel in support, and I look forward to seeing more 👍

Sunlight, standard fluorescent lights, even stronger incandescent lights can cause degradation of not just your tinks, but your herbs and spices and seasonings. Amber is best but also dark green works fairly well.

Being new to this amazing plant [weed] I added it to ACV [after eight weeks] and took a half nip [at night] like you would take ACV and sparkling water, ordinarily. Then another way was, I chopped the leaves and added them to my stews, and a savoury mince. I live on my own so had no worries about someone having a reaction to it which I doubt that at all! That was about six months ago, now I am patiently waiting for more to grow. Pain med a big tick, and sleep, another big tick. Almost back to sleeping like a teenager lol

You both are a joy to watch! I just love listening to what you have to offer those of us who are trying to learn more!

Tea made with wild lettuce and mullein is great for respiratory problems. Can also be made into a smoking blend.

Thank you for sharing your life, family and knowledge with all of us. Your life is beautiful and peaceful. And full of good times with many laughs. I'm sure your outakes include hours of cackling til you pee your pants. 😂 Keep up the great work, friends. Many out here idealize the same but don't have a channel.

I started to watch your video and I said to my self "I know where there is a plant like that" a nursing home closed about 4 month ago. Sure enough I found some that was large and a few that where small. I had to break the lg ones of at the stem. The small ones came out with the roots intact. As I looked around there where more and more. Thank you for this video. I am subscribing.

Excited to try a tincture for the first time, waiting on them to be ready. I've done the liquid and the tar before and my wice hates that I have the kitchen tied up for a whole day, and I don't enjoy having to keep my eye on the stovetop making sure my liquid doesn't boil.😂

Love watching you and your mom working together!

Love the joy in all this good info.

I love watching you two work together in your shop. So much great information and the laughs!!! Thank you for brightening my morning! I think I have wild lettuce I’ll have to go look it very close.

Another great video , and learned so much , I have some in vodka , but will be taking it out and blending it more now again . Thank you

SO excited!! Watched your video and then realized we had some right here on our back patio. Determined stuff was poking thru between a block wall and concrete slab. 😳❤️ Rewatching the video again to make sure I do everything right. THANK YOU!!!!🎉🎉🎉

For cutting the stocks, are used some of the curved pruning shears, one-handed pruning shears and cut it into three-quarter inch lengths

My approach to harvesting is to just top the plants and then come back a few hours later and collect just the dried latex cap. It adds up with a bit of persistence. It can then be dissolved into the alcohol to what ever Desired concentration.

Your mum is a hoot. 😊

You guys are just adorable! It's refreshing to see that you're not afraid to admit and talk about how stuff goes wrong!

I really like your videos! Please, keep up the good work you are doing!

Awesome, thanks Ladies for Paying it Forward ❤

Btw rose snips work great for cutting up the stalk. Or in my case metal snips 😂

I love your Mom’s sense of humour😊😂

Good one Kaylee and Mama!! Thank you!

Perfect timing thank you!

that last shot looks like the stuff that is growing in my flower beds. now i wonder if mother nature is trying to help me with my pain levels... as this is the first time i have seen it grow in my yard... and we have been there for over 30 yrs

I am also processing chickens this weekend. WE are only doing 50 this year. Thank you for another wonderful video ladies :)

Excited to see the other methods to use this weed. I always heve allot growning. I will start tincture tomorrow. Thank you!

Thank you very much for this helpful video, ladies!

I recently discovered your channel and I love you guys. I watched this in the morning and when I went out to do garden work later in the day I was able to identify wild lettuce in my yard! I was so amazed at the timing of your video and my discovery. I probably would've mowed it over if not for you. I dug them up and am hoping they take to their new home in my herb garden. Keep doing all the good things!