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Here is the information I received about wild lettuce on the foraging list:

yes, you can eat wild lettuce. There are two kinds, smooth

(under the leaves) and prickly. The smooth is the choice for eating.

I use the leaves dried mostly for medicine though. The leaves contain

a white laytex type sap something like what you will find when you

break a dandelion leaf. This sap in the lettuce leaf contains minute

amounts of lettuce opium that is good for pain.

I have a friend who had kemo therapy so many times that whenever he

turned over in his bed, he would break a foot bone. I sent him some

dried wild lettuce, catnip leaf and passion flower leaf mix and asked

him to try it for his pain. He notified me that for the first time in

3 years, he had a good nights sleep. This is also attributed to the

passionflower leaf and catnip you must realize too.

Right now in my yard there is a 12' wild lettuce plant that I am

letting go to seed. I have many more around here that are encouraged

to grow. As for passionflower, It is hard to walk through the

property and not step on some around the back door or the shed area.

It is thick and growing. I use the passion flower fruit for jelly

also.

Ok, enough ramble.

Manyfeathers

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Suzi wrote:

>Many Feathers,

>Ok, I've been wanting to find this and tincture it to have for pain...

>How do you do yours... do you use fresh or dried and does it matter...

>I want to make some up but wondering if tincturing it is the way to go?

>Suzi

>PS Just keep on rambling... I'm sure there are many of us listening.

>

Suzi this was a repost of the reply I received from Manyfeathers, on a

wild foraging list I am on. I'll relay the question.

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Suzi wrote:

Many Feathers,

Ok, I've been wanting to find this and tincture it to have for pain...

How do you do yours... do you use fresh or dried and does it matter...

I want to make some up but wondering if tincturing it is the way to go?

Suzi

PS Just keep on rambling... I'm sure there are many of us listening.

Ok Suzi, this is what Manyfeathers had to say:

To tincture or not tincture, that is the question huh?

Although I prefer using vinegar to tincture my plants and the

tincture is used in my salads or in a glass of water, some plants

just don't like being tinctured with vinegar, they prefer alchol.

Wild lettuce seems to be one of those alchol plants. I use my plant

matter fresh and packed tightly in the jar. If in a pinch or the

plant is not available fresh, then sometimes dry will do. Because of

the laytex type " sap " from this plant, alchol is the choice to

tincture with.

If you dry it, you can make a tea when needed or powder the leaves to

put in capsules. The normal doseage is usually 1 tsp dried plant.

Take this amount and powder it then measure. This measure is the

amount you would put in your capsule(s).

The plant will tell you what it is good for. Smooth wild lettuce is

good for smooth muscle pain. Prickly wild lettuce is good for sharp

pain. But maybe that is just an indian thing.

Hope this helps!

Manyfeathers

Oh yeah, to all the experts out there that I highly respect, please

excuse my random way of doing things, but this is how i was taught

and how I do it. I am not a scientific type woman nor am I a good

speller! LOL I mean no disrespect for your ways.

Hope this helps you out. Manyfeathers is a wealth of information.

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