Earth Medicine

Can DescriptionsEIAJ 1/2 in. open reel videotape. // Fourth program in series. Philip Lebowitz speaks with Little Tree in the New Fairfield woods. Focus of the episode is on the medicinal uses of 'roadside plants.' Program is last on the topic of roadside plants. Little Tree finds various plants and describes how to identify and use them. Plants include: sumac, which can be made into a juice from the berries; wild peppermint, which can be used as a tea; milkweed, whose leaves can be fried and eaten and sap applied to warts as a wart remover; goldenrod, which can be used as a tea; mullen, which can be used as a tobacco additive or in tea; burdock, whose root can be dried and used as tea for treating breathing ailments; black nightshade, a cure for insomnia; and jimson weed, which is very toxic and a hallucinogenic. // See collection folder for more information about Little Tree.