6 Herbs for Pain Relief ~ Self Reliance Herbal Remedies

Hey everyone! Welcome to Homestead Corner. I'm Jenny and today I have got six herbs for pain relief. Learning herbal remedies for self-reliance skills is so so important. Lots of times in the last couple years we have seen tons and tons of drug shortages. There is like always over 200 drugs that are on shortage. So it makes it difficult for people to get hold of. I know some of my prescription medicine. I only have one but when I go and get it, it isn't always the same one. It's whatever they can get at the moment and a bunch of them have just we cannot get them. So I think it's very important to make sure we've got those skills with herbal medicine and remedies so we can take care of things ourselves at home whenever possible. So today I thought we would go over just six herbs that we use for pain relief. Different types of things. We use them in a bunch of different ways and I think they are wonderful to have and have available and most of these things are really easy to access. You can grow them or forage for them. So the first thing on my list is feverfew. We love feverfew because it is absolutely excellent for headaches, muscle pain, inflammation. When you bring that inflammation down it helps so you're not in so much pain with everything else. So feverfew is definitely one of them and this is a tincture that we made. You can see the little flowers in there. I just use the flower heads for my tinctures but we grow this in our garden so it really doesn't cost anything. Once you get that plan established it comes back year after year and it's amazing and you can mix your feverfew with a bunch of different herbs. So depending on what you're going for for pain relief you may mix it with something else to help strengthen it or help it go in a different way for pain relief. So feverfew is definitely right at the top of my list. The second herb on my list is rosemary. Rosemary is amazing for headaches. The compounds in rosemary help bring more oxygen to the brain and we love to use rosemary for headaches, things like that. It is absolutely excellent and it really is great. Here I've got rosemary in with lion's mane mushroom in another tincture that is brewing which is for focus to help your brain be able to focus. Sometimes it gets really difficult. I know I've got so much going on in my head a lot of times I can't focus on anything. So this is a tincture that I love to have and it's really easy. Tinctures are super simple and easy to put together and I'll do a video on those definitely to show you how I put tinctures together and show you a couple different kinds how to get them ready to use them. But rosemary is definitely something you should have in your herbal cabinet. Number three on my list is white willow bark. White willow bark is absolutely wonderful. The original aspirin was derived from white willow and it works really really well as a pain reliever and you can mix it with a ton of different herbs and what you want to go for is the inside of the bark. So if you have a willow tree and you want to get that bark you want to when you peel that bark back the inside is the part you want not that tough exterior bark. You want that inside stuff that's wet and soft and you just dry it out cut it up and you have got white willow to add to any of your medicines which is wonderful. Number four on my list is clove. Clove is amazing for tooth pain. We keep clove essential oil in the house whole cloves if you don't have whole if you don't have clove essential oil you can use whole cloves just crush them up and you can pack it around any tooth that has a problem and it really helps with tooth aches when you have that it's an instant pain reliever. It works extremely well we've been using it for years and years we always keep it in the house and clove is just wonderful. It's got a bunch of other uses but it can definitely be a wonderful thing to have for tooth pain relief. Number five on my list is cayenne pepper. Cayenne pepper is amazing a lot of salves you get handmade salves you're going to see that cayenne pepper is in there and it adds that heat so if you've got pulled muscles sore muscles anything like that making a cayenne pepper salve can really help it gives you that little bit of heat in there you can feel it working. We just love cayenne again it's got multiple uses for it but pain relief is one of the ones that we use a lot of. And number six on my list is wild lettuce or prickly lettuce or some people call it opium lettuce. It has got wild lettuce is absolutely amazing for pain relief it's they have used it in past for centuries they've used wild lettuce and to help with different things they call it you know natural morphine things like that you can make a tincture with it you can make oils with it you can do teas there's so many different things and when you break one of those wild lettuce leaves you're gonna see like a white milky substance almost like a milkweed it kind of looks like inside and that's the medicine inside there so that white stuff inside is what you're looking for. If you see a plant that looks like wild lettuce and you're not 100 percent sure you break those leaves and if those thick part of the stem in there is not white and milky then that is not wild lettuce you want the that white milky stuff in there and this is something that we forage for you can find it all over the place lots and lots of all over the country I believe it grows as a weed and they may call it invasive but those invasive weeds that the government tells you should be killed and taken out look at the medical medicinal properties of those you can make remedies with them and a lot of them are extremely medicinal and wonderful. And that is it for my six herbs that we love to use for pain relief they can be used in a multitude of different ways I'm going to be going over more of how to make medicine in the next couple of weeks I think it is one of the things that everybody should have these skills are so important in an all-out collapse or major disaster herbs may be all you can get your hands on and if you know how to use them you can save you and your family members herbs are definitely a must in our home and that's it for today I hope you enjoyed this video and I hope to see you next time bye