What did my daughter Justine and I discovered while working with the three different burdocks; the wild ones that we harvested beside the road, the weedy ones that we are growing in my garden, and the cultivated ones that we went out and bought from the store?
We saw that there was far more of a special starch that's found in burdock root called Inulin in the wild one than there was in either the wild ones that we had grown in my garden and the ones that we bought from the store.
Inulin has a lot of uses in the body. It's a very helpful compound. So it maybe worth that effort to dig up those wild burdock roots, but if you don't want to go to that effort, then you can use the ones that you buy from the health food store.
Simply chop up the burdock, fill a jar with your raw burdock root, and then pour pasteurized apple cider vinegar over your burdock root or use 100 proof vodka, and pour it that over your burdock root. You'll make a burdock vinegar with a burdock tincture.
The burdock vinegar is wonderful on salmons or beans, and the pieces of burdock root can be eaten right out of it, they are like pickled burdock root. The burdock root tincture is used as a slow healer to help the skin and the digestion.
Pick up my green book, Wise Woman Herbal, Healing Wise to learn lots more about burdock. This is Susun Weed wishing you green blessings!
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