How to make Wild Lettuce CONCENTRATED extract

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My grandmother made this. I thought she was crazy. Her mom was a Cherokee medicine, woman in the Appalachia mountains. Wish I had listened more.

This is something that has been passed down generation to generation in our family . Here in Appalachian territory we strongly believe in living off the land and taking care of it with respect as it is the foundation of our lives and living Edit : Thank you lovlies for the likes and the love 🥰

My pawpaw taught me this. He was a wealth of knowledge about how to use plants. I'm grateful that I lived following and listening to him💜 I really miss him💜

Love your video!! Tell people that you can cut the top third of the plant, take the leaves from the bottom third, then leave the plant to regrow a new flower head (like broccoli does). Cutting the whole stem on the first go is wasting half, especially since you throw out the stem. You can come back later to harvest the whole plant. Also ALWAYS in a group of plants, leave one healthy plant to reseed and continue a healthy supply. When you come back for second harvest, take the leaves from any already seeding plant and give it a shake to distribute seed. I've propagated my wild lettuce in my yard until I have a lot, and I mow/ weedeat carefully around 1st year basal rosettes and 2nd year taller plants. ❤

Everyone hates on actual opium but in a survival situation would be a great crop to have available.

When you add the alcohol back to the sticky tar extract in the dropper bottle, you've made a TINCTURE. Tincture of Wild Lettuce.

I saw a dude picking these and putting in a bag randomly downtown and thought he was cutting grass but when I seen him taking his time and looking I’m like this dude is crazy.. years later I run into this video and I’m just shocked

Consider using a separate alcohol tincture like hops to make your liquid wild lettuce tincture. I found this to be an excellent combination for sleep

I made wild lettuce extract using the more traditional way. Starting with "a ton" of plant material, mixing with water in blender, cooking down to thicker consistency to end up with a little medicine. I kept it in the fridge for in case.... then my father-in-law had severe pain and we tried it. Worked marvelously for him! Your extraction ratio is phenomenal! Started to collect leaves now to try your method. Very well done video, thank you!

I harvested almost 2 pints of the extract of this plant last year, I disagree about using the stims of the plant it is well worth the trouble. Just use kitchen shears to cut them up into about 1or 2 inch pieces and throw them into the blender when you grind the leaves up the trick is to make sure you have enough water in it so the blender can circulate it. I used a mixture of about half and half water and 190 proof alcohol works very well. If you dehydrate it down till it is completely dry you can use capsules and take it that way. I think that you get a better extraction if you dry the plant out first. Also this is something I have figured out about this plant, if you have been on any kind of opioid and you are having withdrawal symptoms my experience is that this plant reduces the symptoms of the withdrawal, this may not be everybody's experience but I found that it worked very well for me. This isn't medical advice but I hope someone finds this helpful.

i'm a hospital pharmacist for years, but i remember studying phytochemistry a lot in college. thanks for your videos, i wanna to relearn about local medicinal plants.

Thanks for the quick, concise video. It's frustrating to sit through a 30 min video for this simple process. If you're at this stage, you probably know all the history and identification of the wild lettuce so a long, drawn out explanation isn't needed. You covered everything in a quarter of the time of other videos. Again, THANK YOU!

... I am not even a minute in and I'm already obsessed with your organization of the information in this video. Telling us when, where and then the pop up about chapters?? I know this seems random, but it's really the first thing that stood out to me after watching a ton of videos back to back trying to pull information out of any part that I could because they didn't have any of this organization and to the point information. I mean, AND this video is under 7 minutes? Please go make all the videos. Just all of them.

My mom deals with chronic pain. She’s on the legal limit of opioids and it isn’t fully effective. You’re out here saving people from opioids and opiates. You’re doing God’s work my guy.

💚Brother, your content is a true masterpiece! Being a forager with a small channel myself, I'm in awe of your skills and the passion you bring to your work. Keep forging ahead and blazing a trail for us all! 🌿

Wild lettuce grows just about everywhere and it does work.

If you dehydrate your plants in the shade then it remains green and you can process a lot more at a time. I use my deck at the perfect shade cover as it is hot south facing and shady under the deck. If you put nails on the beams then you can hang them for even more room.

Also, you can just grow p.Somniferum like thousands of other people do in their home gardens. Loads of varieties that are absolutely stunning. It’s legal and it’s easy…it’s only illegal to purposefully extract the opium. So do that when no one is watching.

this is amazing stuff. If anyone's read beatrix potter, apparently this is why peter rabbit fell asleep after eating the farmers lettuces, apparently back in the day either lettuces weren't so far removed from their soporific wild cousins- either that or the concept that lettuce made you sleepy had persisted. either or, it's an interesting link.