🌿 Wild Lettuce: History, Medicinal Uses, and Identification!

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This is what I tell people. Three kinds grow in my area and work about the same. I doesn't work as well for acute pain like a broken leg, sprain or tooth ache. It does work well for long term chronic pain. Always start with small doses and work your way up, just in case it disagrees with you. I dehydrate it and make tea; seriously nasty tasting; drink fast and chase it with something. 1 teaspoon - 1 tablespoon crushed dry leaves steeped in 4 to 6 ounces steaming water; just like brewing any tea. My husband smokes it in his pipe. It burns hot and fast, so mixing 50/50 with pipe tobacco helps it not overheat your pipe. The only complaint I've heard is 'It didn't make me high'. I asked is your pain better and they said yes, but I didn't feel anything. You can concentrate it it enough to get a buzz, but it tears my stomach up. You need less and less rather than more. Not addictive and legal. Win, win.

I smoke this and have been for more than a few years now, this stuff works great for sleep and pain. Please, don't listen to these people in the comments, who say it don't work... you must find the best plant as there is many different species of the Wild Lettuce You should be looking for 4-6-foot-tall plants with yellow or purple flowers with tiny spine needles on the bottom of the stem. with dandelion looking leaves. Best time to Harvest is right before all the flowers are open, as that's when the plant is most potent. Please, don't use any leave that have any spots or have turned brown, just throw them away. If you want to use as a tea, you might want to add a dash of salt and sweeten to taste. the salt takes a lot of the bitterness out. you can use Honey, Maple syrup, or just about any sweetener you like. If I make a tea, I use the caned sweetened Kool-Aid in mine. I find it taste so much better. When I harvest plants, I hang them upside down for a day (24 hours), then dehydrate in a fan less heated Dehydrator for 3-4 days or until crisp to touch. then mash them up with a wire potato masher. and smoke in just a reg. pipe you can also use 50/50 with medical cannabis, for the same Mood boost. I am no Doctor or anything like that, I'm just user and this is how I use it. I do recommend you see a real doctor before use. as this has had some adverse or allergic reacting to some people. most people have no problems with use but just in case see your doctor first, please! The thing I like about Wild lettuce, is it helps A LOT with my pain, and you I don't get that weird feeling like in pain meds I've taken in the past before I found out about this stuff. Hope it helps you as it has helped me. Just one guy's opinion.

My wife is severely disabled in a wheelchair...she was taking maximum dosage of oxycodone. Started her on wild lettuce and in about 6 weeks weaned her off....she hasn't had any pain meds since.....that was 6 years ago.

Im an addict and in recovery for 12yrs wild lettuce l is one of the first holistic medicine ive made and everything this video claims is true im happy to say ...... i had a friend that fell from a grain train car and it was the only thing that helped for the pain

Was attacked by a ram, tore all the ligaments and tendons in my ankle and knee. I had made a tincture of wild lettuce. This was the only pain medicine I used

Whoa! I’m definitely trying this. I have arthritis in my spine, and knees, plus fibromyalgia, so in constant 24/7 chronic pain. Hemp is only thing that helps ease the pain. Thank you for this 🤙🏼🍀🌻🍁

I had a serious brain injury. The thunder clapped constantly only two things would break the cycle. Hard drugs or wild lettuce. I would take 3 leaves fresh preferred dryed with water. I would put the leaves in my cheek and chew like tobacco but shallow the spit. And before I would finish eating it I was headache free. My headaches would last about 3 weeks if I didn't break the cycle.

Milkweed also has a white latex The milk will dissolve warts. In the fall we would call them pod plants. Being curious, I would peel open the brown seed pods and see the silky seed "parachutes". I had a huge wart on my left hand. Older brother told me, dab it with milkweed several times a day. Keep doing it until the wart dissolves. It only took a few days and the wart become soft. I picked the wart off and it bled a little bit. There was sort of a depression that later healed and no more wart. Ever again. It didn't grow back. Milkweed also has other medicinal purposes, thanks for the video.

Just wanted to point out that opium poppies are legal to grow in the US. Many different seed companies sell the seeds. They're beautiful flowers. I'm not suggesting anyone get addicted to opium, though. Better to stick with wild lettuce for pain relief.

I buy the wild lettuce pills and since using it my pain is so much better wish I had know this years ago. It is nice to take something that does not make me tired or loopy. It is the best thing I ever took for pain.

I have lots of tall blue lettuce (lactuca biennis) growing in my backyard. I discovered what it was only a couple years ago when I decided to let one grow out of curiosity. Normally I would just cut them with my string trimmer. It got to around 13 feet tall before it died when winter hit. I'm in South Louisiana.

tore my Achilles back in 2020. was givin wild lettuce and i swear it helped with recovery time and and pain big time

If you can’t stand the taste you can buy empty gel tabs at most health food stores and fill them.

Growing my winter supply now. Thanks for the history and use of wild lettuce!

This year spring 2024 is a huge wild lettuce year. They are all over where I live (Oklacoma city). Yeah, I cant take strong opioid medications they really make my severe TRD way worse. I found effexor and Kratom to help the most so far. It was a hail mary desperation ordeal with the Kratom. It really is helpful.

Excellent production, and narratives! As a cautionary forgager, i look at various wild plants/weeds that are relatively low in oxalates for ingesting to reap certain benefits. To the best of my knowledge wild lettuce, is low in oxalates. Subworthy, thank you!

I make a tincture of this and it works really well with no apparent side effects.

In rome they made a soup of this lettuce for new mothers that were not producing milk for their babies.

Comfrey plant & leaf of life are both the REAL GOATs of all medicinal plants. .