North America’s Top Healing Plants

Sevelx | November 23, 2015 | Medicinal Plants

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In North America, we’re surrounded by a pharmacy of medicinal plants growing in nature.

What follows is a list of the most commonly found medicinal plants and what they do to relieve or cure illness or assist in first aid and healing.

Plant medicine can play a rich component in survival.

North America has an abundance of medicinal plants

Several medicinal plants grow throughout various eco-systems in North America. Even if you live in the middle of the city, there is medicine growing in the park down the street from you and in the cracks of the sidewalk in front of your house.

At any of my herbology and survival classes that are run across several weekends, students inevitably come back after the first weekend and say something like, “I can’t mow my lawn anymore because there’s so much medicine in it.” The key is knowing what to look for, where to look and how to use it.

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Medicinal Plants for Water-Borne and other infectious diseases of the Gut

There are some very effective medicinal plants for dysentery and infectious diseases of the gut, throughout all of North America. Any of what is known as the “Berberis” genus plants, in the Berberidaceae family are invaluable for this kind of infection.

These plants all contain several helpful constituents, one of which is what they are named for – Berberine. There are hundreds of species in this genus.

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Medicinal Plants for Soft Tissue Injuries (Lacerations, Broken Bones, Dislocations, etc.)

Some of the plants that grow throughout the USA and are very useful for different types of soft tissue injuries are: 5) Plantain (Plantago spp.). This is not the type of banana, but a very common “weed” for most people. This plant can be identified easily by looking at the back of a leaf. Doing so will reveal that it has parallel veins up the back. One central vein up the center and 2 or 3 or 4 more parallel veins up each side (making it always an odd number of total veins).

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Medicinal Plants for Colds and Flu

A flu epidemic in a post-disaster scenario can be devastating. Flu has killed millions of people in past epidemics, and remember that in a post-disaster situation with less hygiene and nutrition, everything regarding sickness will be much worse. Plus if you are so crippled from a debilitating flu that you can’t move to find food or water or defend yourself, you are going to have other problems.

So finding medicinal plants to help your body build its immune reaction and respond to a flu-like virus (this also includes viruses like the one that causes dengue fever), is not just a matter of making yourself feel better. It could mean the difference between life or death.

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Cold, Flu or Upper Respiratory Infection? Take care of the Mucosa!

If there are respiratory issues – such as a cough, sore throat, sinus infection, etc., you want to take care of these things as quickly as possible. The reason is that when the mucosa is under attack and is not supported, it immediately creates weakened tissue that is prone to more infection. This is why commonly a bad cold or flu becomes a bacterial infection. Not only is the immune system weakened throughout the body, but the specific part of the tissue (as in the case of a sore throat) is weakened the same as if you had an abrasion on your arm from a bike wreck and didn’t take care of it, resulting in it becoming infected.

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