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Lech-Zürs - through forest and meadow

looking for and collecting medicinal herbs rediscover the forest on our educational trail

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caraway carum carvi<br />

Use: Tea (made from the seeds), 2 cups per day.<br />

Effect: Helps with digestive problems.<br />

Note: Careful! Only collect the plants if you a certain<br />

you can identify them. There are few extremely<br />

poisonous types amongst the umbellates to<br />

which the plant belongs.<br />

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woolly mullein verbascum thapsiforne<br />

Use: Tea (made from the flowers (pharmacy or herb<br />

stockist)), 2 – 3 cups per day. Effect: Excellent for dry,<br />

hacking cough. The effect increases if Ribwort Plantain<br />

<strong>and</strong> Coltsfoot leaves are added in equal measure. This<br />

mixture has also proven very effective for bronchitis.<br />

white bedstraw galium mollugo<br />

yellow bedstraw galium verum<br />

Use: Tea (made from the whole herb), 2 – 3 cups<br />

per day – pressed juice. Effect: Both types of Bedstraw<br />

are excellent against all types of kidney complaint.<br />

The freshly pressed juice is often used to<br />

fight skin conditions such as scaliness <strong>and</strong> eczema.<br />

Now also used for bathing psoriasis.<br />

d<strong>and</strong>elion taraxacum-officinale<br />

Use: Tea (made from the root), 3 cups per day.<br />

Effect: Stimulates the kidneys <strong>and</strong> liver to increase<br />

activity <strong>and</strong> improves the general feeling of weak -<br />

ness in people. No further formation of gall stones<br />

(4-week treatment).

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