Spider Bite
We grow our own Herbs without pesticides and use them for medical purposes. The other day my son was cleaning out a small green house getting it ready for planting tomatoes. He saw a spider and felt the bite. Perhaps it wasn’t the very poisonous one, but any spider can scare you when he bits.
We have plantain growing in the garden, so he took some leaves and chewed them up and spread it on the bite. In the meantime, I went on the internet on my phone to find the natural cure for spider bits. It was aloe vera with turmeric. I ran inside and cut a nice size piece off the aloe plant, added turmeric powder and blended it in my small blender (called a bullet). It formed a paste and he put that on the bite. The pain went away and he didn’t have any other problem with the area.
All natural cures are not that fast and perhaps the spider didn’t have such a bad bite but I like to think it did the trick. I had some poison ivy on the side of my face so decided to try some of the paste on it. It helped some but I haven’t found a cure for poison ivy. The first year we moved to the hobby farm I got a very bad case of poison ivy and tried every natural cure that I had heard of and even the store bought cream but I still did a lot of scratching. Now I don’t get it as bad, but my granddaughter got a very bad case of poison ivy this year. We have found that natural cures take a little longer than the prescribed medicines but there is less side effects with the natural cure.
My next task in my flower garden is to pull out the poison ivy but I will wear gloves and long sleeve shirt and wash my hands afterwards. Poison ivy can be your worst enemy in the garden if you are not immune to it. Our neighbor gets a shot to help with his poison ivy. I knew of a lady that had goats and she got the poison ivy because the goats walked in it or rubbed on it. I read of a family that went camping and they carefully removed the poison ivy from the camp area and burned it in the bon fire. The smoke from the fire gave them poison ivy in their throat. So you see you must be careful with poison ivy. There are different kinds and down south we called it poison oak.
This is pictures of my Plantain and it is a broad leaf variety. Once you get a start in the herb garden it will come back every year. The bugs love it so later in the summer they eat many holes in the leaves. Perhaps they are trying to control their poison ivy also. LOL
This is pictures of the poison ivy in my flower garden it loves to climb the wall I guess that is why it is called ivy. Growing up on the farm I just remembered to stay away from those three leaf plants.
