(Fireweed)

Names

Shoshone:
Unknown

English: Fireweed

Scientific: Epilobium angustifolium

Zone

Upper Foothills

Harvest Time

• Summer
  • June, July, August
• Root any time
• Leaves and flowers any time, but especially when flowering

Primary Uses

• Cooked as food like spinach tea for general health infusion for skin infection

Secondary Uses

• Teas, food
• Delicious tea when leaves are fermented

Cautions

• None Listed

Active Principle(s)

• Quercitin, Oenothic Acid

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Notes

• Food
  • Leaves and stems are used in stews, and leaves make very nutritious teas. Before flowering stems can be used as soup thickeners
• Leaves
  • Fungal infections
    • drink as tea for internal yeast infections or use topically for toenail or diabetes fungal infections.
    • Roots: Treats skin injuries, skin cancers. Can be used as suppository for hemorrhoids.
• Allergy: Leaf tea
• Antibacterial: topical poultice and internal tea
• Anti-inflammatory: Tea
• Arthritis: Leaf tea, anti-inflammatory
• Blood Pressure: Tea increases B.P
• Burns: Poultice
• Constipation: Leaf tea
• Cough: Leaf tea as throat medicine
• Fungicide: Leaf or root tea
• Healing: Poultice or tea for many symptoms
• Hemorrhoids: Root suppository combined with leaf tea
• Immune: Tea as an immune stimulant
• INfection: Leaf infusion as a wash
• Itching: leaf of root infusion poultice
• Intestinal Health: Tea
• Kidney Nephritis: Tea
• Laxative: Tea
• Pain: Leaf tea for stomach/belly pain
• Skin: Topical infusion is good for skin integrity. Internal tea source of Quercitin and nutrients for skin
• Stings: Topical and tea at some time. Reduces histamine production
• Urinary tract infection: tea is antifungal

• Roots
  • treats skin injuries, skin cancers. Can be used as a suppository for hemorrhoids

General Notes:

• anti-allergy medicine tea for runny nose, eyes, to tract fungal infections of all kinds. Hemorrhoids (use root)