(old photo of picked plantain, but I used both broad leaf and narrow-leafed plantain for the salve) I completely forgot to share our newest addition to the medicine cabinet - plantain salve. It's a homemade drawing salve. Plantain (a weed that grows wild) is what saved me when I had a very nasty spider bite years ago. I asked my husband to go outside and pick it, macerate it, and make a poultice. I used it until I found a decent doctor (which was hard to do at the time). I used 1/2 cup infused oil (used grapeseed oil to infuse it), and 2 Tbsp. of beeswax. Heat together until the beeswax is melted, pour into jars and cool completely. You can add essential oils too, but add them after you take the melted oil/beeswax off the heat. By the way, before this was made, and I needed a drawing salve, I used a mix of homemade calendula oil, some store purchased...
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