Wayfaring Tree Viburnum lantana Medicinal Uses

By Liliana Usvat
Blog 271-365

Other Name Viburnum lantana

The Viburnum lantana is a medium to large, deciduous shrub that is native to Europe and western Asia. This multi stemmed, spreading shrub grows 10 to 15 feet high and produces a somewhat rounded outline. Its thick, green leaves are opposite, simple oval to lanceolate, and are 2 to 5 inches long with finely serrated margins and white, silky-haired undersides. Clusters of creamy white, 5 inch, flat-topped flowers canvas the shrub from May to June. Berries are green, flushed with red, then turn black in early fall, often showing all three colors at once. The fruit can be eaten either raw or cooked. Common uses of this tree include rootstock and twine.

Wayfaring Tree is covered in stunning creamy white flat-top flowers at the ends of the branches in mid spring. It has dark green foliage throughout the season. The large fuzzy pointy leaves turn an outstanding deep purple in the fall. The red fruits are held in abundance in spectacular clusters from late summer to late fall. The smooth gray bark is not particularly outstanding.

Landscape Attributes

Wayfaring Tree is a multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with a more or less rounded form. Its relatively coarse texture can be used to stand it apart from other landscape plants with finer foliage.

This is a relatively low maintenance shrub, and should only be pruned after flowering to avoid removing any of the current season's flowers. It is a good choice for attracting birds to your yard, but is not particularly attractive to deer who tend to leave it alone in favor of tastier treats. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Wayfaring Tree is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• General Garden Use
• Accent
• Hedges/Screening
• Mass Planting

Reforestation

An easily grown plant, it succeeds in most soils but is ill-adapted for poor soils and for dry situations

Propagation
Propagate by seed, softwood and semi-hardwood cuttings

Suggested planting locations and garden typesHedging & Screens Low Maintenance Wildlife Gardens

Wildlife

Bees, butterflies and hoverflies visit the flowers. A variety of bird species including blackbirds, fieldfares and waxwings eat the berries, as do the Dormouse and the Wood Mouse.

Medicinal Uses

Gemmotherapy is a modern method of draining the organism. It uses plant bud extract and other embryonic plant tissues to open cellular detoxification pathways. It employs buds, inner bark, rootlets, or very young shoots of plants from various woodland trees and shrubs. They are harvested in the spring, throughout the period of cellular division and plant growth. During this stage they contain the highest concentration of active growth factor hormones, auxins, and gibberllins. These hormonal agents contain valuable informative matter required for the drainage of various organs and tissues at the cellular level.

 

In order to extract the embryonic substance from the fresh buds, fresh plant material is macerated in a solution of 50/50 glycerin and alcohol for three weeks. It is then filtered and diluted. It is prescribed in the fist decimal potency for maximum effect. Gemmotherapy extends the drainage of toxins beyond the excretory organs. It takes in the detoxification of the skin, bones, heart, and nervous system. Gemmotherapy can be used alone or in combination with other modalities.

 

Viburnum lantana is used for :Asthma, chronic spasmodic rhinitis, hyperthyroidism, bronchitis

Viburnum Lantana is a remedy for chronic allergies that are evolving towards asthma, eczema, or chronic spasmodic rhinitis. It is the intermediate remedy between Rosmarinus Officinalis and Ribes Nigrum. This remedy is indicated for conditions such as hyperthyroidism, smoker's cough with blood in sputum and some types of rheumatoid arthritis.

Indications

• Acute Asthma
• Asthma
• Basic Support for Allergies
• Cigarette Coughs
• Coughs
• Eczema
• Hyperthyroidism
• Rhinitis
• Support for Symptoms Due to Smoking

Nitrogen Fixing Plants Prarie Acacia or Acacia Angustissima

By Liliana Usvat
Blog 270-365

''Acacia angustissima'' is a perennial, deciduous, shrub or tree in the Fabaceae family native to Central America and the United States. It is also found in South America, India and Pakistan. 

Other common names for it include Carboncillo, Timbe, Timbre, Fern Acacia and Prairie wattle. 

It grows 1m to 4m in height having whitish, 1.3 cm diameter spherical flowers from June through September. ''"Angustissima"'' in Latin means "narrowest," describing the look of the shrub's leaves. 

Good for Reforestation

Altitude: 0-2600m
Annual Temperature Mean: 5-30 deg. C.
Annual Rainfall Mean: 895-2870mm
Soil: ''A. angustissima'' is well-suited for acidic, low-nutrient soils and it has very good resistance to drought.

 The flowers are clustered into 1/2 inch (1.3 cm) wide, fuzzy balls of stamens and will open white and age to a pinkish color. The flowers are followed by flat, elongated, brown seedpods. The leaves are green and bipinnate with tiny leaflets. The stems are hairy, reddish, and spineless. The larger stems are ridged and grooved, unlike the similar, but taller and smooth-stemmed Lysiloma watsonii.

PROPAGATION

Propagation Material: Seeds , Softwood Cuttings 
Description: Propagate by scarified seed or softwood cuttings. 
Seed Collection: Collect in late summer to early fall when seeds are firm, filled out, and dark brown.


Butterfly Plant 

The flowers attract butterflies and other insects like bees.

Chewing Gum

Used as a source of chewing gum or gum flavoring.

Medicinal Plant

 A bitter astringent, sedative herb that improves diegstion

and 

cerebral circulation



Medicinal Uses. Internally for headaches associated with with debility

and 

nervous tension and 
for anxiety, 
neuralgia, 
sinusitis, 
excess upper respiratory tract mucus, 
gastritis, 
poor digestion, 
hypertension and
menopausal problems. 


Excess causes, diarrhoea and vomiting.  Not to be given to pregnant
women. 

Externally for wounds (especially if infected),
 bruises, 
ulcers, 
sore throat, and 
gum inflammation.

Combines well with Scutellaria laterifolia, Verbena officinalis,
Lavandula angustifolia or Hypericum perforatum

 for tension headaches

(although I suspect to much of any of these combinations may be TOO
MUCH)

"action: 

astringent, 
carminative, 
diuretic, 
expectorant, 
nervine, 
tonic,
vulnerary"
"body: bladder, 
kidney, 
spleen, 
stomach"


"used to treat: 

asthma, 
bladder ailments, 
bronchitis, 
cancer, 
cough,
cuts, 
excessive sweating, 
external ulcers, 
heartburn, 

kidney ailments,
neurasthenia, 
sore, 
spitting blood, 
sprains, 
varicose veins,
wen, 
worms"

use: tea
"The infusion is used for neurasthenia, bladder and kidney ailments,
spitting blood, and excessive sweating; 

regular use is recommended for

varicose veins. 
A strong decoction is used against worms. 
The juice of the plant can be used to heal cuts, external "

Forest and Nature

By Liliana Usvat
Blog 269-365

In western culture since the Industrial Revolution ( After 1790) the idea grew that there was little connection between the objects in the wold and the individual. Before that time man did believe that he could affect matter and the environment through his thoughts. With the Industrial Revolution however even the elements of nature lost their living quality in man's eye. See the destruction of the forest for example. They became objects to be categorized named torn apart examined.

In his great curiosity to understand the heredity of a flower, say he forgot  what he could learn by smelling a flower looking at ti watching it be itself.

You cannot understand what makes things live when you rob them of life. So he examined dead nature. Often he had to kill life in order to he thought  to discover its reality.

Man's thoughts no longer seemed to have any effect upon nature because his mind he saw himself apart from it. He became blind to the connection between his thoughts and his physical environment and experience.

Nature became then an adversary that he must control.  Yet underneath he felt that he was at the mercy of  nature, because in cutting himself off from it he also cut himself off from using many of his own abilities.

Very natural functions of the conscious mind therefore were assigned to the underground  and cut off from the normal use.

If the purpose of civilization is to enable the individual to live in peace joy security and abundance, then that ideea of disconnection with nature has served him poorly.