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Year 3, Week 5
Posted: Dec 7, 2021 by: Tara (Tara) on: Forest Blog
On this day we explored hedgerow healing/medicinal first aid; focusing on yarrow, plantain and comfrey.
We observed these in the wild and learned their properties:
Plantain: crushed leaf is fantastic for insect bites & stings, allergic rashes, cuts & wounds, infected cuts
Yarrow: Yarrow makes an excellent first aid poultice for deep cuts and wounds
- Comfrey: As a poultice for bone breaks and ankle sprains, or muscle and joint pain. ...
- Ointment or healing salve for topical wound dressing – I use healing salves or liniments for wounds to keep them clean and help them close faster.
The children learned: what herbs are; parts of herbs and safety.
They also learned that humans began using herbs medicinally as early as the Palaeolithic age 60,000 years ago.
Additionally, a few children helped pull the bark from willow whips and cut them up into small sections to make charcoal for next weeks’ cave paintings.
Every child cut a section of elder using loppers, pushed down the pithy centre using a tent peg and inserted willow charcoal, in readiness for creating stone age cave paintings in class.
Next forest session, aside from free choice, they will also be using natural earth pigments to create the white, black, yellow and red used in these art works.
