Apothecary - Gathering Wintergreen

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this is missionary survival today we're going to gather up some wintergreen for our politic Eric stay tuned so as a snow recedes and the leaves start to reclaim the forest floor if you look closely you'll see colonies of wintergreen peeking through the berries are red for wintergreen and they persist through winter is too on this one plant right here the berries as you eat is a snack while i'm picking a really good after five minutes of gathering I have a good amount will surely get my apothecary off to a good start so the point of gathering wintergreen for your patha carry to make medicine with is that it has cell solutes in it like salicylic acid which is a precursor it's what aspirin is based off of so you can make medicine that would react with your body like aspirin something missing 60 yards there's a valley outside

or could be sorry to bother you so basically this is aspirin you can make aspirin out of this and your body can consume the salicylic acid from this plant now you can make all sorts of medicinal uses for this will it be Pulis's or infusions decoctions whatever the case is you can eat the leaves tons of different things but the ability to counteract aches pains deal with fevers and colds and flus things like that it's very powerful medicine to have in the woods as we mention ated survival preview so it comes to me support see in the next one take care