Foraging Desert Brittlebush

The desert is blooming BRITTLEBUSH! This native low desert shrub offers medicinal benefits via aerial parts; stem, leaf and flower.

Encelia farinosa, is a pungent aromatic bitter, with warming, stimulating, relaxant actions. This herb expectorates thick stubborn mucus, alleviates fever, remedies head pains including dry eyes, earache, mouth and gum sores, headaches, and sinus. It’s helpful in treatment of joint pain and arthritis, wound healing, hay fever and mental clarity.

A veritable one-stop-shop of native plant medicine!!

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📸Dee Norleen, Provider Staffer and Owner of Sun Rae Herbals