How to prepare to use Pleurisy root as an herb

For making tea, try these tips:
Steep 1/2 to 1 teaspoon dried and crumbled root in 1 cup of boiling water for about 15 minutes. Make sure you strain out the root drink the remaining liquid. Some have this up to three times a day. Sweeten the tea with sugar, honey or add lemon if you desire.

For warts, apply the flower's milky sap to warts several times daily.

Contact your doctor first always.

Possible medicinal uses for Pleurisy Root

Pleurisy root has been known to help people with respiratory infections, and reduce inflammation and help with expectoration. To the Plains Indians, this herb was highly valued for lung ailments.

Today, a tea made from the root is used for bronchitis, pneumonia, asthma, influenza, dry cough and as the name implies, for pleurisy.

Some have applied the milky juice from the plant to warts help soften and heal them.

The parts used are the root and juice.

(Disclaimer, please contact your doctor first before trying to treat anything for your health. The things mentioned in this and my other herb blogs have not been tested by the food and drug administration, to my understanding.)

Pleurisy Root

Pleurisy Root, aka Asclepias, is a beautiful flowering plant, that happens to attract butterflies. So I have grown it in my butterfly garden.

I hope you learn something new here that you didn't know before about this particular herb.

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