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uses for beauty berries or pokeweed?
- Thread starter P-NUT
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Uses
https://www.drugs.com/npp/pokeweed.html
Young pokeweed leaves and berries may be eaten as food, but only after being cooked properly by boiling in several changes of water.
Dosing
At doses of 1 g, dried pokeweed root is emetic and purgative. At lower doses of 60 to 100 mg/day, the root and berries have been used to treat rheumatism and for immune stimulation; however, there are no clinical trials that support these uses or doses.
http://www.naturalremedies.org/pokeweed/
Pokeweed shoots need to be collected in the Spring in order to harvest the edible, non-toxic portions.
Similarly, the roots have to be picked during the fall. Once you have thoroughly dried them, they can be stored and used at a later stage. The berries too can be eaten only when they have just turned ripe. As for the berries, it is only the juice, which can be consumed, the seeds of the Pokeweed berry remain poisonous.
https://www.drugs.com/npp/pokeweed.html
Young pokeweed leaves and berries may be eaten as food, but only after being cooked properly by boiling in several changes of water.
Dosing
At doses of 1 g, dried pokeweed root is emetic and purgative. At lower doses of 60 to 100 mg/day, the root and berries have been used to treat rheumatism and for immune stimulation; however, there are no clinical trials that support these uses or doses.
http://www.naturalremedies.org/pokeweed/
Pokeweed shoots need to be collected in the Spring in order to harvest the edible, non-toxic portions.
Similarly, the roots have to be picked during the fall. Once you have thoroughly dried them, they can be stored and used at a later stage. The berries too can be eaten only when they have just turned ripe. As for the berries, it is only the juice, which can be consumed, the seeds of the Pokeweed berry remain poisonous.
No knowledge about making teas, I assume you mean for plant supplementation. Most of the plant is poisonous although I guess some people eat certain parts after cooking, no thanks.
The birds love the berries though and that's mainly how the plant spreads. Once I cleaned out a large garden bed of my dad's and they were all over the place and the berries put on a mean stain. Actually they were all over his property.
The birds love the berries though and that's mainly how the plant spreads. Once I cleaned out a large garden bed of my dad's and they were all over the place and the berries put on a mean stain. Actually they were all over his property.
I knew someone who died from eating poke. No shit.
Never heard of it having any agricultural uses.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCSsVvlj6YA
Never heard of it having any agricultural uses.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCSsVvlj6YA
Ive composted pokeweed and fed the compost to worms no prob but i just wondered if it repelled or killed bugs if you made a botanical tea out of it. Im really curious about the beauty berries as well. The leaves have a sweetish stink to them and I never see any bug damage whatsoever. They seem like theyd work to at least repel bad bugs without harming the plant but wanted to know if anyones tried this or am I gonna be a guinea pig.
