Chickweed, Stellaria media, is a low growing plant and has traditionally been harvested as a vegetable.

It is best known for its ability to cool inflammation and help with internal healing.

Chickweed is also known to help with:

• cleansing the blood
• absorbing nutrients
• pink eye (as a poultice)
• dissolving cysts and tumors
• dissolving fat cells
• weight loss
• stimulates metabolism
• moves lymph
• bringing down a fever

I foraged this plant in central MN.

I use the folk method for making all my tinctures, which uses no measurements except sizing things up with your eyes. So I put the plant material in a jar and then fill with alcohol.

Dosages -

Dosages for children are not provided in most herbals. To determine the correct dose you need to consider the size of the child, the ailment, the power of the herb you intend to use, and the adult dosage.

Young's Rule for determining dosage uses the child's age divided by twelve plus the age. The dosage for a 4 year old: 4/12+4 = 4/16 = 1/4 of the adult dose.