And nature found you, in all of its goodness! It's amazing how sometimes the most useful of things are right under our nose but we have no idea how useful or how much of a blessing they are to us.
This is my first time learning about Usnea and I really am wowed by all of its benefits. Its amazing the gems we can find just around us. Did you like sieve the powder to remove the "little sticks"?
I have always known lichen to be a combination of algae and fungi (from back in secondary school) but I never thought that knowledge will be ever useful to me. While I am not really into that much of natural medicine or have taken any form of lichen, I love that you reminded me of the fact that, what we often think to be "useless" when being taught is actually useful.
Its amazing!
If Im remembering correctly, the internal fungi is an amazing immune booster, and the algal exterior is the antibiotic.
I actually left the little sticks in. Those were the inside fungi part. Im not sure if I need to buy a better grinder, or perhaps dehydrate longer, but they did not want to grind up! I decided to leave them in anyway because I want their benefits as well!
Its great to know what the different parts of the plant do.
I guess it could be that it needs a little bit more drying. Definitely live them in, then. Getting them out will be losing a part of the plant's goodness, yeah?
Yes, I think it would take away half the lichen's benefits. My husband was catching a cold this weekend and he took this along with some other home remedies. We just mixed it into honey and he ate it that way. He asked what the sticks were, but once I explained, he just ate it up. I tried it too, and it wasnt too weird or anything.
He got better after taking it, so thats good. :D