Blue Cohosh
Caulophyllum thalictriodes
Berberidaceae (Barberry Family)
Medicinal Minute with Ginger Webb
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NJA note from Ginger:
Two videos filmed several years apart, the first one in July before the berries turned blue, the second in August when they have begun to turn blue and the leaves are changing color. Both were filmed at the same patch in a lake community in northern NJ, tucked up a ways between a house and a footpath. I love visiting this patch of sweet Blue Cohosh every summer.
Ginger Webb, Community Herbalist, Botanist, Teacher & Mentor
Ginger Webb has been practicing herbalism for nearly 30 years, as a community herbalist, clinical herbalist, herbal medicine maker, wild plant lover, botanist, and teacher. She has trained scores of people to be herbalists through her programs at Sacred Journey School of Herbalism.
Her mission is to keep alive the craft of herbalism through modeling the age-old wisdom of being in right relationship with the plants, and she teaches her students to be stewards of the Earth and the plants first, and to make medicine only when the plants wholeheartedly provide consent.
