Cucumber Weed
Parietaria pensylvanica
URTICACEAE (NETTLE Family)
Medicinal Minute with Ginger Webb
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TXA note from Ginger:
Old herb books call it Pellitory-on-the-Wall but I like to call it Cucumber Weed so folks remember to snack on it when walking by. It grows wild and in patches throughout central Texas, a mineral-rich herb with an affinity for the kidneys, urinary tract and lymph.
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.
