Lambsquarters
Chenopodium giganteum
Amaranthaceae (Amaranth Family)
Medicinal Minute with Ginger Webb
A note from Ginger:
Not so much a medicinal plant as a wild edible, lambsquarters is prolific and provides so much nutrition, including essential minerals as well as protein. I prefer cooking the leaves and using them like their cousin spinach. The seeds may also be harvested and used as a grain, or left on the tall stalks to feed the winter birds.
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.
