Wood Sorrel
Oxalis spp.
Oxalidaceae (Wood Sorrel Family)
Medicinal Minute with Ginger Webb
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TXA note from Ginger:
Wood Sorrel's 3 leaflets are distinctly heart shaped, making them easily distinguishable from clover's 3 egg-shaped leaflets. Once you see it, you won't mistake them! Fortunately, neither is toxic. Clover tastes green and is chock full of minerals. Wood sorrel is sour, and contains oxalic acid. "Oh no!" people say "Isn't oxalic acid dangerous if you eat too much of it? We must keep it from the children!" I assure you, there is more oxalic acid in a serving of spinach than in a wood sorrel snack. It is important for kids to get to experience wild food! Let them eat Oxalis!
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.
