Ragweed
Ambrosia trifida
Asteraceae (Aster Family)
Medicinal Minute with Ginger Webb
A note from Ginger:
I may be one of the few people around here that is happy to see Giant Ragweed growing tall in the late spring early summer in central Texas. Harvested before it goes to flower and begins sending out its pollen, ragweed leaves are one of my tried and true allergy remedies for itchy eyes, runny nose, hayfever-type allergies -- including allergies to ragweed!
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.
