Walnut
Juglans spp.
Juglandaceae (Walnut Family)
Medicinal Minute with Ginger Webb
A note from Ginger:
All walnut trees are medicinal and we have three species here in central Texas. I always say that the easiest way to identify if you've got a walnut tree or a pecan tree is to look on the ground and see which nuts you find. The unripe green hulls of walnut species can be tinctured and exert an anti-parasitic effect in the gut. The leaves can be used to help heal the intestinal lining in cases of leaky gut syndrome.
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.
