Witch Hazel
Hamamelis virginiana
Hamamelidaceae (Witch Hazel Family)
Medicinal Minute with Ginger Webb
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NJA note from Ginger:
Witch hazel leaves and twigs can be dried and used (1) in a sitzbath for painful hemorrhoids, and (2) in a postpartum sitzbath. For the hemorrhoids, the distilled product is often more convenient: saturate a cotton ball/pad with the witch hazel distillate and apply to your booty. It is astringent and will help tighten up boggy tissue.
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.
