Yarrow and blackberry cream

Yarrow and blackberry cream is used for curing hemorrhoids, applied externally. It is made from yarrow (Achillea millefolium) flowers and blackberry (Rubus fructicosus) leaves, about 15g of each herb. Herbs need to be fresh and chopped.

Making the cream

Heat pigs fat (about 90 g) to a temperature of frying steaks. Use a big pan, much bigger than the amount of fat, because fat is very hot and can foam. Caution is necessary.

         Add herbs part by part, stir few times with a wooden spoon and fry herbs a bit. Remove it from fire and cover.

         Next day heat it to melt the fat, strain it with a strainer or/ and cloth. Squeeze the herbs a bit, pour it into small  containers or jars, cover when it cools down.

Label it

         Write the name of the cream and year of making on the jars, so you wouldn't forget what is in it. This happens to us sometimes, we keep similar containers in the same spot and later we forget what cream is in which container so the sniffing party begins. Same is with oils. In eather case it is best to write something on.

         Keep it in the fridge or other cool place, it can last for a year or more. The amounts can be reduced, according to your needs.

         For more about making herbal creams and why is better to use pigs fat than artificial creams look at this posts.

Drinking camomile tea is also good for healing hemorrhoids internally, it heals and do not couses diarrhoea.

Blackberry – herbal remedy

Blackberry is a tasty fruit, but it also has curative properties. Tea made from blackberry leaves, roots and fruit is used as a herbal remedy for inflamed tonsils, craw and wounds in the throat for gargling, it refreshes and tightenes.

Tea made from  blackberry leaves is used to relieve troubles with urination and digestion. Blackberry purifies blood.

Tea from blackberry leaves is very effective for inflamed appendix, to cure the infection. For this, tea is made from fresh leaves, put one teaspoon (1 leaf) in a cup of boiled water, stir it, cover and after half a minute strain it.

Once I felt slight pain in my lower abdomen on the right side where the appendix is located, I went outside, picked a blackberry leaf and made tea. I'm not even sure if I had such inflammation, but the pain went away, very quickly. Now when I see blackberry thorney stems and leaves, I remember this good properties.