Burdock, Gobo
Arctium lappa
Family: Asteraceae
Classic biennial. Native to temperate Europe and Asia.
Harvest this highly nutritive, blood cleansing and alterative root during
the first growing season or at latest in the dormant period after first
season of growth. Use of Burdock root either boiled or raw, together
with Echinacea tincture and fresh Dandelion, has quickly cured the
most intractible infections of impetigo or staph. To cook, wash the
roots, chop them in pieces, steam until tender and eat with butter. To
eat raw, wash roots and grate onto salad. Cultivation:
Easy. Direct seed in spring. Plant closely as you would carrots
for optimum yield and ease of harvest. Flowers to 7 feet tall in
the second year.
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