Spiderwort Magical & Medicinal Properties
The "wort" part of spiderwort's name indicates it has been used for medicinal purposes. "Wort-cunning" was an Old English term used for having the knowledge of plants' uses.
Magical properties
~ If you’re hoping to attract greater abundance into your life, cary the dried flowers in your wallet
~ To help you relax and connect with your inner beauty, float a handjul of the flowers in your bathwater
~ Scatter the flowers around your home to chase away negativity and attract the blessings of love.
Medicinal properties
~Spiderwort leaves held drying properties, mostly like attributed to tannin constituents, and was useful in expelling poisons
~ Cherokee medicinal uses of spiderwort leaves extracted in tea-form were for nonspecific kidney, stomach and female ailments. Leaves were mashed, exposing a juicy liquid, and applied as a poultice for insect bites, a common ailment in the Southeast. Also the sap from a Spiderwort can be used as a medicinal salve on insect bites or scrapes.
~ As a food, the Cherokee parboiled young leaves and slender shoots. The leaves and flowers can be eaten raw in a salad. The stems can be cooked, I recommend pan frying with a little butter, garlic and salt and top off with some flowers and buds at the end for color.
A member of the dayflower family (Commelinaceae), spiderwort blooms last only a day, blooming in mid-morning and withering to mush in late afternoon. At the end of each stalk is a terminal cluster of buds, opening only a couple at a time, spreading out spiderwort's enjoyment for a week or two.
Mine is blooming right now ~Citrine~
The "wort" part of spiderwort's name indicates it has been used for medicinal purposes. "Wort-cunning" was an Old English term used for having the knowledge of plants' uses.
Magical properties
~ If you’re hoping to attract greater abundance into your life, cary the dried flowers in your wallet
~ To help you relax and connect with your inner beauty, float a handjul of the flowers in your bathwater
~ Scatter the flowers around your home to chase away negativity and attract the blessings of love.
Medicinal properties
~Spiderwort leaves held drying properties, mostly like attributed to tannin constituents, and was useful in expelling poisons
~ Cherokee medicinal uses of spiderwort leaves extracted in tea-form were for nonspecific kidney, stomach and female ailments. Leaves were mashed, exposing a juicy liquid, and applied as a poultice for insect bites, a common ailment in the Southeast. Also the sap from a Spiderwort can be used as a medicinal salve on insect bites or scrapes.
~ As a food, the Cherokee parboiled young leaves and slender shoots. The leaves and flowers can be eaten raw in a salad. The stems can be cooked, I recommend pan frying with a little butter, garlic and salt and top off with some flowers and buds at the end for color.
A member of the dayflower family (Commelinaceae), spiderwort blooms last only a day, blooming in mid-morning and withering to mush in late afternoon. At the end of each stalk is a terminal cluster of buds, opening only a couple at a time, spreading out spiderwort's enjoyment for a week or two.
Mine is blooming right now ~Citrine~
Do you think a dayflower could be used as a substitute to spiderwort? Like Commelina erecta?
ReplyDeleteJust transplanted many clumps of it growing wild by side of the road here in Louisiana. Planted in my garden along with other wild flowers such as digitalis, swamp mallow, wood sorrel.
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