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Prickly Lettuce Extract: Making and taking

A plant that grows wild with no care. A pain relief and sleep aid you can make at home.

23 lessons·1 student·intermediate

Course preview: Prickly Lettuce Extract: Making and taking

About this course

Students will learn to identify the plant in the wild using (always use at least four sources!) and harvest and dry the plant. Students will learn the history of its use, its ecological function in the landscape, and why we prefer to use a whole plant extract. Students will learn to extract the medicinal compounds using both water and alcohol and then to concentrate it into a useable form. Students will learn how to find their lowest effective dose, how to take the extract, and how to store the extract.

What you'll learn

How to identify harvest and prepare the prickly lettuce plant
How to make and store an extraction and a concentrate of prickly lettuce
How to find your dose and take the concentrate
Some history and ecology of the pickle lettuce plant

Requirements

•Basic kitchen skills
•Basic plant identification
•Basic kitchen equipment
•A dehydrator
•Basic gardeners equipment

Who this is for

•Anyone interested in making some of their own pain relief and sleep aid from a wild plant

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Course Content

6 chapters · 23 lessons

Chapter 1: Identifying Prickly Lettuce 1 lessons

1.1 Identifying Prickly Lettuce

Chapter 2: Harvest, dehydrating and initial storage 9 lessons

2.1 You will Need

2.2 Harvesting the Plant

2.3 Whole Plant Medicine

2.4 Separating the stalks.

2.5 The role of Prickly Lettuce in the landscape.

2.6 Grading and dehydrating.

2.7 Grading and dehydrating.

2.8 Pulverize and store

2.9 Brief history of prickly lettuce

Chapter 3: Double Extraction 4 lessons

3.1 You will need

3.2 Alcohol Extraction Day 1

3.3 Warm Water Extraction

3.4 Why double extraction?

Chapter 4: Concentration and long term storage 6 lessons

4.1 Straining out plant material

4.2 Squeeze the plant matter

4.3 initial concentration

4.4 finishing the stove-top concentration

4.5 Concentration with dehydrator

4.6 Storage

Chapter 5: Dosing and taking 2 lessons

5.1 How to dose the concentrated extraction

5.2 Dosing and taking the concentrated extract

Chapter 6: Tools and equipment I recommend from this lesson 1 lessons

6.1 Tools and equipment I recommend.