Wanted Alive: Barberry

After you view this video, I hope you will be on the lookout tor the Common Barberry. It is supposed to be invasive, and yet I have never seen it. Knowing all that I do about its medicinal benefits, I make and sell Barberry Tincture and encourage everyone who has read my book Making Tinctures: Beyond the Folk Method to make sure to add Barberry Tincture to their to-do list.

You may recall from my video in my third VLOG where I show a slide show (without sound) that was based on a presentation I gave in an Herb Conference last November (2018). I presented a very high view of what a tincture is, how to make it, and why you would want to take tinctures by providing some examples of benefits from specific tinctures. One of those examples was the Common Barberry. It is the answer to the question: Which tincture should be in everyone’s medicine cabinet? In an upcoming video I will present a comprehensive discussion of the Common Barberry medicinal benefits that will clearly demonstrate its appropriateness (maybe even necessity) of being a mainstay in your medicine cabinet.

This video explains how to determine what are the invasive plants, why the Common Barberry is considered invasive, why the US government tried to totally eradicate it, and how to determine the legal status of acquiring and maintaining Common Barberry within any US state. At the end of the video is a brief slide show of beautiful photos taken of the various parts of Berberis vulgaris, AKA the Common Barberry.

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Sources:

• https://www.invasiveplantatlas.org/
• https://www.feis-crs.org/feis/
• https://www.fs.fed.us/
• https://plants.sc.egov.usda.gov/java/