All about Self Heal | A wild medicinal plant everyone should know!

Self heal (prunella vulgaris) is a very special little plant which has been used as medicine for centuries around the world. It is one of the more widely studied wild medicinal herbs and in this video I talk about traditional uses, some of the studies that have been done with self heal, how to identify it and how I like to craft it into herbal remedies. It is a bit early in the season to start seeing self heal's small beautiful flowers blooming but I wanted to get this video out a little earlier in hopes that you will be keeping an eye out for it.

A brief overview of Prunella Vulgaris uses/benefits:
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/...

Modern uses in herbalism: https://commonwealthherbs.com/self-he...

Self heal uses of Indigenous tribes of North America:
http://naeb.brit.org/uses/search/?str...

Self heal distribution/subspecies:
https://thebelmontrooster.com/familie...


Here are some of the sources on studies done with this plant:

A well put together overview of multiple studies done with Prunella Vulgaris:
https://scialert.net/fulltext/amp.php...

Prunella vulgaris inhibiting HIV:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21513...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10819...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2802570/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1371029/


Prunella vulgaris inhibiting herpes simplex 1 & 2:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17091...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15182...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10588...

Topical use of prunella vulgaris on herpes lesions:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17475...

Overview of anti-herpes and hiv activity:
https://virologyj.biomedcentral.com/a...


Articles on prunella vulgaris against different cancers:

Lung cancer:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21198...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25331...


Breast cancer:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32978...

Uterine tumors:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32552...

Liver cancer:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22745...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27222...

lymphoma:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22876...
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17228...
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20450...


Prunella vulgaris effects on diabetic mice:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17392....

Prunella vulgaris lowering blood glucose levels, cholesterol levels and improving heart conditions within diabetic mice:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22928...

Reducing inflammation of heart cells:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23884...

Inhibiting high glucose induced inflammation oh human umbilical vein cells:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22312...

Photoprotective/anti-aging properties from sun damage:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

Protective against sun damage:
Uvb protection:
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19862...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29378...

Uva protection:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16631...

Blue light: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31811...

anti-allergy activity:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10865...

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/...