Originally Posted by sewcrafty
OH. Can you eat it?
Actually you can. It can be dried and made into tea, eaten in a salad, or cooked in greens. It's kind of bitter though. I asked a professor at the Univ. of Il. that's studied weeds and home remedies about it and he gave me that information. He said that it's been used to years and years to alleviate pain and that the American Indians used it to help with the pain of childbirth.
I'm not sure how they used it though.
My cousin scored and crushed the leaves with a rolling pin, dipped them in hot water and wrapped his gout engorged foot with them. Then he wrapped a towel around the leaves to hold the heat in. He said it helped.