FREE: Light Pink HollyHocks seeds - 25 seeds

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25 light Holly Hock seeds, mother plant is over 15 years old and has produced more flowers each year! I have very poor soil, full of clay and very hard, these plants thrive and reproduce every year. Even during Iowa's drought they have grown without any extra watering.

Use the flowers in a tea, for soothing mucous membranes like a sore throat, mouth rinse for canker sores, and gastrointestinal issues. Hollyhock was used to treat inflammation of the mucous membranes because of its abundant mucilage. The mucilaginous juice is said to be very soothing to the throat and intestinal tract. Soothing herbal compresses and bath preparations were made to treat cuts and bruises. In addition, their fibrous stems were used to make cloth, and the dark burgundy colored flowers yielded a very good blue dye.

Flowers
You can make a tea out of the flowers. Best you do it as a cold infusion to save the fragile flowers and the mucus.
But when the Hollyhock is a part of a tea-mixture you can prepare it as an infusion. Drink the tea against cough, bronchitis or a soar throat. You can also use it to gargle against throat or mouth inflammation.

Root
The root of the Hollyhock can be used similar to the uses of the flowers, because it also contains mucus and tannic acid.
You can use it against diarrhea and other problems of the digestive system. It is also good against loss of appetite.

Seeds
The seeds can be used against fever,
They have a diuretic and amollient effect.

The flowers are an alternative ingredient of 'Quick Return' herbal compost activator. This is a dried and powdered mixture of several herbs that can be added to a compost heap in order to speed up bacterial activity and thus shorten the time needed to make the compost. The seed contains 12% of a drying oil.