Two detoxifying plants: greater burdock and barberry

Seasonal or occasional natural detoxification

Cellular detoxification is more relevant than ever, given the excess toxins generated by our lifestyle and environmental pollution. While spring is always a good season to cleanse ourselves of our winter dietary excesses, more and more people mark the 4 seasonal changes by practising a draining and purifying cure. Similarly, supporting one's organs and emunctories is imperative when undergoing medical treatment. Two plants can then prove interesting.

Greater burdock

It breaks the dormancy of its seed in cool soils, rich in humus from wood in the process of fossilisation or partly already fossilised.
This type of organic matter has the property of storing metals, pesticides and other pollutants.
The burdock will complete the decomposition of these materials and allow, in the soil, the release and elimination of pollutants.

Burdock does the same in humans or animals. If the soil is the "skin" of the earth, a Burdock cure allows the elimination of many toxins in the same way that this plant heals intoxicated soils.
Burdock is therefore an excellent remedy for the skin and its problems: acne, eczema, psoriasis, boils…

Barberry

It is a small shrub that almost disappeared because it was believed to be responsible for wheat rust; systematic uprooting was carried out at the end of the 18th century. This plant grows in rocky calcareous areas, on very alkaline soil. Given its golden yellow flowers, the colour of its bark and the wood of its roots, the plant will have a beneficial effect on the liver and bile, particularly if there are calcium oxalate crystals, as in the soils where it grows.
It is therefore a botanical variety useful for fighting gallstones and kidney stones.
Moreover, its action on the kidneys can also make it an ally in cases of circulatory problems and hypertension. Greater Burdock and Barberry are thus two very modest plants but which deserve to be used more often.