Medicinal Herbs Make Great Travel Companions!

save your summer vacation! Bring your herbs with you

Summer is upon us and a year of pandemic-induced cabin fever has nearly driven us loco! As a result, folks are more anxious than ever to hit the road and have some fun. The beaches beckon. The woods woo and the lakes lie longing for our paddles. Cruise ships are calling and the highways hail us to far off wonders waiting to be explored. So, we pack our bags, our hiking boots, our swimsuits and fishing poles. We load up our coolers and tents. We grab sunscreen and beach umbrellas. And when we’ve gathered all our goodies, we hit the road to adventure!

Then it happens. As we’re standing on our hotel balcony overlooking a beautiful sunset, we realize we’re catching a cold. As we paddle our canoe, we strain a muscle in our back and start having wonderful spasms. As we whittle by the campfire, we cut our thumb with the dang pocket knife. Or we are bitten by a spider, or get a bladder infection or enjoy the exotic pleasures of Montezuma’s revenge because we ate at that taco truck on the corner…

Rats! Now what do we do? Do we cancel the vacation and just go home? Do we pack up the tents and head to the ER to tend to our cuts and owies? Do we hang out in our hotel room because we don’t dare to get more than a few yards from the bathroom?

Heck No! We grab our herbs, solve our problems and get back to our vacation!

The fact is that medicinal plants can solve the vast majority of vacation-busting problems very easily. We just need to make sure we have them with us. If you’re in the wild and you’ve been wise enough to get some herbal education, you’ll be fine (I know a nice fellow that can help you with that. Click Here). But what if you aren’t in the boondocks surrounded by medicinal plants…or you were naughty and didn’t learn what the wild rascals can do for you? No problem, you can just carry a few things with you in a little kit.

So what herbs do you need?

There are a few basic categories of herbs that are good to have on hand. These are the ones I always have with me when traveling:

Wow! That Seems Like a Lot of Herbs!

It’s true there are quite a few things on my list. But remember, you don’t need a quart of each tincture or a pound of each powder. You just need enough to get you by for a few days until you can get home to your real herb cabinet.

As it happens, we at HomeGrown Herbalist have some great little herb kits that contain all of the above.

Here they are:

We Have some other really handy and useful kits as well. You can see them here.

So, enjoy your summer. Go out and have some fun. And, to make sure nothing gets in the way of your good time, take some of your herbal friends with you. After all herbs need vacations too. :0)

Doc Jones


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4 thoughts on “Medicinal Herbs Make Great Travel Companions!

  1. M'Liss Stelzer says:

    Just like Doc Jones, I never travel without my tinctures and teas; however, I miniatured my travel kit. I bought several half-ounce dropper bottles from the natural grocery store, labeled them, and then tucked them all in an essential oil bag I bought from an Etsy shop. The bag has an insert with padded sleeves to protect the bottles from breakage. I can tuck my tincture kit (it has almost all the herbal preparations Doc mentioned) into a travel bag or my carry-on suitcase. This is handy if the repetitive airport announcements about “closely controlling your bags” causes a headache or the processed airport food creates stomach complaints.
    Doc is right, even your herbs should go on vacation.

  2. Dr. Patrick Jones says:

    Yup. As the old traveler’s check commercials used to say “Don’t Leave Home Without Them.” :0)

  3. gudrun b says:

    Yup, I left home without but just went to the daughter’s house to watch the kids and weed her flower beds, that’s what mothers do right?
    Last day some mad bee decided to defend the firewood stack where I was gathering bark, like the 2 prior days. Good thing the ground was rock hard and I had left plenty of plantain growing. Spit-poultice and pull out the stinger and at that point I decided I had done enough work anyway. The boys had run into a blackbear in the woods the day before….. we do not need to go away to find adventure. Then again we pretty much did what we always do over the past 2 years as well, hugs, kisses and loving family visits I think kept us all well, just cannot buy that stuff in a bottle. However the Doc’s tinctures and herbs have a place in our homes for sure!!! Great stuff!!!!

  4. Michele Nutter says:

    We went on a beach vacation after 2 years of hunkering due to the Virus and the chaos. My daughter has become my ‘study buddy’ in the school and she and I put together a tincture/powder pack to take with us. It gave us peace of mind and helped out with a little insomnia caused by travel and staying in a strange place (plus, my husband snores like a chain saw…).
    This is unrelated, but I wanted to give you a shout out: My husband pulled/tore a muscle in his chest (chondrocostal junction syndrome was the diagnosis…) when lifting something heavy. I went out to our bank where the comfrey grows thick, and gathered a bunch. I wang-jangled it in the food processor with some castor oil and made up a few poultices, which I stored in the fridge. After the first night of applying one he had relief. After the 4th one (one per night)…his complaining is to a bare minimum and he is much better. He remarked, “I think the comfrey worked…” I told him comfrey isn’t a ‘maybe’ thing, lol….it works. That’s the power of allantoin, baby. : )
    I’m glad I had the plant and the know-how~~thanks to you and the School!

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