What are the Benefits of Grapevine Sap?

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Everyday I learn something. Weather it's a new technology, a new concept, or something about growing food or medicine, I try to always be learning SOMETHING.

Today, let's see what Grapevine Sap is all about!

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I wrote about managing time spent in front of a screen to be more productive. Well, this is one of those times...

Learning is like a passion, I can't ever get enough of it.

Today while reading through the comments of a post by @Papa-pepper, I read something about Grape Vine Sap... intriguing I thought. As we are slowly clearing land (by hand for now) for No Man's Land, I keep thinking about all those wild grape vines we cut and the many more there are, tangling up the trees I want to save!

What the heck can we do with grapevine sap???

The comment that prompted my question came from Hive account@tecnosgirl, whose motto is "Never stop learning, always be a student". (I though it was a funny coincidence, since I'm writing right now about "always learning something" and saw this excellent motto when I went over to the post in question, to get the proper spelling of Hive account@tecnosgirl!)

...but before we get rid of the grapevines I am gonna harvest the sap.

I had to find out... I like to do the research, sometimes it takes too long to wait for a reply. Maybe I'm just a little impatient when it comes to learning something new!

Thank you Hive account@tecnogirl for the drive to chase some knowledge!

Not a grapvine... but the way the sap comes out of a branch looks just like it, though less sticky. Source

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This is what I got from the first web site in my search:

Freshly pruned grape vines have amazing antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory and astringent properties. Source

Tears of Grape Vines

Great name right?

Apparently it was thought to have magical properties that would heal all sorts of things back in the day...

Here are some of the known benefits and properties today:

• Anti-inflammatory
• Antimicrobial
• Antioxidant
• Antiseptic
• Astringent
• Diuretic

According to Botanical-Online this grape vine sap is ine of thr most important eye drops. It can be used to treat Pink Eye or Conjunctivitis.

Applying a little water extracted from grapevine tender branches will help reduce inflammation and heal the itching or pain. (Apply a drop right out of the plant in form of eye drops... Do not store the liquid, it can become spoilt. It must be used immidiately.)

All of this means that it can help with acne, cleaning up the liver, improving kidney functions, swelling of the eyelids, pink eye, styes, the production of melanin, preserving skin health...

Seems like there is quite a lot of benefits!!!

Please don't take my word on all this, do more research and ask your doctor. I have only looked at a couple websites to research this interesting medicine which is in abundance across our future Homestead.

If you look a little, you can find wild grapevines everywhere... I can get you a better photo this weekend if I remember. We are constantly cutting these vines out of the way!

How do you bottle the stuff?

Apparently it's really simple and easy: Just tie a glass bottle on the dripping vine and let it fill up. Or like suggested above, use it straight from the source like eye drops! I like that way of doing it.

Thank you for reading and learning with me!

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