04/21/2026
Violet Salve
This is a new product trial!
I get so excited in the spring when all the plants start blooming. When I learn something new about a beloved plant, I want to try it right away! So I give you Violet Salve.
Violets & violas are edible wild natives. They grow wild in many areas of the world, and there are many different species. You’re familiar with them, I’m sure. I’ve pictured here the violet the comes to my mind, but there is also a tricolor violet and the they can be purple-blue or white.
These little plants are a very nourishing food! They provide vitamins a & c, magnesium, and calcium. You can just pop these in your salad! I’ve candied the flowers before, which was tedious and fun. I’ve also made syrup before, which is tasty and provides the herbals benefits. I think I will try an infused honey next, but it may be next year before they put out the pretty purple flowers again. The leaves we can harvest longer, maybe year round.
The leaves & flowers encourage mucous flow, which is helpful for dry coughs, sore throats, and splinters. Just like plantain leaf draws out splinters because of the mucilage, violet leaves do the same. They also can encourage digestive flow with this property.
Violets also encourage lymphatic flow. So lymph is that liquid that keeps your body moving, basically. It removes toxins and junk from your lymph nodes where they’ve “collected the trash”, if you will. Lymph flow is what helps our bodies eliminate what we don’t need & what can be harmful. Violets are great lymph movers with a focus on upper respiratory and breast tissue.
Overall, violet is an uplifting and nourishing herb for body and soul. It’s soothing and calming. It’s nutritive food.
And it’s probably in your yard!
I have a few violet salves that I will have at market events until they’re gone. I’m not putting these on the web store, but please message me if you’re not local and would like to purchase.
