The suckers can be set three feet apart with six to eight feet between rows. The soil needs to be moist and the plants should be exposed to full sun. A mother should give a young girl a cup of red raspberry tea every day as she approaches puberty. This will make the transitional period much smoother. We have had many cases of people with wasting diseases that have maintained their bodies by drinking a few cups of slippery elm tea when nothing else could be kept down.
Slippery elm is high in protein and is healing as well.
It can be made into a paste or gruel sweetened with honey, and fed to infants as their first food. It is a demulcent herb-this is one that is very soothing to inflamed mucous membranes. This herb is quieting to irritated bowels, urinary tracts, and sore throats. We have used it to heal ulcers and bedsores. The tea has a pleasantly sweet taste.