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What's your favorite herbs?
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Chillis, garlic, hops, black tea.
Extremely rarely:
papaver somniferum
psilocybe semilanceata
Various plant allies appearing in what I have that passes for a garden, but nothing I have considered trying to consume.
Extremely rarely:
papaver somniferum
psilocybe semilanceata
Various plant allies appearing in what I have that passes for a garden, but nothing I have considered trying to consume.
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It's definitely rosemary, because there's so much of it in the park near my house—I can get huge bunches of it for free! lol
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My favorite magical herb is belladonna, or poison nightshade, which in Eastern European folk tradition is considered the queen of herbs and is believed to possess extraordinary magical power. However, in order to help someone, it must be gathered through a special ritual, otherwise, if angered, it can bring great misfortune upon a person. When I was little, my grandmother used to take me with her to ritually collect belladonna, and I have seen what this herb is capable of, especially for love and separation.
Yarrow ; many uses , but one ; I read Alexander the Great's army physicians used it to stem blood and heal sword and ax cuts . Wot ? We are not talking a little paper cut here !
I used some on my foot ; I jumped out of a tree and landed barefoot in grass , but there was a bamboo stump hidden in the grass , and it hard not been cut off square, as it should but on an angel like a bamboo spear , It split the sole of foot open . I worked in a hospital for 10 years, including accident ward ; I estimated I needed about 6 stitches , blood still gushing out . I washed it and tried yo align the skin creases , each side of the gash and chewed up yarrow leaves and made poultice.held the cut together and applied the poultice and bandaged the foot and stayed mostly immobile (unlike stitches , the poultice will not hold the gash together * , so I kept still ... next day that a mess , took it off and looked horrible green ...' gangrene green' color . But that was from the plant , I washed it again and the cut was now a thin line as wide as a razor blade . I carefully probed, then pulled , ... yes it is 'stuck' together tight !
* this can be remedied by an indigenous method ; catch bull ants ..
using two sticks ( like chopsticks ) and hold them so they cant bend the sting around , you hold them so the jaws will bite over the cut and hold it together , then snap the head off - it will stay there . Then more 'stitches' as required .
Aloe - the right type; burn heal ... slight ; like light sunburn , smear the inside goo on your skin . Serious burn ; cut a whole block of gel out , remove the skin and bandage the block over the burn , over a couple of days the juice will be absorbed by the skin and burn and leave a thin translucent tough layer of cellulose over the burn , that looks like and seems to work exactly like ' plastic skin ' .
'Paddy's Lucerne ' Sida rhombifolia . Indigenous medicine ; used against strong cramping pain, especially abdominal . Good for women with cramping pain . I had kidney stones once - agonizing - for days and days ... came close to having the operation ( a manual removal pulling it out with a 'grabber' through the tract, through the bladder and out the urinary tract ) but managed to painfully pass it . Its common to have a re-occurrence some time later . I did , woke in the middle of the night in terrible but familiar pain ... what to do ; scream out and hope a neighbor heard and then took me to hospital ? Then I remembered this herb , I crawled out of bed (as I could not walk ) crawled outside naked in the rain and dark , up my little front path ... a plant was growing at the end of the path
I picked the topmost two tiny leaves and chewed them ( any more than this, it will make you sick , starting with a bad headache ) , got back inside lay down and was asleep in 20 minutes . felt fine in the morning , no re-occurrence . I have also seen it near instantly cure a friend who was doubled over in abdo pain and had asked me to take her to the hospital
of course , officially, these are all emergency measures ; get professional medical advise asap
I used some on my foot ; I jumped out of a tree and landed barefoot in grass , but there was a bamboo stump hidden in the grass , and it hard not been cut off square, as it should but on an angel like a bamboo spear , It split the sole of foot open . I worked in a hospital for 10 years, including accident ward ; I estimated I needed about 6 stitches , blood still gushing out . I washed it and tried yo align the skin creases , each side of the gash and chewed up yarrow leaves and made poultice.held the cut together and applied the poultice and bandaged the foot and stayed mostly immobile (unlike stitches , the poultice will not hold the gash together * , so I kept still ... next day that a mess , took it off and looked horrible green ...' gangrene green' color . But that was from the plant , I washed it again and the cut was now a thin line as wide as a razor blade . I carefully probed, then pulled , ... yes it is 'stuck' together tight !
* this can be remedied by an indigenous method ; catch bull ants ..
using two sticks ( like chopsticks ) and hold them so they cant bend the sting around , you hold them so the jaws will bite over the cut and hold it together , then snap the head off - it will stay there . Then more 'stitches' as required .
Aloe - the right type; burn heal ... slight ; like light sunburn , smear the inside goo on your skin . Serious burn ; cut a whole block of gel out , remove the skin and bandage the block over the burn , over a couple of days the juice will be absorbed by the skin and burn and leave a thin translucent tough layer of cellulose over the burn , that looks like and seems to work exactly like ' plastic skin ' .
'Paddy's Lucerne ' Sida rhombifolia . Indigenous medicine ; used against strong cramping pain, especially abdominal . Good for women with cramping pain . I had kidney stones once - agonizing - for days and days ... came close to having the operation ( a manual removal pulling it out with a 'grabber' through the tract, through the bladder and out the urinary tract ) but managed to painfully pass it . Its common to have a re-occurrence some time later . I did , woke in the middle of the night in terrible but familiar pain ... what to do ; scream out and hope a neighbor heard and then took me to hospital ? Then I remembered this herb , I crawled out of bed (as I could not walk ) crawled outside naked in the rain and dark , up my little front path ... a plant was growing at the end of the path
I picked the topmost two tiny leaves and chewed them ( any more than this, it will make you sick , starting with a bad headache ) , got back inside lay down and was asleep in 20 minutes . felt fine in the morning , no re-occurrence . I have also seen it near instantly cure a friend who was doubled over in abdo pain and had asked me to take her to the hospital
of course , officially, these are all emergency measures ; get professional medical advise asap