yes we are planning one for easter weekend in april... would love to be able to have some sort of herb/ weed walk... Iso want to learn more bout them all and be able to use more things from the wild than having to actually plant n tend to things... and actually be able to pass something like that on to others... Would love to see you any time though iffin ya cant make it in april.. yes we are blessed to be where we are here in Ga. aint much around anymore like it in this area anyway ,,,,.. keep in touch we shall and hope to see ya sometime soon. luv n lite
Actually, i just have all the book lust and the books of course. Most salvaged from the conspiracy to wipe out books prior to 1922 in the new copyright act, blablalba...which is why i'm a thrift hounddog muahahaha...it is so fun and also love the flea malls and parkling lots and gatherings and such yes! anywhere it's great... kind of like salvaging herbs you could say! it is my mission, one of my missions! and it's a finite delicate like balancing act keeping the flame burning on so maany different topics in which i dwell...but the flame may go out, but it's ok because that's why they make matches right! and paper!! sticks and books...thats what it's amounting to here in this scenario. hopefully you can make the way *josai* because you bring so much to the table! my knoledge is limited to awe and reverance of the intregal cycles of this world in all it's many forms. like for me, seeing a dandelion is like hearing a voice. you know, a message in a bottle type thing, of the indestructable webs which wrap this world and are indeed an integral part of other things. thats what i sence, all these things and it's like wow, and you start looking deeper seeing so many difffernt things, but the Sacred Geometry corescing throughout. a single dandelion! the Golden Ratio. Surrounds everything. Intelligent design but not in the dogmatic way...exact opposite... Euphoric blissful realizations about the mechanisms which govern our world and our vital part to recognize Them. namaste
awww....that's a sad state freaky lady! i live in the city, so i only gather in my own yard, but i go north of town WAY WAY into the woods & try to identify & harvest new things there. i am blessed to have friends that caretake 20 or so acres of pure heaven.....alabama has rich biodiversity
awesome picture freakylady! hahaaha yes what you just said is a coupla a whole nother threads in of itself...deep!
i know about creasys(spellin?) chantrells, dandolians an poke salad as far as edibles i can positive identify here that are wild.. medicanl i can identify blood root mullin an a couple others. an when i say "edibles" i meen that are worth eatin..
quite many seeding plants and roots espically aren't ready for actual cultivation until summer or after, which is the beeeeauty of greenhouses oh my they are such places of refuge but in spring time many magical things will abound to be sure, many different herbs and weeds and if lucky some Sheeps Sorrel, (it is prevelant in early summer), fresh Burdock peekin through, and some shavings of some Slippery Elm to make some essiac tea with the addition of organic fresh Chinese Rhubarb
woah i didn't see this earlier. yes yes!! the alabama/georgia region is rich in anceint enlightened cultures as well, no wonder eh it is such a sacred sphere expecially where the mountains start, my oh my rocks do amazing things. in fact rock dust is one of The primo fertilizers, in the same league as bat guano.
I was floored to find today that Wormwood is now wild in the southeast U.S., thanks to the pilgrums bringing it over from Europe and cultivating it for years. It is one amazing medicinal plants. It's also the source of absinthe, hence it's latin name Artemisia absinthium.
i learned that three days ago ... just not got a clue what it looks like n wouldnt trust meself from a book,,, soooooooooooooooo see you hafta come visit now .)
it actually looks a lot like parsley only 4 to 5 ft tall and glows like silver haze. i am starting to discover, there is a Lot of really bad ass technology nestled within the woods. And a lot of it has just recently been naturalized in the past coupla centuries here! So it seems a few weed walks are in order to completley regard the whole scope of whats beckoning from the breeze! i am taking notes of all the "newbies" to our region i can find! will post more soon... It's worth mentioning Echinacea, the most important immune stimulant in Western medicine, is beckoning at our back door, in the central regions not too far away, in fact, since it is being cultivatd all across the U.S., it soon too will become naturalized!! It's so valient how that happens
off topic, but i spent my first trip in the north ga. /al mountains over 2 amazing days ooooo this past pre-spring, wishin i coulda been there longer but what i did see comapred with anything i've seen beauty wise in the whole of the country. and i've seen it you know!! there were a few people in GA. Except for the vultures givin you the finger lol and straight shot hawks, we had the one in alabama to ourselves!! with swirling along the vast canyon riversheds and waterfalls...those untouched canyon carved mountain rivers man..turqoise, my birth stone...
cool paintingjames....i didn't know that wormwood was growing wild in these parts! you're a wealth of knowledge brother! regarding absinthe - we made our own homemade version a few years back....took some strong port wine & basically made a tincture by steeping wormwood & some other aromatics (i'll have to find our recipe!) for 4 weeks & then straining....WoWeeee! potent stuff (of course we probably drank more than we should have!) definately different than what you would traditionally think of as absinthe, but potent nonetheless & more medicinal imo
"{Wormwood} is very bitter, affecting the bitter taste receptors (since it's in the bitters!!!) on the tongue, which sets off a reflex action, stimulating stomach and other digestive segretions. The azulenes are anti-inflammatory. The sesquiterpene lactones have an antitumor effect and are strongly insecticidal. Thujone is a stimulant to the brain. It is safe in small doses but is toxic in excess" But so is most every medicinal Drug!!! it's amazing how things come full circle ahh the wisdom of balance, and making wine is a highly regarded medicinal way to balance certain properties of strong medicines...way to go *josai*
I stayed up all night compiling information for herbs of the south eastern united states!!! Couldn't stop!!!! What i have unearthered is about 6 pages of notes scrunched into every possible writing surface on the page, and i was trying to keep it to only weeds, but seeing how many amazing medicianal herbs that are now naturalized and the other wild plants abounding around, I HAD to include a few of honorable mention!! I am so glad i have finally emmersed myself into this field as i have been postponing for some time in depth. It is amazing how some herbs grow native to the south eastern U.S. and far off places like India and China also, and only to these regions. Messages in a bottle.... So i am a freak of nature you could say! Jeeez this is going to take a lot of typing !!
This is a topic of Upmost importance for us, becuase many of these herbs are lacking in proper research after very promising evidence in early medicine in this country, and abroad. For some reason many experiments were stopped maliciously. Most i should want to say All of this is Native American Knoledge as well, which is how the knoledge is known today. To start, the Naturalized medicinal herbs of the southeast. *Star Grass=True Unicorn Root *Maidenhair Fern *Couch grass-invasive weed *Tree of heaven-cure of acute dysentary/ anti-cancer When planted in marshy areas, it drains soil and removes breeding groud of skeeters! Pennyroyal, Common Mallow, Broom, Catnip, Blackberry, Wormseed, Barberry, Chinese Rhubarb (6 years or older, sap will form and is used), Bugle, Lady's Bedstraw, Purslane, Ground ivy(cure all), Mother wort, Ragwort, Wild strawberry, Purple Loosestrife, Cudweed, Sage (hormonal action), Heartsease,Europen mistletoe (grows on apple trees, lower blood pressure, anxeity) *Chinese Wormwood=Qing Hao-fungal skin conditions 90% more effective to treat malaria than standard drug, chloroquine. *Chinese rhubarb-temprorate regions worldwide *Burdock-temperate regions propogated from seed in spring *Wild yam-contians large amts. of dioscin-strong anti inflamatory *St. John wort=Feverfew -migrane *Melilot-vericose veins *Cashew-highly medicinal plant-gum from stem wards off ants and other insects Now for the Natives medicinals to the south east! Stinking mayweed-falling down of the womb Parsley Piert- above 1600 ft including tops of walls often combined w/marsh mallow- demulcent *American Spikenard-similar to Sasparilla *Mexican Poppy-southern most s.e.-cataracts/similar to opium poppy *Pleurisy Root-harvest in spring, cure all *Black horehound-cracks in pavement, found where there is human civilazation (cure for depression ) *Catalpa=Indian bean tree-mildly narcotic bark treats eyes and children ailments *Canella=Wild Cinnamon-common to s.e. esp. fla and marshy swamplands- sexual stimulant, kills insects *Sheperds Purse-grows profusley as a weed-arrests hemoraging in all forms
Continued, Native wild growing herbs/weeds to the S.E. *Balmony- found in marsh and along riverbanks *Fringe Tree-native americans of alabama used for a toothache remedy, inflamations of the eye, canker sores, and spongy gums. *Pipsissiwa-woods, shady places-typher *Stone Root-moist woodlands-kidney stones *Goldthread-damp areas-treats everything from yeast infections to children ailments *Pumpkin seeds-worms, health *Lady's Slipper-woods and pastures, now rare to over-cultivating-sedative and antipasmadic *Male Fern-w/honey water to treat tapeworms, cleanser all around *Canadian fleabone-hot climates in human areas, invades as weed-boiled for steam in sweatlodge/gastrointestinal and uninogenital *Addlers tongue-similar to meadow saffron-damn and hot woods and open *Wahoo Bark-damn woods close to water-biliousness and liver problems and their side effects (ezcema) *Boneset-meadows and marshland-common cold/similar to wild horehound *Gravel Root-kidney stones/typhus *Caper Spurge-low lying areas *Cleavers=Goose Grass-gathered in late spring-valuable diuretic/low blood pressure *Yellow Jasmine-likes it hot and wet-treat neuraligia and sciatica. *American cransebill-mouth digestive migrane *Wild hydrangea-woods near water-kidney bladder stones *Herbane-stronger than thornapple & deadly nightshade-sedative and painkiller, parkinsins *Blue flag=Wild Iris-marsh-detoxify *Blackroot *Blue Toadflax *Bugleweed(thryoid and heart) *American pennyroyal-colds, headaches, delayed menstrutation *Bogbean-digestion, arthritis *Squaw Vine-dry woodlands-childbirth *Horsemint *Bay Berry bark *American ginsing-rarley seen now due to over harvesting *Pokeweed-arthritis/rheumatism/respiratory *Bearsfoot-rich soil /mastitis/hair *Silverweed *Smooth Sumac-borders of woods/neglected sites. boil in beer to releive colds. *Rose-antidepressent/anti inflamatory/high cholestoral-lack of research! *Sheeps Sorel-temperate regions worldwide. Native American recipe component for Essiac tea, or in other words, the cure for all cancer. *Bloodroot-respiratory/rouge *Figwort-resembles swollen glands of protruding lumps associated with what it treats well, turbuculosis *Liferoot=Squaw Weed-marshy damn ground-treats gynecological problems and labor pain *Queens delight-sandy soil-purgative, treatment for rash and vanarial disease.
