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Early settlers sometimes used redbud blossoms as a salad food. Redbud bark was used to treat common maladies and sometimes even leukemia. Medicinal Uses: A tea made from the inner bark is highly astringent. Used in the treatment of fevers, diarrhea and dysentery, it is also a folk remedy for leukemia. A cold infusion of the roots and inner bark have been used to treat various chest complaints including whooping cough and congestion. Bark of redbud has been used as an astringent in the treatment |
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High John the Conqueror is a legendary figure, a black slave who by virtue of his cleverness and quick wits always managed to get the best of his "masters." It is only within comparatively recent years that any certainty has existed in relation to the plant from which jalap root is obtained. It was first spoken of in 1609, as Bryonia mechoacana nigricans, then it was regarded by Ray as Convolvulus Americanus jalapium dictus, after which Tournefort, being deceived by persons who assert |
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Early settlers sometimes used redbud blossoms as a salad food. Redbud bark was used to treat common maladies and sometimes even leukemia Medicinal Uses: A tea made from the inner bark is highly astringent. Used in the treatment of fevers, diarrhea and dysentery, it is also a folk remedy for leukemia. A cold infusion of the roots and inner bark have been used to treat various chest complaints including whooping cough and congestion. Bark of redbud has been used as an astringent in the treatment o |
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Because mandrake contains deliriant hallucinogenic tropane
alkaloids such as hyoscyamine and the roots sometimes
contain bifurcations causing them to resemble human figures,
their roots have long been used in magic rituals, today also
in neopagan religions such as Wicca and Germanic revivalism
religions such as Odinism. All parts of the mandrake plant
are poisonous. Photo by:
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Results of archeological digs indicate that Native Americans may have used Echinacea for more than 400 years to treat infections and wounds and as a general "cure-all." Purple coneflower has a long history of medicinal use. Native Americans used it as an antidote for snake bit and other venomous bites and stings. It was also used in a smoke treatment for headaches. Purple coneflower was used to calm toothaches and sore gums, and tea form it was drunk to treat colds, mumps, arthritis |
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It is found by experience to be singularly good for wind cholic, as also to expel the stone and gravel in the kidneys. The decoction thereof in wine, is an excellent good cure for those that have inward wounds, hurts, or bruises, both to stay the bleeding, to dissolve and expel the congealed blood, and to heal the parts, as also to cleanse and heal outward sores, ulcers and fistulas; and for green wounds, many do only bruise the herb, and apply it to the places, and it heals them quickly. The sa |
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The Hopis used the roots of older plants to make a blood-strengthening tea for pregnant women. Teas were also made to treat colic, eye infections, muscle soreness, body swellings, rheumatism, and indigestion. The Acoma and Laguna pueblo tribes dried the leaves for smoking material, and some say the plant has a sedative proper The dried root can be ground into a powder, mixed with cereal flours, and used to make bread. This bread is eaten to reduce the appetite The Navajos boiled the flowers to m |
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Insect-eating plant. M. lewisii is known to possess "flypaper-type" traps and is apparently protocarnivorous, supplementing its nutrients with small insects. Member of the Lopseed Family, Phrymaceae which is in the same order as mints, Lamiales. Always in wet areas, principally along mountain streams. Food and Medicine: Mimulus species tend to concentrate sodium chloride and other salts absorbed from the soils in which they grow in their leaves and stem tissues. Native Americans |
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Lamb's Ears Plant grows from the center outward after it flowers. Lamb's Ears suffers in hot, humid summers. Stachys affinis produces edible tubers, sometimes called Chinese artichokes. 0e6ORdfWJ4U See also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRoPNvGS4O0 |
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