Wild Edibles
History is full of accounts where someone was on the brink of death from a viral infection -like typhoid or dengue or influenza- and because someone knew to use boneset to inhibit the virus’ ability to multiply and cause a...
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“Oh, honey! You ate garlic......” Such a whine is heard in our home when my husband eats something containing garlic and I do not. Basically having a major olfactory overload forces me to go grab something with garlic in it...
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Did you know that there is an edible and almost magical "weed" which grows freely in backyards, meadows and along roadsides that has a history of use as far back as the ancient Persians? Alexander the Great Used it...
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Long ago, was a plant known as Filius ante patrem, which means ‘the son before the father’ because its golden flowers appeared and withered before the leaves would ever be seen. With its tufted yellow heads and later-appearing, decoratively lobed,...
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The earth is greening up all around us and for those of us who want to create our own home medicinals, it's never too soon to get started collecting and drying those lovely “weeds” we who know better call...
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