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Safe and Poisonous Garden Plants - Safe and Poisonous Garden Plants. My Cology. Medica. Ethnobotany. Morphologic Spice Index. Clove Oil Caveats. My Review of Calea Zacatechichi (Calea Z): The Dream Herb. Calea Zacatechichi is a dream herb that is scientifically shown to increase dream recall, dream intensity and hypnagogic imagery.

My Review of Calea Zacatechichi (Calea Z): The Dream Herb

About five years ago, I had my first Calea Zacatechichi experience. It produced a night of highly meaningful and vivid dreams that left me waking up thinking WOW. They were like no other dreams I'd had before. (And I'm a lucid dreamer.) Though it can certainly open the gateway to lucid dreaming, the really meaningful aspect of Calea Z is its ability to take you on an incredible inner journey. I've had lucid and non-lucid dreams with Calea Zacatechichi.

Some of my Calea Z dreams have been far removed from this world, conjuring up alien planets and futuristic cities. I can still remember how I felt to live in a world of the future - it was reminiscent of Iain Banks' Culture lore - and that feeling still runs through me like I have lived another life. When I woke up, I was mildly stunned to be in this reality. Medicinal_plants_in_the_south_pacific. Kanna: African Herb for Depression? Kanna (Sceletium tortuosum) has been used in traditional South African medicine for centuries to help boost mood and reduce stress, anxiety and tension.

Kanna: African Herb for Depression?

I discussed its use for treating depression with Tieraona Low Dog, M.D., an internationally recognized expert in the fields of integrative medicine, dietary supplements and women's health, and an expert on botanical medicine. She told me that kanna contains an alkaloid called mesembrine that may act as a serotonin reuptake inhibitor (many commonly prescribed antidepressant medications inhibit the reuptake of serotonin). However, Dr. Botanical.com. Full Key for Plant Identification: Go Botany.

Herbal First Aide. Insect Bites & Stings Essential Oils – Tea Tree, Eucalyptus, Lavender Mix any or all with a little Olive or vegetable oil and apply Cedar Wood Essential oil – kills houseflies, mosquitoes, and cockroaches in a concentration of 1 % Poultice: Tea Tree, Eucalyptus, & Lavender Essential Oil mixed with clay, add a bit of water to make a paste and put on the site.

Herbal First Aide

Apple Cider Vinegar – straight on the bite with cotton ball…(wasps) Baking Soda – make a paste with water. Essential First Aid Item: Activated Carbon. Activated carbon, in powdered form, should be in every medicine cabinet and first aid kit.

Essential First Aid Item: Activated Carbon

It is also known as activated charcoal. It is used around the world as a universal antidote for hundreds of poisons, including arsenic, mercury, pesticides, strychnine, warfarin, hemlock, E. Coli endotoxin, and gasoline. Over 4,000 chemicals, drugs, plant and microbial toxins, allergens, venoms, and wastes are effectively neutralized by activated charcoal, when it is given in sufficient quantities.

Common Non-Edible Plants. Poisonous Plants Basics. Plants are amazing creatures that produce many great benefits for human consumption.

Poisonous Plants Basics

We get most of our medicines from plants, our foods and even our beauty products. Still, there are poisonous plants among the wild edible plants that people need to be aware of when it comes to consuming them. To be responsible foragers we should have a few basic pieces of knowledge in our pockets to stay safe. By being smart about plant harvesting and consumption, we need not be scared. Poisonous Plants 1. Successful use of plants in a survival situation depends on positive identification.

Poisonous Plants 1

Knowing poisonous plants is as important to a survivor as knowing edible plants. Knowing the poisonous plants will help you avoid sustaining injuries from them. Plants generally poison by-- Poisonous Plants 2. Plants basically poison on contact, ingestion, or by absorption or inhalation.

Poisonous Plants 2

They cause painful skin irritations upon contact, they cause internal poisoning when eaten, and they poison through skin absorption or inhalation in respiratory system. Many edible plants have deadly relatives and look-alikes. Preparation for military missions includes learning to identify those harmful plants in the target area. Positive identification of edible plants will eliminate the danger of accidental poisoning. Poisons. Herbs. Plants. Victuals. Quotidiana. Entheogenic Review. Well Health Supplements. Health References. HOMEOPATHY. Vegetarian. Homesteading Medicine & Health. Botanical illustrations .org Echinacea. Herbs at a Glance [NCCAM Health Information] Traditional Herbs for Relaxation and Inner Peace. By Elisa Adams Black cohosh.

Traditional Herbs for Relaxation and Inner Peace

This traditional women’s herb is most known today for its role in preventing hot flashes. Botanical Preservation Corps. How to Make Dit Da Jow Herbal Remedy for Pain Relief and Healing. Cloverleaf Farm 3 C's Herbal Healing Salve -1 oz. We've combined Chamomile, Calendula, and Comfrey in this wonderful herbal healing salve.

Cloverleaf Farm 3 C's Herbal Healing Salve -1 oz

This blend combines the best skin healing herbal properties to help heal minor burns, cuts, scrapes, bug bites, rashes, boils, and most other skin inflammations. 3 C's Herbal Healing Salve is the perfect item to have in your natural first aid kit for the whole family. Herbs and Why We Use Them: How to Cure a Sore Throat and Tonsils in only 4 hours. Our ancestors had extensive experience in the treatment of various diseases and they knew effective recipes for healing them.

How to Cure a Sore Throat and Tonsils in only 4 hours

Pau D'Arco or Taheebo or Lapacho: Herbal Medicine. Home Teams of Scientists from U.S. Universities are searching the jungles and rainforests of South America for plants whose leaves, roots or barks may hold the secrets to preventing or even curing such diseases as cancer, AIDS, leukemia and asthma. While some scientists scoff at the idea that South American plants could cure cancer or AIDS, others are well aware that the cure for scurvy was as simple as eating citrus. Quinine, taken from the bark of the South American Cinchona tree is a medicinally accepted treatment for malaria. Many of our modern "wonder drugs" were first discovered in the leaves or inner barks of plants and trees.

Unfortunately, these man-made medicines often cause serious side effects. Rhodium: Drug Chemistry Archive. Mucuna pruriens, levodopa, 5-HT, 5-HTP, bufotonin, nicotine, DMT, beta-carboline. Mucuna pruriens is a tropical legume known as velvet bean and by other common names (see below), native to Africa and Asia and widely naturalized.[1] The plant is notorious for the extreme itchiness it produces on contact, particularly with the young foliage and the seed pods. It has value in agricultural and horticultural use and has a range of medicinal properties. Description[edit] Smilax: A Brier And That’s No Bull. No, that is not a “Walking stick” insect. It is the growing end of a Smilax, a choice wild food. The Walking Stick insect There used to be a field in Sanford, Florida, near Lake Monroe, that was nearly overrun with growing Smilax every spring.

I could get a couple of quarts of tender tips daily over a few weeks, enough for many meals. Smilax. For another plant sometimes called Smilax see Asparagus asparagoides. Description and ecology[edit] A typical Smilax sp. leaf On their own, Smilax plants will grow as shrubs, forming dense impenetrable thickets. They will also grow over trees and other plants up to 10 m high, their hooked thorns allowing them to hang onto and scramble over branches. The genus includes both deciduous and evergreen species. Les médecines sacrées. Sacred Succulents. Wildcrafted Herbs - Oregon's Wild Harvest - Oregon's Wild Harvest.

We follow a strict set of guidelines when we wildcraft. First and foremost we harvest with future generations in mind, helping to improve the conditions and plant populations as we harvest. Some basic wildcrafting guidelines we follow are: Never harvest more than one-third of a specific plant in any one eco system Re-plant seeds and root crowns, always leaving the grandfather and grandmother plants, providing the best seed stock for future generations Always harvest in areas that are free of any possible pollutants Stay well away from roads and commercial farming areas Always obtain proper permits to harvest, working closely with the Department of Natural Resources We strive to use only organic herbs in place of ones that are "endangered. " Bulk organic herbs, spices, teas & essential oils.

Horizon Herbs-Organic growers of medicinal herb seeds, medicinal herb plants, organic vegetable seeds and organic garden seeds. Empowering Gardeners to Grow Roots of Sustainability Thank you for your interest in open pollinated vegetables, culinary herbs and medicinal herbs. Mood enhancers : Meridian Botanicals. Médecine intégrée. Guide to Alternative Medicine and Health. The Herbal Medicine-Maker's Handbook: A Home Manual: James Green, Ajana: 0028195949904: Amazon.com: Books. Make Life Healthy - Herbpathy.com. Mastic (plant resin) "Arabic gum" redirects here. It is not to be confused with Gum arabic. Mastic - Chios Travel Guide. Mastic is the brand product of Chios. This unique natural resin of the Chios mastic tree has multiple uses and its production and trade is a main pillar of the local economy. Chios mastic gum. Chios mastic is a unique agricultural product produced in a small area in the south part of Chios. Medicinal Spices Exhibit - UCLA Biomedical Library: History & Special Collections.

Medical Cannabis Review. On the Pharm. Plant Guides. Coco.nuts. Seeds. Spice of life.