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"Every single person has a life to live, a work to do, a glorious personality, a wonderful individuality." Dr. Edward Bach - The Original Writings

http://www.bachflower.com/questionnaire.htm

there are 38 remedies and

7 groups; ( 7 emotional states that need our attention, the essence can help you help yourself through your emotive needs. I believe with work through your intellects and emotions; learning how these work together and becoming aware of what they are telling you can be very beneficial.) And along your way, your journey; these wonderful flowers of the fields and glades are here to help us. I see my journey just as we would before motorized transportation and most walked. Some had horses, but even then walking and leading your horse who, wise as he/she was, would want to stop and graze motherearth's mighty plains of delectable flowers and grasses. In our journey I see those blessed habitats. Our flowers of the fields and glades are still there for us. Even sticking out through the cracks of our old bridges and roads. One way or another we need to stop and be with our mother and her bounty. It is still there for us. but I've gone too far. Anyone reading this most likely already knows their own journey, this era, it's journey. With all my respect, here's a bit of info the doctor suggested where flowers help with seven emotional upsets(grandios upsets as it were). I have also known some of these and do work on mine all of the time. I am feeling stuck and remose. Walked with intent and will go check my flowers and fields here in a minute. Caio!

http://www.bachflower.com/7_Groups.htm
1. Fear.
2. Uncertainty.
3. Insufficient interest in present circumstances.
4. Loneliness.
5. Over-sensitivity to influences and ideas.
6. Despondency or Despair.
7. Over-care for welfare of others.

{Disclaimer; my blog is a public journal, it is only a reference tool for me and entertainment level, at best. I do not claim to be expert, but ONLY to be interested in the subjects I post. I have my bias' that should be evident, and know that you all understand this when reading. I appreciate your help where information is wrong or dated or anything else that make you go "hm". It is so exciting to hear from you about things I do not know about. I hope you all enjoy visiting and understand that I am not a professional, I am an interested citizen working on living a life and communcating interests I see and some needs that I feel compelled to voice. I apprieciate all the feedback from my readers. A special thank you to KaronV for her careful insights, profound guidances, her clarity, special kindnesses, and integrities.

Please be consulted before trying any new herb or considering them first} and always remember to smile....tootles.

Thank you for the prompt. I am human and such.

I always try to be integral. I always biobliphy my information. When I add the Title, author, publisher and date, it is because it is excerpted directly from the text. I do add my thoughts and do make typos, but edit them as I see them, as well. When I add my person thoughts I use brackets or italicize it for clarity.

Thank you most kindly, again, for visiting and for all of your insightful feedback.

Ciao and Cheers,
Allison of

©Allisonians

Free tele-class Love Your Liver - Saturday Jan 29 - 10am EST

Register for this introductory class, listen live or receive the playback link and listen at your leisure. Webinar event "Love Your Liver: Spring and the Wood Element" with Thea Summer Deer.

Upon registration for this event, go to your wisewomanbookshop.com account and you will have access to the download pdf with access info for the free event. Email wisewoman@herbshealing.com if you need the pdf emailed to you directly.

In this one hour presentation we will discuss why the liver is so important for optimum health and its relationship to the Wood Element as described in Traditional Chinese Medicine. We will look at the role of the liver in health and disease from the perspective of TCM Five Element Theory. This will serve as an introduction to the 12 week course by the same name for those who would like to learn more, and also as a forum for actively enrolled students. We will hear from students who have completed, or are in the process of completing, the Lesson One assignment, which is: You will begin to dialog with your liver and journal about your health, identifying blocks that keep you from experiencing a greater flow of life force energy.

Thea will also be discussing three herbs in this presentation: Yellow root/Xanthorhiza simplicissima, Self Heal/Prunella vulgaris, and one of the herbs (Red Clover/Trifolium pratense) from her upcoming book with Bear & Co, The Wisdom of the Plant Devas: Herbal Medicine for a New Earth.

After registering for the free tele-class, go to Thea's slideshow at Wise Woman University: Burdock Loves Your Liver if you like the free lesson, register for Thea's 12 week Love Your Liver online course - only 75 Dollars..

Love Your Liver with Mentor Thea Summer Deer
This 12 week online course will benefit herbal practitioners at any level, and individuals who want to heal and support their liver for optimum health.

This twelve week online course, Love Your Liver: Spring and the Wood Element, contains information I hope will someday be taught to our children as a matter of course so they grow in the knowledge that healing takes place in the context of relationships.

Course start dates:

Jan 1, 2011 - with later dates as well
Go to the link for more information there;
http://www.herbalmedicinehealing.com/store/item_view.asp?estore_itemid=1000543
Knowledge is power and empowered people make empowered choices. Nowhere can this be seen more clearly than in the choices that effect health and wellbeing. We have not really been taught how to take care of ourselves or what it means to have a longevity plan.

Our current system of health education, put in place by government and corporations, do not necessarily have our best interests at heart. Our current model of health care itself is steeped in the heroic and mechanistic model. Chinese Medicine, on the other hand, is an empirical system of knowledge that has been in place for thousands of years.

When we marry the best of our current models of medicine with the healing modalities of the ancients, a bigger picture emerges: one in which the whole person is seen in a new light of understanding. This course will explore a holistic approach to taking care of one of the most amazing organs in our body.

COURSE GOALS:
• Gain a basic understanding of the Liver, how it functions, increase awareness around this vital organ.

• Begin to look at Liver Imbalance from the perspective of Chinese Five Element Theory, specifically the Wood Element which governs the liver.

• Understand the relationships between physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual health.

• Gain a deeper understanding of the importance of aligning with the natural rhythms of the earth.

• Acquire tools for recognizing and diagnosing patterns of imbalance, specifically Liver Imbalance.

• Put the lessons learned in this class into practice through dietary and lifestyle recommendations, and herbs that specifically support the liver.

• Learn how to increase vitality and longevity for yourself, your family or your clients.

• Have fun learning using the methods in this class which include journaling, dancing and cooking.

• Take your practice to the next level by examining a cases study and presenting one of your own.

Thea Summer Deer is a clinical herbalist, educator, writer, and musician. She began practicing midwifery in 1978 and was a founding mother of the South Florida School of Midwifery.

Her involvement in Alternative Medicine spans 30 years as owner of Mindbody and Evolutionary Press, and as the Executive Director of Resources for World Health. She is a graduate of the Botanologos School for Herbal Studies.

Mother, grandmother, avid cook and gardener, Thea is also an award winning songwriter performing in the acoustic duo, Thea & The GreenMan.
register here for 12 week course.

I like White 1st, then green. I got burned out on black teas in my teens. I drank quite alot and haven't had much since. I do like it in combination with other teas and such.

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Found the below info here; http://www.daleysfruit.com.au/i/b/Camellia-Sinesis-Tea-b.jpg
Evergreen shrub to tree whose leaves are used to make tea.

FEATURES: Small 2.5cm across white, occasionally pink, cupped flowers with a mass of yellow stamens. Leaves variable in size from around 1 Q-22cm long. The small growing tip leaves are used to make tea. ShruB to tall tree in sub/tropical climate but often grown as a low hedge of restricted in size by freqlient tip pruning.
FOR BEST RESULTS: Enrich soil with well rotted compost and retain moisture with a good thick mulch. When being harvested for tea the shoots and 2-3 top leaves are narvested every 8-1 Q days.
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Here is a website I found and am entering for reference. Many articles on all four of the teas mentioned in this article's title
http://blog.espemporium.com/
and another site with tea info
http://royalmajestea.com/basics.htm
more tea
http://www.alltea.com/
photo from;
http://almostedenplants.com/mall/wpe128.jpg

With Much gratitude for this information to their perspective sites,
Allisonians

A reference for the tickable title. Looking into sulfur and this company's products.
Cream form.
http://www.naturalbalanceinc.com

And some advice,
It's perspective link;
http://www.hoskingspharmacy.com/rosacea-controlled.htm

Here is one of the best ways to spend an evening, for me when I am not otherwise occupied. Makes me busy and not missing anybody important to me such as my husband and daughters, and, of course, my friends. Processing the deliciousness of pumpkin is one of my most favorite, tried and true traditions of this season. Formally known as, the pumpkin massacre, which I have been informed is way too violent and less productive than processing. As my seeds roast, I write. I also raked leaves, picked and hung out dandelion, lady's mantle, and dug up comfrey root (washed to be processed for skin care products including scalp care). Never boil comfrey leaves, never. I know, I know how bad of a reputation she has developed, but to each their own.

Caio for now,
Alli McD

©Allisonians Please ask me for permission to use my photos or writing. As pledges be. silly silly

"Call your members of Congress Today. Find your senators and representatives at www.congress.org
Don't let Congress pass another one (cap and trade) without hearing from you."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se12y9hSOM0

The Marketing of Fear!
One of my BIGGEST pet peeves!
Love you all, but let us STOP talking if all we can talk a bout is fearfulness in our markets at least.
Or we could at least cut down.
Gossip with one less person
fear monger with one less person a day or a week.
Think of how you talk about fear.
This video talks about fear, but it also talks about
RESOLUTION
We might all think about adding this to our dialogs.

Here is the link to an identification site
for a book excerpt on the matter;
here's the link:
http://www.wildmanstevebrill.com/Plants.Folder/Elderberry.html

"...The tiny, black, globular berries grow on branching, umbrella-like clusters..."

A Cautionary note;
Avoid elderberries species with red fruit growing in rounded, instead of flat clusters.

Here are a couple of sites I wanted to hold on to and to share with others.

Apitherapy Raw Honey
Honey Gardens link;
http://www.honeygardens.com/letters.htm

~~~AND~~~

How to make Elderberry syrup link
You Tube Video;

http://www.ehow.com/how_2330355_treat-foot-fungus-bubbling-foot.html

Here's an amazing footbath! Had to share.

Cheers,
Alli

Respectfully from Ehow;
Thank you Ehow. You've done it once again.

Here's what I learned.

Bubbleeeeeee

Pour 3 cups of apple cider vinegar into the basin. This basin needs to be large enough to hold both of your feet when they are completely underwater.

Add the warm water and baking soda. As these ingredients interact with the vinegar, the entire mixture will start to bubble.

Soak your feet in the warm bath for 10 minutes. If you feel that the warm water is helping any itching or burning symptoms you may leave your feet in longer, but the bubbles will start to fade out and the water will cool.

Scrub your feet gently with the loofah. This will remove dead skin and also help work the vinegar mixture into cracks in your feet where fungus may be living.

Pat your feet dry with the towel. You can use this treatment every day until your foot fungus disappears, then cut down to once a week to keep your feet clean and healthy.

Read more: How to Treat Foot Fungus with a Bubbling Foot Bath | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/how_2330355_treat-foot-fungus-bubbling-foot.html#ixzz10hFSCkYu

Read more: How to Treat Foot Fungus with a Bubbling Foot Bath | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/how_2330355_treat-foot-fungus-bubbling-foot.html#ixzz10hF2Qdug

Highly recommended to read!!!!!

For those of you who may not know, Johns Hopkins is a highly respected health institution and does incredible research. Because I care about YOU, I would like you to take the time to read this and PLEASE, PLEASE.. Heed the advise.

John Hopkins Update - Good article

AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY ('TRY', BEING THE KEY WORD) TO ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY.

Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins :

1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.

2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime.

3 When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.

4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors.

5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.

6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastrointestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.

7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.

8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.

9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.

10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.

11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply..

*CANCER CELLS FEED ON:

A. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses, but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in color. Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.

B. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soy milk cancer cells are being starved.

C. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.

D. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).

E. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer fighting properties. Water-best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.

12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines becomes putrefied and leads to more toxic buildup.

13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.

14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the bodies own killer cells to destroy cancer cells.. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.

15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger, un-forgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.

16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.

1. No plastic containers in micro.

2. No water bottles in freezer.

3.. No plastic wrap in microwave.

Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters. This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as well. Dioxin chemicals cause cancer, especially breast cancer. Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies. Don't freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic. Recently, Dr. Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Cast le Hospital, was on a TV program to explain this health hazard. He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us. He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers. This especially applies to foods that contain fat. He said that the combination of fat, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body. Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food You get the same results, only without the dioxin. So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else. Pa per isn't bad but you don't know what is in the paper. It's just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper. The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.

Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave. As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food. Cover food with a paper towel instead.

This is an article that should be sent to anyone important in your life.

By Ear to the Ground

It wasn’t DNR’s mapping that caused it of course, but, just by coincidence, a geology team from the department had recently completed seismic mapping in the area of last Tuesday’s minor earthquake east of Seattle.

On Tuesday morning, May 25, at 5:21 a.m., a moderate 3.4 magnitude earthquake rattled residents near Carnation in eastern King County. We have heard no reports of damage or injuries, though there were stories of family pets acting oddly shortly before the quake occurred (but if you own cats, how can you tell?). A lot of people slept through the quake. The epicenter was about 3 miles east of Union Hill Rd. and Novelty Hill Rd., at a depth of 3.9 miles below the ground on a segment of the Rattlesnake Mountain fault.

It just happens that at least one homeowners’ association we know of in the area has an aggressive program of earthquake preparedness. The Trilogy at Redmond Ridge homeowners’ association takes part in the Map Your Neighborhood program from the Washington State Emergency Management Division. They have trained and educated 68 percent of residents in the community’s 1,600 homes. Tonight, Timothy Walsh, DNR chief hazards geologist, is speaking to Trilogy residents at a previously scheduled emergency preparedness meeting. Tim is one of the experts featured on a four-part series on earthquakes in the Northwest, “On Shaky Ground,” scheduled to air June 8 through 11th on KUOW-FM.

More about earthquakes is on the web page of the DNR Division of Geology and Earth Resources, which maps and assesses earthquake faults so homeowners, businesses and goverments know where the risks are.

Why it was called a fairy story;
"...In fact Orwell was a deep lover of words who never consciously misused them. If he said he had written a fairy-srory with a political purpose, we cannot lightly suppose he spoke lightly. A political purpose suggests some kind of moral, and that suggests rather the fable, the medium of Aesop or la Fontaine or even Thurber. There have been fairy-stories purporting to have morals before now: Rimsky-Korsakov called Le Coq d'Or "a fairy-tale with a moral," though no one except possibly the Russian Imperial Censor (who objected to the original version of the opera as subversive) has ever been able to detect what it was. There is something freakish about the idea, anyway, which makes it seem unlikely to stir the emotions of the common reader; and it is impossible to attach a moral to any familiar sense to Animal Farm, where wickedness ends in triumph and virtue is utterly crushed. There is perhaps a moral for farmers: don't take to drink and let your animals get out of hand; but even so the villains will be comforted to find that everything comes out all right for them in the end. For the downtrodden animals there is nothing but misery, cruelty, and injustice; and in place of a moral there is only the tragic chorus of the donkey Benjamin, who held that "life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly." This is not like the kind of moral that tells us to look before we leap or not to count our boobies before they are hatched. For the animals never had a chance to choose, and if they had it would have made no difference.
It is just the sense of purposeless cruelty, though, that gives the clue to Orwell's purpose, as well as to his deadly serious reason for calling Animal Farm a fairy-story. The point about fairy-stories is that they are written not merely without a moral but without a morality. They take place in a world beyond good and evil, where people (or animals) suffer or prosper for reasons unconnected with ethical merit--for being ugly or beautiful respectively, for instance, or for even more unsatisfactory reasons. A little girl sets out to do a good deed for her grandmother and gets gobbled up by a wolf; a young rogue escapes the gallows (and gets an old Jew hanged instead) by his talent on the fiddle; dozens of young princes die horrible deaths trying to get through the thorn-hedge that surrounds the Sleeping Beauty, just because they had the bad luck to be born before her hundred-year curse expired; and one young prince, no better or worse, no handsomer or uglier than the rest gets through merely because he has the good luck to arrive just as the hundred years are up; and so on and so on. Even when Grimm's stepmothers are called "wicked," it is well to remember that in German their Bosheit is viciousness and bad temper, not moral guilt. For all this is related by the fairy-story tellers without approval or disapproval, without a glimmer of subjective feeling, as though their pens were dipped in surgical spirit to sterilize the microbes of emotion. They never seek to criticize or moralize, to protest or plead or persuade; and if they have an emotional impact on the reader, as the greatest of them do, that is not intrinsic to the stories. They would indeed only weaken that impact to achieve it. They move by not seeking to move; almost, it seems, by seeking not to move.".
C. M. Woodhouse

aka ~~~ end quote.
Thank you for your insights Mr. Woodhouse

I have said throughout the blogsphere that my posts are sometimes, if not, mosttimes just for my reference(and in our era, blogshperically~publicly so), and merely for my journal and with that I will now add that they are entering the league of fairy-story. If you are so moved, please join me.

I would like to clarify; this excerpt spoke mountains to me about six months or a year ago. Just as Don Miguel Ruiz did.
Namesta!

the company Halliburton is the company that completed the "rig cementing" just 20 hours before the rig exploded. A federal study, meanwhile, shows that most rig blowouts are caused by problems with rig cementing. So now it appears that Halliburton may be implicated in this environmental disaster. (http://www.sfgate.com.../cgi-bin/artic...)
http://www.naturalnews.com/028693_Gulf_of_Mexico_Halliburton.htmlSee More
www.sfgate.com

"I'm beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all."
--Laura Ingalls Wilder

Hello! And HAPPY EARTHDAY!
Here is my pledge. Please join me cyberically in a gesture of Earthling. Here was my pledge. You can tick the title to redirect there.
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I Pledge to Dedicate a Day of Service to the Earth!
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, I pledge to dedicate a Day of Service to the Earth and the amazing wildlife it sustains.

Whether it's picking up trash in a local park, planting native shrubs to create a safe haven for wildlife in my backyard or getting a group of friends together to volunteer to help restore habitat for wildlife, I promise to walk the walk for wildlife this year and do my part to make every day Earth day.
Signed,
Allison
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Here are some great suggestions from Call my Cate
"...Take a few minutes to recycle a plastic bottle, think before you print, hug a tree, or read a label. Because a whole bunch of small things can add up to make a big difference." Thanks Cate!

Very interesting video. I don't know that Smilax grows in this region. I couldn't find it in our Plants of the Pacifc Northwest which is a bummer because it looked interesting and kind of yummy!
I am going to look this up and wrtie to Green Dean. He is a great fellow who loves to talk about wildlife plants aka weeds. If I remember right, he is from the East Coast. So you eastcoast folks should give it a try. There is also a receipe for rootbeer using the Smilax root.

©Allisonians

From Green Deane's Website
"...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 easily over a few weeks, enough for many side dishes. Cooked like asparagus or green beans, they are excellent, and also edible raw in small quantities..."
"Oh, about that field in Sanford: A century ago it was a truck farm producing celery and other vegetables. Then it fell fallow growing smilax. Now it’s an apartment complex."

There is a look alike that Deane warns about on his video and in the text. Tick the title to redirect to the video.
Here is the link to his site;

http://www.eattheweeds.com/www.EatTheWeeds.Com/EatTheWeeds.com/Entries/1938/2/15_Smilax%3A_A_Brier%2C_And_That%E2%80%99s_No_Bull.html

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Green Deane’s “Itemized” Plant Profile
A climbing shrub with tuberous roots, knobby white roots tinged with pink, bamboo like stems, more or less thorny, leaves varying with species and on the bush, tiny flowers, five slim petals, fruit round, green turning to black, one small brown seed. Some species have red fruit, edibility of red fruit unreported.

Starts putting on shoots in February in Florida, later in the season as one moves north. Seeds germinate best after a freeze.

It grows best in moist woodlands, but can tolerate a lot of dry and is often seen climbing trees. Left on its own with nothing to climb it sometimes creates and brambly shrub. Thicket provides protection for birds.

Beside making sarsaparilla, the roots can be used in soups or stews, young shoots eaten cooked or in small quantities raw, berries can be eaten both raw and cooked, usually are chewed like gum (avoid the large seed.) Pounds of roots to pounds of flour is a 10 to one ratio.
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LKF:
More from Green Deane
Mythologically speaking;
Name Smilax comes from Greek Mythology with several variations.
Smilax was a beautiful young nymph who fell in love with a mortally young Spartan named Crocus . Crocus fell in love with Hermes. Hermes turned him into a flower named Crocus where we also get saffron. Smilax was heart broken because her love was now a blooming idiot. Aphrodite took pity on her and turned her into a vine so that Smilax could always be with her Crocus.
Thanks Deane!

Photo sketch from;
http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/s/smilax55.html
Photo picture of
Smilax rotundifolia & S. auriculata From;
http://www.floridata.com/tracks/transplantedgardener/ViciousVines.cfm

Allisonians'

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Bach Flower Questionaire and other resources

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Disclaimer; My journeling is for referencing my journeys into information and knowledge; and to share these insights publically, all feedback is most valuable and much apprieciated..

Friday, January 28, 2011

Henrietta's Herbal Website for reference. TY Karon!

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Free Introductory Webinar from WWU; Thea will be teaching a class called Love Your Liver.

For the Love of Tea; What is your preference? Black, Green, White or Oolong?

Monday, December 27, 2010

Natural Balance.com

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

The Process of Pumpkins; by Allison Dahl

Cap and Trade Legislation Explained

Carbon Cap and Trade!!!! I don't really know what I think about global warming. I DO know what I think about polution!

Water; It's A Lot More

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Common Elderberry identification

Honey and Elderberry; a couple of my favorite things~~~

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Bubbling Foot Bath

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

John Hopkins Update - Good article

Thursday, May 27, 2010

The lowdown from DNR on Tuesday’s earthquake near Carnation

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Intro Please; Excerpt of...C. M. Woodhouse; The Times Literary Supplement, London, August 6, 1954

Saturday, May 1, 2010

...And, Sadly, the not so funny information...Fr; Natural News. Ticking the title redirects to the full article there.....

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Thursday Quote

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Defenders of Wildlife; In Honor of the 40th Anniversary of Earthday Make a Pledge to Dedicate One Day to the Earth's Preservation

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Eat The Weed DOT com YouTube episode on Smilax! The original root used in Sasperilla and Root Beer.

Banana This; Recycle Old Peels~ fertilizer or silver polish

SOURDOUGH STARTER with WILD YEAST

Thank You For Visiting!