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01-10-2011, 11:54 PM
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Corn silk
Gunner wrote:
On Sep 30, 5:14 pm, "David Hare-Scott" wrote: Gunner wrote: On Sep 29, 8:25 pm, "David Hare-Scott" wrote: David, its a bit overgenealized to brand it as "was practiced by native Americans'. Many more major pharmacological herbs/plants smoked and ingested back in the day. Yet I'm sure there are accounts of silk being used by certain of the NA nations. Still, any use would have only been a minor aspect in the much larger harvest rituals of which corn was always the king of the court. Really no different in intent than most End Of Season rituals throughout the world. On the other hand, I believe there are mentions in the old Foxfire book series. Lot of it smoked behind the barn back in the day, I'm sure. Some of the Nuevo White Indians" want to claim some ancient magic psychic holistic medicinal properties, but really there is no secret mind altering shamanistic alkaloids. Still nothing wrong with eating it. Lots of evidence to it being helpful in urinary tract infections,maybe anti cancer, some demulcent properties.... , but the Internet would tell ya that. So come on, what was..." Never tried it. Any takers?". Really, you want to know about smoking corn silk by NAs? Not really, just thread drifting, never mind. D |
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