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Bindweed and nettles
Any hypnotists out there who would like to persuade the population of the UK
that bindweed and nettles are the basic ingredients of the elixir of life so that together, with your skills and my garden, we can make a fortune? |
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Bindweed and nettles
"Andy Sanson" wrote in message
... Any hypnotists out there who would like to persuade the population of the UK that bindweed and nettles are the basic ingredients of the elixir of life so that together, with your skills and my garden, we can make a fortune? Great idea! I could make a fortune too. Can we include ground elder in the brew? Dave. |
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On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 14:50:05 +0100, "Dave Henson"
wrote: Great idea! I could make a fortune too. Can we include ground elder in the brew? Ground elder _does_ have medicinal properties (I forget what they are) which is one reason that there is so much of it about: it was deliberately planted in physic gardens. -- Derek Turner Outlook Express is worth precisely what you paid for it. |
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"Derek Turner" wrote in message
... On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 14:50:05 +0100, "Dave Henson" wrote: Great idea! I could make a fortune too. Can we include ground elder in the brew? Ground elder _does_ have medicinal properties (I forget what they are) which is one reason that there is so much of it about: it was deliberately planted in physic gardens. -- Derek Turner Great - so I don't even have to share my profits with the hypnotist. |
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from "Andy Sanson" contains these words: Any hypnotists out there who would like to persuade the population of the UK that bindweed and nettles are the basic ingredients of the elixir of life so that together, with your skills and my garden, we can make a fortune? Nettles already are an elixir of life, not least to caterpillars, which miraculously turn into butterflies. They also make wonderful fertiliser for your garden, compost activator, treatment for rheumatism; plus you can eat them (vitamin and iron rich), and weave a very fine cloth from their fibre. Bindweed is probably equally useful, we just haven't recognised its potential yet. Janet. |
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Nettles also make excellent wine if you just use the tips and young bits. I
haven't tried bindweed wine. You can probably make jams and jellies from nettles too but none of this alters the fact that the little ******s sting. Has anyone else noticed that however careful you are about pulling them up, the stingy bits always chase after you and ambush you from unexpected directions? "Janet Baraclough" wrote in message ... The message from "Andy Sanson" contains these words: Any hypnotists out there who would like to persuade the population of the UK that bindweed and nettles are the basic ingredients of the elixir of life so that together, with your skills and my garden, we can make a fortune? Nettles already are an elixir of life, not least to caterpillars, which miraculously turn into butterflies. They also make wonderful fertiliser for your garden, compost activator, treatment for rheumatism; plus you can eat them (vitamin and iron rich), and weave a very fine cloth from their fibre. Bindweed is probably equally useful, we just haven't recognised its potential yet. Janet. |
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Nettles also make excellent wine if you just use the tips and young bits. I
haven't tried bindweed wine. You can probably make jams and jellies from nettles too but none of this alters the fact that the little ******s sting. Has anyone else noticed that however careful you are about pulling them up, the stingy bits always chase after you and ambush you from unexpected directions? "Janet Baraclough" wrote in message ... The message from "Andy Sanson" contains these words: Any hypnotists out there who would like to persuade the population of the UK that bindweed and nettles are the basic ingredients of the elixir of life so that together, with your skills and my garden, we can make a fortune? Nettles already are an elixir of life, not least to caterpillars, which miraculously turn into butterflies. They also make wonderful fertiliser for your garden, compost activator, treatment for rheumatism; plus you can eat them (vitamin and iron rich), and weave a very fine cloth from their fibre. Bindweed is probably equally useful, we just haven't recognised its potential yet. Janet. |
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Bindweed and nettles
Nettles also make excellent wine if you just use the tips and young bits. I
haven't tried bindweed wine. You can probably make jams and jellies from nettles too but none of this alters the fact that the little ******s sting. Has anyone else noticed that however careful you are about pulling them up, the stingy bits always chase after you and ambush you from unexpected directions? "Janet Baraclough" wrote in message ... The message from "Andy Sanson" contains these words: Any hypnotists out there who would like to persuade the population of the UK that bindweed and nettles are the basic ingredients of the elixir of life so that together, with your skills and my garden, we can make a fortune? Nettles already are an elixir of life, not least to caterpillars, which miraculously turn into butterflies. They also make wonderful fertiliser for your garden, compost activator, treatment for rheumatism; plus you can eat them (vitamin and iron rich), and weave a very fine cloth from their fibre. Bindweed is probably equally useful, we just haven't recognised its potential yet. Janet. |
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Sorry about multiple posting. Server playing games with me. Too early in the
morning. D'oh! "Andy Sanson" wrote in message ... Nettles also make excellent wine if you just use the tips and young bits. I haven't tried bindweed wine. You can probably make jams and jellies from nettles too but none of this alters the fact that the little ******s sting. Has anyone else noticed that however careful you are about pulling them up, the stingy bits always chase after you and ambush you from unexpected directions? "Janet Baraclough" wrote in message ... The message from "Andy Sanson" contains these words: Any hypnotists out there who would like to persuade the population of the UK that bindweed and nettles are the basic ingredients of the elixir of life so that together, with your skills and my garden, we can make a fortune? Nettles already are an elixir of life, not least to caterpillars, which miraculously turn into butterflies. They also make wonderful fertiliser for your garden, compost activator, treatment for rheumatism; plus you can eat them (vitamin and iron rich), and weave a very fine cloth from their fibre. Bindweed is probably equally useful, we just haven't recognised its potential yet. Janet. |
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On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 17:57:36 +0100, "Dave Henson"
wrote: Ground elder _does_ have medicinal properties (I forget what they are) which is one reason that there is so much of it about: it was deliberately planted in physic gardens. -- Derek Turner Great - so I don't even have to share my profits with the hypnotist. Found this on 'Goutweed' aka Ground Elder quote ---Medicinal Action and Uses---Diuretic and sedative. Can be successfully employed internally for aches in the joints, gouty and sciatic pains, and externally as a fomentation for inflamed parts. The roots and leaves boiled together, applied to the hip, and occasionally renewed,have a wonderful effect in some cases of sciatica. Culpepper says: 'It is not to be supposed Goutwort hath its name for nothing, but upon experiment to heal the gout and sciatica; as also joint-aches and other cold griefs. The very bearing of it about one eases the pains of the gout and defends him that bears it from the disease.' Gerard tells us that: 'with his roots stamped and laid upon members that are troubled or vexed with gout, swageth the paine, and taketh away the swelling and inflammation thereof, which occasioned the Germans to give it the name of Podagraria, because of his virtues in curing the gout.' /quote he http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/g/goutwe32.html -- Derek Turner Outlook Express is worth precisely what you paid for it. |
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In article , Janet Baraclough
writes Bindweed is probably equally useful, we just haven't recognised its potential yet. You call it Morning Glory and sell it in Garden Centres. John -- John Rouse |
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On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 06:40:15 +0100, Andy Sanson wrote:
I haven't tried bindweed wine. And I'm going to suggest that you not even think about trying it. There's an old-fashioned purgative "scammony" that is (unless my memory is completely gone) made from the root of a convolvulaceous plant. Its action is what they used to call "drastic" -- to be plain, you shit yourself totally empty and then some as the intestines secrete vast amounts of fluid. Used to be used in cases of dropsy to get excess fluids out of the body. You might say that it produces effects rather like the rice grain stools of cholera. In addition, bindweed has a latex as sap, and I have an intuitive idea that that's generally a sign "not to be consumed internally". Think of the irritant latex of the greater celandine, Chelidonium majus, and of all the euphorbias. -- Rodger Whitlock Victoria, British Columbia, Canada |
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Bindweed and nettles
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 06:40:15 +0100, Andy Sanson wrote:
I haven't tried bindweed wine. And I'm going to suggest that you not even think about trying it. There's an old-fashioned purgative "scammony" that is (unless my memory is completely gone) made from the root of a convolvulaceous plant. Its action is what they used to call "drastic" -- to be plain, you shit yourself totally empty and then some as the intestines secrete vast amounts of fluid. Used to be used in cases of dropsy to get excess fluids out of the body. You might say that it produces effects rather like the rice grain stools of cholera. In addition, bindweed has a latex as sap, and I have an intuitive idea that that's generally a sign "not to be consumed internally". Think of the irritant latex of the greater celandine, Chelidonium majus, and of all the euphorbias. -- Rodger Whitlock Victoria, British Columbia, Canada |
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"Rodger Whitlock" wrote in message ... On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 06:40:15 +0100, Andy Sanson wrote: I haven't tried bindweed wine. And I'm going to suggest that you not even think about trying it. There's an old-fashioned purgative "scammony" that is (unless my memory is completely gone) made from the root of a convolvulaceous plant. Its action is what they used to call "drastic" -- to be plain, you shit yourself totally empty and then some as the intestines secrete vast amounts of fluid. Used to be used in cases of dropsy to get excess fluids out of the body. You might say that it produces effects rather like the rice grain stools of cholera. In addition, bindweed has a latex as sap, and I have an intuitive idea that that's generally a sign "not to be consumed internally". Think of the irritant latex of the greater celandine, Chelidonium majus, and of all the euphorbias. I have a vague memory to the effect that dried bindweed leaves make a good substitute for marijuana. I have no idea of how true or otherwise it might be. [Franz Heymann] |
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from John Rouse contains these words: In article , Janet Baraclough writes Bindweed is probably equally useful, we just haven't recognised its potential yet. You call it Morning Glory and sell it in Garden Centres. :-). The very large-flowerd white one that grows in hedgerows, has really beautiful flowers...we could market that as "climbing white lily; wonderful in containers, trained up spiral stainless steel supports". Urg's Meeja Lurkers are all scribbling it down in their notepads... Janet. |
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