Another awesome plant is Plantago Major commonly called Plantain. Steep the leaves lightly and place on open wounds or infections.
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PEANUT, I need your help. I have a large kidney stone they are going to remove. How can I prevent any more kidney stones? What herbs or plants can help me? I REALLY need to drink more water.
Thank you.Phyllanthus niruri, the common names are Chanca Piedra and Stonebreaker. I have no experience with this plant but it's listed in all my books for help in passing of kidney stones. More importantly, it's very good at preventing them from forming. It's a tropical plant but readily available in capsules on the net.
Also listed as a good preventative is lemon, Citrus limon... Instead of water drink lemonade!!! I buy it in gallon jugs at the market, drink it everyday.
I think i mentioned hydrangea already, excellent for dissolving kidney and gallstones. It's not a preventive and shouldn't be taken long term.
Goldenrod is excellent for calming inflamed kidneys (from stones).
Thank you.
What is bergamot?
Found it in case anyone else is interested@Peanut my poke berries are just starting to turn. Seems like last year you mentioned making something after they were done. I will do some searching but thought I’d mention it also.
I might try making ink too then@LadyLocust Be warned... poke berry juice stains anything it touches. In colonial days poke 'juice' was sometimes used as ink. It's the reason i don't mess with the berries. They make a semi-permanent mess.
I got it going and now have 4-5 plants.
Or you could use the berries for a natural dye—it’s like a cranberry color. Mother Earth News has an article on using it for dye.I might try making ink too thenI am pretty good at making messes
. Will probably keep it out in the summer kitchen- thanks for the heads up
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They are a beautiful flower, but it won’t give red dye. Its sleeves and flowers produce yellow, orange and browns. The only plant that gives you true red is madder (root). Cochineal—which is a bug— gives you a richer red. Both were used by the British for their redcoats. Mordants and finishers can shift colors but all natural dyes are unpredictable. Indigo and woad need to be fermented to produce blue.I know indians used the red in coreopsis as dye. I like this red color, be nice to see something dyed with it. Some people have it in gardens as an ornamental. It's not used as a medicine these days that i'm aware.
Sort of neat... I read once that around the year 1900 pregnant women believed drinking coreopsis tea would ensure a son. Maybe a daughter, I don't remember which now. Read about it long ago. But I do remember this was done by women in oklahoma/kansas/arkansas area.
The plant grows all over us and canada. From photo's i know it's colors vary a little by region, different than here. And the amount of red varies also.
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Wasn’t indigo fermented in urine?They are a beautiful flower, but it won’t give red dye. Its sleeves and flowers produce yellow, orange and browns. The only plant that gives you true red is madder (root). Cochineal—which is a bug— gives you a richer red. Both were used by the British for their redcoats. Mordants and finishers can shift colors but all natural dyes are unpredictable. Indigo and woad need to be fermented to produce blue.
I need retire so I can play more (1448 more days).
Stale urine never fresh.Wasn’t indigo fermented in urine?![]()
They are a beautiful flower, but it won’t give red dye. Its sleeves and flowers produce yellow, orange and browns. The only plant that gives you true red is madder (root). Cochineal—which is a bug— gives you a richer red. Both were used by the British for their redcoats. Mordants and finishers can shift colors but all natural dyes are unpredictable. Indigo and woad need to be fermented to produce blue.
I need retire so I can play more (1448 more days).
I had to just put saw it because that’s not something I can like or love orStale urine never fresh.
Wild Color is good book that details what color comes from what of the plant and what it would be with different mordants and finishers. Iron water (rusty bits of metal in a jar) saddens colors.Need to start a 'short timers' calendar. Old military tradition, big piece of cardboard marked lines filling the board with squares. Each square starting with 1448 has a number, counting down. X out each day. You probably already heard of it but in case...
Yellow, orange, brown? did not know that. I thought it was the red color. Now I'll have to dig through my books. I haven't researched it in years, need a refresher.![]()
Wild Color is good book that details what color comes from what of the plant and what it would be with different mordants and finishers. Iron water (rusty bits of metal in a jar) saddens colors.
I joke that I should start making hash marks on the garage wall every day I go to work.
Oh those poor children.Reminded me... Speaking of medicine… I remember my grandpa telling me about rusty nails in water. He was anemic as a kid, common back then. The traveling doc would prescribe new horseshoe nails in a jar with water. Kids would have to drink rusty water everyday to get ‘iron’ back in their blood.He hated it!
Yet simple and effective!!Oh those poor children.
Can you start your own crossvine? I don't know how easy it is to root or how long it takes to mature! Most vine plants start roots easily in a vase of water!This picture was the last time I drove 400miles for crossvine. If I'm driving that far I'm bringing back a pile! Lasted almost 10 years. Just wish it grew like this here!
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Can you start your own crossvine? I don't know how easy it is to root or how long it takes to mature! Most vine plants start roots easily in a vase of water!![]()
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