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I’m going to get a new notebook and write down your suggestions so I have them when I get the Flu again.
Thank you’all 🙂
Magnolia aka Dorothy
Saj
Thank you for the list.
It’s very interesting, Nothing like this in my Mother’s
Betty Crocker Cookbook!
Magnolia
my house sets back in the woods and i seen alot of it this spring and summer, I went walking earlier today though and did not notice any. But i showed it to my wife and kids this summer. can’t really recall the flower. it must not last long. it has a singular leaf and it curves in the back like the top of a heart and then the stem kinda gets a purple tint towards the bottom. as a kid i never dug up the root but a couple of times usually i would break the stem and use it on cuts. just because some one showed me that.
sorry i thought i was following the topic on the other page on bloodroot.
Thank you for the details about that flower.
maybe a florist would know what it’s called.
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Magnolia
Oh, Shirley, you’re such a sweetheart…so wonderful of you to share your book with us! I looked it up in 3 ND & Blackhills & NE wildplant books last night and found the same thing. The amazing thing is though, I think it grows wild here in the yard at times here in the city. I wasn’t familar with it until your posts here. Even at that, I was drawn to it and dug some up last fall and transplanted it in a bed but it died. I thought I saw some again this year…need to go look.
The signs of the culture are all around. I found a worked flint cutter tool under the Mulberry tree in the back yard too. And yesterday while researching the Biloxi Language I found an illustration of a mulberry skirt said to be worn by young girls made from pounded Mulberry bark. There’s a spot in a nearby alley where I pick up lots of unworked flint chunks. Need to go to my son’s to eat now…will post the garments from plants later. The Antro book also has a chapter on medicinal plant use of SE nations. Thanks again!
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Wachinika wrote: Oh, Shirley, you’re such a sweetheart…so wonderful of you to share your book with us! I looked it up in 3 ND & Blackhills & NE wildplant books last night and found the same thing. The amazing thing is though, I think it grows wild here in the yard at times here in the city. I wasn’t familar with it until your posts here. Even at that, I was drawn to it and dug some up last fall and transplanted it in a bed but it died. I thought I saw some again this year…need to go look.
The signs of the culture are all around. I found a worked flint cutter tool under the Mulberry tree in the back yard too. And yesterday while researching the Biloxi Language I found an illustration of a mulberry skirt said to be worn by young girls made from pounded Mulberry bark. There’s a spot in a nearby alley where I pick up lots of unworked flint chunks. Need to go to my son’s to eat now…will post the garments from plants later. The Antro book also has a chapter on medicinal plant use of SE nations. Thanks again!
Hi Wachinika,
I would love to see some of those garments. When I think of a mulberry bark skirt…I wonder if it was comfortable. Was it used for ceremony? Tell us more! And the medicinals used by SE Nations sounds wonderul, would you share?
Good to see you here…been a while.:)
Shirley
Shirley and all,
Here’s the link to the photo of the Mulberry bark skirt. The list of illustrations begins on page xi.
http://books.google.com/books?id=8e4NAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR33&dq=dorsey+biloxi&num=100&as_brr=1#PPA32-IA1,M1
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I recall an awfully scratchy “Scottish wool” skirt from my own youth. Men and women seem to tolerate much discomfort to fit the standard image of fashion or ceremony. Maybe it was softened somehow and only seems brittle due to age. Maybe it kept mosquitoes or young men away.;)
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I apologize; the medicinal plants must have been elsewhere. I can’t find it among saved files so will post it if I remember. However this book has alot of stories in it.
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I spend alot of time outdoors keeping up with the yard, flowers and my own very small herb garden of lots of basil, spearmint, rosemary, cilantro, oregano, thyme, and hot red peppers. Actually a very time consuming project has turned out to be wresting the growth of the 6 Heavenly Blue morning glory seeds I planted along the side steps railing. It has grown to a large hedge but has yet to bloom. I have to keep trimming it and wrestling the 2 ft. of growth that occurs each evening so I can open the gate to the back yard. It latches onto the hanging plants and I have to unwind that…all this just to get out the door. We’ve had way above average rainfall this year. I feel like I’m living at Chitzen Itza.
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Take care,
Dianne
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I noticed the term ’emetic’.
I had a book once with the terms for the action of various herbs . One term was ’emetic’ – I think it means ‘throwing up’ that’s why it is used as a ‘poultrice’ on the outside the body. and not taken internally.
hmmm, you know what. thats not the same plant. the plant i know of looks the way i described it. no flower. its stem gives an orange red color and the root gives a blood red. its what i was shown as a child. if i can find one i will take picture of it. or if i can find picture on the net. interesting thanks Shirley
Wachinika wrote: Shirley and all,
Here’s the link to the photo of the Mulberry bark skirt. The list of illustrations begins on page xi.
http://books.google.com/books?id=8e4NAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR33&dq=dorsey+biloxi&num=100&as_brr=1#PPA32-IA1,M1
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I recall an awfully scratchy “Scottish wool” skirt from my own youth. Men and women seem to tolerate much discomfort to fit the standard image of fashion or ceremony. Maybe it was softened somehow and only seems brittle due to age. Maybe it kept mosquitoes or young men away.;)
<O:p
I apologize; the medicinal plants must have been elsewhere. I can’t find it among saved files so will post it if I remember. However this book has alot of stories in it.
<O:p
I spend alot of time outdoors keeping up with the yard, flowers and my own very small herb garden of lots of basil, spearmint, rosemary, cilantro, oregano, thyme, and hot red peppers. Actually a very time consuming project has turned out to be wresting the growth of the 6 Heavenly Blue morning glory seeds I planted along the side steps railing. It has grown to a large hedge but has yet to bloom. I have to keep trimming it and wrestling the 2 ft. of growth that occurs each evening so I can open the gate to the back yard. It latches onto the hanging plants and I have to unwind that…all this just to get out the door. We’ve had way above average rainfall this year. I feel like I’m living at Chitzen Itza.
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Take care,
Dianne
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Wachinika,
All I can say is wow! This book is great and I have saved it as a favorite for further perusal.
The information here is great…the Biloxi language and its similarities to Winnebago, Tutelo, etc; how fabrics were preserved with salt, charring, and contact with copper; woven moccacins, found in a KY cave; different styles of flints, pipes, gorgets and their uses. I could go on and I only skimmed the surface.
Thanks so much for sharing this book!:)
Shirley
magnolia wrote: I noticed the term ’emetic’.
I had a book once with the terms for the action of various herbs . One term was ’emetic’ – I think it means ‘throwing up’ that’s why it is used as a ‘poultrice’ on the outside the body. and not taken internally.
Yes, I would only use it externally myself, but my Cherokee plants book says it may be used in small doses for coughs, lung inflammations etc.
Shirley
I’ve seen that plant in the woods.
You have watch the names of some plants in books. For example: The other day I noticed Mayapple being called “Mandrake” which I knew that there was a problem there. Mayapple is called “American Mandrake”, the Mandrake in Europe and also in scripture are totally different than Mayapple.
Jeremy Slone wrote: hmmm, you know what. thats not the same plant. the plant i know of looks the way i described it. no flower. its stem gives an orange red color and the root gives a blood red. its what i was shown as a child. if i can find one i will take picture of it. or if i can find picture on the net. interesting thanks Shirley
I am gonna scratch my comment here, it is the same plant and it did have a stem and flower this early spring for a very short period of time. First time I ever noticed it. And some of the leaves I did notice looked like the shape of the photo in the book but not most of them, they were not as defined with the fingers in the leaves, it was more uniform but they are blood root.
if you are always stressed out all the time, bitter root helps relaxe you.
you chew on a peice of root, than when done you dry it out & make a tea out of it. another way to help with fevers is a plant called lemon balm, i was running a high fever & a friend used some dried lemon balm to make a tea. within 15 minutes my fever busted!
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