Wednesday 25 May 2016

Violets: breast health, first aid and they taste good, so cherish them.



I've said it before and I'll say it again -

Anyone who considers violets an undesirable weed should be the first with their backs against the wall when the revolution comes.

Weed? Pfffft. 


Violets are both food and medicine; they're a gift, a blessing, and sometimes a prophecy.



Tuesday 17 May 2016

Garbling the comfrey roots & a couple of nifty examples of the Doctrine of Signatures



There's a lot to squeeze into this post!

Early spring and late fall are the times we go after root medicine. Right about now, still early spring where I live, while the leaves of herbaceous perennial plants like dandelion and comfrey are still small their roots are still fat and full of stored goodness.

This is one of my many comfrey plants:

This is what happens when you drop ONE comfrey leaf on your lawn.