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i was wondering if any one has used this variety -
i have this growing and have read or heard (?) that it is used slightly differently than latiflora.... i was thinking of harvesting the root, and making medicine....
i have this growing and have read or heard (?) that it is used slightly differently than latiflora.... i was thinking of harvesting the root, and making medicine....
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Re: skullcap, biacal
Mon, November 2, 2009 - 8:33 PMI haven't used this plant yet....grew it a few years ago but it didn't come back...what beautiful blue flowers it had.
I am very interested in the medicine of it....so enjoy making it, Amanda....Isla Burgess spoke of this plant a bit.
Funny I don't remember much about what she said....what healing ways have you heard about it Amanda? :<)
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Re: skullcap, biacal
Wed, November 4, 2009 - 11:25 PMIf I remember right, it's something like a calming adaptogen. It's in David Winston's adaptogens book, I might be wrong about the calming aspect. -
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Re: skullcap, biacal
Thu, November 5, 2009 - 7:21 AMwith out re checking the books, i am thinking it isn't so much the nervine that latiflora is.
it's cooling, used in fevers?? it sedates by moving heat and congestion in the lungs, liver and heart ( maybe this is what david winston was talking about..... ) and given as a laxative, but astringent also.....??
if you say it didn't come back, i may dig a few to make a teeny amt of tincture. it grows easily enough to start more.
i have been going back and forth about digging the mallow. i guess i will do that too. i am just afraid that i wont think of a good enough home for the new ones in spring..... haha.
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