Forwarded from Chellie
Ok y'all. I'm thankful for victories no matter how small they may seem. I was elated to find a tomato growing! Some of the squash is growing flowers. And that gnarly zucchini plant is finally putting on female flowers. I am over the moon about that 😁
Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Hebrews 4:16 KJV
https://bible.com/bible/1/heb.4.16.KJV
Hebrews 4:16 KJV
https://bible.com/bible/1/heb.4.16.KJV
Forwarded from Serra Ametrine
Jiaogulan is a plant that grows wild in China. The leaf is used to make medicine. Jiaogulan is sometimes referred to as “Southern Ginseng” because it grows in south central China and is used in similar ways as ginseng.
Jiaogulan is used for high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and improving heart function. It is also used for strengthening the immune system, increasing stamina and endurance, increasing resistance to environmental stress (as an “adaptogen”), improving memory, and preventing hair loss.
Other uses include treatment of poor appetite, cough, chronic bronchitis, ongoing stomach pain (chronic gastritis), pain and swelling (inflammation), ulcers, constipation, stress, gallstones, ovesity, cancer, diabetes, trouble sleeping (insomnia), backache, and pain.
Some people use jiaogulan as an anti-aging agent, antioxidant, and detoxifying agent.
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https://www.rxlist.com/jiaogulan/supplements.htm
Jiaogulan is used for high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and improving heart function. It is also used for strengthening the immune system, increasing stamina and endurance, increasing resistance to environmental stress (as an “adaptogen”), improving memory, and preventing hair loss.
Other uses include treatment of poor appetite, cough, chronic bronchitis, ongoing stomach pain (chronic gastritis), pain and swelling (inflammation), ulcers, constipation, stress, gallstones, ovesity, cancer, diabetes, trouble sleeping (insomnia), backache, and pain.
Some people use jiaogulan as an anti-aging agent, antioxidant, and detoxifying agent.
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#jiaogulan
#immortalityvine
https://www.rxlist.com/jiaogulan/supplements.htm
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Jiaogulan: Health Benefits, Side Effects, Uses, Dose & Precautions
Learn more about Jiaogulan health benefits, uses, side effects, effectiveness, safety, precautions, and warnings
Forwarded from Serra Ametrine
Gynostemma pentaphyllum, also called jiaogulan (Chinese: 绞股蓝, Pinyin: jiǎogǔlán, literally "twisting blue plant"), is a diocieous, herbacious climbing vine of the family Cucurbicitae (cucumber or gourd family) widely distributed in South and East Asia as well as New Guinea. Jiaogulan has recently been incorporated into traditional medicine.
(From Wiki, here on out it's me!)
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#jiaogulan
#immortalityvine
(From Wiki, here on out it's me!)
#daysoflearning
#jiaogulan
#immortalityvine
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Here's my lil fella! I got this one from a cutting on Etsy, once it is better established I can send some cuttings out for others. =)
The leaves are sweet-ish in flavor and can be added raw to green foods, dried and powdered, or used to make a tea!
They are powerful climbers! They like a trellis, or they'll trail.
It is almost invasively sturdy, but can be fed to livestock as well, and does not strangle other plants insofar as I can tell. It propogates by rooting, and requires a male and female plant to go to seed.
It can go wild outdoors and be cut back in zone 8 and above and mulched overwinter, or makes a huge luscious houseplant.
Here's my lil fella! I got this one from a cutting on Etsy, once it is better established I can send some cuttings out for others. =)
The leaves are sweet-ish in flavor and can be added raw to green foods, dried and powdered, or used to make a tea!
They are powerful climbers! They like a trellis, or they'll trail.
It is almost invasively sturdy, but can be fed to livestock as well, and does not strangle other plants insofar as I can tell. It propogates by rooting, and requires a male and female plant to go to seed.
It can go wild outdoors and be cut back in zone 8 and above and mulched overwinter, or makes a huge luscious houseplant.
So yesterday I dug and plumbed in a frost free hydrant and my friend from over @FoxfireHomestead helped me bring rock up from the pasture for it and helped fill it in. There is a video to follow
So the tarps roll up on the sides they protect from sun and rain. The green material was just wired on to protect from the wind during the snowpocalypse. We were using this one as a dog kennel
Forwarded from Kammi
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#Rosemary
Day 10
This is my Rosemary 🌿
Rosemary herb is among one of the most well-known leafy culinary herbs common to herb gardens and spice racks across many continents.
Rosmarinus officinalis is a species now botanically identified as Salvia rosmarinus as it has been recently reclassified with plants, like sage, which come from the Salvia genus.
#Rosemary
Day 10
This is my Rosemary 🌿
Rosemary herb is among one of the most well-known leafy culinary herbs common to herb gardens and spice racks across many continents.
Rosmarinus officinalis is a species now botanically identified as Salvia rosmarinus as it has been recently reclassified with plants, like sage, which come from the Salvia genus.
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#DaysOfLearning
#Rosemary
Rosemary, with its slender thick leaves growing off a woody stem, is one of those plants that have been historically utilized by humans for a very long time and is thus deeply rooted in herbal folklore and tradition. In fact, some sources say it was one of the earliest herbs documented on cuneiform clay tablets by ancient Mesopotamian civilizations.
As a Mediterranean native plant and cultivar, rosemary is linked with its affinity for coastal sea air and environments. The original Latin name rosmarinus comes from "ros", meaning dew and "marinus", meaning sea.
Often retaining its green silvery leaves and strong fragrance with blooming flowers throughout the year, it can withstand dry climates and is commonly found untended as a hardy drought-tolerant ornamental shrub.
As a highly fragrant aromatic herb, it has been widely utilized as a concentrated essential oil in aromatherapy, used with a carrier oil for topical use in massage or for the skin, scalp and hair care treatments.
While also popular as a food seasoning described to impart a combination of flavors such as pine, mint and citrus, rosemary herb can also be a potent plant-based ally to include in your herbal apothecary.
#Rosemary
Rosemary, with its slender thick leaves growing off a woody stem, is one of those plants that have been historically utilized by humans for a very long time and is thus deeply rooted in herbal folklore and tradition. In fact, some sources say it was one of the earliest herbs documented on cuneiform clay tablets by ancient Mesopotamian civilizations.
As a Mediterranean native plant and cultivar, rosemary is linked with its affinity for coastal sea air and environments. The original Latin name rosmarinus comes from "ros", meaning dew and "marinus", meaning sea.
Often retaining its green silvery leaves and strong fragrance with blooming flowers throughout the year, it can withstand dry climates and is commonly found untended as a hardy drought-tolerant ornamental shrub.
As a highly fragrant aromatic herb, it has been widely utilized as a concentrated essential oil in aromatherapy, used with a carrier oil for topical use in massage or for the skin, scalp and hair care treatments.
While also popular as a food seasoning described to impart a combination of flavors such as pine, mint and citrus, rosemary herb can also be a potent plant-based ally to include in your herbal apothecary.
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#Rosemary
Folklore
Rosemary herb throughout global history has been used for ritualistic purposes by numerous cultures around the world. Across Europe, sprigs of rosemary, bouquets and/or garlands were used in both weddings as well as in funeral ceremonies. In the poem "The Rosemary Branch, 17th century poet Robert Herrick wrote, "Grow it for two ends, it matters not at all, Be it for my bridal or burial."
It is likewise an herb associated with loyalty within marriage and rosemary in the home and garden is declared to help maintain a strong female dominance in the household.
Rosemary is also related to love and magic. In medieval folklore, if a man could not smell the fragrance of rosemary, he was not capable of loving a woman. In Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet, he writes "Doth not rosemary and Romeo begin both with a letter?", which is a take on this perspective.
In ancient Greece it was believed to be sacred to the goddess of love, Aphrodite, who like rosemary had a deep connection to the sea.
Rosemary has had a well-known reputation throughout the ages as a "memory enhancing" herb. Nicolas Culpeper, a 17th-century physician of herbal medicine, says that "It helps a weak memory, and quickens the senses", much the same way he describes the herb sage to have a similar benefit. As a mild warming stimulating diaphoretic, this might have something to do with rosemary's influence on circulation and its potential effect at enhancing blood flow to the brain.
Referred to by Shakespeare as the herb of "rememberance" in such plays as Hamlet and the verse by Ophelia, "There is rosemary for you, that's for rememberance! Pray you, love, remember."
Greek scholars were often claimed by many sources to have worn rosemary during examinations to improve their memory recall and performance. In the book Essential Herbal Wisdom, it was reported to be a customary folk remedy for a headache and was said "to ease the mind of cares." Rosemary leaves when crushed, steeped or heated were also believed to have a mood uplifting influence and supportive to general "mental health."
#Rosemary
Folklore
Rosemary herb throughout global history has been used for ritualistic purposes by numerous cultures around the world. Across Europe, sprigs of rosemary, bouquets and/or garlands were used in both weddings as well as in funeral ceremonies. In the poem "The Rosemary Branch, 17th century poet Robert Herrick wrote, "Grow it for two ends, it matters not at all, Be it for my bridal or burial."
It is likewise an herb associated with loyalty within marriage and rosemary in the home and garden is declared to help maintain a strong female dominance in the household.
Rosemary is also related to love and magic. In medieval folklore, if a man could not smell the fragrance of rosemary, he was not capable of loving a woman. In Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet, he writes "Doth not rosemary and Romeo begin both with a letter?", which is a take on this perspective.
In ancient Greece it was believed to be sacred to the goddess of love, Aphrodite, who like rosemary had a deep connection to the sea.
Rosemary has had a well-known reputation throughout the ages as a "memory enhancing" herb. Nicolas Culpeper, a 17th-century physician of herbal medicine, says that "It helps a weak memory, and quickens the senses", much the same way he describes the herb sage to have a similar benefit. As a mild warming stimulating diaphoretic, this might have something to do with rosemary's influence on circulation and its potential effect at enhancing blood flow to the brain.
Referred to by Shakespeare as the herb of "rememberance" in such plays as Hamlet and the verse by Ophelia, "There is rosemary for you, that's for rememberance! Pray you, love, remember."
Greek scholars were often claimed by many sources to have worn rosemary during examinations to improve their memory recall and performance. In the book Essential Herbal Wisdom, it was reported to be a customary folk remedy for a headache and was said "to ease the mind of cares." Rosemary leaves when crushed, steeped or heated were also believed to have a mood uplifting influence and supportive to general "mental health."