On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 21:50:42 -0500, "Polly Esther"
> wrote:

>
>"Landon" > wrote in message
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>> On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:29:47 -0500, Omelet >
>> wrote:
>>
>>>In article >,
>>> Landon > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Go ahead Omelet, what plant has always made you curious about it's
>>>> real properties as a medication?
>>>
>>>Entheogens.
>>
>> You've misunderstood what this book has. The plants in it are listed
>> alphabetically by plant name.
>>
>> You've given me a chemical type. It includes many plants that have
>> that property, but is not a specific plant name.
>>
>> An entheogen can also be a fungus or mixture of other chemicals.
>>
>> Synthetic entheogens also exist.
>>
>>
>>
>> From Wiki:
>>
>> "An entheogen, in the strict sense, is a psychoactive substance used
>> in a religious, shamanic, or spiritual context. Historically,
>> entheogens were mostly derived from plant sources and have been used
>> in a variety of traditional religious contexts. With the advent of
>> organic chemistry, there now exist many synthetic substances with
>> similar psychoactive properties, many derived from these plants.
>> Entheogens can supplement many diverse practices for healing,
>> transcendence, and revelation, including: meditation, psychonautics,
>> art projects, and psychedelic therapy.
>>
>> Essentially all psychoactive drugs that are naturally occurring in
>> plants, fungi, or animals, can be used in an entheogenic context or
>> with enthogenic intent. Since non-psychoactive drugs can also be used
>> in this type of context, the term "entheogen" refers primarily to
>> substances that have been categorized based on their historical use.
>> Toxicity does not affect a substance's inclusion (some can kill
>> humans), nor does effectiveness or potency (if a substance is
>> psychoactive, and it has been used in a historical context, then the
>> required dose has also been found)."
>>
>>
>> Try again, but give me a specific plant name
>
>My best used 'plant for medicine' is a ordinary wet tea bag. One night long
>ago, DH woke me to stop some bleeding. He had cut himself shaving - that
>tricky tender spot just below his nose - and was pouring blood. Both he and
>his bathroom looked like an ax murderer had been having quite a time. I
>remembered the wet tea bag idea and pressed one on him. I hope none of you
>here ever need to know that - but post it in the back of your memory just in
>case.
> Later that night when our teenagers came in to report in and say
>goodnight, they asked, "What have you done to our Daddy?"
> I had taped the tea bag beneath his nose and he was happily snoring with
>the Lipton tag flapping in the breeze. Polly

Tea bags, what a neat idea... even has a string... I can see it now,
Arther Godfrey advertising Lipton Tampons! LOL