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A Friday Writing Update Post
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Nettle, aka Stinging Nettles, Urtica dioica, is probably one of the most nutritious herbs you can get your hands on…but you don’t want to actually touch it. Not barehanded, anyway. Per the name, Stinging Nettle, this plant does actually bite. But even the painful part of her can be medicinal. Her name comes from the
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A Friday Writing Update Post
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A Friday Writing Update Post
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Passionflower, aka Maypop, or Passiflora incarnata, is a relatively common plant that grows wild in sunny fields and unkempt yards in the southern United States and up the Eastern Coast and surrounding states. If it doesn’t grow wild around you, there is a possibility that you can find a potted plant at a specialty nursery. Passionflower
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Reishi Mushrooms, Ganoderma lucidum, are a staple in Traditional Chinese Medicine. But guess what? I found them in my backyard in East Texas. Not many of them, but they are there. You can’t find as much about these wonderful little fungi as easily as you can about more common herbal remedies, but I wouldn’t be
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Mullein, Verbascum thapsus, is one of the best plants you can find in the wild. Known as “nature’s toilet paper,” the soft leaves can not only be used as sanitary wipes when in the woods, but the plant is also medicinal! Also known as Aaron’s Rod because of the staff-life flower stalk. Great (Common) Mullein

