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Conway Judge's avatar

Wikipedia started with great intentions and was then hijacked. It is essentially an encyclopedia of propaganda now.

I have a fond interest in what I call powerful plant medicines. Think like how some poisonous snakes and frogs are super bright and boldly colored. Distinguishing them from safer less vibrant species.

This is not to say other plants don't have equally powerful or subtle effects but that some plants have obvious potent effects that you would be silly not to notice. This can be seen in.

Bright colors. Essentially exploding with antioxidants. Turmeric, blueberries, beetroots etcetera.

Strong aromas. Fennel, star anise, pine, cannabis, ginger, cloves and manuka.

Bitter sweet flavors. Some of the aroma class fit in here too like ginger, star anise but chillis also, dandelion, kawakawa (NZ native), cinnamon, cacao and salicylic acid from willow bark... aspirin.

Painful poisons. Like stinging nettle which acts as a natural antihistamine and has some form of mast cell stablization.

Or deadly nightshade, which contains atropine and scopolamine.

Then you have fungi. From antibiotic properties to psilocybin.

Anyone who pretends those plants don't have some level of therapeutic value must be missing part of their brain. They're basically screaming out pick me, use me, I have potent properties.

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jacquelyn sauriol's avatar

I am sure its been said, but Wickedpedia?

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