I need a list of plants that can be smoked, eaten, ingested (whatever)-used for pain, memory~ anything that can afflict a person with fibro or MS or any other ailment. Since pot is illegal (grr) I need things that can be legally grown and used.
know any good websites or books? Websites preferrably. I'm planning my "pain garden" for next year. Um- things that won't kill me would be nice, LOL! Fear not, we won't sue you if I sprout another head cause I smoked a peanut, LOL! Two heads... that could come in handy... two brains as my one isnt worth much anymore! hehe
Medical Garden/s?
I have a book to recommend to you, but first let me say that herbs or certain foods can interact with medications in ways that can change the way those medications were intended to work - not a good thing. So, be sure to let your doctor and pharmacist know which ones you are trying so they can judge the overall synergistic effect of everything you are ingesting.
The book is titled, The Green Pharmacy, by James A. Duke, Ph.D. He worked for 30 years for the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) as a botanist specializing in medicinal plants, and has traveled and visited many different cultures and learned from them. The combination of that knowledge with conventional science is one thing that makes this book so great. Also, he explains various conditions so well along with possible directions of treatment to seek out.
Also, would keeping a daily journal of how you are feeling help to articulate your needs for pain/nausea control to your doctor better? Not to mention for your own oversite/management of these issues.
I'll have to come back later and post some websites and online herbals I've come across.
PS - your brain sounds fine to me - you are taking charge of your situation and researching possibilities and cracking jokes - good for you.
Thanks so much Spiral! I'm still looking around the net for information.
As of now I'm not on any medication except pain pills which I'll stop using if I start a new program. :-D
I think I have that book at home.
My mom was into Natural Healing.....had every book imaginable.
That title seems so familiar...I think I keep moving it around...trying to figure out what to do with it.
If you email your address to me...I will be happy to send it to you.
Becky
Hi, Crimsontsavo, here are those websites and some books I mentioned. I cannot vouch for the efficacy of anything on them, so be sure to involve your doctor with anything you may try, as well as get as much corroborative feedback as you can from others who may have tried anything on these websites.
You probably did see NCGardenAddict’s 11/30/04 7:47 am post entitled “Medicinal Herb Link - NCSU”, but in case you haven’t explored it, there’s a link which focuses on pain management:
http://www.healthcentral.com/bcp/main.asp?ap=408&brand=27
Another link that might be useful that came up a few months ago on DG is: http://www.soilandhealth.org/ Click on “links to other sites” for: http://www.soilandhealth.org/04links.html This page seems to have several different types of libraries that make free, online books available that relate to health and growing things.
One of the best herbal reference books I have ever come across is titled A Modern Herbal, by Mrs. M. Grieve. It is very comprehensive, with excellent information on description (including chemical makeup current with its first publication date of 1937), cultivation, uses, preparation and miscellaneous lore and history. I understand Mrs. Grieve’s expertise was used during World War II for British troops, when some conventional pharmaceuticals became too expensive/difficult to produce under wartime conditions. My 1971, 2-volume edition was from Dover Books, paperback and inexpensive. Edited to give website for online version: http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/mgmh.html This book comes up when you click on titles next to bullets in text to right, as well as some sections in the bar to the left.
I don’t know if the following websites have anything useful in your situation, but they are so huge that they might. While hunting for books for you, I found some wonderful garden classics on the following websites:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ Click on “Online Book Catalog” and the search box comes right up.
Arnim, Elizabeth von (1866_1941), Elizabeth and her German Garden and The Solitary Summer are two old garden classics on the Gutenberg site.
An umbrella website including the Gutenberg as well as other libraries of free, online ebooks is: : http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/ Click under “Features” on “A Celebration of Women Writers.” Two garden classics on this site are:
An Island Garden, by Celia Thaxter, with with pictures and illuminations by Childe Hassam - this one is my favorite. Ms. Thaxter loved flowers intensely and wrote journal about a year in her flower garden. Childe Hassam’s paintings and watercolors of her flowers by the ocean are so gorgeous you can almost feel the ocean spray tingling on your skin.
A Woman’s Hardy Garden, by Helena Rutherfurd Ely. Whereas a large part of Celia’s garden was conveyed on a boat burgeoning with zillions of seedlings from the mainland to her island every spring, Helena’s garden mostly came up from its own roots after every winter. It’s been a long time since I read this one and am looking forward to a winter night to revisit it. Illustrated by black and white photographs of her garden that will take you way back to bygone times.
Terry - I haven’t forgotten my promise to put these free garden e-books on DG’s Garden Bookworm - will try to get to them while winter nights are still long.
PS - Crimsontsavo, I hope you keep us posted on how you are doing. It would also be nice to hear from anyone else reading this thread about books and herbs they have found useful and/or distracting.
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A great herbal website: http://www.ibiblio.org/herbmed/eclectic/main.html
Again, be careful about out-of-date science.
A good place to check for books is www.half.com its a division of Ebay. I always look there first, for they have a ton and they are very decently priced.
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Thank you guys! I'll check those links out for sure. Will keep y'all posted of any progress and what I do, maybe I'll learn something that can help us all, lol.