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bay berry?
stickbender:
JW, things aren't much different today, with Big Pharm. None of them are looking for cures, just treatments, and if you look at the side affects.... :o You would be better off taking bay berry! ;) Any use of the leaves? It grows all over down here also.
Wayne
mullet:
Wayne, I had an old book printed at the turn of the Century written by an old Cracker Indian Scout and cattleman. He talked about watching two Seminoles stalking a deer in an open field holding a Wax Mrytle bush. One holding the bush, the other with the flintlock in the "y" of the bush till they got in range. This took place in the 1840's.
stickbender:
Eddie, that is cool, I would like see it if you still have it. You have to admire them back then, you know the mosquitos were horrendous. My Mother used to talk about when they first moved down here, the old women would stay up at night fanning the babies, to keep the mosquitos off of them, when they didn't have any mosquito netting for them. I know when I was a kid, they were REAL bad. :o ;)
Wayne
jamie:
bayberry (Myrica cerifera) has medicinal uses as well. it is a natural resource for antibiotics, the roots contain it, cant remember the name begins with m. also because it contains tannin it is good for dysentery and diarrhea. almost positive it has diuretic effects too. so it is good for fevers when you want to sweat it out of you. (now the lawyers speak) never take anybodies word for it when it comes to edible and medicinal plants . do your homework ,cause not everybody has the same reaction to wild or modern medicine. peace
beetlebailey1977:
I believe soap can be made form it also....
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