juckler
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Plants and treesBeen getting into the wild plants and trees for food and medicines any one tried any or know any good ways of using any for food or to help illness.
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Tidal_wear
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My wifes right into that sort of stuff Juck,when my first boy was born it was in a high-tech hospital in Hong Kong,private,I still have a wad of receipts to present to him when he is working,pay-back time 
My second son was born in a beach house 19 nautical miles from the closest town,an old woman came,rubbed snake-oil on my wifes stomach for an easy birth,placed herbs under her pillow for a morning birth,next morning out he popped easy as shelling peas from a pod,theres something in it 
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fish
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i can recomend cooking and eating nettles,full of all sorts of good stuff,great for the imune system and dont taste bad at all! ille se if i can find my nettle chutney recipe to post. 
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Tidal_wear
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When I was in Cambodia the Khmer cook with marijuana,anyway,loads of back-packers flock to Phnom Penh so some of the locals realised there was a fortune to be made and started selling "Happy" Pizzas 
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juckler
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Tidal wear thats a proper natural birth mate 
looks like its cambodia for my hols this year better than pizza hut 
Tried a few things now and remember my old gran used a few things from the fields.
When we had a cough she would make a syrup from elderberries and sugar to ease it we called it elder rob.
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Tidal_wear
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If your going to order herbal pizzas best get the Xtra-happy topping Are you into ayurvedic medicines etc?
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Jager
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Fish, what type of nettles do you use?
If you break a Brackern Fern stem open and rub on skin it helps too soothe ant bites.
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juckler
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| Tidal_wear wrote: | | If your going to order herbal pizzas best get the Xtra-happy topping Are you into ayurvedic medicines etc? |
Im getting there with what cures what its hard when your never ill though could do with some patients to treat.
We try and eat something wild as much as possible just for the *****
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Tidal_wear
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Check this out Some of the healthiest people your going to meet live close or in harmony with the land 
en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ethnomedicine/Home_Remedies
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Tidal_wear
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Kapok tree Juk,open the pods,dry the cotton-like interior in the sun for a day,add a few handfulls of dry lemon-grass or flowers,and stuff your pillows,beautiful nights sleep
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TARA
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Ok who s got some good recipies then ?
Tara.
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wabbiter
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for what plants or trees
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froggyfagan
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Nettle soup is best made in spring,when the plants are young,but can be made until the frosts kill the plants if you only pick the top leaves,that's to say the newest and most tender.For a basic soup use freshly collected and washed nettle tips,potatoes,onions,shallots or garlic + seasoning,boil until well cooked-mix-strain(if necessary)serve,quantities are up to you.
This is a very basic way of doing it,improvements are fairly obvious,like frying off all ingredients in butter then adding water/chicken bouillon/stock etc or adding fresh cream just before serving,or adding your choice of vegetables-carrots,celery,.........................
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