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Monday’s post was an
explanation about taproots. While this
topic does seem a deviation from my normal posts, this topic follows a book I
am reading and an interest I have held for some time: Healing
Secrets of the Native Americans by Porter Shimer.
What did Native
Americans use to battle illnesses that afflict all mankind? What about headaches, infected injuries,
liver ailments? Kidney stones? Bad
breath? Cancer?
With a strong
understanding of the plants and their medicinal advantages, early man were
beyond Old World methods, some of which including bleeding the patient to
remove the “evil humours”.
In 1916, my
grandmother, Amy Nichols, was studying to become a pharmacist. While I could not take her huge volumes of
her studies, I did receive a book on botany that would prepare her to study the
natural healing characteristics of plants.
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The book? Gray’s school and Field Biology by Asa
Gray, published in 1887.
Well, now. This book is as boring and dry as the pages
upon which the information is printed.
It is WHAT was found within the pages of the
tome that surprised me.
That
will be posted…later. It has changed my entire view of Amy Nichols and her
sister Pearl.
