Ethnobotany
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How Mistletoe was Used by the Celts
Mistletoe has been used for thousands of years, in both religious ceremonies and for medicinal purposes, in healing such conditions as epilepsy and cancer.
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Psychoactive Plants
Historically plants have been valued not only for their medical value but also for their psychoactive effects.
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Plants as Pharmaceuticals
At least a quarter of the prescriptions written in the United States contain at least one product that has been derived from a plant.
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Poisonous Plants Found Around the Home
There are nearly 70,000 reported plant poisonings a year in this country on average.
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Poisonous Plants of Field and Forest
"Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose."
(Claude Bernard)
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Wood as Fuel and Fiber
"My aunt in Knoxville would bring newspapers up for us to use as toilet paper. Before we used it, we'd look at the pictures." (Dolly Parton)
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Wood – The Perfect Building Material
"People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results." (Albert Einstein)
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Plant Fibers – Stuff of Paper, Ropes, and Cloth
"Half the world does not know the joy of wearing cotton underwear." (Phil Gramm)
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Chocolate – Food of the Gods
"All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt!" (Lucy van Pelt from the Charlie Brown comic strip)
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Tea - The Drink of Ceremony and Custom
"There is no trouble so great or grave that it cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea."
(Bernard-Paul Heroux)
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Coffee - From Bean to Brew
"Coffee...the finest organic suspension ever devised." (From an episode of Star Trek: Voyager)
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Angiosperm Fruits as Human Food
"Botanically speaking, tomatoes are the fruit of a vine, just as are cucumbers, squashes, beans, and peas." (Horace Gray)
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Roots, Stems, and Leaves as Human Food
"This cabbage, these carrots, these potatoes, these onions all will become me. Such a tasty fact!" (Mike Garofalo)
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Legumes as Human Food
"Gardening is an art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soul and sky as canvas."
(Elizabeth Murray)
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Cereal Grains as Human Food
"Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own." - Samuel Johnson
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Tapping Maple Trees
The tradition of making pure maple syrup has not died. Learn how Native Americans discovered this natural sweetener and how syrup producers today carry on the tradition.
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Hawaii's Poi - Spirituality, Food and Medicine
There are few plants that rival the Taro plant for being a food source that is so strongly linked with the spirituality of a people.
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Uses of and How to Grow the Toad Tree
This deciduous ethnobotanical tree from Africa is easy to cultivate and contains a number of beneficial medicinal compounds.
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Amaranth: A Grain, Flower and Weed
Tall, with unusual flowers, Amaranth is easy to grow and can be enjoyed for its beauty or eaten for dinner.
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Unusual Plants: Growing Calea Zacatechichi
Calea Zacatechichi is an easy to grow entheogen from Oaxaca Mexico which is reported to enhance dreams.
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Religious Entheogens and Knowledge
Knowledge is not something that can always be written down or quantified.
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How to Grow Kratom
Learn how to grow Kratom, an unusual and interesting tree, which is fairly easy to care for.
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Growing Salvia Divinorum for Purposes of Cloning
Due to its highly phototropic nature, Salvia Divinorum can easily be grown for clones.
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Growing Salvia Divinorum Indoors or Outside
A member of the mint family (Labiateae), Salvia Divinorum has a square stem and spends most of its time in vegetative growth. It flowers in the fall, but rarely to seed.
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Die Stadt Beeskow im Seenland Oder-Spree
Beeskow liegt ein wenig Abseits der großen Touristenströme. Doch der Besuch dieser Stadt im Osten Brandenburgs lohnt sich für Naturliebhaber und Mittelalterfans immer.
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