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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Yep; People are crazy!

Echinocystis lobata/wild cucumber

Ethnobotanical Uses: Cultivated as an ornamental annual vine (1). Can be used as a poultice for headaches by pulverizing the root. A bitter-tasting tea can be brewed from the roots and used as an analgesic, love potion, and a tonic for stomach troubles, kidney ailments, rheumatism, chills and fever. The seeds have been used as beads (4). Used by the Cherokee for “obstructed menses”, rheumatism, chills, fevers, kidneys, headache, love potion, tonic, stomach troubles, and beads

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135 posted on 07/12/2021 8:32:40 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!)
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To: ApplegateRanch

Wild Cucumber is a ‘love potion?’

I guess that makes some sense because when I’m newly in love, I usually have, ‘stomach troubles, kidney ailments, rheumatism, chills and fever,’ LOL! :)


136 posted on 07/13/2021 5:30:02 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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