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COLDS & FLU
1 oz Blackberry leaves
1 oz Elder flowers
1 oz Linden flowers
1 oz Peppermint leaves
Pour 1 cup boiling water over 2 tbs mixture. Cover & steep 10 minutes; strain.
Sometimes a headache is all in your head. Relax.
~ Hartman Jule
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Moneywort: Biennial. Grows from 30" to 40" tall. Flowers range from purple to white. "If thy yoked oxen show contention, give them loosestrife," admonished the ancient Greek physician Dioscorides. "Do ye the same," he added, "for quarrelsome lovers." Although their tranquilizing powers are nor documented, these plants were until recent times widely used as a nerve tonic for both man and beast. Lusimachus, a legendary Sicilian king, is said to have noted this trait while being chased by a bull. The monarch desperately thrust a sprig of loosestrife at the maddened animal and the bull was instantly pacified, released from its strife.
