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Keebler
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- As an herbal supplement, though, barberry is a superb antioxidant that has many other good properties, including a (good) high Berberine content.
To bad the ticks only rest in it and don't eat it. -
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Kudzuslipper
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I HATE TICKS!!!!!!
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map1131
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Exactly the bushes I planted at our lake home the spring/summer I got ill. They didn't last through the summer. Why?
The deer ate them. That's the truth.
Circle of life.
Pam
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Keebler
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- Very smart deer, I'd say. -
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Rivendell
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Here is another take on this:
It is interesting that barberry thrives in the same areas that ticks and lyme disease thrive.
Barberry contains berberine which has antibiotic qualities and helps to bust lyme disease cysts. Chinese Medicine includes berberine in treating lyme.
Steven Buhner, herbalist and deep ecologist, feels that invasive herbs show up in areas where they are most needed to fight invasive diseases such as lyme disease.
Japanese Knotweed, so helpful in treating Lyme, is also invasive and showing up everywhere that ticks and Lyme are prevalent.
I guess mother nature might know what she is doing.
But, herbs, weeds, harbor ticks. So, be careful when harvesting these plants.
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Marnie
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Those thorns HURT...and the thorns on lemon trees are extremely (!) toxic and can kill a person if not removed very quickly.
I ran into a patient at a hospital who was trimming a lemon tree, got a thorn in his arm...
and almost died.
Truth.
In nature, rhubarb LEAVES are toxic, the stems look to contain something that inhibits "export", but the roots contain something that allows "export".
When considering potential need for inhibiting export because a pathogen is MDR (multi drug resistant) and can "spit out" what would normally destroy it...keep in mind the export inhibitors.
There is also one (and MDR inhbitor) in an oil used for leprosy years ago.
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Keebler
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- Bet the coats of the deer are thicker to not be so bothered by the thorns?
Rivendell,
that is interesting about certain plants and herbs becoming more plentiful in lyme territory.
I wondered how these herbs "know" to spread until it occurred to me that the deer must instinctively know to eat more of these herbs and then leave the seeds behind in their waste, spreading out, to increase growth.
I know that primates instinctively know which plants and herbs to eat to self-treat for parasites. Either one of Jane Goodall's books (or a book from one her colleagues goes into great detail about that). -
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Marnie
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Digging thru cobwebs in my mind...deer respond to more Bb antigens than we do.
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Rivendell
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Keebler,
Hadn't thought about the deer connection.
I love Jane Goodall.
But, it amazes me how the earth seems to adapt.
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